Thanks to the iPhone and Wii for creating demand that has driven the price of GPS chips, miniature navigational sensor packages and complete IMUs to the point where a Household Drone is not only feasible, but quite likely within the next 10 years.
I want to be able to call my order into the local store and have my UAV fly over and pick it up, so it need to be able to handle a large pizza sized payload!
I wonder if I will live to see remote control helicopters declared illegal.
At first they seem cute and fun, then all of a sudden their potential becomes apparent.
Thanks for posting this! I need it for my...um...project. That would be the one I put up on a thread, but it got yanked by the mods for being “loose lips”...(no point in objecting). IMO, my thread was “forewarned is fore-armed!” regarding UAVs.
$300K in revenue with 18 employees? That’s spreading it pretty thin.
ping to Yikes!
A comment on the Wash Times story
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/14/out-of-hobby-class-drones-lifting-off-for-personal/
“Just consider a recent episode of NCIS in which a satellite bouncing electric impulse triggered an natural appearing heart attack in a Naval Petty Officer. Could the same have happened to Andrew Beitbart, just think hovering drone following him home from that bar (perhaps he had been slipped something in his drink that would react as an apparent heart attacked if shocked by an electric beam from a drone).”