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An NYPD drone fell out of the sky and caught fire in DUMBO on Tuesday night, June 23, coming down at 1 Water Street near the entrance to the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The lithium-ion battery ignited on impact. Firefighters put it out. Nobody was hurt. But the aircraft dropped…
DJI has started publicly promoting a firmware change that lets its Matrice 4D Series fly compliant European beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions from a handheld controller instead of a fixed docking station. The company’s Enterprise arm laid out the details in a June 12 blog post and pushed it to a wider audience through an X thread on…
A Bavarian wildlife group that once pulled 10 to 15 fawns a year out of meadows before the mowers arrived now saves between 300 and 350, and the difference is a thermal camera in the sky. Rehkitz-Rettung Mangfalltal, a volunteer rescue organization operating in the Mangfall valley south of Munich, has folded the DJI Matrice…
Secret Service counter-drone teams join the National Mall’s first-ever July 4 NSSE, backed by the same federal buildout funding World Cup security.
Jake Sloan tests the SkyRover X1 against the DJI Mini 4 Pro in Alaska: tracking, obstacle avoidance, log video, wind, battery life, and a Remote ID edge.
DJI has added a third camera to its O4 Air Unit lineup, and the headline number is the field of view. The new DJI O4 Wide Air Unit swaps the standard model’s 117.6-degree lens for a 159-degree ultra-wide one, giving FPV builders the immersive, edge-to-edge perspective they have been buying aftermarket lenses to get. The…
Good day folks, Shawn here from Air Photography. This is my beginner’s guide for the brand new Insta360 Luna Ultra. If you’ve never used a camera like this before, or perhaps you’re coming from a more traditional action camera, I’m going to go over everything you need to know about it, how to use it,…
Upside Down Labs, the open-source biosensing company, built a real-time brain-computer interface that flies a Ryze Tello using signals read straight off the human body. The system pulls EEG brain activity, EMG muscle activity, and EOG eye movement through the company’s Neuro PlayGround Lite board, converts them into flight commands, and sends them to the…
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