My Drone Quadcopter experimentation

Part List (if you need detail feel fre to email me francesco.collova @ gmail.com)

The frame - Hobbyking_X650F_Glass_Fiber_Quadcopter_Frame_550mm

https://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__41765__Hobbyking_X650F_Glass_Fiber_Quadcopter_Frame_550mm_EU_warehouse_.html

Flight Controller: MultiWii PRO (Arduino 2560) Flight Controller w/MTK GPS Module

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__26588__MultiWii_PRO_Flight_Controller_w_MTK_GPS_Module.html

Motor - 4X

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__45476__NTM_Prop_Drive_28_26_1000KV_235W_short_shaft_version_EU_Warehouse_.html

ESC - 4X

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=33617

Esc - Motor cable 4X

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=25483 (Int)

Male to Male servo LID

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=48111

HTX Connector - 1X

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=36264

Heat tube

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=42142

Power Distribution Power

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=34528 (Int)

Propeller

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=25821 (mancano)

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__36341__8045_SF_Props_2pc_CW_2_pc_CCW_Rotation_Red_EU_Warehouse_.html

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__52209__10x4_5_SF_Props_Black_CW_2pc_CCW_2pc_EU_Warehouse_.html

Programming Card

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=31419

Module and receiver X Radio

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__14355__FrSky_DF_2_4Ghz_Combo_Pack_for_JR_w_Module_RX.html

Drone Economy

The drone economy is being built in the garage using the $35 Raspberry Pi and a $40 Arduino. This is not break-the-bank equipment. The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer that can run Linux, has multiple I/O ports include HDMI and USB, Wi-Fi, and a reasonable CPU and RAM. In other words, take a computer from 3 years ago, condense it into a size that almost fits into your wallet, and you have a Raspberry Pi. For $35. With this technology, and a few hundred dollars, a hard-working geek can build an intelligent robot to do many things around your house, in your car, at your office, or, with a little more money, in the air.

Arduino

Raspberry Pi

Drone Economy
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/02/underground-drone-economy/3805387/
http://www.ft.com/indepth/drone-economy
http://www.puryear-it.com/blog/2014/03/04/drone-economy-right-now/
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/idea-of-the-week-the-drone-economy

The future of the job!

The World Of Everything-As-A-Service:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/09/everything-as-a-service/?utm_content=buffer0b1ac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Scary Smart Video Predicts Automation Will Make Human Work Obsolete:
http://mashable.com/2014/08/19/scary-smart-video-predicts-automation-will-make-human-work-obsolete-in-the-future/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs:

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/

The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer:http://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer/

Neural Networks a short Introduction

Machine Learning: Introduction to Neural Networks from Francesco Collovà

OpenStack in a BOX

Come installare OpenStack sul proprio desktop per sperimentare con il prodotto in una configurazione interessante, con tre Nodi: Controller Compute e Network.

Per fare ciò utilizzeremo a sua volta delle macchine virtuali create tramite Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) per i tre Nodi, ed un PC desktop con almeno 4Gb di RAM. Per generare le macchine virtuali utilizzeremo Vagrant ed Ansible. Ansible è un sw per la gestione di infrastrutture e sarà utilizzato per deployare sui tre nodi virtuali (Vbox) di OpenStack tutto il sw necessario.

Per qualche dettaglio su Ansible si può consultare:http://www.slideshare.net/fcollova/infrastructure-as-data. Vagrant e un tool per la creazione e gestione delle macchine Virtuali di Virtualbox.

La versione di OpenStack che installeremo è Havana cioè l'ultima disponibile al sito di OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org/).

Per fare l'installazione utilizziamo un Kit fatto da Djorelly che ringrazio per il suo lavoro, è disponibile qui: https://github.com/djoreilly/quantum-ansible.I prerequisiti sono di aver installato su una distribuzione Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (questa è quella che ho utilizzato) i seguenti SW:

• git

• Ansible + dipendenze (versione usata 1.3.4) (http://ansible.cc/docs/gettingstarted.html)

$ sudo pip install paramiko PyYAML Jinja2 ansible

• Vagrant (versione usata 1.2.3) (http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)

• VirtualBox (versione usata 4.2.18)

Per installare tutto l'ambiente basta fare:

(Prelevate la 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) Vagrant box)

vagrant box add precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box

git clone http://github.com/djoreilly/quantum-ansible
cd quantum-ansible
git checkout havana
./install-openstack

Alla fine dell'installazione che dura circa 30mm vi potrete collegare al vostro openstack dal desktop tramite la console Horizon che sarà raggiungibile all'indirizzo: http://10.0.10.10/horizon utente=admin and password=secrete.


I tre nodi saranno generati secondo al configurazione che vedete nella figura seguente:

Your Cell Phone Microscope

Build your own cell phone microscope following the instruction to the following link!

Cell Phone Microscope 

    - NetworkX - is a Python library for doing network analysis it allow to create and study

complex network and is based completely on Python without module compiled

in other language

NetworkX is able to manage many type of networks, or graphs:

• Nodes can be any (hashable) Python object, edges can contain arbitrary data

• Flexibility ideal for representing networks found in many different fields

• Easy to install on multiple platforms and up-to-date documentation

• First release in April 2005

The official site is: http://networkx.lanl.gov/