Recent content by AMann

Do you have a ring cam? Put your food and everything else in front of it. If you don’t, Big5, maybe Walmart, and several other sporting good stores sell trail cameras that you can set up near your cat food and you’ll be able to see who has been coming in to eat it, hopefully your cat!

...and attached are the full directions on how to use the Python tool. -Feel free to PM me for help if you need it.

Try having ChatGPT write the Python code for you, it actually works pretty good. I just asked it to write a calibration tool for replacing a gimbal, and here’s where it started: (Example Only - Has not been tested) USB-C Connection (Windows) Auto-detects available serial ports. Connects to...

…that this is an international forum -with different rules for different countries- I’ve made the same misunderstanding also! 🙂

Now I’m totally convinced that whatever idea someone has, someone else has already put it out there! This is a lot better than what I was thinking of doing, conserving the flight path between the photo points is one of the issues I was concerned about, especially if I fly around an obstacle to...

As a kid, one of my friends was flying a long-tailed mylar dragon kite and… well, you know what happened. The police came and said it even affected their station power a couple miles away! The arc buzzing sound was really loud, and the spark and light show was incredible. I don’t think any of...

Remember the member a few years ago who hit a high tension power line with his Mavic and it got stuck up there by the front arms? Saddest site ever as there was no way for him to retrieve it and it looked like a dead bird hanging there. I almost hit the top wire of an old barb wire fence once-...

Thanks, I’ll share the .exe file (and Python code if anyone wants it) once I debug and test it. Right now it does read the GPS coordinates from the photos in a directory and makes a cvs text file out with them, but there’s a lot of other flight parameters for Litchi format I have to code in...

i’m interested in what you would do with a KML file like that? I am currently making a program that will grab the coordinates and other image data off of my M2P photos and will create a cvs file for me to refly the course and retake the same images automatically in Litchi Virtual Mission. I had...

Naw, my Dad was an engineer though. I am a retired teacher and wildlife biologist, but I still like to do projects and love playing with GIS and making maps with my drone! Plus, I like doing volunteer projects with it - of which this was one for the Forest Service and my final project in my...

WebODM works great for mapping and can handle a lot of images. It is also free. I use it a lot for my projects (see my recent post about it). As you have a Mavic 2 drone, it works with Litchi, which is a perfect low-cost drone flight package for mapping. Use Virtual Litchi Mission with it to...

I have been using my IR-modified Mavic 2 Pro to do vegetation monitoring on a local National Forest (US). I did the IR conversion myself using Kolarivision directions, which was very easy! I used their IR Chrome filter to produce false color infrared images of the riparian vegetation growing...

Good info, thanks for posting it! I also have a flux gate compass (magnetometer) on my boat and calibrating it (to the boat) is fun - you have to steer in a S-shaped course to do it. Remember when ship compasses had these for calibration?

I just looked up “shale bings” and had no idea the 5 Sisters were man-made. They look pretty natural with trees at their base and a lot of grass and other vegetation on them, guess Mother Nature comes back pretty fast as they are over 100 years old. It will be interesting to see that nursery...

Interesting, good flying too. What I’m also really interested in are those cone-shaped hills at the 0:55 mark. Can you do a movie of flying over and around those? They look fascinating!