Following a full year of planning and development, 3DR’s San Diego engineering department will officially move into their new Otay Mesa facility on Saturday. At 32,000 square feet, the new facility is large enough that they've built a specially designed indoor flight-ops arena. More importantly, it's large enough that it also gives our ever-expanding engineering department room to grow: They’ve got some “toe room” in an unfinished space upstairs.
The new location also brings engineering closer to the manufacturing department in Tijuana. Tim McConnell, 3DR’s director of engineering, has said that close collaboration between the departments has grown more and more important to the production process. From Otay Mesa, engineers will now only have to make a short commute to the factory to work on design and construction. All engineers will have SENTRI passes to expedite border crossing.
It’s taken a year of work to get to the new building, but it’s got an untold number of great years in it. Congratulations, guys!
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it is somewhat bittersweet to see our exotic fringe hobby going mainstream. But I wouldn't want to go back and give up the improvements in form, function, and reliability.
It looks like a nice big building with room for a serious shipping dept. with all those overhead doors. Good luck and keep us posted!
i hope that we will have better support
for example more wiki translation(french,spanish will be great)
@Carles/titeuf007,
Possibly 3DR needs R+D to evaluate proposed products that will be tested and improved by the Developers?
Regards,
TCIII ArduRover2 Developer
i am like you carles i am bit confused about 3dr development..it will be great if chris anderson could reply to us..
I am i bit confused on what R+D is 3DR doing. Since, to my understanding the developers of the arducopter code are hired by 3DR.
Just dig a tunnel to the TJ site. They seem to be popular. Then, no Sentri needed.
Congrats guys, time to setup that Vicon/Optitrak system for indoor tuning.
Still not as big as Goog's indoor flying room.
The big question is why bother going through the trouble of keeping some people north of the border at all, how much progress have Google, Facebook, 3D Robotics made on the Mighty Indoor Mapping Quad, & who's going to be 1st.
I understand they have a mutual arrangement with the Cardenas cartel.
Will you be using drones to ferry parts and supplies back and forth?