We're been hard at work at 3DR on system architecture and looking into new ways of building adaptable UAV systems.Solo in particular leverages a number of distributed systems--vehicle, controller, and app--that continue to enable industry-leading…
"Thanks Tridge! It's been great working with you, Randy, and the rest of the dev team on things like data logging. Looking forward to making Arducopter even better on Solo and in general! Next on the docket in getting the Solo fork in closer sync…"
3DR is proud to announce that today we’re opening the source code for the Solo flight controller. Solo is a consumer product, aimed at simplifying the process of getting great aerial footage. As a development story, true to 3DR’s open spirit, Solo…
"Justin, That's a great idea as well. The basic FollowMe--copter and gimbal point at the same point--will be followed by some behaviors like the one you suggest. Untimately, fully specifying the camera path is where we would like to go. In that…"
"@Justin. Follow Me is coming soon! Your description of how it should work is pretty much right: you have a guided mode waypoint that gets updated. Getting the update rates working right so that the aircraft actually tracks a moving point in a…"
"@Hughes Glad you like it!!
As Arthur said, we'll have a small portion of the screen that is customizable and won't interfere with the minimalism of the whole UI. Moving forward, I think we'll continue to have the stock experience be as simple as…"
The DroidPlanner team, led by Arthur Benemann, is pleased to announce the next version of its Android-based UI. DroidPlanner 2.0 offers a completely redesigned interface for controlling 3DR multirotors over Mavlink. The UI/UX has been rethought with…
Cameron Rose quite eloquently put his thoughts and hopes on the futures of UAVs in a recent National Geographic article. Cameron is a graduate student at UC Berkeley in EECS in Ron Fearing's group, which is famous for, among other things,…
The University of Miami is studying oil spills with drifters, UAVs, and a kite! From The Atlantic:More than three-and-half years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are…