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    FAA gives DJI Phantom Green light for commercial flight

    Well its in the title really... http://www.suasnews.com/2015/01/33708/breaking-a-dji-phantom-just-received-a-333-exemption/ This is the statement lots of folks will be hoping to read one day. The FAA’s Decision In consideration of the foregoing, I find that a grant of exemption is in the...
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    Watch out sporting event TFR now includes model aircraft and RPAS in the USA

    There are grounds to arrest you now if you are looking over the fence. I would have thought 1/2 a mile would have been better than 3 http://www.suasnews.com/2014/10/32109/new-faa-tfr-prohibits-model-aircraftrpas-flight-within-3nm-of-large-sporting-events/
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    Pixhawk the new flight controller from 3DR

    Pixhawk is an advanced autopilot system designed by the PX4 open-hardware project and manufactured by 3D Robotics. It features advanced processor and sensor technology from ST Microelectronics® and a NuttX real-time operating system, delivering incredible performance, flexibility, and...
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    Brooklyn man arrested for flying drone over Manhattan

    Remember that quad bouncing off buildings and landing at the foot of somebody standing outside of Grand Central Station.. Well they found him. NEW YORK (WABC) – He’s a musician from Brooklyn but he has struck a wrong note with the NYPD who tracked him down after our story aired and charged...
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    3D Robotics Iris: Fully Autonomous, $729

    Today 3D Robotics (3DR) announced Iris — an advanced quadcopter with full GPS-guided autonomous capabilities. Iris is designed to provide an “out-of-the-box” flying experience that brings the power of professional grade aerial robotics to the mass market. Iris can be controlled by an Android...
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    UK CAA awards Resource UAS Qualified Entity Status

    Congratulations to the guys and girls at Resource UAS, a well deserved CAA accreditation for their courses. http://www.suasnews.com/2013/07/24227/uk-caa-awards-resource-uas-qualified-entity-status/ If you have been on the scene for a while you will know why this is a very good thing.
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    Quadcopter Star Trek Swarm over London

    As a harbinger for the Paramount film “Star Trek – Into Darkness”, starting in May in Europe’s cinemas, last night a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica...
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    AR Drone The European Space Agency wants you and your AR.Drone

    High on the very cool list this “We wanted to carry out robotic crowdsourcing, which meant selecting a robot that the public actually possesses in large numbers,” added Guido. “This is indeed a robot that people have at home and play games with, with the imaging capabilities we need.” “In...
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    Hanging out with Mix Master Mat

    I had a very interesting chat with Mat Wellington earlier today, he really is a genius when it comes to getting weird things to fly. Its here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?feature=edit_ok&list=PLS2ntMaPm2ZWrBvDoNENv0jJFDW1pY-5T
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    LinkedIn Multi Rotor group

    I had a look, there was not one so I started it! http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Multi-Rotor-Operators-4716792
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    H frames

    Anybody have any pointers for some basic H frames, thinking about a hexacopter I have an itch to build something cheap and light. I have been looking to see if there are any homebrw eight inch prop frames that I can use the dims from but am having little luck This sort of thing.
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    New source for Multicopter industry news

    Hi all, The increase of multi stories has made me create a free web mag based on the content sUAS News has been posting. Its here https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowj_zjAw/multicopter_news This just pulls the multicopter feed and regulations as these are the only two I think...
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    Tau Labs OpenPilot project on All Things That Fly

    James and David talking a bit ;-) Worth listening to if you want to get a better handle on what the project is about. Should be here
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    Quad used by Libyan rebels

    This is bound to cause a stir, full story here http://www.suasnews.com/2011/08/7760/canadian-suas-used-by-libyan-rebels/
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    Place to put your business cards

    I have a page here, http://www.suasnews.com/uk-uav-aerial-photography-contacts/ that needs filling up, peeps in the UK are welcome to have a free listing just as long as they are licenced by the CAA G
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    Tau Labs Very nice bit of vid from hawaiitaco

    CC platform http://forums.openpilot.org/topic/5618-fpvon-board-video/page__pid__18737#entry18737
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    Tau Labs 8 minutes of hands off hover from Z06 Tony, and a perhaps inevitable ending !

    Top job Tony, well set up quad that. I think 30 seconds less flight time might have been better ;-) How will it look with GPS and mag baro I wonder. Top tuning Tony.
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    Tau Labs CopterControl runs on the FY20

    Not quite sure why you would do this but no doubt the chap had his reasons. (CC boards are cheaper and obviously don't need to be modded) The author states in the video the following: "Convert FY20 to UAV using OpenPilot SW and GCS (en FY20 added board with full RC input-output as...
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    Tau Labs Look what I've got

    Showing off For sure!!! Its time to start on the Mag Baro board.
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    Tau Labs Announcements via Twitter

    We will start announcing stuff more on Twitter, don't worry if you don't use it you can follow this link. http://twitter.com/#!/OpenPilot Seems like a simple way of doing things. Will keep putting things everywhere else but Twitter will be the first port of call.
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