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21 August 2025

NightWatcher

NightWatcher2 has been released! NightWatcher NightWatcher is a modular system for automated sky quality monitoring, site configuration management, and data logging/analysis. It is designed for observatories and research sites using the Unihedron SQM-LE sky...

3d / Models / UAV

8 June 2025

“Captain, we’ve lost #5.” – “No problem, we have 6.”

FlyDroid-Hex after completing an IR-guided landing directly on target. The landing beacon is that thing with all the LEDs on the ground directly below the FlyDroid.

Networking

4 June 2025

The Spectacular Netmask!

UAV

23 April 2024

FlyDroid 2.0 Lives!

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series DronePlay

Astronomy

13 May 2021

Is that??? Why yes… Yes it is…

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Astronomy

23 years in the making, the Observatory is operational!

3d / Models / UAV

3 July 2015

…and there was much rejoicing… (hooray)

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series DronePlay

(for the first time) No FlyDroids were harmed during the making of these videos!

3d / Models / UAV

1 July 2015

sometimes the needs of the many…

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series DronePlay

Just as they are designed to do, the feet sacrificed themselves for the preservation of the collective when the noob pilot chopped the throttle in a panic – why haven’t I gotten the LIDAR...

3d / Models / UAV

29 June 2015

…that’s why we do these tests…

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series DronePlay

Version 3 is airborne! …version 2 will always be in our hearts, and never spoken of again… (queue somber oboe music) A stable morning loiter test:

3d / UAV

24 June 2015

Flying Pi, Anyone???

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series DronePlay

This Pi can fly! I’m planning a detailed article on the construction of this fabulous flugzoig, but in the meantime, here’s a quick summary: It’s a Pi2 running ArduPilot under the Navio real-time kernel, with...