Drone News
DJI Announces New Product “Focus” for Film Makers and Videographers
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...
The Whirlwind X251 is a Good Quality, Brushless Motor Quadcopter
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...
3DRobotics Attempting to Raise $45M to Pivot into Commercial Drone Market
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 ...
Game of Drones – Drones Battle It Out
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...
Drones Are Set To Become More Useful Than Just Aerial Cameras
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 is Fast Becoming a FPV Drone Racing Ledgend
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...
Drones Considered As Companions to Seagoing Shipping Vessels
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...
Check Out This Drone Dogfight Using Nerf Disks as Bullets
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...
Phantom 3 Races Sports Car in Along Mountain Road
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...
Drone Uses Advanced Software and Hardware to Fence
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...
Fixed Wing Drones Used to Monitor Radiation Contamination
Officials in Nevada are piloting a program to use fixed winged drones to sniff out radiation from a nuclear accident similar to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. The use of these unmanned aircraft will greatly reduce the risk to officials who are called upon to test for radiation. This team has traditionally used Bell helicopters and Beechcraft airplanes for monitoring radiation contamination,...
Will a New Drone from Chinese Company Xiaomi Compete with DJI?
China based Smart phone manufacturer Xiaomi is hoping to compete with the giant of the drone industry, DJI, by releasing a brand new offering to the market called the Mi Drone. It features a spherical camera that is reported to shoot at least 4K video. Other details about the new drone offering are unclear, but if the company’s innovation is any indication, it should be worth a look when it ...