A Grassroots mapping team lead by Jeffrey Warren is positioned in New Orleans and taking coastline images that may be useful in the future for establishing a baseline of conditions before oil arrives. Perhaps sadly also recording the aftermath for comparison. Grassroots mapping seeks to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and...
The Australian OpenPilot project continues to move forward apace. Only four months old and moving fast the groups online store opened its doors for customers on the 5th of May. Initially only a couple of lines are available for sale. The Ardupilot compatible GPS unit uses the MediaTek MT3329 and a tuned active antenna and promises 10 Hz peformance....
A flock of small, unmanned air vehicles flies quietly into a city, maneuvering among the buildings. They communicate as they search for places to land, not on streets or flat rooftops but on the sides of buildings and under the eaves, where they can cling, bat or insect-like, in safety and obscurity. Upon identifying landing sites, each flier turns...
