Mini UAV using Parallax Propeller chip

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Here's a work-in-progress, from a guy who's building a mini UAV, using a Blade CX2 R/C helicopter and the awesome Parallax Propeller Chip. He writes of the build:

The CX2 controller has 4 potentiometers into which I spliced a breadboard.  A Parallax Propeller (prop chip) is used to read the control stick voltages through a simple Delta - Sigma ADC... receive live data from another prop-based system resident on the heli, some control laws are (will be) applied, and the new voltages are output using a PWM based DAC (couplea caps, couplea resistors...).  The prop also can talk to a laptop thru its USB port.  I have some java code which displays various outputs (very much a work in progress and not currently a high priority).

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Posted by: edward99 on August 20, 2007 at 1:58 AM

What's Next after Web 2.0?

I do not like those buzz words like Web 2.0, Business 2.0 etc., however in order to communication, you have to conform to their protocols, otherwise they might think you are speaking in a foreign language. So far Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 lead by Youtube, FaceBook, same Amazon, New Yahoo! and New Google is successful, though at not successful as Web 1.0/Internet 0.0 led by Old Yahoo!, Ebay, Amazon and Old Google. Why? Not a big surprise anymore when from Web 1.0/Internet 0.0 to Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 as opposed from nothing to Web 1.0/Internet 0.0.

I believe the next after Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 is Web 3.0/Internet 2.0, however we'd better to call it Internet 2.0, since at that time, Web is not that important any more. Why?

Web 1.0/Internet 0.0 - Informed, you as a reader

Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 - Inform, you as a writer

Internet 2.0 (as opposed as Web 3.0/Internet 2.0) - formation of Information, you as a reader, writer, and much more

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