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A new Fatigue Meter for the Bulldog aircraft (Part 5)

PART FIVE This is a direct continuation of PART FOUR, picking up where I left off, with the design and fabrication of a suitable enclosure for the flight unit. Enclosure design Sketchup Using the Sketchup web package (free online here) I designed the enclosure to house the SSL, see Figure 1. Fabrication 3D Printer I…

A new Fatigue Meter for the Bulldog aircraft (Part 4)

PART FOUR This is a direct continuation of PART THREE, picking up where I left off, with the continuation of flight tests and comparing the SSL fatigue meter readouts with the legacy fatigue meter readouts, and adjusting the SSL software as necessary. Test Flight #5 Flight profile: aerobatics I performed another aerobatic sortie test with…

A new Fatigue Meter for the Bulldog aircraft (Part 3)

PART THREE This is a direct continuation of PART TWO, picking up where I left off, with the continuation of flight tests and comparing the SSL fatigue meter readouts with the legacy fatigue meter readouts, and adjusting the SSL software as necessary. Flight tests Flight profiles #1 (maiden flight), #2, #3 As with the maiden…

A new Fatigue Meter for the Bulldog aircraft (Part 2)

PART TWO This is a direct continuation of PART ONE, picking up where I left off. I start with the next major step being Source the uninterruptible power supply (UPS). I work through the integration of this into the device including the implementation of appropriate power and data modes. I next present the installation of…

A new Fatigue Meter for the Bulldog aircraft (Part 1)

Also see (now published) PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE PART ONE In a previous post from 8 years ago I present my musings on the Bulldog Fatigue Meter. A couple of (expensive) three-yearly overhaul cycles have passed since then, and the next one is coming up. So it got me thinking “surely…

Mothership

A song for my Mum Let’s travel on the MothershipGoing at the speed of lightVisit all our other worldsWhere everything’s alright Lean against the wind and rainGaze across the seaSinging songs from long agoDancing you and me I’ll go to sleep and dream aboutOur cottage in the skyI’ll read the note you left me thereAnd…

Silent Night

‘Tis the season, so I put together this rendition of Silent Night for your musical pleasure…

Stereo Panner for Ableton Live 9

Frustrated by the lack of proper stereo panning in Ableton Live 9, I built a VST plugin for this explicit purpose. I know there are (convoluted) ways to achieve this in Ableton Live 9, but it’s all too awkward. I also know that this is fixed in Ableton Live 10, but I’m not ready to…

AI for Good

I’m delighted to have been invited to present a keynote address at the inaugural IEEE / International Telecommunication Union Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Good which has just taken place (virtually, given the times we live in).

De-Noising Audio using Spectral Subtraction in MATLAB and Ableton Live

Last time I wrote about audio restoration using simple digital filtering (in MATLAB and Ableton Live). I’ve since received another old Havering recording from Walt. Again from an old cassette tape, this recording is rather noisy. In this post, I explain how I cleaned it up using a more elaborate technique than previously. Again I…

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