[TriLUG] OT Drone Zone

[Newcomb, Doug via TriLUG]

Slightly back on topic, if you want to process the photos you get from your
drone, kite or balloon, into a 3D surface, you can use opendronemap.
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qp3o8caPs

Steven Mather's blog always has a lot of interesting info on open source
software, primarily linux based,  and drones
https://smathermather.wordpress.com/category/opendronemap/

>From: Charles West via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
>To: Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com>, Triangle Linux Users Group General
Discussion ><trilug at trilug.org>
>Cc:
>Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:26:09 -0400
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Drone Zone
>Hey Tim,

>I'm a NC State graduate student working with NGAT, a NC DOT program.
>Making drones use legal and safe in North Carolina is kind of our mission
>mandate.  We are part of the ASSURE alliance, which is helping the FAA try
>to figure out how it is going to do airspace integration.

>I am also personally interested furthering Robotics as a Service (
>http://abotforthat.com <http://abotforthat.com>) at NC State and am
working on several open source
>projects that will hopefully make it easier to create and deploy robotic
>services.  These include Society of Machines (for scalable secure command
>and control of large robotics,
>https://github.com/charlesrwest/societyOfMachines
<https://github.com/charlesrwest/societyOfMachines>), PylonGPS (for sharing
>of basestation data for enhanced GPS accuracy, http://pylongps.com), and
>the pedestrian robot project (a APM based rover which we are trying to be
>able to make navigate sidewalks and cross the street safely for local real
>time cargo delivery).  I have a proposal (
>http://abotforthat.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=dronerefairspacecontrol.pdf
<http://abotforthat.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=dronerefairspacecontrol.pdf>
)
>for an open source architecture for integrating drones with our existing
>airspace (preventing in air collisions with plans and other objects).  We
>are also working on making NC State University an official member of
>Dronecode, which is a Linux foundation supported project/alliance to create
>open source software for control/use of drones (https://www.dronecode.org/
).

>Feel free to get in touch if you (or anyone else) have questions about
>drones or would like to get involved with any of these projects (mostly
>C/C++ in a Linux environment).  The pedestrian robot in particular is an
>open platform which is based on a Raspberry Pi 2.

>There are also a whole bunch of rules (primarily federal) for flying
>commercial drones which we can help people navigate (I also know a legal
>place that is specializing in that area).  Sadly, they are being largely
>ignored by many companies (which is also probably one of the drivers of the
>FAA's struggle to work out a new/better legal framework)

>Thanks,
>Charlie West

>P.S.
>Most of those drone races are happening over at the Dorothea Dix field with
>the first person flying club (http://www.meetup.com/F1-FPV/).  They are
>reasonably safety conscious.

>Phone: 8285829051
>
email: crwest at ncsu.edu


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