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Did you miss the V&A event? Do you want to know how it was?
Check it out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaping_n900/
Breaking news! The KAPing with the N900 team joined forces with the Sketch Your World group to bring you the KAP Our World project! Add a smoke machine to the tail of the kite and control it with the N900 to draw in the sky!
We still have some drawing issues …
Our rig is (almost) ready and we are leaving to London today!
Behold!
It’s not as good looking as we wanted, but it works.
I still need to add the Arduino and battery, and I would love to add many, many more functions to the software. Maybe I can work on it on …
… and fruit flies like a banana!
We are running against the clock to finish our project, and our efforts are bearing fruit: we’ve advanced on the software front, our substitute Picavet (the suspension system for the N900 on the kite) is done and one servo motor was modified for continuous …
23.01.10
We did our first KAV (Kite Aerial Video) test, and it was a success! First I thought the range between the devices using Wi-Fi would not be very good, but a preliminary test last year showed the signal could reach 100m or more without disruption. Yesterday we managed to …Read more
Unfortunately, we might have “lost” one important piece of our KAP equipment. The rig we bought from the USA arrived in Brazil in December, just a couple of days before we left home to visit our families. Due to problems with the Brazilian Post Office, the package was not waiting …
“A great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit.”
Boris Lermontov – The Red Shoes.
Controlling the servo motors with the Arduino was so easy that I won’t even comment about it.
On the other hand, to make the Bluetooth connection work smoothly as …
Yesterday we transmitted video from one N900 to another, about a 100m apart, with excellent quality and using nothing but the devices!
Some days ago we connected both units using just a Wi-Fi ad-hoc connection (i.e., no wireless routers were used), with 100mW of transmission power. I set one …
Today would be the maiden flight of our N900, but alas, there was no wind at all! All we need is a bit of wind to lift our kite- and this is a big, mean kite we are talking about:
If there’s any wind, I guess this kite should be big …
17.12.09
Today I put the intervalometer to test. You can see the “Sword of Damocles” on Flickr, and what it captured on YouTube: And guess what: during this test I finally received my SparkFun order! I still need the rig parts and kite to arrive, but at least I can get cracking …Read more