Splash drone modification
Hi I'm new here from Melbourne, I bought a splash drone fishing drone. It was ok never flew quite as nice as my old phantom 3 ever did. Anyway it run out of battery 350m out to sea and took a load of water and everything is toasted. It does turn on but won't arm. Im thinking of gutting it but motors and the drop mechanism and putting a custom drone internals Now I literally have no idea where to begin with this. All I need is 500m range and GPS return to home and a trigger for drop mech . I…
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A copy of the email sent earlier to Asher Moses - Technology Editor.
"Hi Asher,
I have been thinking about contacting you for a while regarding this topic, but the latest article confirmed that I should. I have been involved with remote control aircraft for quite a few years, which then merged with UAV with and without auto-pilot. I am also a Moderator on the site diydrones.com, run by Chris Anderson, the ex-editor of Wired Magazine.
As can be seen in the States, the paranoia and concern over the use of 'drones' is highly sensationalised and really does miss the point of how drones are currently being used, e.g. for aerial photography for vegetation, conservation, search and rescue and natural disaster recon. Whilst Australia has more of a level head on its' shoulders, I would hate to see that same sentiment grow here.
I'd be more than happy to talk to you about how they actually are being used and the benefits (and concerns) that do exist. Or even invite you out to one of our meets and see them in action.
Regards,
David."
What a great intro, as Tim, i've just done that. I wrote an email to Asher earlier about this. Will forward it to his colleague Ben Grubb and see what happens.
Might I suggest a "letter to the editor"... ;)
Yeh, it is such an obvious copy and past of the US fear based news paper sales and congressman self promotion attempts.
Australia already has laws that cover the privacy issues and they will be used to full extent on any drone user that breaks them (and gets caught). We already have reasonable rules for drones that are based on model aircraft rules. I find it very disappointing when articles spend 95% of their time attempting to drum up fear where there is none and only 5% intelligently talking about the facts.
Like everybody here I don't want to see the media get a drone phobia going here and I don't think they will. But the amateur reporting of issues at every level of the media really gives me the ......
And in case Jean or Karl thought I was having a go at them, I wasn't (and sorry if you thought I was). I am happy for people to point out examples of media scaremongering and I found the Google statistic both interesting and encouraging.
@Jean: Australia has a very long involvement in the development of drones (going back to the late 40s/early 50s of flying locally built target drones at Woomera). We have also been one of the most progressive countries with regards to regulation of drones for civil use, with CASA and industry working together through the mid 90s to produce CASR Part 101 in 1998, one of the first pieces of regulation of its kind in the world.
That Australians are tech-savvy and quick to take on new technology is well known and with so much in the US media of late regarding drones, it's no wonder that tech-savvy people are searching Google to learn more.
Perhaps the more interesting question is "Why are Americans NOT searching online for information regarding drones, compared to other countries", even though they have a significant military usage of drones and so much recent controversy over police usage? Perhaps it's because many Americans are: a) apathetic to the issue; or, b) ignorant of the issue; or c) already informed of the issue (via other means); or, possibly some other reason? I won't speculate which, given I'm not American, nor do I watch much (Americanised) TV in Oz.
Well the last paragraph has made me a bit happier after reading all the article..
Hopefully the weight limit doesn't change too much, and it doesn't apply to other RC aircraft like certain US states have done.
Leonard, its trash talking, but the general public unfortunately may listen to them. And in turn so might the government. That's my concern.
Also another article today in The Age on the media using "drones" to "spy" on people - http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/privacy-fears-a...
If this is what Fairfax is reporting I'm not sure I want to see the News Ltd. articles
Yeh, I tend to agree with Andrew. I think the interest is generally positive where people are interested in them for one reason or another, weather it be for private recreation or commercial use.
There is a significant amount of interest from farmers to use them to aide in stock tracking for example. I think the hobby is also taking off in a big way here. We have the outback challenge ect that is great at getting interest at the school and university level.
I don't think that Australians find the US drone phobia until they develop an interest in UAV's and go looking.
Easy answer there Jean-Baptiste, Australia has the highest per capita uptake of technology.
Wide open spaces, low population density make it a great place to fly UAV's or FPV.
Australia has always been at the forefront of inovation.
Leonard, I'm simply curious why Australians are doing so many UAV related searches. I assumed that the majority of interest would come from the United States, given that (without getting into a military or political discussion) drones are a pretty hot topic there right now. Also, forums such as this are based in the States, and I assumed that the vast majority of members lived there.
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