Browse Sites By Day: 29.01.2021 RSS2021-01-29T16:11:53+0000Kamiyah Mobley's father, Craig Aiken claims he was harassed by JSO while flying his drone outside of his home. This video file cannot be played ...

]]>2021-01-29T16:11:53+0000A DJI drone deployed for a commercial photography job crashed into a Sydney high-rise apartment block injuring an occupant, reports theaustralian.com.au. The drone operator reportedly lost control of the drone after flying it approximately 10 metres high in-front of the building. The incident took place on January 15th at around lunchtime while the drone was taking photos in the Darling Harbour area of Sydney, New South Wales. The craft flew sideways directly into the high-rise building at speed. The drone shattered the glass, which resulted in an occupant sustaining minor injuries from the shards. Flying the craft was an employee of Sky Monkey, a CASA-licensed and certified drone operator.

]]>2021-01-29T15:12:00+0000The world's first course which trains pilots to fly drones so far out of visual sight they may even be in other countries has been set up in the UK.

]]>2021-01-29T11:11:41+0000The Smellicopter is an open-source drone project called Crazyflie 2.0, with some additional off the shelf sensors for obstacle avoidance and stabilization. The interesting bits are a couple of passive fins that keep the drone pointed into the wind, and then the sensor, called an electroantennogram. To make one of these sensors, you “harvest” an antenna from a live hawkmoth. The antenna is hollow, meaning that you can stick electrodes up it. Whenever the neurons in the antenna encounter an odor that they’re looking for, they produce an electrical signal that the electrodes pick up. Plug the other ends of the electrodes into a voltage amplifier and filter, run it through an analog to digital converter, and you’ve got a chemical sensor that weighs just 1.5 gram and consumes only 2.7 mW of power.

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