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H-QUAD Fais Maison

H-QUAD fais maison en bois.Le châssis est entièrement en bois.Une NAZE32 REV6 comme controleur de…
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Case Pilote vue du ciel

Vol a case pilote avec mon H-QUAD fait maison Le Châssis est fait entièrement en bois Electronique embarquée : - 4 Moteurs racerstar 1000kv : https://www.ban...
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Welcome to DIY Drones!

Welcome to the largest community for amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles! Use the tabs and drop-down menus above to navigate the site.

This community is the birthplace of ArduPilot, the world's first universal autopilot platform (planes, multicopters of all sorts and ground rovers). Today the Pixhawk autopilot runs a variety of powerful free and open UAV software systems, including:

  • PX4, a pro-quality copter, plane, rover and VTOL software stack from the Dronecode Foundation
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ZTW FPV Racing in Dongguan China

Posted by ZTW Brushless ESC on January 5, 2018 at 8:30pm 0 Comments

ZTW behind the creation of the World Cup FPV Carnival, share with you through the machine, barbecue, beauty and cute baby

In the last day of 2017, at the Palm Island Aeroflot Training Base in Dongguan,

As a sponsor, Zhongweiwei participated in the first cross-year annual cross-carnival in 2018 held by…

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Accurate drone surveying with no ground targets

Posted by Adam_Geomatics on January 3, 2018 at 8:00pm 0 Comments

KlauGeomatics has announced a new PPK GPS technology for accurate aerial surveying using any drone without placing ground targets. See https://www.veritypositioning.com/ for more…

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Tarot T-2D Gimbal connection to Windows 10 Info

Posted by Fabien Bruning on January 3, 2018 at 2:30pm 0 Comments

Hello everyone,

I have connected a Tarot T-2D gimbal to Windows 10. Since I could not find anything about it, I thought to post the pinout, mostly so I do not forget it.

So the problem is that the standard usb adapter delivered with the Tarot T-2D uses a Proliferic chip, which only…

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2017 DIY Drones year in review

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 2, 2018 at 7:30pm 2 Comments

2017 was our tenth year, and since one drone year is like ten regular years, we're practically a century old! A few thoughts on the past twelve months:

First, we've continued to grow here, although not as fast as the boom years from 2012 to 2015 (see above)

More importantly, the two open…

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10X EO/IR drone zoom camera with object tracking and geotagging

Posted by yangdaonline on January 1, 2018 at 1:47am 2 Comments

Eagle Eye-10IE is a 3-axis high stabilized gimbal with EO(electro-optical) and IR(infrared) sensors for drone inspection,surveillance,search and rescue applications.The 10X zoom camera provides 1080P 60FPS full HD video streaming and up to 120X zoom capability,which will enable you to capture every detail in the air.While the thermal camera…

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Testing Virtual Reality Joystick example based on IMU 10-DOF APM 2.x Boards.

Posted by hiroshi takey on December 30, 2017 at 11:22am 0 Comments

Testing Virtual Reality Joystick example based on IMU 10-DOF high speed sytem with APM 2.x board.

NO HOST DRIVERS needed, this work directly on any platform!

This example will be available on the URUS github repo, right now we have pushed 70% code. We hope to push it on the next…

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Review and test : Imalent DX80 - Most powerful drone's SAR light ?

Posted by Hugues on December 30, 2017 at 8:55am 1 Comment

Hi Guys,

In, this video, I test and review the most powerful LED flashlight that exist on the market right now : the IMALENT DX80,

also known as "The End of Darkness", producing an insane 32.000 Lumens !

This flashlight contains its own battery pack (4S2P). Its reflector is designed to be both a good…

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Lego Sorter [Prototype] by SPH Engineering

Posted by Kristaps Brass on December 28, 2017 at 9:56am 5 Comments



Hi, guys,



A few of our engineers from UgCS team recently built a project in their off-time that we thought some of you might be interested in seeing. 



Since kids having lots of Lego bricks can cause somewhat of a chaos, the guys from our team have built an automated lego sorter to deal with…

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Guy Pearce plays a modified DJI Phantom in "Donny the Drone"

Posted by Chris Anderson on December 26, 2017 at 4:30pm 2 Comments

"Donny the Drone" is voiced by Guy Pearce in this new sci-fi short featuring a modified DJI Phantom.

From…

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Season Two of the Trust Time Trial (T3) Contest 
A list of all T3 contests is here. The current round, the Vertical Horizontal one, is here

UAV news from sUAS News

Bad Karma – GoPro to shutter drone division in February

Karma Core Techcrunch reports that GoPro is to lay off 2-300 jobs largely in the drone section. Not quite sure how many people were working in the drones bit. Last we heard a handful of devs had been employed to start creating the Karma 2, but with no announce for this Christmas it was plain that was […]

NEC and Nidec develop technology to control robots equipped with Intelligent Motors

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Nidec Corporation (Nidec; TSE: 6594; OTC US: NJDCY) announces the successful joint development of a technology that enables highly precise, real-time remote control of Intelligent Motors (*1), motors incorporating microcomputers through a wireless network. As utilization of the Internet of Things (IoT) accelerates, there is greater need for robotic […]

Cross Texas Transmission Partners with Think Power Solutions for State of the Art Aerial Inspection and Vegetation Management Software

After a successful pilot program, Cross Texas Transmission, LLC (CTT) has engaged Think Power Solutions (Think Power) to develop a comprehensive vegetation management inspection application using Think Power’s lightweight suite of software services.  Following the massive blackout that occurred in 2003 leaving over 50 million people throughout the northeastern US and parts of Canada without power for […]

Market-First Improvements Rolled out to CQNet Drone Software

Consortiq has not rested on its laurels over the festive period and has been busy working on rolling out several improvements to its award-winning CQNet drone management software. It has once again taken on customer feedback and added new features to better operators’ experiences, including the introduction of a first of its kind offline airspace […]

Orion UAS Contracted by U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a new $48 million contract to Aurora Flight Sciences for the continued development of the Orion Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Orion is a twin-engine high-performance UAS that can stay aloft over 100 hours at a time with payloads in excess of 1,000 pounds. Development of the Orion started in […]

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