Re: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17

2002-11-18 Thread Henry Spencer
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, John Carmack wrote: > video and gory details. > http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=182 "The important thing is that the Crossbow IMU survived, because that costs more than everything else put together, and can have an 8 week lead t

Re: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17

2002-11-18 Thread Keith Whitwell
Alex Fraser wrote: I think that was an amazing flight. No tower, it just jumped into the sky. Could you detect any damage from that aluminum ground protection plate smacking the back of the cone on lift off? Also In the video who was the person standing in the field? The machine seemed to arc

Re: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17

2002-11-18 Thread Alex Fraser
I think that was an amazing flight. No tower, it just jumped into the sky. Could you detect any damage from that aluminum ground protection plate smacking the back of the cone on lift off? Also In the video who was the person standing in the field? The machine seemed to arc right over their he

Re: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17

2002-11-18 Thread John Carmack
At 02:22 PM 11/18/2002 +1100, you wrote: you guys are just using the raw IMU data for position information? even a simple kalman filter or dogified version of it might have helped reduce the problems you had (though the solutions you propose are by far a better way of doing things. (Solving the pr

Re: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17

2002-11-17 Thread Jake Anderson
you guys probably have your hands full actually doing stuff so I'll be quiet now ;-> - Original Message - From: "John Carmack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17 &

[ERPS] Armadillo Nov 17

2002-11-17 Thread John Carmack
video and gory details. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=182 John Carmack ___ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list