Aerobots
This is cool, says Instapundit, and he’s not wrong: For all his joie de vivre, Jardine is a master drone builder and pilot whose skills have produced remarkable footage for shows like Australian Top...
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Indeed: Anyone trying to fly a UAV over the outdoor sets where the next installment of the Star Wars saga is being filmed in Croatia might be met by drones owned by the production company. I knew there...
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Droneverts
Incoming from Michael Jennings: One for you. It certainly is. Apparently, in Mexico, Uber is using drones to advertise itself, by having them hover, with signs, over traffic jams: Drones to carry...
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Guess what this is
I’ve been meaning to post this image here for some time: Guess what it is. If in doubt, look at the categories list below. Then go here, to confirm what you must surely have worked out. Many have...
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UPS drones and drone vans
Another drone application hovers into view: Yes, it’s UPS: “This is really a vision for the future for us,” UPS senior vice president for engineering and sustainability, Mark Wallace, said in an...
View ArticleDrones are expendable
This, from Tim Newman, concerning Trump’s threatened-but-then-not-done (or not yet done) retaliatory war against the Iranians, in response to them shooting down an American drone, strikes me as very...
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Big Thing alignments from Lord’s
One of the many things I like about watching cricket on the television, along with things like that I can see properly what is going on, is that in between overs, those high-up cameras often look...
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A drone at the Oval – and what drones will replace
I took this photo at the Oval (sorry the Kia Oval), on July 23rd 2012, when I and Michael Jennings were watching England lose by an innings to South Africa: All very regrettable. England lost all...
View ArticleDrones replacing sheepdogs (and some embedded video about this)
This is the first time I’ve tried embedding a bit of video in this blog. Let’s see how this works: Seems to have worked. Another major improvement of this blog over the old one, especially important...
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AAArt
I like photos that look like abstract art but which are really of something real. To quote myself (underneath the August photo there, of London Bridge station seen from above): I tend not to admire...
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Helicopter photos of London
Incoming from 6k: Hi Brian Hi 6k. Hope you’re well. I am, and likewise. Although, I usually know how you are, because you often blog about this subject. My recent favourite in this genre was the one...
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Drone photo of a Roman amphitheatre
Built by the Romans at Caerleon, which is near Newport in South Wales: Photo supplied by Gareth Blayney: Courtesy my drone. Drones are good for photos like that. Not so good, I speculate, for photos...
View ArticleRobot insects on the march
3D printed flexoskeletons. In English, that would be “a cheap army of robot insects”: Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new method that doesn’t require any special...
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Drone photos in the outer suburbs
And by outer suburbs, I mean the outer suburbs of London. Just the other side of the green belt: I came across these on the Facebook page of a friend (Facebook friend and friend for real). I didn’t...
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London from the air – in 2005 and in 2020
I’ve written here a few times about London City Island, and how a sort of mini-Manhattan of unspectacular but decent looking apartment tower blocks have been built on it. Well, here are a couple of...
View ArticleAnton Howes on how printing got started
Anton Howes has been asking himself Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? In the course of sketching an answer, he says interesting things about how printing did get started in Europe: When we think of...
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