Amazing photos and an extensive review of kiloohm products is up at https://www.thefirearmblog.com Check out their entire catalog of the Friday Night Lights series, it’s an excellent resource for night vision, infrared lasers and thermal viewers. And the reviewer Nick Chen has some more photos on his instagram, give him a follow there and kiloohmcom…
So it begins. “California lawmakers approve drone trespassing crime bills SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers advanced legislation Monday seeking to rein in the use of privacy-invading drones, passing one bill to prevent the use of drones by paparazzi and another making it a trespassing violation to fly drones over private property without permission.…
V1.13 is a content update to Drone University. I will publish the full version of these notes to Amazon in a few days. To update your Kindle book: To enable Automatic Book Updates: Go to Manage Your Content and Devices. Select Settings. Select Automatic Book Update to expand the section. Select On to receive automatic…
Its been a while since my last post, I had a bunch of things come up at once. Here are some things I’ve been working on and will post updates soon: 3D printing parts Ublox M8N GPS Tetracam Micro NDVI camera Programming PHP AG drones Julio Iglesias cutting his hand on a drone, I can…
I got a surprise today when my mini-quad went out of control on my desk. I had just installed new Clean Flight firmware on my Acro Naze32 and just set up the radio settings when I turned off the transmitter it set the quad into a run away and spun up to full speed in…
I gotta give these folks at Zoot Pictures a bravo zulu, they did a really great job at portraying the current social and economic stories of drones and the humans around them. If you want to watch the “Doc Zone – The Age of the Drone”, click here. http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/ID/2654753465/ But you have to have a…
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This is just my evaluation of the new proposed FAA commercial use drone rules: 2120-AJ60_NPRM_2-15-2015_joint_signature.pdf. Their proposal looks fair enough on the surface. But If I was Amazon.com, I would not be happy. This will ground them due to the visual line of sight…
The Age of the Drone Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 9 PM on CBC-TV “THE AGE OF THE DRONE, an eyebrow-raising new documentary reveals a game-changing revolution that’s happening overhead. The drones are here – pilotless flying bots, usually equipped with cutting-edge cameras and GPS navigation. Whether you know it or not, they’re up…
Regulations will facilitate integration of small UAS into U.S. aviation system WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. The FAA proposal offers safety…
Over the next few weeks I will be building an Align T-Rex 450 flybarless helicopter, but with a mini-APM controller and Arducopter. This is my first helicopter with APM and FPV so it should be fun!