2007 |
Initiated one of the very first open source flight controller projects |
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2009 |
First-ever automatic indoor flight, guided by a standard webcam |
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2009 |
First-ever mobile phone controlled multirotor flight |
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2010 |
Smallest trirotor design |
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2010 |
Automatic position hold |
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2011 |
First-ever 'dead-cat' hexrotor design |
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2011 |
'Best Operational MAV award' from Dutch police |
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2012 |
First-ever tilted rotor racing quad design |
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2013 |
Licensing one of my designs to Team-Blacksheep |
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2015 |
First-ever tilted body racing quad design |
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2015 |
First-ever vertical arm / tilted body racing quad design |
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2016 |
Invention of the camera tilt compensation ('fpv_mix_degrees'), now used e.g. in Betaflight |
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2016 |
First-ever 'aero pod' racing quad design |
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2017 |
Invention of side-force-generators (SFGs) |
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2018 |
A new method of inflight propeller performance testing |
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2018 |
2nd place DroneClash 2018 Counter-Drone Competition |
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2019 |
Development & design of a large wind-measuring drone |
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2019 |
2nd place DroneClash 2019 Counter-Drone Competition |
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