Small Unmanned Business Systems Business Exposition attendees and guests of Epson can come out to Treasure Island on April 26th and get a first hand Epson MOVERIO BT-300 FPV smart glasses and app demonstration between 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. As part of the ongoing collaboration with global
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Today, Yuneec announced the availability of Pix4Dcapture on its H520 ST16S ground station controller. Pix4D is a premier software application that creates professional, georeferenced maps and models from drone imagery, giving users the ability to map flight plans and set customized mapping parameters. Pix4D’s free mission planning app Pix4Dcapture will
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Sentera today announced the addition of several significant new features and capabilities to its FieldAgent™ Mobile app. FieldAgent Mobile adds new flight planning options, a sleeker, more efficient user interface, in-app map views, and free access to the most commonly-used features on mobile. The redesigned app supports Sentera’s mission of
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Flock, a London based insurtech startup, has launched Europe’s first ‘pay-as-you-fly’ drone insurance solution. The ‘Flock Cover’ smartphone app provides on-demand insurance for commercial drone pilots in the UK, with policies starting from just £5 for up to eight hours of liability and hull cover. Since launching into the iOS
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As static 2D maps fade away with the bezels of mobile phones, the future interfaces for navigation and gaming exist in augmented reality. App developers need new frameworks and reality-grade location data to build the next generation of spatially-enabled augmented reality experiences. Mapbox AR is the first comprehensive toolkit combining
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Developers can now integrate AirMap‘s low-altitude authorization and notification capability (LAANC) directly into their unmanned aerial systems (UAS) apps, providing Part 107 commercial drone operators with a seamless, automated way to request and receive waivers for flights in controlled airspace. The capability, which uses app-to-app deep-linking to transfer flight plans
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Parrot and PIX4D introduce an improved and simplified experience for pilots of the Parrot Bluegrass, Parrot Disco-Pro AG and Parrot Bebop-Pro 3D Modeling Parrot Professional solution’s drones. Users can now manage their Parrot drone settings and product updates directly from the planning and autonomous flight app, Pix4Dcapture. (Ed’s note I
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Check out this Official First Look of the New iX12 Radio System from Spektrum. it has an Android touch-screen user interface and it is amazingly easy to program and uses Apps to make it easier to use. Click the link below to see the complete review PDF.
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Google has recently announced to stop support for all Chrome Apps which will soon lead to the end of Betaflight configurator and a few other multirotor related apps on the platform. In this article I will show you the solution to this, where
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The UK’s Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority have announced measures that will start to address drone safety concerns in its draft ‘Drone Bill’, scheduled to be published in spring 2018. As makers of Drone Assist – the app used by tens-of-thousands of drone pilots in the UK every
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Mappt Elements, a free data collection and mapping iOS application, has just released a feature that enables GeoPDFs to be added to a fully interactive map and already comes with a huge range of global datasets. Users can access the entire USGS National Maps database with over 330,000 high-resolution topographical
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Through a partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AirMap Inc. is now a UAS service supplier for the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (L.A.A.N.C.). That means that commercial drone operators can request digital airspace authorization in controlled airspace through the very same AirMap mobile app that they use
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From Hobbico:
The Flitt flying camera and app are like having your own personal red carpet photographer on demand all day every day. It’s small, innovative, and designed for fun. Optical positioning delivers stable pics indoors or out. Plus, Flitt is equipped with three flight modes to tailor
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As part of its ongoing collaboration with global drone leader DJI, Epson, providers of the Moverio® augmented reality (AR) smart eyewear platform, today announced the world’s first glasses-based augmented reality drone flight simulator app, developed by Y Media Labs exclusively for the Epson Moverio BT-300 (FPV/Drone Edition) smart glasses. The
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The UASidekick App is the only one of its kind that has immediate access to the FAA/Leidos Flight Services system which serves over 80,000 weekly General Aviation “GA” pilots. As the industry grows (over 7 million estimated drones in the National Air Space “NAS” by 2020) it is important
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uAvionix Corporation has announced that both the echoUAT and SkyEcho ADS-B Transceivers are officially supported on ForeFlight Mobile, the leading flight planning app for the iPad and iPhone. As part of the Foreflight Connect program, echoUAT and SkyEcho display ADS-B weather and traffic through the ForeFlight Mobile
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Bigfork, MT, October 10, 2017 – uAvionix Corporation announced today that both the echoUAT and SkyEcho ADS-B Transceivers are officially supported on ForeFlight Mobile, the leading flight planning app for the iPad® and iPhone®. As part of the Foreflight Connect program, echoUAT and SkyEcho display ADS-B weather
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DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today launched a new Local Data Mode that stops internet traffic to and from its DJI Pilot app, in order to provide enhanced data privacy assurances for sensitive government and enterprise customers. Local Data Mode will be available in
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With the Flock Cover smartphone app you’ll pay for drone insurance only when you need it, and receive a customised policy for your flight. Our real-time pricing is risk-dependent, so the safer you fly, the less you pay. And if something goes wrong? Just claim with the tap of a
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I and many other developers have been sued by a company called Uniloc for using the Google Play store to distribute our apps on Android. These lawsuits, and countless others like them, come from lawyers’ offices and shell companies that do not actually create any goods or services, but instead
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DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, is developing a new local data mode that stops internet traffic to and from its flight control apps, in order to provide enhanced data privacy assurances for sensitive government and enterprise customers. DJI’s flight control apps routinely communicate over
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News has reached me that another DJI memo was passed around on Friday the 11th of August. An exception to policy with recommendations from the asymmetric warfare group that will permit the use of DJI kit once some conditions have been met. The Android Tactical Assault Kit will become the
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Engineers at the Beijing-based China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform, systems, and technology business unit of defence prime China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), are developing a new app-based UAV management system specifically designed to reduce the complexities of operating larger, multirole air
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DeTect has announced the release of the Pro version of the popular DroneWatcher APP – the app that makes Android smartphones and tablets into personal drone detectors for security and privacy protection. The $5.00 (US) Pro upgrade version has all the features of the free app plus provides detailed information
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X-naut, developer of the “first to market” iPad overheating solution available- the Active Cooling Mount for iPads, has entered into the consumer and commercial Drone market with the launch of a new Drone Controller Bracket Compatible with DJI Phantom and Inspire Mobile Device Holders. “The Drone market is growing and
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With the “DFS-DrohnenApp”, German aviation authority DFS is launching a new app for hobby drones pilots that shows users where they can fly their drone at any time and any location in Germany. It also provides comprehensive information on the applicable rules, regulations and restrictions. The free app is available
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Chinese small unmanned-aircraft manufacturer Ehang plans the launch next year of a commercial version of its autonomous single-passenger vertical-takeoff-and-landing air vehicle that flies without a pilot, under the control of a plug-and-play iPad. That vehicle will likely be larger and heavier as the current Ehang 184 is weight-limited to a
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The advances in consumer Camera Drones have come quite quickly, outpacing similar technologies such as smart phones, computers and flat screen TV’s. As one example, an iPhone 3 in 2009 sold for a similar price as an iPhone 6 in 2016 (when inflation is considered). Of course, the newer iPhones
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