Tag: android
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More kite based UAV toolkit action
Some further kite testing with UAV Toolkit last week at Gwithian beach, with a strong offshore wind (and rather good looking surf too). We managed to max out the kite altitude and get some great photographs including surfers and flocks of birds. See the previous kite post for more details on the kite. I’ve also…
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Kite mapping with UAV toolkit
Some photos taken by the UAV toolkit on a recent flight at our gyllyngvase beach test site, using a KAP foil 1.6 kite instead of a drone. Kites have many advantages, no flight licences required, no vibration from engines and a fully renewable power source! We’re using a 3D printed mounting plate for the phone…
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Test flight day!
View of ground control from a OnePlus phone mounted on a Y6 UAV: A report from the first flight test of the new UAV android software with the Exeter University UAV science group. We had two aircraft, a nice battle hardened fixed wing RC plane and a very futuristic 3D robotics RTF Y6. We also…
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Visual programming for environmental research with UAVs
I’ve recently begun a new project with Karen Anderson who runs the UAV research group at the Exeter University Environment and Sustainability Institute. We’re looking at using commodity technology like android phones for environmental research with drones. Ecology research groups and environmental agencies have started using drones as a replacement for expensive and risky light…
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Farm Crap App wins Soil Association Innovation Award 2014
Very proud of this, and congrats to the Duchy College’s Swarm Hub and Nicholas Outram who built the iOS version. With presentations like these, you can’t lose! Read more about it here. Photo via the Organic Research Centre.
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Symbai field site testing
Some photos from Shakti Lamba who is currently testing Symbai in the Chhattisgarh state in north eastern India. The whole system is solar powered, and provides it’s own networking via the Raspberry Pi synchronisation node shown here. The android tablets also recharge from the same power source. The Raspberry Pi networking is a direct descendant…
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Hindi translations in Symbai
A couple of screenshots of the hindi version of Symbai – our solar powered Raspberry Pi/Android anthropological research tool. As is usual we’re still having a few issues with the unicode but it’s nearly there. We’ve been working on this software for the last few months, making sure the data (including photos and audio recordings…
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Bumper Crop released
A release of Bumper Crop is now up on the play store with the source code here. As I reported earlier this has been about converting a
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Mongoose 2000: Group composition
I’ve recently been building the Mongoose 2000 “group composition” tool that the researchers will use for recording information about a whole pack of mongooses (and synchronise data via a Raspberry Pi providing a local wifi node) in their field site in Uganda. As I wrote a bit about before, one of the interesting things about…
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Bumper Crop
Bumper crop is an android game I’ve just started working on with Dr Misha Myers as part of the Play to Grow project: “exploring and testing the use of computer games as a method of storytelling and learning to engage urban users in complexities of rural development, agricultural practices and issues facing farmers in India.”…