Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Chaos Communication Camp 2011

[Oswald Berthold]

Martin Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> some Paparazzi people attended at the CCCamp 2011 [1] last week
> and enjoyed the company of about 3500 relaxed hackers on a
> retired Soviet military airfield north of Berlin. We found a
> convenient home in the Motodrone tent [2] and had a lot of fun
> with all sorts of flying objects. There was a first flight of a
> newly build Lisa-L/Silverlit quadcopter!
>
> Motodrone did an UAV competition and the Paparazzi project won a
> prize: "Best progress/autonomous" for successfully bringing UAVs
> to real world applications. The first half of the prize was a
> free flight with a 44 year old Antonov AN-2 over the camp
> site. Felix and me took the ride...and enjoyed it [3].
>
> The Motodrone project [4] originated from the 24C3 congress 2007
> and held a conference/competition each year since then. There
> was some participation on the part with Paparazzi, talks and
> fixed wing plane flights (it was mainly quadcopter
> centered). Maybe we can join next years Motodrone event and have
> a Paparazzi meeting there. Discussions are ongoing but it could
> take place at another unused former Soviet airfield with lots of
> space.
>
> The second half is a 100 Euros voucher. What should we do with
> it? First idea was to add the missing money to an autopilot and
> give it to someone who needs it to do some great. What do you
> think?
>
> Martin
>
>
> [1] http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/
> [2] http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki_images/Cccamp11.jpg
> [3] http://vimeo.com/27782773
> [4] http://motodrone.org/en/

hey, congrats! pity i couldn't witness it though. looking
forward to motodrone'12 then ..

cheers, opt