The WWVi Model UAV Lab

The WWVi Lab is place to document and showcase the reasarch and development into the use of hobby-classed, radio-controller multi-rotor aircraft. In april of 2010, we began negotiations with Aerobot in Australia to constuct our first drone. We have been crazy about little flying robots ever since. We are located in Canada's Sub-arctic, on the banks of the Mighty Slave River, next to Wood Buffalo National Park in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

My Name is Franco Nogarin, and I do not work for Western Willow Ventures Inc, but I volunteer. The lab is funded by WWVi but I am not paid. That said, this lab is the result of years of my research and WWVi funding.

I can be reached on RCGroups, Aeroquad, diydrones, google+ as spydmobile and on facebook as franco nogarin. or by using the contact form in the help menu on this website.

I also volunteer as Community Manager of the OpenPilot project openpilot.org and I am a serious open-source advocate. I have a long stading background in IT 25+ years and More recently an Environmental Scientist. My area of intrest is in studying wildfire and I hold the Wildfire Modeller postion with the Government of the Northwest Territories, where my intrest/addiction to multirotor started with ARDi (Aerial Research Drone 1) and project FireEye.

The idea behind this site is to be transparent and encourage the open source nature of these projects. We post the build logs, flight data, components and processes including flight testing videos.

The nature of this lab is Open and Transparent. We do not work on or develop any military UAV applications. With the exception of Aerial Videography and Photography, Wildfire is the only other area we do UAV research and we do it in conjunction with the Government of the Northwest Territories in Project FireEye.

For more information of Project FireEye visit
http://www.nwtfire.com/cms/pages/project-fireeye

About the look and feel of the lab:
The lab is powered by Drupal 6 and the Theme was designed by Heidi Selzler lead designer at Western Willow Ventures Inc. The green ethereal glow is actually an audio graph of my voice from a song I wrote ;-)