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Comment · 3 years ago
Wilco, sir! And will update this comment when I do.
Comment · 3 years ago
I can do the same with almost any IP camera and even USB one with low latency and maximum quality the camera can supports. If anyone is interested in such setup I can do a quick write up about or maybe a repo with the configs needed.
Comment · 3 years ago
Personally, not just twitter, all social media I’m happy to see it dies, and no, “stop using it” mindset isn’t an argument when it severely affects the majority of the people around you, and start not just influencing the populace opinions but shaping the next generation. Who ever controls that narrative in the media get to decide what’s the next laws to be considered, after all, that’s how democracy works.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing this!
Comment · 3 years ago
For good!
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s time to stop using corporate “social media”, go and make your own niche forum, easy to make, and users will start using it eventually.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for taking the time.

>The copter isn't able to communicate with satellites or earth directly, so it needs to communicate with the rover itself. This is harder without line of site.

Obviously no satcom on there, but even when the chopper communicates with the rover, a LoS isn’t needed, different comms bands can survive that.

>The copter is all autonomous. Routes are planned and sent for the copter to autonomously fly, because direct control would be infeasible with the latency on Mars.

Great, so if it’s planned how they end up with that situation? Was it a calculation errors? Or they suddenly decided to move the rover and lost comms?

>The copter is charged with solar power, and needs time to charge between flights.

Ok now this is interesting, got any more details about it? As the size of the panels would be big and might hinder the chopper movement, unless something innovative was done.

>The main rover has other missions that are independent of the status of the copter. The copter is well well well past the original mission goals, so if it gets left behind that's a shame, but the main rover's missions are way more important.

Ok that’s good to know, still curious about the whole process as I do have a current project with interoperability between UAV/UGV so any previous lessons learned would be great!

Thanks again!

Comment · 3 years ago
They can still scrap it but now with an account cookie? Also, what’s the problem of scraping it, it’s just like browsing systematically.
Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly this, I’m happy of what’s happening with twitter and Reddit and the likes, maybe it’s the reality slap the users needed to get back to smaller communities.
Comment · 3 years ago
A lot of generic fluff, nothing is specific.. what was the frequency band/s they used? Why line of sight is needed for such comms when it can be done otherwise? Do the chopper needs to be connected all the time for command and control channels, or are there any autopilot? Or is the connection meant is the payload one (camera etc.), I assume there’s or it would’ve crashed in landings if signal was lost and autopilot landed in an unsuitable location? Why move the rover at the same time while the chopper was flying? Shouldn’t be stationary for the best signal? Especially when there’s no gnss system there, why add that complexity of moving two of them (chopper/rover)? And if only one was moving that time, how they missed the fact they are going behind a hill? Was the battery dead when they lost signal? How they charged it after losing it? How they found the chopper in the first place? Did they find it by ground search and then flew the chopper back to the rover? How the battery survived that time?

I don’t know there are a lot of other questions I have in mind, that article barely explains anything..

Comment · 3 years ago
Tried it on a project we did, results are generic but good overall.
Comment · 3 years ago
UbO, go to settings and enable the filter saying “anti-adblock killer”.
Comment · 3 years ago
Gives a new meaning to “touch grass” phrase!
Comment · 3 years ago
So in few years all programming languages will be similar to assembly, I remember years ago we studied assembly in classes and wrote programs using it, but now maybe it isn’t the case.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why you need google to sign up?!

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