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DJI team up with Shapeways for ‘search + rescue’ competition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 1, 2016

An entry to the Shapeways and DJI design competition, the Renovatio Drone buoy attachments by LC Design Drone-making supremos DJI…

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New flight method for drones influenced by bats

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 22, 2016

This little belter could influence how manmade drones fly in the future Innovative membrane wings that work like artificial muscles…

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Vicon sets up framework for future Aircraft engineering inspection using drones

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 26, 2015

The test set up in Easyjet’s Luton engineering hangar, with Vicon T-Series cameras tracking the UAVs Recently, airline operator Easyjet…

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Shapeways community takes off with 3D printed accessories for latest DJI drones

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 6, 2015

An official tie-in means the Shapeways community is able to design custom parts for DJI drones, such as the new…

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Bright sparks: revolutionary rotary engines for UAVs

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 24, 2015

Small British company Rotron has set the ambitious goal of becoming the Rolls Royce of UAV propulsion systems. Tanya Weaver…

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Homing drone cam will follow you to the extreme

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 25, 2014

The AirDog, an automated drone that follows a wrist-worn tracking device and can house a GoPro sports camera For extreme…

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Manufacturing

Take wing

Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 29, 2014

How a team of engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at Sheffield University went about 3D printing and testing…

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Manufacturing

Eye in the sky

Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 31, 2013

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are fast becoming important tools in all manner of different industries. Stephen Holmes finds out how…

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Don’t fear the reaper: Academics go 3D printed UAV crazy

Posted by Al Dean - September 8, 2011

It seems that the academic world has been going UAV crazy for the last year. There have been two recent…

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