Doug Weibel and Jason Short run through the upcoming ArduPilot Mega software, including more advanced mission capabilities.By DIY Drones

Richard Hanson, who works on the AMA's Regulatory and Governmental Affairs operations. The regulatory process to introduce UAVs in the National Airspace (NAS) is a long, tortured and potentially disastrous ordeal for us. If it goes well, we'll be given guidelines or laws under which to operate, which create a category for small amateur UAVs that al…

Doctoral candidate at Penn Daniel Mellinger published a video showing some of the most awesome maneuvers a quadrotor can do. We learn—in detail—how it works. Can you do it at home? We find out.By DIY Drones

Sebastian Thrun takes us on a tour of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. You may know him as the guy who led Stanford's car to victory in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. We talk about autonomous cars, robotic muscles, stunt helicopters, aircraft that fly in formation to save fuel and using machine learning to build autonomous systems.…

Wandering around the annual Maker Faire convention with over 600 DIY exhibits covering pretty much everything from clothing to RC battleships we found Ari Krupnik who's managed to figure out how to fly an RC helicopter (4 channels) not much more than an iPhone and a transmitter.By DIY Drones

This episode is the second traveling podcast where Tim travels to MIT in Cambridge, MA to talk to Missy Cummings, professor and director of the Humans and Automation Lab (as well as one of the first female navy fighter pilots!).By DIY Drones

We take you live to Doug Weibel's house on the eve of the SparkFun Electronics Autonomous Vehicle competition with a round table of both returning and new guests:Guests include (although a couple of them may not have spoken): Chris Anderson Bill Premerlani Ben Levitt Adam Barrow Tim Trueman Pete Hollands Earl Campbell Jordi Muñoz Ryan Beall And tha…

Nima Kayvan joins us from Brisbane, Australia to talk about his team's entry into the Australian Outback UAV Challenge.By DIY Drones

Krzysztof Bosak joins us in the wee hours from Poland to talk IMU-based autopilots and aerial photography.By DIY Drones

Nathan's addiction to microcontrollers brings peace and joy to thousands of people with the products, classes and tutorials in the seven years since he started SparkFun Electronics.By DIY Drones

Find out what states you track in a 17 state extended kalman filter, what it takes to commercialize a UAV and what hardware object tracking involves.By DIY Drones

Curtis explains some of the many uses of simulators including how a closed loop hardware-in-the-loop system works. Curtis' profile on DIY Drones: http://diydrones.com/profile/CurtOlson Flight Gear: http://www.flightgear.org/ Airframe modeling webpage mentioned during the show: http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/aeromatic.html…

David Ankers and Angus Peart launch OpenPilot: an IMU-based autopilot initially aimed at quadcopters: http://openpilot.org/By DIY Drones

Check out Tom's open source autopilot at http://gluonpilot.com/ One of the questions from the audience references this photo set of testing ArduPilot 2.5 code: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttrueman/sets/72157623199524559/show/By DIY Drones

Henri Seydoux, CEO of Parrot tells us about his vision to making gaming become reality with the AR.Drone.By DIY Drones

Chad Frost shares stories from NASA's autonomous systems and robotics department and his thoughts on civilian usage of UAVs.By DIY Drones

Abe Bachrach, a graduate student at MIT answers our questions on LIDAR-equipped quadcopters.By DIY Drones

We're back after two weeks off with Jason Short, discussing the ArduPilot 2.5 software.By DIY Drones

Steve Morris of MLB joins us to talk about his VTOL UAV, ITAR export regulations and the nuisances of being in the UAV business.By DIY Drones

Patrick Egan attempts to guide us through the legal waters surrounding UAVs.By DIY Drones

The VectorNav team talks to us about starting a business and IMUs.By DIY Drones

Guest Gary Mortimer wakes up early to join us for stories of octocopters, Africa and hot air balloon piloting.By DIY Drones

Guest Dean Goedde talks to us about doing international business, working fulltime on AttoPilot and dives into some technical goodies.By DIY Drones

Guest Bill Premerlani talks about the origins, present state and future directions of the UAV dev board.By DIY Drones

Guest Ryan Beall talks about an IMU-based autopilot he built at the Naval Academy.By DIY Drones

The altitude record attempt was for an autonomously controlled electrically powered UAV weighing less than 5kg, FAI Category U.2a Group 2.By DIY Drones

Even more IMU talk followed by a discussion of our favorite posts from the week.By DIY Drones

IMU mentioned: http://www.sensordynamics.cc/cms/cms.php?pageId=73By DIY Drones

Episode 0: "Houston, we've got a problem""Show NotesPhotos of the NASA Ames field trip from several people: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-ames-excursionArduPilot + OSD: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1102975ArduPilot IMU boards:http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9372http://www.sparkfun.com/comm…