patrickmccabe

Very cool. I love anything

Very cool. I love anything with a GPS on it. You have probably seen this man’s blog? http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=3um9qjnkq5rxo if not, it is of the same topic.

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geirandersen

That’s a new blog for me,

That’s a new blog for me, thanks.

flokos

Im working on a similar to

Im working on a similar to this one project but the chassis its quite different .

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dutchbot

Some drastic redesign of the

Some drastic redesign of the hull. Looks a lot more energy “friendly” Was that the reason to redesign it or did the other hull cause more undesired effects?

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joker94

Awsome

very nicely designed and built.

i love UAV’s and ROV’s, currently working on a UAV at school so anything of this kind has my immediate interest.

love your work

Joker94

flokos

chassis material

What did yo use to make the chassis (the yellow thing)?

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geirandersen

The yellow thing is Gelcoat

The yellow thing is Gelcoat and on that there are 3 layers of fiberglass and epxoy.
The hull is made in the split mould I made first.

geirandersen

The main reason for

The main reason for redesigning it was the share weight of Whirligig, fully loaded it weight 50kg. The second reason was to have a system that could run from solar cells on a later phase. That was not so easy to do with Whirligigs current design.

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geirandersen

Love to see it. Hope you

Love to see it. Hope you post some information about it here on LMR when you are ready. so easy to do with Whirligigs current design.

markusb

Interesting project, Geir. I

Interesting project, Geir. I am planing to making something similar to measure the water quality