Aerospace Research Engineer

RC Airplanes, electronics, Arduino, snowboarding, high-speed ripstiking, waterskiing. Ok.....so mostly RC airplanes and Arduino....:). See my website here: http://electricrcaircraftguy.com/

[https://www.electricrcaircraftguy.com/] [https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy] I'm an aerospace research engineer. I have a background in Aeronautical engineering, and now regularly use embedded programming/Arduino to solve many engineering challenges. I enjoy putting electrical engineering, microcontrollers, and control algorithms together to solve tough problems. Here's one example, for instance: a self-flying indoor quadcopter. It is using an Ardupilot for inner-loop stabilization, an Arduino nano and PIC microcontroller to communicate with an RC Tx (Turnigy 9XR) through the trainer ports, and a custom MATLAB program I wrote to do the outer-loop controls and navigation of the vehicle....ie: it flies itself with custom code that I wrote! :) The Ardupilot is simply in "stabilize" mode, as if a regular RC pilot were flying it! To see it in action, copy and paste this link to a preliminary YouTube video demonstrating an early flight test here: http://bit.ly/QuadrotorVideo1.