Drone

Using Google Analytics as my thermometer, it's time again to look at what's been statistically hot on the blog this last flaming month of June 2025!

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is highlighting successful trials of uncrewed robotic systems detecting and classifying threats. Specifically, a single remote operator controlled three uncrewed air and land vehicles. The trials were to prove that robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) can be integrated into and controlled from crewed command vehicles. Uncrewed It is described as a UK ...

I've never seen a drone taken to pieces before, but here is an interesting iFixit teardown of the little DJI Neo drone...

QS RF Locator is Quadsat’s new product to geolocate RF signals to a precise location. The drone-based technology will detect and locate the source of interference, for example, for both commercial and military applications. The Danish company – which uses drones to test and measure satellite antennas in-situ – is using its existing systems for the RF inspection. It says ...

Abaco Systems has introduced a SOSA-aligned Open VPX 3U video graphics and GPGPU card. Powered by an Ada Lovelace architecture Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU, with 16Gbyte of GDDR6 ECC memory, GRA117S is designed to support AI and deep learning. 9,728 Cuda cores, 76 RT cores, and 304 Tensor cores are implemented, and there is support for AV1, H.265 and H.264 ...

We're talking about Intel sacking 20% of its workforce, the British Army demonstrating a directed energy weapon against a swarm of drones, and the official inauguration of the African Space Agency...

The UK government has demonstrated an anti-drone radio frequency directed energy weapon. “It uses high frequency radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside drones, causing them to crash or malfunction,” according to the government, which tested the weapon in West Wales. The “systems can defeat airborne targets at ranges of up to 1km and are effective against ...

We're talking about the launch of the new Electronics Weekly CHIIPS podcast, TSMC investing in US fabs, a very frugal ST MCU, and the Westcott Drone Test and Development Centre upgrading its facilities...

The Westcott Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC) is benefiting from a major upgrade to its facilities. Funding of £1.4 million from Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The new upgrades for the site include sensor test ranges for flexible drone testing, support for testing of tethered drone systems and expanded workshop spaces. There will also be a drone cage flight ...

It’s an interesting month, with the posts covering laser drones, rain gauges, Arduino, and the Worst in Show CES 2025 awards, among others...