We live in an exciting time for drones! Different companies are coming out with innovative products all the time. From waterproof, to super compact, to very easy to fly, there are a wide number of quadcopters you can choose from. The undisputed leader in consumer drones is DJI. Their Phantom 4 model has ruled the skies and the market for several months now. But with the announcement and release of...

There have been some early attempts to build or manufacture waterproof drones with mixed results. A company called Waterproof Multirotors has brought some interesting offerings to the market. They offer a quadcopter and a hexacopter, called the QuadH2O and HexH2O respectively. Their web site shows a variety of uses that their customers have come up with for these unique drones. https://www.quadh2o...

Flying FPV quadcopters is a fun but challenging hobby. One of the biggest challenges is to turn off the automatic stabilization and start flying in manual or acro mode. This means that you have to keep the quadcopter stable and avoid obstacles and the ground more proactively. It’s challenging, but it can be done! And once you master acro mode, flips and other amazing maneuvers become possibl...

While many people have been raving about the DJI Mavic and how portable, high quality and easy to fly that it is, there has been some concern about the quality of some of the video that has been shot with it. The good news is that the problem is not with the DJI Mavic camera, the problem is that DJI rewrote their software and didn’t do a great job explaining or promoting it to the public. Th...

Because of regulations in the United States about drone flying being “line of sight” and under certain altitudes, Amazon has had to move to the English countryside to test their delivery drones. This testing is taking place in the tiny town of Worsted Lodge, England and is showing promise. And Amazon is not alone in testing drone technology in different corners of the world. In New Zea...