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Volume 1 Diy Drones News - Bringing you the News October 1st , 2013 Today of the World of Tomorrow

3D Robotics Announces $30 Million Series B Financing

Blog by Chris Anderson

opportunity to bring ‘big data’ to agriculture with ETH, 3D Robotics has announced its most through low-cost automated aerial crop surveys powerful autopilot to date, Pixhawk, which will could be a game-changer for both farming and ship in October. Pixhawk is a new 32-bit open the UAV industry alike,” said Chris Anderson, autopilot platform designed for improved ease of CEO of 3D Robotics. “Adding UAVs to the use and reliability while offering unprecedented precision agriculture toolkit of a 21st Century safety features compared to existing solutions. farmer gives them the power to use imaging data 3D Robotics’ mission is to deliver reliable, easy- to not only increase yield, but decrease water to-use autonomous navigation and sensing use and the chemical load in both food and solutions to customers using land,sea or air environment.” September 26th, 2013 by Chris Anderson based vehicles. 3D Robotics’ open UAV SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2013 — 3D Starting in 2015, AUVSI, the UAV industry trade technology, which is in use by tens of thousands Robotics, the leading open Unmanned Aerial group, estimates that the first three years of of customers already, delivers pro-level aerial Vehicle (UAV) company, today announced a integration of commercial drones into the national robotics features at consumer-level prices to $30 million Series B financing round. The airspace will create more than 70,000 jobs in the bring UAV applications to mainstream markets. United States with an economic impact of more round was co-led by Foundry Group, a new 3D Robotics is a privately-held North American than $13.6 billion. International prospects are investor, and existing investor True Ventures, company with offices in Berkeley, San Diego and much larger. ”We’re building out a world-wide along with participation from existing investors Tijuana, Mexico. O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and SK sales, service and support model that will help us Ventures. As part of this round, Jason build long-term relationships with local resellers For more information on the company visit: Mendelson of Foundry Group will join the 3D that can in-turn support their local community http://www.3drobotics.com Robotics board of directors. requirements for mapping and imaging,” said John Cherbini, 3D Robotics VP of Sales. This round of funding augments a late-2012 Series A round led by True Ventures and 3D Robotics also recently announced Iris, the O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. It will enable 3D company’s first ready-to-fly, fully-autonomous Robotics to mainstream aerial robotics and quadcopter for the consumer market. The surveying, making advanced UAV technology lightweight vehicle can conduct hands-off affordable and easy to use for its worldwide missions and record high definition aerial video, customer base of businesses and individuals. bringing pro-level UAV features at an Working with its large community of users and unprecedented sub-$1,000 price. Iris is now open source developers, 3D Robotics has shipping to developers, with consumer sales to created the industry’s leading open UAV begin in November. platform, APM, and is now extending that to a In conjunction with Iris, 3D Robotics has new generation of autopilots, software and extended its exclusive relationship with the PX4 ready-to-fly multicopter and fixed-wing UAVs. team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology As part of this funding round 3D Robotics will (ETH), one of the world’s leading UAV research expand its development and deployment of institutions. In collaboration advanced UAV applications, with a focus on agricultural crop mapping and other commercial aerial survey technology. “The

- Page 2 - Diy Drones Newspaper - Volume 1 - October 1st, 2013 - GoPro Hero 3+ Announced Hackathon and Drone conference in NYC

Blog by Alan Sanchez Blog by Gabriella Levine

GoPro just announced its Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference, at new camera, the Hero3+. I NYU on Oct 11th-13th. 30% off code for DIYDrones: am really interested to see DARCFRIEND30 how much smaller it really DARC is the first ever full-spectrum drone is than the hero3. Longer conference. Join in conversation with CEO's battery, sharper lens, from major robotics companies (Parrot, smaller, 720p at 120fps 3DRobotics, and more), researchers doing cutting edge work with agile robots (Vijay sounds really good to me. Kumar of the GRASP Lab, and more), and The buttons on the aerospace veterans (including former fighter enclosure seem bigger, I pilot and Director of MIT's Humans and hope so, the old ones were Automation Lab, Missy Cummings). a pain to press. Anyone getting one? DARC combines a DIY/maker event, a day of curated talks and live drone demos, and a participatory tech-policy conference that's tackling big questions about how we might DroidPlanner v1.0.0 [Update] integrate drones into everyday life. Anyone interested in the technology or cultural Blog By Arthur Benemann implications of drones should attend.

Website: http://droneconference.org/ The update Droidplanner v0.15.0 Registration: If you follow the alpha versions you know ● New Waypoint Editor we added a lot of good stuff to it. The https://droneconference.org/register/ new version has the following updates, ● New Survey Interface The third day of the conference (Oct 13th) probably the bold ones matter the most there will be a hackathon at ITP that to you ( v1.0.0 over 0.14.2): ● Support for Physical NodeCopter and Parrot are sponsoring. Droidplanner v1.0.0 Joysticks We're giving away at least 3 Parrot AR ● No new changes to drones to the top three hacks. ● Chinese Translation the code-base, just More info on the hackathon: setting a milestone ● Code Re-factoring http://nodecopter.com/2013/new-york/oct-13 Droidplanner v0.16.0 To register for the hackathon: ● Minor fixes (please http://www.eventbrite.com/event/829333458 ● Bluetooth Support consult GIT history) 7

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The new forums need YOU! 'Simpler' Andropilo t 1.8 released to productio n

Blog By Gary Mortimer Blog By Kevin Hester

By now everybody must be aware of the excellent new wiki's that the team has been putting hours of work into and really doing a fine The main features compared to the last GA job of it. You might have also seen the release: Community drop down menu at the top of the page at http://www.ardupilot.com under that you ● Substantially simplified user interface (the will see a links to here and APM Forum, this is sidebar now gets hidden by default in where our forums will migrate to over time. landscape mode - if you want it back, just choose 'Show Sidebar' in the menu). Most Stefan has done an excellent job of improving the interesting data floats over the map view. functionality of the forums, making it less ● Bluetooth and on-screen joystick spammy in the process. improvements for safety and response rate

Its attracting questions from wiki users now and ● More time spent with the profiler, should be as such we need some more of the experts that hang out here to be on hand to help new users even faster than old versions there. ● Special UIs for phones with small screens The platform that this website uses is about to If you would like to use the bluetooth or on screen undergo a major change and this will give us an joysticks, please be extra careful because that opportunity to make this site a little more curated code has been used by less than 2% of the users. with the best of peoples builds and ideas getting If you need to grab control away with the RC more attention. xmitter, just toggle the mode switch or press the So come on over to the new forums and lend a cancel button on the tablet/joystick. hand.