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Filmmaker Reilín Joey has published a behind-the-scenes breakdown of the official DJI Osmo Pocket 4 launch commercial, a production he directed and edited across 12 locations on two continents. The video, released July 7, 2026, follows the shoot from safari scenes near Cape Town, South Africa, to a typhoon-compressed schedule in Hong Kong, and closes…
Luke Maximo Bell flew a rebuilt quadcopter for 4 hours, 21 minutes and 39 seconds on a single battery charge, breaking the Guinness World Record for longest flight of a small electric multirotor drone. Independent witnesses observed the attempt on a farm outside Cape Town, South Africa. The result beat the previous certified mark of…
Amazon just launched Prime in South Africa at 59 rand a month, and shoppers got same-day delivery, discounts, even cloud gaming. What they didn’t get is a single delivery drone. Prime Air isn’t coming, and when Amazon’s own regional boss was asked about it, he had nothing to say. The silence is the story, because…
South African filmmaker Jacques Crafford reveals how DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 global launch commercial was shot across South Africa and Hong Kong over 8 days.
Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently needed answering: how fast can you go when the budget ceiling is $155? The answer,…
Luke Bell's Solar Drone V2 crashed after 2.5 minutes, but the flight logs revealed a breakthrough. Discover how a diode-isolated buffer battery might solve the voltage collapse problem for solar-powered multirotors.
DJI just opened a competition that could change what drones are capable of. Not the hardware. The brain. The DJI Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026 is not a drone racing event. It is not a photography contest. It is DJI saying, out loud, to every developer and researcher on the planet: we have built…
Discover how Luke Maximo Bell’s custom endurance drone flew for 3.5 hours. Learn the engineering secrets of semi-solid state batteries and 40-inch propellers.
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