[Canberrauav] Day 4 recap (Day 2 OBC)
Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com 
Tue Sep 23 21:42:06 EST 2014 

Today was fairly quiet for us, as the second half of the high school 
division took up most of the day.

We had our team interview shortly before lunch, which went quite well. 
The judges noted that most of the other teams had referenced CanberraUAV 
and our open software/datasets in their own interviews!

The remaining teams had their scrutineering. A number of teams has 
issues with SBAS on their GPS modules giving erratic readings. Tridge 
(and others in the team) spent a lot of our time helping out the other 
APM-based teams in switching off their SBAS (among many other issues). 
As far as we're aware, most teams have passed scrutineering, but we will 
know for sure tomorrow.

We also met a 13 (?) year old kid who is a very accomplished programmer 
and wanted to know more about how to modify/contribute to the APM 
software. He is amazingly intelligent - he was easily able to keep up 
with Tridge's description of the APM parameters and structure! In order 
to assist with his endeavours, we gave him one of our spare Pixhawks (as 
he only had an APM 2.5).

Tomorrow begins (at 6am!) the competition flights. CanberraUAV is second 
last on the list, so we don't expect to be flying until late Thursday at 
the earliest.


Thanks

Stephen

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