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11 Amazing Facts About The Drone Industry
Everybody knows that drones are big business. The question is will they grow into the massive multibillion dollar business that many are predicting? Or will regulations, fear, and uncertainty stifle this fledgling industry and cut its branches before it can grow? This article is an interesting look at some astounding business facts related to the drone industry. If you own or are considering buyin...
Amazon Working with UK Government on Drone Delivery
For several years Amazon, one of the world’s largest online retailers, has been working on the idea of drone delivery for package shipment. And while most of this work has been done in secret in a remote part of Canada, Amazon has now taken one step closer to making this vision a reality by partnering with the British government supported by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), As the UK’s...
7 Tips for New Drone Pilots
If you are getting started in your drone/quadcopter flying career, you will want to check out these tips. Flying is half preparation and awareness and half actual flight time. Here is a breakdown of the seven tips. Start with an inexpensive drone. Learn to fly without headless mode Know the rules Get comfortable flying line of site before you try FPV Reduce risk by learning to fly in a big, open, ...
Bright and Lightweight LED Spotlight for Drones
Want to fly at night and spot wildlife? Search and rescue? Record video at night? Lume Cubes are an innovative lighting system and very bright at 1500 lumens. They are also lightweight enough to be carried by a Phantom or Solo. The Lume Cubes are also waterproof down to 100′. The lights have a simple pushbutton operation to turn them on and off as well as a bluetooth app that will allow you ...
7 Mistakes Drone Pilots Make and How to Avoid Them
Whether you are new to flying drones or a seasoned expert, there are seven things that we see frequently that can be easily avoided. These mistakes are: Turning on your drone when it’s not on a level surface. – When attempting to fly, if your quadcopter drone immediately takes off at weird angles, flips, or is uncontrollable you probably don’t understand the importance of initializing ...
The Teal Drone Promises to Be Versatile and Fun to Fly
Even though it will fly at over 85 miles per hour, speed is just one of the many tricks that the Teal drone can accomplish. If you think about the current types of drones available to consumers today, you have the camera drone, which DJI is leading, the “follow me” drone, like the Lily, and a wide variety of FPV racing drones. Teal is designed to be modular enough to do all of these th...
Walmart Using Drones To Check Warehouse Inventory
When most people think of drones used in retail applications, they think of how drones can help move or deliver items to the customer. However, Walmart, the world’s largest brick and mortar retailer, is thinking of a different way to use drones. The idea is that drones will fly autonomously through their massive warehouses taking pictures of inventory on the shelves. Then, using inventory tr...
How DJI Builds A Flight Controller
DJI has over ten years of experience with drones and image stabilization. At the heart of every drone is a flight controller that ensures the UAV stays airborne and under control. DJI explains that the key to making their drones reliable has to do with the performance, self-diagnostics, and redundant systems that they build into every flight controller they make. If you’ve ever wondered abou...
Agricultural Drones Increase Crops and Reduce Costs
When you think of farming, you typically think of horses, plows, and tractors, right? Today’s farms are becoming high tech centers. It is predicted that the use of agricultural drones will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent between 2016 and 2022. This means that drones may well outnumber tractors on the farm one day soon. Farmers are utilizing drones equipped with infra...
Growing Drones Using Chemistry
To design and build a drone today takes thousands of man hours as well as complicated engineering and manufacturing techniques. However, if BAE, the British aerospace defense company has their way, we may someday be able to grow unmanned aerial vehicles in vats of chemicals using a process called “chemputing”. This process uses chemicals with electronics embedded in the body of the air...
Commercial Airliner Collides With Drone
This past Sunday at 12:50pm, a British Airways passenger jet is reported to have collided with a drone during landing in London. The aircraft was an Airbus A320 and was returning from Geneva, Switzerland to London, England when the incident occurred. The 132 passengers and 5 crew members were not injured and the plane landed safely. Despite the safe outcome this time, this is still a serious remin...
Hacked Nintendo Glove Controls Drone
Ever wanted to play a video game in real life? Engineer Nolan Moore used the Nintendo Power Gloves as the basis for a gesture-based controller for the a consumer drone, allowing him to pilot device around with small motions of his hands. He replaced the original electronics in the gloves with with much more modern control boards, Wi-Fi transmitters, and flex sensors. This mix of reality and virtu...