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Flight Club: Drones and the Dawn of Personal Aerial Imaging

Today, Lynda.com released a documentary featuring Aerial Photography Flight Club (Mark Johnson, Barry Blanchard, Russell Preston Brown, Aaron Grimes, Stacy Weskerna Garlington, Romeo Durscher, and me). The documentary is about a few folks in the SF Bay Area who discovered aerial imaging through quadcopters as part of the first wave using RTF (and modified) quadcopters a few years ago. ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z625R9eljIc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Congratulations to DJI and FLIR for the announcement of the Zenmuse XT Thermal Camera! I’ve been waiting for this particular collaboration to bear fruit for a long time, and it’s super exiting to see it come to life. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Hi, everyone! Are you going to buy a toy drone this holiday season? If you are, I have a plea: don’t buy crappy drones! And if you do, don’t fly them outside! I was interviewed as an expert today as part of a TV segment that will air next Tuesday. Part of the show involved ...

Stop buying crappy, anonymous drones!

Hi, everyone! Are you going to buy a toy drone this holiday season? If you are, I have a plea: don’t buy crappy drones! And if you do, don’t fly them outside! I was interviewed as an expert today as part of a TV segment that will air next Tuesday. Part of the show involved showing what ...

TTI/Vanguard [NEXT] Conference 2015

I feel fortunate to have been invited back to TTI/Vanguard's [next] conference this year, but as a guest instead of a speaker. As expected, the talks were fascinating and the audience, sharp and engaged.

Tested, Adam Savage, and Field Notes have teamed up to bring you the Field Notes/Tested.com UAS Flight Log (shown here with one of the original prototypes). You’re all logging all your flights, right? 😉

360 video of Good Morning America #GMA40 Drone Hour BTS

During the Good Morning America #GMA40 drone hour on November 17, I set up a Ricoh Theta S (360 spherical camera) to capture the action around the live broadcast. You can drag the point of view around using your mouse or finger, or view in Google Cardboard or equivalent (requires full screen viewing on an ...

John Markoff e-signs his book, “Machines of Loving Grace,” on an iPad Pro

I caught up with author and New York Times science writer John Markoff today over lunch, and asked him to electronically sign his book, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground. Neither of us really knows what that means, so we used Skitch, and iPad Pro, and a screenshot of my purchased Kindle-version book cover. ...

Raw analog FPV footage from a flight with a Blade Nano QX FPV (a 22 gram / 0.78 oz FPV quadcopter) from a drone-themed gathering at Greylock VC in San Francisco organized by Chris McCann / Greylock. Participants included Adam Bry (Skydio), Andreas Raptopoulos (Matternet), Antoine Balaresque (Lily), Buddy Michini (Airware), Dan Burton (DroneBase), Dr. ...