[Paparazzi-devel] Chaos Communication Camp 2011

[Martin Mueller]

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/