garymortimer - Slashdot User

Submission + - Golf Channel drone (suasnews.com)

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on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:54AM

garymortimer writes: "Perhaps it’s already too late for the FAA to try and enforce drone rules. Personal or commercial flying robots look to be here to stay and will be operated regardless of what the FAA say the restrictions are. To date they have not charged anyone in relation to commercial use or endangering persons or property, many folks contend they don’t have the legal right to do such a thing.

This hexacopter image was captured by Vine user Chad Coleman filming golfers at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bay Hill."

Submission + - Dock with the ISS, ESA AstroDrone for AR.Drone (suasnews.com)

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on Friday March 15, 2013 @02:08PM

garymortimer writes: "“For ESA, the result could be much more autonomous spacecraft that can reliably manoeuvre, dock or land themselves.” Remote-controlled drones were once the province of the military, but technology advances make them accessible now to everybody. “For ESA, this development opens up completely new ways of involving the public in scientific experiments,” noted Leopold Summerer, head of the Advanced Concepts Team. “We can obtain real-life data to train our algorithms in large amounts that would practically be impossible to get in any other way."

Submission + - Lego robot folds and throws paper dart (suasnews.com)

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on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:29PM

garymortimer writes: "Does just what it says, folds and flings at speed a paper dart. Very cool."

Submission + - iPhone controlled paper place (suasnews.com) 1

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on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:44PM

garymortimer writes: "PowerUp Toys launched with a singular aspiration: to test the limitations of timeless homemade toys with technology, to go beyond the possibilities that have confined the imaginations of kids, their parents, and their parents’ parents for oh-so long. Remember learning to fold your first paper boat, car, or airplane? Imagine that boat not merely drifting, but cruising across a pond; paper cars racing down the sidewalk; paper planes soaring high above the trees. Whimsical, perhaps beyond belief, but not impossible. With this, PowerUp Toys has propelled homemade paper toys into the modern world literally!"

Submission + - Stick catching drones (no really) (suasnews.com)

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on Friday February 22, 2013 @09:16AM

garymortimer writes: "Mind blowing stuff from the talented folks at the ETH flying machine arena another worthy entrant to UAS Got Talent. Great Friday video.

This video shows two quadrocopters capable of not only balancing an inverted pendulum, but also of launching it off the vehicle and catching it again."

Submission + - Need a 3km Valentine heart sky written, call a drone. (suasnews.com)

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on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:09PM

garymortimer writes: "Krzysztof Bosak an unmanned aircraft systems designer from Poland has taken to expressing his love in an unusual way. Perhaps at the same time drawing the largest valentines heart in the sky ever.

Flying at a height of 300m his airframe made three flights to complete the task.

The last flight was not without issues, the prop iced up!"

Submission + - Iran releases video from captured drone (suasnews.com)

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on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:53AM

garymortimer writes: "Iranian News Agency Alalam has released footage that purports to come from the Beast of Kandahar. The RQ 170 in question was said to have been driven off track and captured in December 2011. Iranian boffins have decoded the video and released it as proof!"

Submission + - Tacos, Burritos and now the Doritos Drone (suasnews.com)

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on Sunday January 20, 2013 @03:46PM

garymortimer writes: "Food delivery seems to be the most popular civil drone task by far! This new food drop bought to you by Detroit multirotor operators iTVDetroit. A bag of Doritos flies to a couple of girls that judging by their figures don't seem to normally enjoy such snacks."

Submission + - Drone Maps Easter Island (suasnews.com)

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on Sunday December 30, 2012 @03:53PM

garymortimer writes: "In May Dronemapper processed an interesting data set from Easter Island, Chile at 30 cm / px GSD. Kim Anh Hoang from the Easter Island Statue Project used the 30 cm Orthomosaic and DEM to produce a 3D Flyby of Rano Raraku and an EISP excavation site."

Submission + - Drone photos polluters punished (suasnews.com)

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on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:32PM

garymortimer writes: "In January 2012 we were sent the images that exposed the level of pollution occurring. They were taken by an sUAS News reader that still wishes to remain anonymous. The story went viral and continues to receive hits nearly a year later. I believe this is the first environmental crime to be prosecuted on the basis of UA evidence. Authorities had to act because of the attention the story was receiving."

Submission + - Drone made of Lego takes flight. (suasnews.com)

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on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @07:15PM

garymortimer writes: "Credit must go to Ed’s son’s Nicholas and Joshua Scott who designed the worlds first flying robot made out of Lego!

Equipped with a Go Pro camera to record it’s surroundings and a first person view (FPV) camera and transmitter sending back live video images to its pilot the Lego quadrocopter is an advanced machine. It is kept on an even keel and able to navigate waypoints via GPS thanks to an APM 2.5 autopilot from 3DR."

Submission + - Walking Hexacopter, or Flying Hexapod (suasnews.com)

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on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:13AM

garymortimer writes: "Here we have combined a quadcopter (actually a hexcopter) with a Hexapod. Both machines are fully functional, and currently controlled seperatly. You are able to walk around, and talk off, land and continue walking. You are able to operate the hexapods legs during flight as well."

Submission + - DARPA drone has load placing arm (suasnews.com)

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on Saturday December 08, 2012 @02:22AM

garymortimer writes: "The research team designed and developed a low-cost vision system to estimate the target’s position relative to the hovering vehicle in real time. This vision system enables the UAV to search and find the target for the emplacement autonomously and then perform the action.

DARPA’s precision emplacement technology demonstration paves the way for precise long-range delivery of small payloads into difficult-to-reach environments."

Submission + - Battle of the bots, Australian sports drones (suasnews.com)

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on Monday December 03, 2012 @02:23PM

garymortimer writes: "Australian TV Channel Fox launched a UAS program last Friday. The FoxKopter mission is to provide aerial footage of the Twenty20 Big Bash cricket competition. (First blood to South Africa)

Not to be outdone Channel Nine quickly called up a platform to create an aerial tour of the ground. It was flown from a building at Trinity College, and was given lift-off in television prime time in Sydney and Melbourne. Unable to fly over the pitch itself the Perth flight looked at the Swan River and surrounds. Channel Nine beat Fox to the skies!"

Submission + - The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop (theatlanticwire.com)

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on Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:47AM

garymortimer writes: "Earlier this month, Iran's news agency provided visual evidence that its government had figured out to make a fancy new drone that could take off and land vertically. What they didn't tell us is that they used Photoshop to make it stop taking off from the roof of Japan's Chiba University, which built the aircraft and never had anything to do with Iran's alleged version of it."

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