Your guide to drones.
LITTLETON, Colo. — Firefighters in Littleton are hoping a drone will help the department keep a better eye on first responders and allow investigators to better understand how a fire began. On Monday, a fire was reported at the Terra Vista Apartment complex off of S. Federal Circle. The blaze damaged at least seven townhome …
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The JJRC F180 (sometimes known as the DFD F180) is a 6-axis micro quadcopter that’s aimed at beginners or simply anyone who wants to experience flying a quadcopter without spending a fortune. It’s also one of the smallest and most affordable quads produced by JJRC. At first glance, you’ll notice glaring similarities with the popular …
Danish camera maker Phase One Industrial has unveiled a new aerial camera that could help take drone photography to the next level. The lightweight iXU 180 is the world’s smallest 80-megapixel medium format aerial camera, the company said in a statement. The camera can be integrated into small oblique systems that can fit inside a …
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What happens when you put a Phantom Flex4K high speed camera on a drone that has 12 motors and a payload capacity of 15lbs? You get to experience aerial photography nirvana that’s worth $250,000 and that’s exactly what the drone experts at Brain Farm did with their modified Heavy-Lift Aerigon Drone System — the world’s …
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The UDI U841 is a micro quadcopter that has a diagonal rotor size of 100mm and comes with a few unique features that sets it apart from other quads in the same class. At first glance, the 6-axis U841 appears to be another Hubsan X4 clone as it seems to have roughly the same propeller …
Companies like Amazon are annoyed by the FAA’s draft drone rules that restrict commercial use of unmanned aircraft. But the regulations may be a moot point unless delivery drones can actually get where they’re going and back. Commercially available quadcopter drones such as the popular DJI Phantom 2 can fly only half an hour or …
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As night draped itself across the savanna in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a small round disk twinkling with green lights and sounding like a swarm of bees rose straight up into the sky. Here, on the tarmac of a small airstrip near Skukuza, the latest in drone technology is being tested out as rangers …
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When it comes radio controlled aerial vehicles, multicopters are more popular than ever. The 3D printing community has gone to great lengths in order to provide for 3D printable replacement parts for these accident prone vehicles–and some designers and developers have gone so far as to create entire 3D printed quadopters, hexacopters, and, in rare …
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3DRobotics will be releasing a new drone on April 13, according to a teaser that was recently released on its website. The new model appears to depart from the utilitarian but functional design style of earlier 3DR drones such as the Iris+ and features an exciting new approach to aesthetics. The teaser does not reveal …
DJI has announced the long-awaited successor to its highly popular Phantom line of quadcopters — the DJI Phantom 3, — in glitzy product launch events that were held simultaneously in 3 different cities around the world: New York, London and Munich. At first glance, nothing much appears to have changed on the surface and the …