Lead: as intelligent hardware adaptation, drones are no strangers to public already. As some time ago using unmanned aerial vehicles such as pop news is also an endless stream of life. Next lets look at the nation's largest unmanned commercial company co-founder of 3D Robotics is how his story between the drone and the.
A drone and what is the difference between a smart phone?, other than your iPhone be able to fly, the answer to this seemingly funny problem has a rich opportunity--unmanned aerial vehicles there is no app store. "At least at this stage yet," America's largest unmanned commercial 3D Robotics, co-founder of Jordi Munoz said, "smart phones had just a product for the consumer market, and now it is affecting the market, including the pharmaceutical industry. Drones are also invariably have the change. "
Nailing the theory of relativity
3D Robotics, co-founder and Chairman, Jordi Munoz
Munoz was a self-taught programmer, because only through the Internet, he referred to himself as "Dr Google". Eight years ago, when he was only 19 years old, walks into the UAV field. He is convinced that drones have a rapidly growing market.
3DR in 2009, began selling pizza boxed LEGO UAV Kit, sold in ten minutes the first sale of 40 units. Today, 3DR sales of seven different models, manual Assembly tool kit from us $ 550 to us $ 5400 professional grade equipment. The company has 350 employees and projected total sales of US $ 40 million this year.
Munoz said that in addition to taking pictures, and beyond the basic flight, as when people are better able to use drones, they are really in the sky "flying". Like smart phones, developers who are developing software that can run on any drone--just like the Facebook app can be used on all smartphones. In this context, 3DR is committed to develop a tool that can write application for all drone.
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3DR is headquartered in Berkeley, California, Chris Anderson as CEO oversees the company's business operations, he was "Wired" magazine editor-in-Chief. Anderson met Munoz on the Internet and in Wired in 2012, resigned from the post in order to 3DR management company in partnership with Munoz.
In 2007, when they talk, Anderson understood Munoz for the UAV market has a magnificent blueprint for the future, but Munoz did not know he was chatting with the Chief Editor of a prominent Publishing House of science and technology. Munoz was attracted by the Anderson company called DIY Drones site, the website founded by journalists to build a community of amateur, helping others to assemble your own UAV. Munoz is the seventh registered users of this site, he passed here to show the fans his prototype projects and share with you their code, including a pioneering automatic navigation system based on the Nintendo Wii. In 2009, Anderson realized that if the partnership with Munoz, then they can use the Internet to sell DIY tools. This partnership is the creation of sources of inspiration 2009 3DR Corporation.
Munoz had invited us to visit their workshop in San Diego, dressed in a black t-shirt employees were busy making ordering production of UAV products. They surround a large device made up of seven or eight Motors around a complex 3D printing pipeline system linking in this device. Behind them, there was a large square area surrounded by black netting, here for indoor flight testing of equipment.
3DR staff keen to Munoz showed their ongoing projects, they will use an unmanned aircraft to deliver a special clamp to telephone poles to replacement of the wire, and if we can provide faster network speeds fiber-optic cable. Munoz on the UAV was surprised, he picked up a hand over it.
"Its weight by dimensions can know. "He said with a smile. For most people, such a device may be hundreds of pounds. But Munoz, in ten years, he knew the drone becomes lighter and lighter, and it weighs about 45 pounds. He shrugged and said, "I don't even know what they are doing on this project. "And then showed us around the rest of the plant, where the main transport centre is used as a Tijuana factory.
3DR DIY was the root cause, which is a startup that provides no other unnecessary services, at least at its San Diego headquarters is. Is not here to provide free food, rest rooms, a commuter car. Production area was converted into Pu really wood floors upstairs game room, but only a few table tennis tables, and wall are open from here overlooking the factory. Munoz said they had not considered reconstruction the hotel structure.
Munoz insisted on leaving San Diego to Berkeley, because he wanted to be closer to his home and family some. Munoz, Anderson and other senior staff of the company in the development of new technologies and features to make the drone more powerful but less expensive.
"I don't think drones should only be used for taking pictures and sending things. "Munoz drones potential versatility compared with Smartphone devices, he believed that the use of drones has many new and unknown. For example, mobile phone cameras have just like a traditional camera used to take photographs. But now with sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, which can be used as a measuring device. Or you can help the environment around perception and mapping software.
"This is how strikingly similar. "He said.
3DR unmanned aerial vehicle and its brand promotion
Smartphone comparison with drones is very appropriate. "Drone" this word represents a kind of unmanned autonomous vehicles. Technology of color gives us a sense of alien spaceships, rather than 80, 90 children in the hands of remotely piloted aircraft.
Popularity of smart phones is one of the driving forces of the rapid expansion of the market for unmanned. And camera battery GPS chip and processor, almost every component in the modern Smartphone Apple, Samsung and other companies become cheaper. Which also makes mobile phones every year, thinner, faster, and more powerful. Many drone can be controlled by applications on Smartphones.
15 years ago, do not spend thousands of dollars on assembling enough components to do a remote control flying instrument, it is almost unthinkable. Mention casually that anyone can make it fly. Nowadays, the UAV's explosive growth in the consumer market. Goldman Sachs assessment unmanned aerial vehicle sales will reach $ 1.4 billion this year in 2017, three times. This market not only fans, Hollywood, real estate, construction and even eco-environmental industries are in use that can soar with an HD camera equipment. UAVs cost each day in the fall.
"Gyroscopes used to make 5,000 to 10,000 dollars," Munoz said, "300 dollars cheaper, but you have to use three to make a machine to fly. Now, you can spend about $ 50 from Amazon buy a drone, it has gyroscopes and all other necessary sensors used to keep it in the air remained stable. "
"It was military technology, but now you're RadioShack (electronics retailer) can be bought. "Anderson in 2013 in foreign policy (Foreign Policy) magazine wrote," I have never seen as technology develops so fast now, and this is because the super computer in your pocket. "
As Smartphones and tablets are used to drive the drones are used more and more, easy maintenance and upgrade the drones. In turn, this also opens up new customers and markets.
Munoz said: "the magic of computers is that its complex mechanical systems into software. Everywhere in the Smartphone world, popular not only because of the lower cost of the drone, but also because we all knew the drones in today when he became ' very strong, very easy maintenance and easy operation. "
Compared with a complex motor driven model helicopter, by a 3DR released in May for $ 1000 weighs 3.3 pounds of 3DR Solo is a masterpiece of cool technology.
3DR Solo
"Human impossible while control four a motor," Munoz discussion to standard of four spin wing design alternative has traditional of helicopter and aircraft design to has has now of consumption level aircraft, "thanks to various of sensor, and camera and other of intelligent phone technology and stable algorithm, and movement monitoring and GPS, spent several minutes apart packaging zhihou on can let a like Solo as of no machine fly to heaven to. "
Including the DJI drone manufacturer in China and France, Parrot, 3DR and these major competitors is that it focuses on providing open source software that anyone can download, use, or modification. It also provides development tools and Mobile Apps for development of their own software for unmanned, and can better understand and take advantage of unmanned aerial vehicles in flight data.
Of course, in terms of scale and the rival DJI, 3DR still has a long way to go. DJI was founded in 2006, with nearly 3,000 employees and offices across the globe, account for about 70% of Goldman Sachs to assess its unmanned global market share.
DJI to reach nearly $ 1 billion in total sales this year, thanks to its widely acclaimed Phantom series easy to drone. Its rounded white fuselage was memorized by the consumer, and there was a drunk driver, DJI drone crashed in the vicinity of the White House's news is also widely circulated.
3DR plans to continue to build its open source software community, because it originated from there, and stick to help both beginners and professional drivers to build their own aircraft as well as the application platform. Finally, Munoz says:
"Maybe in a year or two, we will release a product, no matter how stupid you no matter how much you drink, you can't let it crash. "
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