Sat, 07 Feb 2015

Game of Drones
We went by the Building Museum today to check out the drones.

They were there in all shapes and sizes, taking up about a third of the space.

I didn’t believe Robert when he said that was the downdraft we were feeling — I was sure it was the building ventilation. But I was clearly wrong.

Those rotors move a whole lot of air!

The were flying a couple when we came in, just showing off how stable they are, and capturing video of the crowd…

Then they talked a little bit about all the beneficial uses of drones (other than military and spying on your neighbors).

Then they had a race…

Which was kind of slow as they had to get all the frequency settings set up to show the video from the drones on a couple big screens.

The race was to fly through the arch and over the boxes and have the crowd read the numbers written on cards inside the boxes. Fastest run with all numbers wins.

Actually, there was time taken off if you completed the course single-handedly rather than with a pilot and camera operator.

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