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Submission + - MIT drone finds its way using Kinect vision (suasnews.com)

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garymortimer

on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @04:32AM

garymortimer writes: "This MIT multicopter is able to fly in GPS denied environments by creating a 3D map of its surroundings on the fly (no pun intended) based on point clouds generated by a Kinect. Also pretty handy for avoiding trees and other obstacles outside at low level.

Moores law is making this happen in small drones quick! This processing is onboard, unlike other systems that depend on motion capture rigs."

Comment Hamradio - PACTOR and WinLink2000 (Score 1) 504

by sp5qan on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @02:32PM (#26436859) Attached to: Internet Communications While At Sea?

Get hamradio operator with multimode HF trx and Pactor modem. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACTOR and http://www.winlink.org/ Working email at any place.

Comment BPL is not working for GAMES (Score 1) 456

by sp5qan on Thursday August 18, 2005 @01:02PM (#13348689) Attached to: Web Access Over Power Lines

Hey, In my previous work in ISP company in Warsaw, we tested BPL technology. Its terible latency - ping to local gateway from user trminal unit is about 150 to 900 ms sic! Bandwitch is - 3 carierrs 2 Mbit/s each. And thats all - all band form 2 do 30 MHz full in garbage, we listen with AOR AR5000 rx and some serios ham TRX ( IC-737 ). Our antena is CB Band mounted on Van we are able to detect BPL nois from about 5 - 6 Km. It's funny, but in this location, people are requested to swith technology from BPL to LRE - about 15 Mbit/s speed, with sub 10ms ping latency to local gateway. Best Regards, Artur SP5QA

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