[Canberrauav] From Monday's meeting
Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com 
Thu Feb 28 18:58:02 EST 2013 

A couple things from Monday's meeting:

Project Status:

Catapult System - Prototype worked. Significant work required to scale it up
to launch the X8

FPV technologies - on hold for now

COFDM-based digital video transmission - not sure what Dave's done with this

D-GPS system - was on hold. Basic testing and research being done

ADS-B receiver and processing - Hardware works. Now we need software

Automatic Tracking antenna - we have the pan/til mechanism. Needs to be
built up and tested

Pan/Tilt camera mount - on hold for now

Radar system for terrain/object avoidance - currently available tech is too
heavy/big/expensive for our needs. On hold for now.

Rover launching system - prototype works. Not easily scalable or practical
for the X8

Assisting local schools - classes are just starting now. Expect this to ramp
up over the next couple of weeks.

CMAC Weather station - Done!

Wiki/Documentation - more research and testing required. We have a github
repo for this now

MHV Quadcopter - In progress. Workshop running over the next couple of weeks

I'm going to have a go of transferring documentation to the github repo
later tonight.

Thanks

Stephen

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