A newbie's guide to UAVs. What is an amateur UAV?
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that has the capability of autonomous flight, without a pilot in control. Amateur UAVs are non-military and non-commercial. They typically fly under “recreational” exceptions to FAA regulations on UAVs, so long as the pilots/programmers keep them within tight limits on altitude and distance. Usually the UAV is controlled manually by Radio Control (RC) at take-off and landing, and switched into GPS-guided autonomous mode only at a safe altitude.
(Confused by all the acronyms and unfamiliar terms in UAVs? What do I need to make one? ---1) An RC plane, muticopter (quadcopter/hexacopter/tricopter, etc) or helicopter. What does DIY Drones have to offer? The DIY Drones community has created the world's first "universal autopilots", ArduPilot Mega (APM) and its next-generation big brother, Pixhawk. A full setup consists of: You can buy Ready-to-Fly UAVs (both planes and multicopters) from 3D Robotics: 2013 - February 15-17 - Speakers. Keynote Address Privacy Online: What Now?
Ian Goldberg Recent revelations about data and metadata collection of Internet users' communications have been extremely worrying. Not only are governments collecting this information, but online service providers, including cloud providers, are part of the picture as well. What can we, as individuals, do to limit the collection of our online messages, friends lists, and usage patterns? Ian Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, where he is a founding member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group.
Closing Plenary Large Scale Network and Application Scanning Bruce Potter (moderator), Robert David Graham, Paul McMillan, Dan Tentler, and Alejandro Caceres Back in 1998, Robert Graham created one of the first popular desktop firewalls (BlackICE Defender) and the first IPS (BlackICE Guard). Paul McMillan is a security engineer at Nebula. Assambly. How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom. At last year’s Paris Air Show , some of the hottest aircraft were the autonomous unmanned helicopters—a few of them small enough to carry in one hand—that would allow military buyers to put a camera in the sky anywhere, anytime.
Manufactured by major defense contractors, and ranging in design from a single-bladed camcopter to four-bladed multicopters, these drones were being sold as the future of warfare at prices in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In May, at a different trade show, similar aircraft were once again the most buzzed-about items on display. But this wasn’t another exhibition of military hardware; instead, it was the Hobby Expo China in Beijing, where Chinese manufacturers demo their newest and coolest toys.
Companies like Shenzhen-based DJI Innovations are selling drones with the same capability as the military ones, sometimes for less than $1,000. What are all these amateurs doing with their drones? Why? What exactly do we mean by drone? Go Back to Top. DIY UAVs for Cyber Warfare – Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform. DJI Innovations, JDrones, 3DR, SparkFun UAV Auto Pilots & More. DIY Drones.