uav exabition
hello everybody, i"m coming to new york ans San Francisco between december 20,2008 and January are you familiar with any uav shows or exabitions plan to be in this dates?
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Hello all,We are working hard on our OpenVulture software that is to be released at the Shmoocon 2009 conference in Washington DC. Our goal is to give a live demo of the software.The software is Linux based and is designed to be easily extendable to
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