An Ode to Lee Sedol & Groucho Marx
Introduction While biking in the city, I am frequently passed by electric and non-electric bicyclists. I glare at the offending passers-by for confirmation of tell-tale signs of an e-bike. Any large dark barnacles protruding from the frame will set me at ease. A motor hanging from the bottom bracket, a battery bolted to a downtube…
Introduction In my last post I developed a flight dynamics model (FDM) using data from a fixed wing RC plane containing the Pixhawk1 running Ardupilot firmware. I suggested that I should look into the following: Visualize a learned model’s relationship between control inputs and state variables. For instance, does the model learn what we might…
A recent adoption of electric vehicles by the US automotive industry indicates that electrification could become viable in general aviation. This is an exciting development for an industry that has not kept pace with its automotive, or commercial aviation counterparts. What about Fully Electric? Battery energy density (measured in watt hours per kilogram) is too…
The New York Times “Spelling Bee” is a difficult puzzle in which you try to come up with words using only the letters that appear in a honeycomb grid. Every word must contain the center letter and letters can be reused. Below is an example spelling bee: The first words that come to mind for…
I have fantasized that someday I would fly a little bush plane out of a little private grass strip I maintained. While this may never happen, in the event that it does, I should be prepared to know whether a location is suitable and how to ideally place the runway. My (limited) perspective in this domain…