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I have to tell you hot news: Yesterday a picture of my UAVP got printed in the press!

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Warmers of the HS Bremen invited to a QC convention in Bremen. He asked me if I could provide a good UAVP picture for an article in the local press covering the QC convention. I offered him all my archives including the pictures from the QC convention in Regenstauf and by chance he choose a nice picture of my UAVP.

But see for yourself:

As you can read in the text we did not get mentioned even trough Heinrich told the authors that it's a UAVP. On the other hand the Paparazzi project was mentioned, which is another open source project implementing QC favored by Heinrich and his team.

We finally came round to dig through our pictures made at the Quadrocopter convention in Regenstauf.

My brother and I joined the Quadrocopter convention in Germany on Saturday around midday after having driven 450km to Regenstauf, a village near Regensburg. At first we visited Cadmium's lab, where we meet Wolfgang and a lot other folk of the QC szene. Later that day, around 18:00, we went to a sports hall where everybody sent his QC into the the air.

As you can see on the photos, a lot of different projects and different UFO designs joined the convention. It was great fun to see them all flying!

Direct Link to the album: UAVP - Treffen Regenstauf

The convention in Regstauf was really great stuff and every km we had to drive was worth it!

We did some more test flights with our cam onboard our UAVP. I think we did some good air pictures and I wouldn't let you miss these!

Again we mounted a Canon Powershot S50 directly under the UAVP. It had no servo support or anything and was turned by 45 degrees so that the landing gear wasn't showing on the picture as before. I talked about this in my last blog entry.

I've explored Picasa (the Google thingy) a bit and this is a first test of placing the pictures on the picasa webserver.

Let's see how this works out:

Direct Link to the album: UAVP - Second In-Flight Pictures

Another movie I would like to show you is our first near-night flight while making a small movie.

We started in with the last light and then flew until our batteries were empty. In the end it's really dark and one can observe our 3x 3W Luxeon LEDs in full colors... :)

I'm sorry that you did not hear from me for such a long time!

It was holliday time so I went diving in the Red See on a dive safari and was quite busy the rest of the summer. Today I finally found a little bit of time to write a new blog article. Expect some more blogs about my hollidays and a nice collection of underwater pictures and movies soon!

Yesterday we took a cam into the air for the first time! The pictures are not really spectacular but I thought I should not let you miss them.

We mounted a Canon Powershot S50 directly under the UAVP. It had no servo support or anything and was turned by 45 degrees so that the landing gear wasn't showing on the picture. The whole cam we mounted in a box of styropor and attached that to the backside of my UAVP.

The cam was switched to series-pictures and we blocked the cam's trigger button.

But take a look for yourself: The first aerial pictures

One of the better pictures is this one:

We could even shoot a pictures of ourselfes while flying:

Later on we dismounted the cam and did some flights in the half dark. After we finished the first battery we mounted a new one and wanted to start again. I don't know what I thought but since my flight timer was not set to zero because of the first flight, I wanted to reset it.

For that I simply switched of the remote control! What a big mistake.

I already had switched my UAVP into flight mode and so, when I switched off the remote control the UAVP lost RC connection! The receiver switched to fail-mode and switched the throttle channel to hoover-power (another bad idea of mine which I corrected now)...

But watch for yourself what happend:

I was lucky... :) Nothing really bad happened!

I broke two screws and I had to replace the antenna, which came into one of the propellers.
Everything is already fixed again... :)