Hackaday (unofficial) May 1, 2023 12:00pm Patent Spat Leaves DJI Owing Textron $279M #dronehacks #news #dji #drone #helicopter #intellectualproperty #patentlaw #patents #textron #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Patent Spat Leaves DJI Owing Textron $279M Patents are the murky waters where technical jargon and legalese meet, and in this vast grey area of interpretation, DJI now owes Textron $279M. At issue in the case were two patents issued to Text…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2023 12:00pm Is An ADS-B Receiver The Solution For Drone Pilots? #dronehacks #adsb #drone #dronelaw #multirotor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Is An ADS-B Receiver The Solution For Drone Pilots? Over the years here at Hackaday, we’ve covered a range of stories about the ongoing panic surrounding drone flights. From plastic bags reported as drone incidents through to airports closed w…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 19, 2023 12:00pm That Drone Up in the Sky? It Might be Built Out of a Dead Bird #dronehacks #avian #bird #drone #ornithopter #research #taxidermy #uav #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 That Drone Up In The Sky? It Might Be Built Out Of A Dead Bird In a lot of ways, it seems like we’re in the “plateau of productivity” part of the hype cycle when it comes to drones. UAVs have pretty much been reduced to practice and have beco…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 26, 2023 3:00pm Loudmouth DJI Drones Tell Everyone Where You Are #dronehacks #securityhacks #antidronedefenses #antidrone #dataprivacy #dji #locationtracking #quadcopter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Loudmouth DJI Drones Tell Everyone Where You Are Back when commercial quadcopters started appearing in the news on the regular, public safety was a talking point. How, for example, do we keep them away from airports? Well, large drone companies d…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 8, 2023 1:00pm Stranded Motorist Effects Own Rescue Using a Drone and a Cell Phone #dronehacks #news #drone #oregon #quadcopter #rescue #searandrescue #sms #textmessage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Stranded Motorist Effects Own Rescue Using A Drone And A Cell Phone If you’re looking for a good excuse to finally buy a drone, you probably can’t do better than claiming it can save your life. Granted, you may never find yourself in the position of bei…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 10, 2023 5:00pm Bicopter Phone Case Might Be Hard to Pocket, but Delivers Autonomous Selfies #dronehacks #autonomous #bicopter #drehmflight #drone #lidar #opticalflow #phone #pitch #scam #yaw #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bicopter Phone Case Might Be Hard To Pocket, But Delivers Autonomous Selfies Remember that “PhoneDrone” scam from a while back? With two tiny motors and props that could barely lift a microdrone, it was pretty clearly a fake, but that doesn’t mean it wasn&…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 28, 2023 7:00pm Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying #dronehacks #parts #transportationhacks #3dprinted #3dprintedpropeller #dronepropeller #drones #mit #mitlincolnlab #prop #propeller #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shap…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 16, 2023 8:00pm Flappy Bird Drone Edition #dronehacks #robotshacks #science #drone #ornithopter #wing #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Flappy Bird Drone Edition Ornithopters have been — mostly — the realm of science fiction. However, a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems by researchers at Lund University proposes that flapping wings may well …
Hackaday (unofficial) January 5, 2023 10:00am The Flight Of The Dremel #dronehacks #dremeltool #helicopter #powertool #rotarytool #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Flight Of The Dremel A few months ago we featured a model aircraft whose power plant came courtesy of an angle grinder. It was the work of [Peter Sripol], and it seems he was eseiged by suggestions afterwards that he m…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 25, 2022 1:00am Drone Rescue Uses VHS Tape and Careful Planning #dronehacks #drone #dronerescue #fpv #rescue #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Drone Rescue Uses VHS Tape And Careful Planning If you regularly fly your drones outdoors, you’ve probably worried about getting your pride and joy stuck in a big tree at some point. But flying indoors doesn’t guarantee you’ll …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 27, 2022 7:00am Human vs. AI Drone Racing at the University of Zurich #dronehacks #artificialintelligence #computervision #drones #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Human Vs. AI Drone Racing At The University Of Zurich [Thomas Bitmatta] and two other champion drone pilots visited the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich. The human pilots accepting the challenge to race drones against Artifici…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 22, 2022 1:00pm If Your Drone Flies, Eat It! #dronehacks #drone #edibledrone #edibletechnology #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 If Your Drone Flies, Eat It! Over the years we’ve featured countless drone projects here at Hackaday, fixed wing, rotary wing, multi-rotor, and more. Among them all we think there may be a type that we’ve never see…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 9, 2022 10:00am Clever Control Loop Makes This Spinning Drone Fault-Tolerant #dronehacks #control #drone #multicopter #pitch #roll #thrust #yaw #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Clever Control Loop Makes This Spinning Drone Fault-Tolerant Most multi-rotor aircraft are about as aerodynamic as a brick. Unless all its motors are turning and the control electronics are doing their thing, most UAVs are quickly destined to become UGVs, an…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 18, 2022 4:00pm 3D Printing With a Drone Swarm? #3dprinterhacks #dronehacks #3dprinting #deltabot #drone #effector #wasps #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printing With A Drone Swarm? Even in technical disciplines such as engineering, there is much we can still learn from nature. After all, the endless experimentation and trials of life give rise to some of the most elegant solu…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 8, 2022 12:00pm [Tom Stanton] Builds an Osprey #dronehacks #collective #cyclic #helicopter #osprey #pitch #rc #swashplate #tiltrotor #v22 #vtol #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 [Tom Stanton] Builds An Osprey The V-22 Osprey is an aircraft like no other. The tiltrotor multirole military aircraft makes an impression wherever it goes; coincidentally, a flight of two of these beasts flew directly overhead …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 2, 2022 6:00pm Winged Drone Gets Forward Flight Capability #dronehacks #airfoil #drone #efficiency #experimental #hover #levelflight #multirotor #multimodal #spinning #trimode #trirotor #vtol #wing #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Winged Drone Gets Forward Flight Capability Drones are pretty common in the electoronics landscape today, and are more than just a fun hobby. They’ve enabled a wide array of realtors, YouTubers, surveyors, emergency responders, and oth…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 29, 2022 4:00pm A Drone for the Rest of Us #dronehacks #drone #pistol #quadrotor #speeder #steering #yaw #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Drone For The Rest Of Us As anyone who’s spent Christmas morning trying to shake a quadcopter out of a tree can attest, controlling these fast moving RC vehicles can be tricky and require a bit of practice to master.…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 28, 2022 6:00am 24 Hours of Le Airplanes #dronehacks #airplane #autonomous #battery #chargecontroller #endurance #flight #rc #remotecontrol #solar #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 24 Hours Of Le Airplanes There’s no more famous road endurance race than the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where teams compete to see how far they can drive in a single 24-hour window. The race presents unique challenges not …
Hackaday (unofficial) August 22, 2022 9:00pm Optimising An RC Tilt-Rotor VTOL #dronehacks #drehmflight #tomstanton #vtol #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Optimising An RC Tilt-Rotor VTOL There are a variety of possible motor configurations to choose from when building a fixed-wing VTOL drone, but few take the twin-motor tilt-rotor approach used by the V-22 Osprey. However, it remai…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 11, 2022 3:00pm Microsoft’s New Simulator Helps Train Drone AIs #currentevents #dronehacks #featured #ai #drone #simulation #simulator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Microsoft’s New Simulator Helps Train Drone AIs Testing any kind of project in the real world is expensive. You have to haul people and equipment around, which costs money, and if you break anything, you have to pay for that too! Simulation tend…