NightWatcher2
Last year’s NightWatcher was a sneaky little C daemon that read a Sky Quality Meter (Unihedron SQM-LE) and wrote the numbers to a file. It worked, which, around here, is exactly the sort of...
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NightWatcher
NightWatcher2 has been released! NightWatcher NightWatcher is a modular system for automated sky quality monitoring, site configuration management, and data logging/analysis. It is designed for observatories and research sites using the Unihedron SQM-LE sky...
“Captain, we’ve lost #5.” – “No problem, we have 6.”
FlyDroid-Hex after completing an IR-guided landing directly on target. The landing beacon is that thing with all the LEDs on the ground directly below the FlyDroid.
…and there was much rejoicing… (hooray)
(for the first time) No FlyDroids were harmed during the making of these videos!
sometimes the needs of the many…
Just as they are designed to do, the feet sacrificed themselves for the preservation of the collective when the noob pilot chopped the throttle in a panic – why haven’t I gotten the LIDAR...
…that’s why we do these tests…
Version 3 is airborne! …version 2 will always be in our hearts, and never spoken of again… (queue somber oboe music) A stable morning loiter test:
Flying Pi, Anyone???
This Pi can fly! I’m planning a detailed article on the construction of this fabulous flugzoig, but in the meantime, here’s a quick summary: It’s a Pi2 running ArduPilot under the Navio real-time kernel, with...
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