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DIY DronesDronesCan Three LiDAR Sensors Simplify Obstacle Avoidance for Small Drones? Real-time obstacle avoidance is a tricky problem for small autonomous drones. Onboard computing power is limited, but the aircraft still needs to detect obstacles and react quickly enough to avoid…

DIY DronesDronesBest Agricultural Spraying Drones: 4 Multirotor Platforms Compared Agricultural spraying drones are changing how farmers and professional application teams manage crop protection, fertilization, and field operations.

DIY DronesDronesBest Agricultural Spraying Drones in 2026: 5 Multirotor Platforms Compared Last updated: November 2026 Type of review: Specification-based comparison (not a controlled field test) Scope: Published tank capacity, spray flow, spray width, and related application features of…

DIY DronesDronesFrom Assembly to Flight Testing: EFT N680 for Hands-On UAV Training As the drone industry continues to expand into agriculture, industrial inspection, logistics, surveying, and other professional applications, the demand for practical UAV engineering skills is…

DIY DronesDronesGiving away drones and RC planes in the SF Bay Area It's workshop clearing out time! I've got a bunch of drones and RC planes to give away, free to anyone who can pick them up in the SF Bay Area (ideally Berkeley). Details…

DIY DronesDronesFreewing avanti 90mm Jet unboxing review in 2026 Freewing avanti 90mm Jet unboxing review in 2026 Hello Hobby friend: I am general technology engineer from Freewing model . we are happy to share technology with all hobby friend again today.

DIY DronesDronesCan a Tiny Drone Navigate Home Without a Map? What Role Does LiDAR Play? Small drones face a fundamental challenge: autonomous navigation often demands significant computing power, yet onboard processing capacity, memory, and energy are extremely limited.

DIY DronesDronesFreewing Eurofighter Typhoon V2 8S 90mm EDF with Gyro PNP JET Freewing Eurofighter Typhoon V2 8S 90mm EDF Jet is one of the most capable multirole combat aircraft ever built.

DIY DronesDronesFreewing Avanti S 90mm Sport PNP Jet Avanti S Green Ultra Performance 8S 90mm EDF Sport PNP Jet –SKU ID: FJ32512PG The Avanti S 90mm EDF Jet is one of the most popular RC sport jets in the hobby, and now it’s bigger, faster and more…

DIY DronesDronesExploring High-Rate Laser Distance Measurement for Custom UAV Payloads For UAV developers, adding a distance sensor is not just about measuring how far away an object is. The sensor also needs to deliver usable data at the right rate, communicate reliably with the…

DIY DronesDronesBenewake Launches NOVA20: Ensuring Robot Safety Before Intelligence Benewake Unveils the NOVA20 Solid-State Near-Field Linear LiDAR: Eliminating Robotic Close-Proximity Perception Blind Spots with a 20-Point Array Recently, Benewake officially launched the NOVA20, a…

DIY DronesDronesWhy Humanoid Robots Need Short-Range LiDAR for Close-Proximity Safety SHANGHAI — At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), almost every embodied AI robot showcasing its operational capabilities performed inside a guarded enclosure.

DIY DronesDronesFMS F4U-4 Corsair 1100mm PNP RC Plane The FMS F4U-4 Corsair with a 1100 mm wingspan combines the distinctive appearance of this legendary warbird with a powerful 4S brushless power system.

DIY DronesDronesBenewake Introduces NOVA20 LiDAR to Close the Near-Field Gap in Robot Safety Perception BEIJING, China — Benewake has officially launched the NOVA20 , a next-generation solid-state multi-point LiDAR designed for robotic platforms.

DIY DronesDronesHow to assemble Freewing F 35C 110 mm EDF Jet step by step in 2026 Step by Step Assembly Guide: Freewing F 35C 110 mm EDF Jet (PNP Gyro Version, Item FJ50111PG) Freewing F-35C 110mm EDF jet manual(2026 new) Freewing F-22 Raptor v2 90mm edf jet manual(2026 new) This…

DIY DronesDronesEFT N680: Entry Level DIY Drone Platform EFT N680: Entry Level DIY Drone Platform Published: 9, 24, 2026 , | Written by Louis, Technical Department Manager Programmable drones on the market generally fall into two categories.

DIY DronesDronesIntegrating a Laser Distance Sensor into a UAV Gimbal: Turning Camera Payloads into Measurement Payloads A camera gimbal gives a drone something very useful: a stabilized view of the world. But a camera alone does not always answer a simple engineering question: How far away is the object I'm looking…

DIY DronesDronesAdding Long-Range Target Measurement (300m–1500m) to a Custom Drone Gimbal: Hardware & Alignment Guide Integrating Long-Range Optical Ranging into a Custom UAV Gimbal Most DIY drone builders are familiar with down-facing LiDAR or optical flow sensors for altitude holding and terrain following.

DIY DronesDronesHow an Offline GPS Backup Can Help Recover a Drone After Telemetry Loss Losing telemetry is one of the most stressful situations a drone pilot can face. The aircraft may be behind trees, below a ridge, or outside the reliable range of the primary control link.

DIY DronesDronesEFT Drone Training - How to maximize efficiency on scattered small plots? Operating agricultural drones across scattered small plots has long been a major headache for professional pilots.

DIY DronesDronesWhen 14 m/s Winds Hit, the X6100F Doesn't Blink When 14 m/s Winds Hit, the X6100F Doesn’t Blink Most training drones look great in a calm parking lot.

DIY DronesDronesHow IZI Brephos Mini Can Help You Capture Better Aerial Videos There is a reason aerial video has become such a powerful part of modern content creation. A camera drone can take an ordinary location and instantly give it a sense of scale.

DIY DronesDronesWhy Proximity Safety for Robots Cannot Rely Solely on Vision and AI Models At the WAIC 2026 expo, nearly every embodied AI robot demonstrating real-world tasks was enclosed within a protective barrier.

DIY DronesDrones1535nm vs 905nm Laser Rangefinder Modules for UAV Applications 1535nm vs 905nm Laser Rangefinder Modules for UAV Applications When integrating a laser rangefinder into a UAV, wavelength selection can have a major impact on measurement performance, detection…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

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