FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFlying Robots NYC Meetup Group Announces Inaugural Flying Robot CompetitionSponsors include 3DRobotics, Adafruit, Falkor Systems, and xCubicleNew York, NY - 6 Sep 2012The Flying Robots NYC meetup group today announced the inaugural Flying Robots NYC competition, to be held in Brooklyn on October 20th. The Flying Robots NYC competition is a project of the Flying Robots NYC Meetup group in order to promote the development of low-cost consumer-accessible flying robot…See More

Hello all -- I've posted here before about the flying robots meetup group that we have in New York.By way of update, we are putting on a little competition this fall. It's still all very much in the early stages of development, but you can check it out here:http://flyingrobotsnyc.com/andhttp://meetup.flyingrobotsnyc.com/See More

What does everyone think of this announcement?http://www.auvsi.org/news/#HouseFAAPassIs this news or just AUVSI tooting its own horn? Doesn't look like the bill is really all that close to the president's signature. Would this even be a good thing? Seems like it to me, but I don't really know.===After five years, and 23 extensions, Congress is finally poised to put an FAA bill on the President’s desk for his signature.  For the first-time…See More

Hello arducopter people... I recently got my arducopter flying but I flew it straight into my ceiling, which was a bit spectacular, and a bit of a learning experience. I replaced all the props which were in many tiny shards all over but I haven't gotten around to replacing the dome center yet. Now when I try to fly it, it drifts fairly severely. I am wondering if the dome center is key to maintaining all the engines which is in turn key to maintaining stability? Also there is a very tiny dent…See More

Hi everyone. I just ordered the jdrones fully assembled arducopter and I've been working on getting it working. I am using it with a Turnigy 9Y radio.Everything worked great until the radio calibration step, when I noticed that the throttle was sending a signal on both 3 and 5! I found that odd but I figured I could work around it for the moment by setting all the different modes to stabilize. That way it would be in stabilize even if the throttle moved around.I tried to arm the motors and it…See More