CNN did an episode on DIY Drones today. Good shots from the back of 3D Robotics, including clips of Jeff Taylor and Gigio Romero (Udrones) flying ArduPlane and ArduCopter.
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CNN did an episode on DIY Drones today. Good shots from the back of 3D Robotics, including clips of Jeff Taylor and Gigio Romero (Udrones) flying ArduPlane and ArduCopter.
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As long as Chris Anderson is championing the cause, I hope the governments stay out of our hair, regarding hobby drones. I sure hate to see the kind of restrictions they can potentially apply that could just kill all our fun.
Anything can be used by bad people to do harm. Remember the shoe and underwear bombers? Will they put heavy restrictions on what kind of underwear and shoes are allowed on airplanes?
It seems that there is always the sensationalize a story to make it more ..... palatable, hard hitting, whatever. The Media always have been and always will be liars of the highest order. If it is something that is exciting, OK but then if it is political or has a parallel with an agenda then it may be reported or it may not. A case in point is "Fast & Furious" which most news agencies refused to cover with the exception of CBS broke the story and FOX reluctantly followed. The others refused and only recently when it became obvious it wasn't going to go away they started covering it .... sort of.
Believe me, if the agenda of the day decides to make auto-piloted drones with FPV a danger ... whether real or imagined, they will make it difficult or impossible to continue researching and improvising for our sport. They do it all the time and they will do it to us if they decide to. Just saying.....
Who cares who has their eyes in here ? We're not doing anything wrong. Guns are available as much for police as for criminals, and I find it curious that if the terrorists don't remember using drones for bombs, the media makes sure to remember them they could use it. Bogus. There are thousands of items we use everyday that terrorists or criminals can use with other purposes. I believe the usefull aspects should be more in focus. Imagine a tall building in flames (like the twin towers), and fireman can't use ladders to reach above 10 or 12 floors, now, how about a drone that can lift a light rope that allows people to pull a steel cable in order for them to slide ? That's only one example ! The medicines delivery to remote zones is also a good example. As for me, I just like all gadgets, and this is a great one :D
Just a couple things come to mind...
Wondering if it would help if DIYDrones and others would officially adopt the Three Laws?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
We are considering such a move for our non-profit Metanomy and for our start-up that will be building stuff for sUAS community.
As for what do you need it for? I would like to see more coverage of people doing good things with tech, but it probably does not get the same ratings. E.g. We (Metanomy) are sponsoring Moses in Kenya who wants to see if he can use this tech for things like wildlife monitoring. http://www.metanomy.org/ We are still in the early stages, but we want him to tell his story as it unfolds - From learning to fly, to testing some assumptions about DIYDrones type tech that might be "good enough" to help out in certain use cases.
Wow, that was a tragically predictable "report".
Be afraid, be very afraid.
The answer to "why do people buy these" should have been: "I don't the same reason people cars with 400+hp, camping equipment. It's just something people enjoy doing, but doesn't necessarily have any good practical purpose."
CNN should do an article about whomever is printing Korans/Bibles.
...now thar's yer problem...
ahahaha great, i'm creating simple script now for the documentary , so every one has guide on the video. I'll post it here in few days. For others who intrested to share your uavs story drop me a message :)
Let's get started then :)
totally agree with you mike, so why dont we put this idea to action. If every one of us sending video about ther uavs helping other then stich it together, add comments, from member of this group, and close it with beutiful music and aerial video i think that would be great video. Upload it on youtube an hope that would be an introduction for people about uavs. (not drones)
I do some documentaries here, so know little bout video editing.And happily be the first volunteer :)
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