Homemade UAV
Sunday, September 27, 2009
[Terence Bordelon] sent in his impressive UAV (Unmanned Arial Vehicle). The hack is a culmination of his other projects. It can be turned to fully automatic at the flip of a switch. It will fly itself to gps way points, land, and take off. The UAV has a range of 100km thanks to his home built RF Unit which runs on ham bands. The brains of the setup is his custom IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). The unit is controlled by his ground station which either allows him to fly it normally or toggle through the various modes. [Terrence] is also a game developer and has worked on many popular titles such as Zoo Tycoon 2 and Ratchet and Clank.
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I was under the impression that civilian GPS isn’t accurate enough to do, say, a bombing of a small target, and any UAV with enough lift to carry serious weapons would be pretty hard to build.
The first poster had my same exact thought. I wonder how long until we have a background check just to purchase an RC device.
Very cool, I was thinking HAM Bands would be good for RC stuff. Wish I had some more details on auto take off and landing.
“which runs on ham bands” = 5 Watts of RF power in the 430 mhz HAM/ISM band
Right on, TJ! Looks great. Shop around that “auto-land” code. Your routines are probably more valuable than the design.
No details…. although the details would probably be too complicated to understand! Looks like it has a lot of features not found on my UAVs, like auto trimming and auto landing.
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