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Short film: Slaughterbots

October 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We almost have the technology to do this.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: artificial intelligence, drones, short film

Drone technology creates flying X-Wing

June 4, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This X-Wing was created with drone parts from Hobby King.com so does this mean we’ve got X-Wing technology in our hands? Naw. There’s a slight issue with scale still to solve..…

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: drones, star wars: the force awakens

Watch as an Imperial Star Destroyer sweeps across the sky

March 29, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How this for a real life Imperial Star Destroyer? It just happens to be an RC drone. The parts for the model came from Hobby King and include a 360gr custom frame that sits on top of a 810gr quadcopter with battery.…

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: drones, star wars

Flying drones? Why not race them Star Wars pod style?

October 9, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Quadcopters are everywhere these days. What’s the next step in their evolutionary path? Races! This footage comes from a pre-event that happened in France. You don’t need to understand the language to see that they’re racing these drones through the woodland and driving them with video goggles.…

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: drones, star wars

The drone orchestra performs for you

May 1, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is the future here? This orchestra of drones play a cracking cover of the Space Odyssey theme. I know nothing about music so forgive me when I say “the drones even manage to do the slidy bits” perfectly.…

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Music Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, drones

These are the flying ghosts we should fear this Halloween

October 26, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tom Mabe has a great piece of Halloween tech here with this flying ghost. I don’t know whether to laugh at the people who run off when this spectre sneaks up behind them and screams or whether to recognise that they’ve done the sensible thing!…

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: drones, ghosts, halloween

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