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John Wiseman commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Using Microsoft Azure cloud to make a face-finding, voice controlled drone
"Did you mean to ask how much Microsoft pays for blog comments? Or is the astroturfing conspiracy even more twisted and sinister than I can imagine?!  Either way, diydrones.com comments aren't worth much, unfortunately.

Which brings me to Amazon's…"
Oct 25, 2016
John Wiseman commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Using Microsoft Azure cloud to make a face-finding, voice controlled drone
"It doesn't look like the code is actually available, unless I missed it.

Microsoft also has a very easy to use intent classification and entity extraction service, LUIS, which is perfect for taking text from speech recognition, possibly containing…"
Oct 25, 2016
John Wiseman commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Alleged RPA/manned aircraft strike in USA
"What's the source of that photo?"
Aug 28, 2015
John Wiseman commented on Thomas J Coyle III's blog post Report: Documents reveal nearly 700 close calls between drones and planes
"Do you mean the part about "The Washington Post obtained several hundred of the rogue-drone reports from a government official who objected to the FAA’s secrecy", which is a line that appears in the Washington Post article?  You've copy & pasted an…"
Aug 25, 2015
John Wiseman commented on Thomas J Coyle III's blog post Report: Documents reveal nearly 700 close calls between drones and planes
"Why post a Mashable summary of the original Washington Post article, and not a link to the Washington Post article, which is better and has more detail (and did the original reporting)? And even though the Mashable article is from yesterday, it's…"
Aug 25, 2015
John Wiseman commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post DJI to release mandatory firmware update
"This DJI employee seems to be saying it's an elective update: "If you do not want to be subject to this new restriction, you may elect not to install the update" (from http://skypixel.org/post/81975172404)"
Feb 5, 2015
John Wiseman commented on meavydev's blog post Announcing DronePro - a $5 Android Ground Controller app with GoPro and USB UVC video preview
"Wow, that looks like a lot of work!  Very interesting, thanks for posting."
Feb 4, 2015
John Wiseman commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post DJI to release mandatory firmware update
"http://www.dji.com/info/news/phantom-2-firmware-update-new-no-fly-z... just says "As with all updates, all users are strongly encouraged to update their firmware immediately""
Feb 3, 2015
John Wiseman commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post DJI to release mandatory firmware update
"Is there a source anywhere for the statement that the firmware update is mandatory?  I'd like to see what DJI actually said, not someone's interpretation."
Feb 3, 2015
John Wiseman commented on Matthew Schroyer's blog post Less than two weeks remaining to get this high-visibility vest for drone ops
"I ordered mine already!

Matthew, how far are you from the minimum?"
Sep 18, 2014
John Wiseman commented on Pitlab's blog post Buddy Flight™ for FPV flying in a group
"This is great. Excellent job of making multi-vehicle operation safer and more fun with enhanced situational awareness."
May 15, 2014
John Wiseman commented on criro1999's blog post What If They Try to Hack Amazon's Drones?
"Some of these articles are a bit sensationalist, but this is also a real & serious problem.  

"Hackers can target Parrot drones, yes, but that's because those French recreational quadcopters run on Wi-Fi, not on radio frequencies."

APM uses…"
Dec 15, 2013
John Wiseman left a comment for Yoana
"Hi, Yoana.  Feel free to email me at jjwiseman@gmail.com if you have any questions about drone voice control."
Dec 5, 2013
John Wiseman commented on Garry Qualls's blog post Early Registration is open for the UAS Airspace Operations Challenge
"Note that if you miss the November 15 "Early Bird" registration date, the registration fee jumps from $5,000 to $7,000."
Oct 6, 2013
John Wiseman commented on Timm Murray's blog post UAV::Pilot Presentation for the AR.Drone
"There's already a pretty large community of people using node-ar-drone, which has a REPL, to program the AR.Drone in a similar way using javascript: (for example, see nodecopter.com)
$ node repl.js// Make the drone takeoffdrone> takeoff()true// Wait…"
Sep 1, 2013
John Wiseman commented on Garry Qualls's blog post Update: NASA UAS Airspace Operations Challenge with $500k Prize Purse
"Hitting 4D waypoints is not really pushing the state of the art forward, I tend to think it's OK to drop that part of the competition."
Aug 22, 2013
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