Drones make bridge inspections safer and easier to document. A complementary 3-D bridge app developed by the Michigan Tech Research Institute also streamlines defect records. Bridging basic and applied research is more than a metaphor. There are 612,677 bridges in the U.S. and the annual Federal Highway Administration 2018 bridge
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Review: Rotor Riot Drone & Gaming Controller
Rotor Riot recently released a new product – the Drone and Gaming Controller for iPhone and Android. It sounded like a “game changer” and I was super excited to give it a review! Not What I Expected… Coming from Rotor Riot, I
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REIN‘s DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal, is announcing its collaboration with AirMap, a leading drone airspace management platform. The relationship allows drone operators to seamlessly access DroneInsurance.com’s offerings within AirMap for Drones, AirMap’s iOS and Android applications, providing a streamlined option to add insurance coverage as part of AirMap’s
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Project Wing completed the first long-distance, residential drone delivery in the United States Tuesday. In this historical first, Brianna Smith’s two-year-old son Jack received an aerial delivery of ice cream and a Popsicle, a mere six minutes after a Wing technician confirmed the order through the company’s smartphone app.
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Switzerland-based Drone Harmony released an automated capture app last week which aims to facilitate cell phone tower inspections by making the process safer and cheaper. The company says the app allows users to set up and complete inspection flights in around five to 10 minutes, in addition to cutting costs
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Speedybee USB to Bluetooth Adapter
There are times I wanted to configure my quadcopter using smartphone app, but I couldn’t install a bluetooth module because there isn’t a spare UART. Check out the Speedybee USB to Bluetooth adapter, an alternative to Bluetooth modules. It’s basically an external Bluetooth dongle
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Early July sees the release of Drone Harmony’s automated capture app designed for the sole purpose of cell tower inspections. Planning and setting up the inspection flight with Drone Harmony takes about 5 – 10 minutes. A game changer. Luzern, Switzerland – July 6, 2018 Cell tower inspections, the majority
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The EU-China Aviation Partnership Project (APP) has as purpose to strengthen the economic partnership between the EU and China in the civil aviation domain. At the heart of the EU-China APP is the call for closer cooperation between the EU and China at an official and authority level, and the
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If you like to be the first to test new tools, you don’t want to miss this opportunity! Aerobo, a leading drone cinematography company in the US, is building an augmented reality drone app. They’re looking for drone pilots to participate in their exclusive beta program. Participants will be the
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InfraDrone LLC announced today the release of their new App, available on both Android and iPhone App stores and via the web. The App allows pilots to: Register for potential paid drone pilot jobs Register with no cost or obligation Receive notice of paid drone jobs available in their area
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With the SkyWatch Map & Flight Module, you can plan your flight, see potential risks and hazards in real-time, and even buy a customized insurance policy! The app gives you a unique Safety Score after each flight, and pilots with a history of over five flights with a good Safety
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iOS/Android Mobile App for Betaflight, Cleanflight and iNav
You can configure Betaflight settings on your quad by installing a Betaflight mobile app on your iPhone, iPad, Android Phone or tablets. This is handy when you are out in the field and don’t have access to a computer. There are
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Prepping for the Part 107 exam? King Schools has you covered: Aspiring Drone Pilots now have a convenient way to continue their studies even when they are offline by using the free KING Companion App for iPad or iPhone together with King Schools’ Online Drone Pilot License Test Prep Course.
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Drone app maker Kittyhawk and Jeppesen have formed a new partnership to roll out a robust set of LAANC tools: the Low-Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability system currently being deployed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Both see a future where the lines between manned and unmanned flight operations disappear
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Aspiring Drone Pilots now have a convenient way to continue their studies even when they are offline by using the free KING Companion App for iPad or iPhone together with King Schools’ Online Drone Pilot License Test Prep Course. The app allows drone pilots who are preparing for the FAA
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Flock, a government-backed drone insurance startup, has unlocked its ‘pay-as-you-fly’ insurance and safety smartphone app (Flock Cover) to recreational drone pilots. Up until now, the Flock Cover app has been available to commercial and training pilots in the UK, of which over 1,000 have registered on the platform since it
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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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Download Betaflight Configurator & Blackbox Explorer
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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