What to do if you find out drones are banned in that sweet cityscape or dramatic mountain peak? You guessed it, #NoDroneNoProblem. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kyle Huber (@asenseofhuber) Some shots just wouldn't be possible even for the world’s most talented ...
Drones are controlled using two control sticks which provide an intuitive flight experience. Each stick provides two different inputs that can be applied individually, in pairs, in threes or all four together depending on the maneuver you’re aiming for. These combinations generally become intuitive...
Flight Time: The longer the desired flight time, the more total power usage the UAV will need throughout the flight. Do Drones Use a Lot of Power? Drones are small but mighty as far as energy consumption goes. It’s not just the motor the battery has to power; it’s also the device...
Mission Planning:This involves determining the right type of drones for the mission, choosing the right acquisition software, selecting a mapping solution that is a drone mapping application and a web platform that helps to plan the flight accurately, identifying data needs, creating a flight plan ...
5. One common concern I hear about drones from travel bloggers is that they have a fear of navigating the different location-specific laws around drones. How do you navigate this? There are many apps out there– like the DJI App, Airspace Maps, Aloft App– where you can go and read a...
How do you film something that’s only about 2.5 millimeters long? What about thousands of those little somethings—pavement ants, in this case—all working together to dismantle a hot dog, perched amidst on a New York City sidewalk? That’s a question Bill Markham and his team had to fi...
Moving about as a swarm is tricky, however. Single drones can avoid obstacles with relative ease, but it is hard to do so while flying in formation. Into the woods So Matthias Brust at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and Bogdan Strimbu at Oregon State Univer...
All these drones in the air have become the concern of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has responded with a strategy and a series of new regulations aimed at helping flyers operate safely and legally. Of course, there’s an app for that. It’s called B4UFLY, and it’s...
Some budget cameras designed for FPV drones, like the Runcam Thumb Pro, Thumb 2, Hawkeye Thumb 4K, and Walksnail Moonlight, also have this capability. See my HD camera recommendations here: https://oscarliang.com/action-camera/ Some cameras integrate the gyro data into the video file, ...
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