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In a major jump into the era of eVTOL air taxis and multicopter cargo drones, the US FAA has issued new regulations that introduce the first new aircraft category, called “power-lift” aircraft, since modern helicopters were introduced in the 1940s.Cont… Continue reading FAA creates America’s first new aircraft category since the 1940s
Sometimes you instantly know who’s behind a project from the subject matter alone. So when we saw this “aerial dog poop removal system” show up in the tips line, we …read more Continue reading Dog Poop Drone Cleans Up the Yard So You Don’t Have To
These days, even hobbyist multi-rotor aircraft are capable of carrying considerable payloads. For example, the test rig that [Brian Brocken] recently put together should be able to loft more than …read more Continue reading Full-Scale Flying DeLorean Gets Closer to Liftoff
Quadcopter drones may be agile but they’re also relatively wide and delicate, limiting their potential uses. The Morphy drone addresses these drawbacks with flexible propeller arms which allow it to basically just squeeze its way through narrow spaces…. Continue reading Mighty morphin’ power drone uses flexy arms to squeeze through gaps
The Scottish company behind a novel heavy-lift utility UAV that uses an internal combustion engine and hydraulic motors has now frozen design plans and is preparing for production following successful flight tests in Denmark.Continue ReadingCategory: A… Continue reading Heavy-lifting, long-range hydraulic uUAV multirotor flies into production
Last year, a mechanical engineer set a Guinness World Record for the fastest battery-powered RC quadcopter, which was clocked at 224 mph. Now that record has been smashed by a custom-made drone that clocked nearly 300 mph.
Category: Drones, Technology
Tags: World’s Fastest, Quadcopter, Guinness
Continue reading Video: World’s fastest quadcopter smashes Guinness speed record
Making a quadcopter go fast would seem to be quite simple: just strap on powerful motors, aim the quadcopter roughly at where you want it to go fast, and let …read more Continue reading New Quadcopter Speed World Record Set At Nearly 500 Km/h
What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts, with at the …read more Continue reading ESP-Drone: Building an ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
We have been alerted to a fun tool, a DJI DroneID spoofer software for ESP8266/ESP32 and some other popular MCUs. Last year, we’ve told you about DJI DroneID — a …read more Continue reading Can’t Disable DJI Drone ID? Spoof It With An ESP!
During a press event on January 23rd, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) demonstrated two new robots at the mock-up facility at Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Naraha Center for Remote Control …read more Continue reading New Robots To Explore New Areas Of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant