Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 37: Homegrown Drones!

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 37: Homegrown Drones! | Mark Frauenfelder
English | 2014 | Pages: 352 | PDF (conv.) | 10.1 MB
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc

Everyone's buzzing about drones! Why? Because drones are cool and fun! They can be used to deliver pizza, as surveillance and security devices, for aerial photography and more! In MAKE's v37, we’ll look at all this, plus take a "maker's" view on drones: how DIY buffs can actually make one.

Not everybody likes the word drone — industry and military experts avoid using the “D word” in public. They prefer the term “unmanned aerial system or vehicle” and associated acronyms UAS or UAV. Despite plenty of misgivings about military and spy drones, the word drone has become widespread and popular, used with great enthusiasm by hobbyists who hang out on the DIY Drones site and by professional aerial photographers like the L.A.-based Drone Dudes. So what is a drone?

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