Orion Drones

Weather

The weather turned. The snow is gone, and rain persists, so I get to fly a few times a week. I was showing a student member of Verticals what you can get with a 400-foot range Figure 1. I was standing across the street from an EMS station in an abandoned lot.

Verticals Youth Empowerment Center

How It’s Going: Sessions Announced

The three days I participate as a volunteer instructor are as follows: April 28th, May 5th and May 12th, 2022. Those are Thursdays, all day events.

Test Meeting

Verticals is a local community development center that gives kids a choice of after-school programs that enrich young lives and provide a sense of pride in community. A link to the group is provided.

I signed on as a drone coach and provided some media resources. I was going to teach kids how to fly recreational drones, get the soon-to-be mandatory – and EASILY OBTAINED – TRUST flyer certificate from the FAA, online for free, and then get down to business. I was going to teach them how to make a video with a drone. We would go over flight plans, cinematography, operations, editing, and then presentation. This module was planned to integrate seamlessly within a larger ecosystem of courses in technology applications, physical well-being, and business development. These are hands-on tangible experiences that have lifelong value.

Local Resource

Now that we have students, we have an idea about the way this will work, and I will stick by Verticals as it develops a flying environment determined by its needs. Community groups will have some authority to determine the nature of its flight operations in local airspace come this fall 2022. As long as a pilot is connected to the group, the area can develop flight operations that best suits the needs of the group.

Topics in the Verticals Youth Empowerment program include artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, drones, digital fabrication, coding, media production, design studio, blockchain, and crypto. Courses in the topics are presented alongside fitness and wellness resources. The center director is retired NFL pro-football player William James, who stepped off the gridiron and into a new life arena.

Verticals Youth Empowerment Center is designed to stimulate young minds, give parents an inclusive environment in which to socialize, and to offer youth a sense of pride in themselves and their community. There are other facilities in the works. This is real, and I am learning so much about people in such a positive light. I grew up doing volunteer work.

I assist a class in the workflow of a drone cinematography project they create and produce. I hope to provide material to be used at other Verticals locations. I hope to help people prosper here. I want to find a perspective on life that elevates us.

Tellos programming in Python

Three modules and a text file.

Keyframe in Autonomous Mode Stationary Vehicles Proximity

Just like with the DJI line, the Skydio2 is not afraid to win the limbo contest, even in thick, choking dust. The autonomous function begins at 1:13. It plots a reverse sequence of the keyframes initiated by inputs in the app written to, presumably, just a text file in the software, last in, first out. You do the same thing to program audio sequences with Betaflight. So, here in Figure 2 is a drone passing within inches of construction equipment backwards, using the cameras to determine the proximity of nearby objects. I flew in poor light at sunset.