CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-06-18 04:43:52 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

This was shot on a couple of different days, with a couple of different states of tune. Nothing fancy, just a hard mounted GoPro 2. It gives you a quick view of our sweet little office in the corner of the Swerve Co compound. 

2013-06-15 03:51:26 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

This is the sort of epic ArduCopter 3.0 performance that won the Sparkfun AVC competition last weekend. Congrats, Dave!

2013-06-15 03:51:08 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 25 +1s)

This is the sort of epic ArduCopter 3.0 performance that won the Sparkfun AVC competition last weekend. Congrats, Dave!

2013-06-15 03:41:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Our big new 3D Robotics factory in Tijuana is just weeks from opening

2013-06-15 03:41:06 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Our big new 3D Robotics factory in Tijuana is just weeks from opening

2013-06-10 03:13:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

With reporting from a 3D Robotics "Friday Flyday". 

2013-06-10 03:13:39 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

With reporting from a 3D Robotics "Friday Flyday". 

2013-06-10 03:13:20 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

With reporting from a 3D Robotics "Friday Flyday". 

2013-05-28 23:46:04 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

Great use of a +3D Robotics UAV.

2013-05-28 23:45:44 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 14 +1s)

Great use of a +3D Robotics UAV.

2013-05-20 01:00:35 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 29 +1s)

Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics

2013-05-09 04:43:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Another good round-up (no pun intended!) piece. 

2013-05-07 18:36:56 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

A teaser from 3D Robotics. Coming later this month

2013-05-07 18:36:37 (1 comments, 11 reshares, 21 +1s)

A teaser from 3D Robotics. Coming later this month

2013-05-07 03:11:16 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

My 3D Robotics co-founder was one of a dozen Mexican entrepreneurs who met with Obama in Mexico City last week. He got a goodie...

2013-05-06 17:23:36 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

Good CNBC feature, taken mostly at 3D Robotics labs and field tests

2013-05-04 05:46:14 (11 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

The RC car imported as STEP in 123D :(
Different CAD solutions don't seem to like each other :)

2013-05-02 01:29:29 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

From today's Wall Street Jounal

2013-04-30 14:10:10 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

LinkedIn asked me to join their Influencers program and write occasional pieces for them.

Here's my first, about how the government's ignorance of how many drones there are today mirrors its ignorance of how many "communications networks" there were when the world's LANs first connected in the early 1990s and created an alternative to the telecommunications networks. 

2013-04-30 14:09:55 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 21 +1s)

LinkedIn asked me to join their Influencers program and write occasional pieces for them.

Here's my first, about how the government's ignorance of how many drones there are today mirrors its ignorance of how many "communications networks" there were when the world's LANs first connected in the early 1990s and created an alternative to the telecommunications networks. 

2013-04-29 05:12:02 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

2013-04-28 05:47:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-28 05:06:31 (3 comments, 13 reshares, 30 +1s)

If you're curious about why we talk about procurement so much, watch this video.

2013-04-28 02:18:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Includes UAVs surveying crops in near IR to spot plant damage

2013-04-23 16:15:22 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Good piece from Harvard Business Review. Key passage:

"Mass-market drones clearly hold potential for what Paul Nunes and I call "big bang disruption." This is a kind of innovation that, thanks to fast-evolving technology, arrives in the marketplace simultaneously better, cheaper, and more capable of improving than the existing alternatives."

2013-04-23 16:11:51 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)

2013-04-23 03:36:04 (14 comments, 26 reshares, 86 +1s)

Another great space test flight taken from a UAV (hexacopter)

2013-04-21 18:45:53 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 11 +1s)

NASA used a 3DRobotics ArduCopter to autonomously film its latest Robotic Lunar Lander test flight. From the writeup:

"We've been using the ArduCopter platform at Marshall Space Flight Center for almost a year now.  We started with a 3DR Quad and have several 3DR Hex vehicles.  We're using them to test their capabilities for aerial reconnaissance as well as search and rescue.  This past week we used our Quad with a GoPro Hero3 to film a test flight of the Robotic Lunar Lander.  It was a fully autonomous flight (takeoff, ascent to 100' altitude, transit to loiter position, RTL once filming is complete, and landing).  As you can see from the video, we got some amazing footage from a very unique vantage point.  Thanks to 3DR and the devs for all your help and assistance! "

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-using-arducopter

2013-04-21 18:45:33 (21 comments, 60 reshares, 205 +1s)

NASA used a 3DRobotics ArduCopter to autonomously film its latest Robotic Lunar Lander test flight. From the writeup:

"We've been using the ArduCopter platform at Marshall Space Flight Center for almost a year now.  We started with a 3DR Quad and have several 3DR Hex vehicles.  We're using them to test their capabilities for aerial reconnaissance as well as search and rescue.  This past week we used our Quad with a GoPro Hero3 to film a test flight of the Robotic Lunar Lander.  It was a fully autonomous flight (takeoff, ascent to 100' altitude, transit to loiter position, RTL once filming is complete, and landing).  As you can see from the video, we got some amazing footage from a very unique vantage point.  Thanks to 3DR and the devs for all your help and assistance! "

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-using-arducopter

2013-04-18 23:56:38 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

New 3D Robotics site, store and manuals! Just a hint of big things to come.

2013-04-18 23:56:10 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 24 +1s)

New 3D Robotics site, store and manuals! Just a hint of big things to come.

2013-04-15 04:29:25 (2 comments, 13 reshares, 12 +1s)

The making of Oblivion, where Tom Cruise plays a drone repairman. 21 mins, but worth every minute.

2013-04-08 02:26:02 (7 comments, 6 reshares, 62 +1s)

My twelve-year-old, Toby, watched Wall-E and designed his own "Tob-E" on Tinkercad. We then 3D printed it and painted it. Came out pretty well!
https://tinkercad.com/things/5O9oapvfc0f-tob-e-robot

2013-04-07 21:48:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

Great report of using ArduPlane to map the Peruvian Andes, with video and data

2013-04-07 21:48:21 (0 comments, 11 reshares, 31 +1s)

Great report of using ArduPlane to map the Peruvian Andes, with video and data

2013-04-07 05:35:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"“Agriculture is very technology-oriented,” West said. “We’re very advanced from the science standpoint, technology standpoint, even business standpoint. It’s going to be another tool that lets us reach further, make decisions better and then respond quicker.”

2013-04-07 05:11:43 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

We've broken 2,000 members here at the DIY Drones Google Plus community!

2013-04-06 06:04:47 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 39 +1s)

Radio control is a twentieth century technology. This is all computer controlled...no RC at all.

2013-04-06 04:38:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Awesome app. Works great with ArduCopter/ArduPlane

2013-04-06 04:22:02 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 17 +1s)

Awesome app. Works great with ArduCopter/ArduPlane

2013-04-05 17:05:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

OpenROV on the cover of MAKE!

2013-04-05 17:05:09 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

OpenROV on the cover of MAKE!

2013-04-04 03:50:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Lots of good data in this piece

2013-04-04 03:46:04 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

Lots of good data in this piece

2013-04-02 16:47:28 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Update! Speaker list is posted!

Hardware Innovation Workshop – Keynote & Featured Speakers:

Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones
Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino
Robert Faludi, co-creator of LilyPad XBee and Botanicalls
Bunnie Huang, co-founder of Chumby
Ben Kaufman, founder and CEO of Quirky
Dave Merrill, co-founder and president of Sifteo
Scott Miller, co-founder and CEO of Dragon Innovation
Peter Weijmarshausen, co-founder and CEO of Shapeways
Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad
David Lang, co-founder of OpenROV
Lisa Qui, co-founder of Nomiku
Jay Silver, founder of Makey Makey
Jeremy Conrad, co-founder of Lemnos Labs
Eric Jennings & Sally Carson, co-founders of Pinoccio
John Dimatos, Kickstarter
Zach Smith, program director of HAXLR8R
Zach Kaplan, CEO ofI... more »

2013-04-02 16:46:31 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Update! Speaker list is posted!

Hardware Innovation Workshop – Keynote & Featured Speakers:

Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones
Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino
Robert Faludi, co-creator of LilyPad XBee and Botanicalls
Bunnie Huang, co-founder of Chumby
Ben Kaufman, founder and CEO of Quirky
Dave Merrill, co-founder and president of Sifteo
Scott Miller, co-founder and CEO of Dragon Innovation
Peter Weijmarshausen, co-founder and CEO of Shapeways
Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad
David Lang, co-founder of OpenROV
Lisa Qui, co-founder of Nomiku
Jay Silver, founder of Makey Makey
Jeremy Conrad, co-founder of Lemnos Labs
Eric Jennings & Sally Carson, co-founders of Pinoccio
John Dimatos, Kickstarter
Zach Smith, program director of HAXLR8R
Zach Kaplan, CEO ofI... more »

2013-04-02 15:19:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Good find from Gary's site:

"URSULA (UAS Remote Sensing for Use in Land Applications) is a 2-year research and development programme to explore the potential for advanced remote sensing in land applications, primarily in high input arable farming. It complements currently available remote sensing techniques, for example, satellite-derived information or real-time data, and pushes horizons for information and land management.

What has been achieved in year one you might ask? Here’s a brief résumé:

Official launch event in March
Full flying season over a number of farms with multiple crop sampling
Launch and flying sortie parameter testing to plan with UAS platform development planned for year two
Sensor capability assessment
Full data processing capabilities tested including RGB, with derived digital elevation modelling, CIR and NDVIS... more »

2013-04-02 03:41:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The three ways are: 1) Disease detection, 2) Aerial imaging and 3) Crop spraying

2013-04-01 05:48:41 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Check out this great video of an ArduCopter entry to the T3 fly-a-cube competition. Fully autonomous! 

2013-04-01 05:48:26 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Check out this great video of an ArduCopter entry to the T3 fly-a-cube competition. Fully autonomous!