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"DIY Drones, which has blossomed into a community of 30,000 registered members. The site gets 1.4 million page views a month, has 6,000 blog posts, 8,000 discussion threads, and 80,000 comments a year. Anderson has marshaled that community to create open-source software for all sorts of drones." | "DIY Drones, which has blossomed into a community of 30,000 registered members. The site gets 1.4 million page views a month, has 6,000 blog posts, 8,000 discussion threads, and 80,000 comments a year. Anderson has marshaled that community to create open-source software for all sorts of drones." | ||
(http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/27/open-source-model-disrupts-the-commercial-drone-business/) | (http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/27/open-source-model-disrupts-the-commercial-drone-business/) | ||
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Peter Diamandis: | |||
"In the beginning, the DIY Drones projects were simple, but as his community grew, so did its ambition. The cheapest military-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on the market is the Raven, which retails for $35,000, with the full system for $250,000. One of DIY Drones' first major projects was an attempt to build an autonomous flying platform with 90 percent of Raven's functionality at a radically reduced price. The members wrote and tested software, designed and tested hardware, and ended up with the QuadCopter. In less than a year, and with almost no development costs, they created a homebrew drone with 90 percent of the Raven's functionality for just $300 -- literally 1 percent of the military's price. | |||
The DIY Drones community has developed 100 different products in the same way, each in under a year, for essentially zero out-of-pocket development cost." | |||
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Revision as of 03:58, 24 February 2014
= a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to's, videos, discussion and more
URL = http://diydrones.com/
Company for developing and selling aerial robotics technology
Description
Dean Takahashi:
"DIY Drones, which has blossomed into a community of 30,000 registered members. The site gets 1.4 million page views a month, has 6,000 blog posts, 8,000 discussion threads, and 80,000 comments a year. Anderson has marshaled that community to create open-source software for all sorts of drones." (http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/27/open-source-model-disrupts-the-commercial-drone-business/)
Status
Peter Diamandis:
"In the beginning, the DIY Drones projects were simple, but as his community grew, so did its ambition. The cheapest military-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on the market is the Raven, which retails for $35,000, with the full system for $250,000. One of DIY Drones' first major projects was an attempt to build an autonomous flying platform with 90 percent of Raven's functionality at a radically reduced price. The members wrote and tested software, designed and tested hardware, and ended up with the QuadCopter. In less than a year, and with almost no development costs, they created a homebrew drone with 90 percent of the Raven's functionality for just $300 -- literally 1 percent of the military's price.
The DIY Drones community has developed 100 different products in the same way, each in under a year, for essentially zero out-of-pocket development cost." (via email)