News — Thoughts

Yes, it's official right now, all 3DR Solo source code has been put into Open Source and can now be used by anyone out there. Chris Anderson - Sky Drone's very first supporter - himself announced the following: I’m delighted to announce that we’re now open sourcing almost all of the remaining code, including the SoloLink wireless stack, ShotManager, the high-level onboard mission scripting layer that gave Solo all of its “smart shots”, and a range of other packages include the code for the controller and the build tools.The code has now been released in a new OpenSolo organization on...

We at Sky Drone are fans of The Drone Girl. This morning, a guest post by George Smith was published there with the title Connectivity issues and the concerns no one is talking about around drone delivery. The article appears to be either poorly researched or at least just inaccurate in various aspects. Let us address some parts of it, where we at Sky Drone have unique expertise. Battery Usage of 4G/LTE Connectivity George writes in his article the following: Although M2M can provide drones with connectivity, they can also be power-thirsty if exchanging large amounts of data. That statement is just wrong...

We've just read about the news that GoPro is recalling its Karma drone. All of its 2,500 sold units should be returned for repair because they might suddenly loose power during flight. That's not that good of karma for such a new product.  We at Sky Drone understand just as well, how challenging it is to build a good hardware product that just works - all the time. We have had our challenges with our Sky Drone FPV 1 product in the past. That has been overcome and our brand new Sky Drone FPV 2 camera solution is now available! We are fairly...