The corridor is the first in Africa with a focus on humanitarian and development use, said UNICEF. It’s  designed to provide a controlled platform for the private sector, universities and other partners to explore how UAVs can be...

The introduced computer vision platform with deep-learning capabilities is a stand-alone twin sensor platform. It utilizes the GPU-accelerated computing power of the Nvidia’s Jetson module to allow for real-time video processing and immediate augmented insights. Nvidia’s Jetpack software...

If you are a watcher of the world of drones, or multirotors, you may have a fixed idea of what one of these aircraft looks like in your mind. You are almost certainly picturing a four-rotor design,...

Trident is a multipurpose open source submarine drone. It’s ideal for: Boating and fishing –  Deploy in seconds to see what’s underwater; inspect props, rudders, hulls, and anchors; find fish better than a fish finder Diving  –...

You’ll need: Drone Kit (and 4 channel RC controller) Raspberry Pi (board + case) Sixfab 4G/LTE shield Camera Module SD Card SIM Card Antenna USB cable Thanks to a Raspberry Pi board, Camera Module and a SixFab...

A Microsoft researchers team have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real world. It’s called the Aerial Informatics...

How many people have the original Game Boy yet, in a drawer somewhere? I’m one of them, I still have my perfectly good and unused Game Boy. Someone else decided to give a new life to his...

We admire the wonderful Super Bowl show recently … with the sky strangely illuminated. Intel was the maker! Drones are a good market because they use a lot of technology, including Intel’s RealSense depth cameras, and they...

The Maker and MIT aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth did this incredible drone, replicating the imperial drone with engine special effects too. Amazing! Over the past decade or so, I’ve been building a new RC airplane every month or so....

GABRI S.R.L. Seastick is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle released in 2014 and in the same year it won the Toradex Embedded Design Challenge. Roberto Linfante, CEO of the company, founded it in 2004 and led GABRI to...

The PXFmini is a low cost and open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi that allows you to create a ready-to-fly autopilot with support for Dronecode’s APM flight stack. The shield has been designed specially for the...

Spanish company Erle produces a full family of DIY drones and devices, like the most interesting controller board, Erle Brains 2. Erle-Brain 2 is the second generation of Linux-based artificial robotic brain for making robots and drones...

It’s not an open source project but can be inspiring for any maker interested on drones and aerial shooting! If you’re not, you can purchase it for about $800! DJI has just announced a new camera drone,...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAV) applications and capabilities are advancing at a phenomenal rate, and the cost of these systems are decreasing at an equally impressive rate, largely because of open source. In many cases, open source projects...

NUA is organizing the annual 2015 conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, The Drone Data X Conference. It is an event taking place where some of the best minds in UAV technology can meet and share ideas, as...

A custom, affordable, open source quadcopter for the masses! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4Q3tGOv-o   “The idea all started when we were trying to get into the hobby of quadcoptering (I made that up!). Our problem was that there were no...