We had a great time at Maker Faire, which was absolutely packed (100,000+ people). Above is a panorama shot of the 3D Robotics talk on Quadcopter UAVs, which was standing room only! (Thanks to Alan Sanchez and Sam Kelly for the ArduCopter flying and panorama photo taking).
Me (left), Massimo Banzi from the Arduino project and Sam Kelly (3D Robotics), along with 2/5ths of my kids.
Guess what was at the NASA Ames booth? (See next photo)
APM 1 in a balloon-dropped glider!
Here's the video promo. Check out the autolanding on a boat!
Lol, people will look back on that panorama in the future, and say, "I was there when it all started". May it should be posted on Facebook for people to tag themselves, or their friends that are in there.
Interesting that NASA is also using a Turnigy 9x as a transmitter too. Now I can say that I operate the same aerospace equipment as NASA.
Comments
Here's a visual note-taker's record of the speech from here:
Nice Video Chris! very informative and tells what we have reached. (and a hit to the future!)
will link it from my site (if you don't see any objection)
Wish I was there! maybe next year!
Dany
Great presentation... I guess we should be happy your first EasyStar flight ended up in the tree!
Is there a picture of the cartoon anywhere?
Video is now online here:
http://fora.tv/2012/05/20/Wireds_Chris_Anderson_Autonomous_Quadcopt...
Chris will the video of the talk available? I was there for a moment, but my 4 year old was done at that point and I could not stay.
Lol, people will look back on that panorama in the future, and say, "I was there when it all started". May it should be posted on Facebook for people to tag themselves, or their friends that are in there.
Interesting that NASA is also using a Turnigy 9x as a transmitter too. Now I can say that I operate the same aerospace equipment as NASA.
I wish I could have made it! Just couldn't fit it in right now. :(
Jason
Is that glider model this one?
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=...