About Aldux

I’ll like to start this by…

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I’m a simple guy trying to transform the world (rather my surroundings) with cool gadgets such as UAV’s,  will I change the world or will the world change me?  I still don’t know.

I’m the guy of the photo on the right…

Before starting my PhD candidature, I completed my undergraduate studies in at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where I receive my diploma from the Engineering Faculty (FI) doing the studies of Mechatronics Engineering.

For those who don’t know what is that, this is a small description of what a mechatronics engineer do:

A mechatronics engineer unites the principles of mechanics, electronics, and computing to generate a simpler, more economical and reliable system.

And this is a good definition of mechatronics:

Mechatronics is a design process that includes a combination of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, control engineering and computer engineering. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, that is to say, it rejects splitting engineering into separate disciplines. Originally, mechatronics just included the combination of mechanics and electronics, hence the word is a combination of mechanics and electronics however, as technical systems have become more and more complex the word has been “updated” during recent years to include more technical areas.

A image always works more than thousand words.

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Enough of mechatronics…

How do I get involved in Aerospace???? Well, I always been very interested in things that fly, and after several years saving money, when I was like 18 years old, I bought my first RC helicopter, I was hooked 🙂

It was a Hirobo GPH-346, a very advanced model for a beginner like me 🙁 and I learned that by crashing. This RC helicopter had a gas powered engine (46 class, .46 cubic inches). The bigger and more powerful the engine, the larger the main rotor blade that it can turn and hence the bigger the aircraft overall. Typical flight time for nitro helicopters is 7–15 minutes depending on the engine size and tuning.

But, the important part is that when I hear the blades whining at almost more than 10,000 rpm, that was it for me, I knew this devices will play a central part in my life, almost as much as my passion for motorcycles, but thats another subject.