Tag Archives for drones

Pix4D

Submit “raw images and their approximate GPS geo tags as provided by” your UAV to their cloud service, and they’ll return an elevation model, KML, and image (full version is BIG): -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

09. June 2011 by Shlok Vaidya
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On The NeuroSky Mindset

This is a very cool piece of $99 technology. It’s an electrode that sits on your forehead and detects thoughts/emotions. They’re trying to figure out how to scale this business. (Investment as of June was ~$20 million.) Their internal ideas, … Continue reading

13. October 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Seaswarm: MIT’s Autonomous, Oil-Cleaning Swarm

Seaswarm. Unfortunately, this is priced at $20k a pop. I’d like to see the plans unleashed to the hacker community. (And watch the precipitous pricing drop thereafter.) -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

27. August 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Singer on Drone Defense

Singer (one of the smartest folks in DC) does a good job outlining the threat of cheap and plentiful drones: Today, the lag time between the development of military technology and its widespread dissemination is measured in months, not years. … Continue reading

27. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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