Kelly Shores

Want to fly PFV without the nerdy looking goggles? Want to share the FPV view with others so that they can see what you are seeing when you fly? Check out the GTeng T909 5.8G FPV Watch Wearable Receiver. This watch fits nicely on your wrist and has a 2.8 inch LCD screen for real time viewing of 5.8 Ghz video transmissions. This means that any camera drone that will work with your Fat Shark goggles...

There is nothing worse (except maybe crashing) than flying your drone to get that perfect shot only to find out your footage is unusable because the file is corrupt. The weakest link in the camera equation is the media card, whether it’s SD, compact flash, or micro SD, it is important to be sure you are getting the best quality. This page will show you how to test your media card to make sur...

Leading drone developer and manufacturer, DJI, has announced a new device for the film making community, the DJI Focus. Focus uses DJI’s knowledge of precise control with motors and servos to give directors of photography very granular control over both the aperture and focus controls of their camera. This device will work both on a drone and on the ground and connects to a variety of camera...

Looking for a fun, fast and relatively inexpensive brushless motor quadcopter? Then definitely check out the Whirlwind X251 from XK Hobbies! This drone is well built with a carbon fiber frame, has 6 axis gyros for stability, brushless motors for speed and power, as well as three different flight modes that allow you to fly as tamely or aggressively as you want. Unlike the smaller toy drones that f...

3D Robotics has had some challenges in the last 12 months including layoffs of staff and slow sales in the consumer market. Competition for the consumer market is tough with comanies like Yuneec and DJI creating serious competition for 3DR’s Solo. Because of this, 3D Robotics is planning to focus more on the commercial drone space and is attempting to raise $45 million in investment to help ...

Drone racing is a fun and exciting sport. But if you want to check out some really wild action, you’ve got to see drone combat, also known as “Game of Drones”. In this game the drones are piloted to collide in mid are repeatedly. Each time a drone hits the ground they lose a point. After you lose 3 points, you are out. If a drone is unable to fly after a crash, the pilot is given...

As the world becomes more used to drones used for aerial photography, the future of drones is just beginning. Leading companies are considering the next wave of commercial drones and what purpose they will serve. DJI, the leading designer and manufacturer of consumer camera platform drones is currently developing a number of new UAVs that will handle things like commercial agriculture, mapping, in...

Steve “Zoomas” Zoumas is the defending champion of the “Miami Lights” race which took place in the NFL’s Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida earlier this year. Zoomas flies for the New Drone Racing Leageue and is part of a growing sport that is seeing bigger and bigger audiences along with larger cash prizes for the participants. Check out the video detailing Zoomas...

Although great advancements have been made in ground and air transportation, the majority of the world’s goods are still shipped at sea on huge freighters. The reasons are simple – shipping at sea is less expensive and more efficient than shipping via cargo airplane. However, there are certain areas where being in the air has big advantages and many in the ocean shipping world are look...

Andy Shen is a drone designer with a cool idea. Andy has mounted Nerf brand disks in a spinning compartment on the front of his 250 FPV racing drone. The idea is to challenge his friends to what could be the first drone FPV dogfight in the air. The action takes place in a cold, dusty warehouse with industrial equipment all around. This leads to a challenging flying environment and many interesting...

What happens when you own a Lamborghini Gallardo and a DJI Phantom 3? You get them to race, of course! Check out this article and video about one man who decided to see which was faster on an improvised race course in the mountains of Utah. Disclamer: We don’t recommend using pubilc roads as race courses, but that said, the video of the two racing is still pretty cool to watch! http://www.au...

The Autonomous Systems Laboratory at Stanford University is using a drone to demonstrate “real-time kinodynamic planning” in which a drone faces off with a fencer and uses intelligent algorythms to avoid the fencer’s foil. The drone has been taught to steer and change speed in order to avoid the fencer as he thrusts toward the drone. The quadcopter has learned to compute the opti...