Recent content by Rusty_SWO

My wife and I went on Carnival over Thanksgiving. Had a look for their policy- seems to be that they collect it at check-in, but you can get it back when you're going ashore for port calls. You're just not allowed to have it underway.

I'm looking for the reference, but there is a reasonable consensus that the introduction of European diseases and the subsequent reduction in indigenous population gave a century or so of re-wilding. Most of the heavy European expansion in North America didn't happen until the mid-late 17th...

25 grams can mean different things to different drones. For my Mini 2 that gets used for commercial stuff? That's 10% extra weight. For my Evo II Pro? That's... uhhh... that's a rounding error. It's probably the difference between the standard props and the low-noise props.

Yup. I know that feel- most years, I burn 8 months worth of hepa filters in a single fire season in central California.

It's hard to believe, but between forest management and near-instant firefighting work, there's more square miles of forest in North America today than in 1492.

I've got an old TREX kit kicking around somewhere... was thinking the other day about how that might be fun to build with modern electronics and GPS, put in a camera and laser rangefinder, maybe even a mini LIDAR scanner...

1- If Person 1 is the RPIC but someone else is flying, then they have to be able to directly supervise the person who is flying, and if they're inside the vehicle and out of sight of what's going on, they have no ability to see something going wrong and intervene in a timely fashion to prevent a...

Tbh I've never done anything where I need that level of precision- 99% of my flight time is just doing pre-programmed grids over something for mapping.

Why would it be harder to use the sticks on the Oculus controllers than the sticks on the DJI controller?

I would be interested... but very, very cautious. The sensors on the quest are not for use in sunlight...

Also, yes- Agisoft is the best, hands down. There isn't anything out there at the moment that can do the job as well as they do. Here's a sample of a roof inspection I did a while back. About 5500 pictures taken from ~30 feet above the roof, and in the end I was left with a 32 GB geolocated...

WebODM on any system* runs inside of a VM through Docker. PC, Linux, Mac, whatever. The paid installer for Mac just makes the setup process easy. *except for PC with a paid installer, then it runs native.

Those are the locations where each picture was taken.

You're going to want more resources than that, I suspect... I usually give it 6 of 8 cores and 24 of 32 GB RAM, when I'm running the docker version on Mac. I user both Mac and PC, depending on what I'm doing or what day it is or whatever I feel like using that day. Did you actually get the...

You're trying to do the manual install, it looks like. But you paid for the pre-made installer?