Skydio Inspires Next Generation of Women Drone Pilots with Youth Fly Day by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Images, courtesy Skydio. Drone manufacturer and leader in autonomous flight Skydio recently held its Youth Fly Day, an event that brought together 75 Freshman students from ICA Cristo Rey All Girls …
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U.K.-based Frazer-Nash, is a Systems and Engineering Technology Consultancy, offering a drone specialty. “In my area we are passionate about our vision: making drones common place, safely benefitting society; currently we are doing this by supporting a number of large national organisations in the UK to make the most of …
Read More »Three Academic Teams Will Compete to Design Army Drones
File image The FirePoint C3 Challenge will see three academic teams collaborate remotely to design next-generation drone systems for the U.S. Army. Presented by the FirePoint Innovations Center at Wichita State University and sponsored by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center, the challenge develops new …
Read More »DJI Steps into Educational Market with RoboMaster S1
DJI’s ‘Learn to Win’ teaser has culminated in a ground robot for the educational market, the RoboMaster S1. The launch follows on from DJI’s collaboration with RyzeTech and the Tello drone, but this time the Chinese industry leader has handled everything in-house. The S1 is designed to introduce a younger …
Read More »RYZE Tech, Marvel & Disney Launch Tello Iron Man Edition
DJI’s local partner Ryze Tech has made a name for itself as a manufacturer of drones that are ideal for beginners and well-suited to` educational purposes. The original Tello launched last year with technological backing from Intel and DJI. The result was a highly capable but incredibly affordable little drone. …
Read More »Ryze Tech Launches New Programmable Tello EDU Drone
The original Tello was just $99 and marketed towards beginners and educational institutions. The Tello has obstacle avoidance tech, a camera and several autonomous functions. In part that’s down to the contribution of Intel’s Movidius vision processing unit (VPU) and DJI’s flight stabilization technology. According to Ryze Tech, the Tello …
Read More »Getting Kids Excited About Drones
The following is a guest post by talented Part 107 Pilot and author, Kara Murphy. A few years back, I taught my daughter’s kindergarten class about drones. Of the eighteen kids in the class, only three had ever flown one with a parent and they were all boys. Flash forward …
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As schools, colleges and universities race to include drones into their STEM programs in order to keep up with new demand, resources are often hard to find. Drones provide a fascinating way to introduce primary and high school students to the sciences: they may provide valuable job training at higher …
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“Build Something That Matters,” says the 2017 Hackaday Competition Summary. And whereas the prize might go to one thing actually altering the world, entries to this point fluctuate broadly between the helpful and the – form of, in a bizarre method (sure, we’re speaking about you, “Buttwand“) – entertaining. Hackaday.io …
Read More »National Youth Science Day: the Drone Discovery Challenge
4-H’s National Youth Science Day (NYSD) took place in Washington D.C. yesterday, and included this year’s National Science Challenge: Drone Discovery. The 2016 National Science Challenge was developed by Cornell University Cooperative Extension. The challenge is a “hands-on engineering design challenge” exploring drone technology and applications to solve real world problems. …
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