Название: Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 37: Homegrown Drones!
Автор: Mark Frauenfelder
Издательство: Maker Media, Inc
ISBN: 1449363776
Год: 2014
Страниц: 160
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 50.4 MB

Everyone's buzzing about drones! Why? Because drones are cool and fun! They can be used to deliver pizza, as surveillance and security devices, for aerial photography and more! In MAKE's v37, we’ll look at all this, plus take a "maker's" view on drones: how DIY buffs can actually make one. There are over 25 pages in this special section, including a walk-through drone taxonomy (air/land/sea), the landscape of the law surrounding drones today, and a bird's eye view of the drone aerial photography project.

Not everybody likes the word drone — industry and military experts avoid using the “D word” in public. They prefer the term “unmanned aerial system or vehicle” and associated acronyms UAS or UAV. Despite plenty of misgivings about military and spy drones, the word drone has become widespread and popular, used with great enthusiasm by hobbyists who hang out on the DIY Drones site and by professional aerial photographers like the L.A.-based Drone Dudes. So what is a drone?

The distinguishing feature of a drone seems to be the promise of autonomy. Today, a typical flight consists of switching between manual flight and autopilot. How much further might it go? Given the right instrumentation and the ability to process that data, could a drone be programmed to make context-aware decisions, particularly ones that humans are not very good at? A drone might detect problems before they occur, such as responding to gusts of wind or avoiding unexpected obstacles. A drone might also be able to communicate with other drones.