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sUSB Expo 2016

Posted on May 1, 2016May 3, 2016 by admin

This week I had the pleasure of attending my first Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition in San Francisco’s Presidio. This annual confab of the drone industry is hosted by sUAS News and the b... Read More

Drone Ed Conference

Posted on February 7, 2016February 11, 2016 by admin

This Saturday CalPoly Pomona hosted our first-ever North American Drone Educator’s Conference. Folks from across California (and a few from further afield) gathered on a warm Saturday a... Read More

Fluorescence

Posted on December 9, 2015December 13, 2015 by Paul

Guy Trimby (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) in collaboration with Paul Spaur and the rest of the AARR team set to prove that OpenROVs can be used as tools to detect fluorescence in the marine environment,... Read More

Training and Repairing

Posted on October 14, 2015October 16, 2015 by Paul

After our trip to the Cook Islands, only one of our four ROVs were functioning. Then there was the issue of nearly half of our team having graduated, leaving only a few students that are able... Read More

First NOAA collaboration

Posted on October 1, 2015October 9, 2015 by Paul

The 6 kg (13 lb) Puma is hand-launched, has a typical effective flight time of around 45 minutes, and then hard lands upon water where it can be quickly recovered and prepped for relaunch within in fe... Read More

Posted on July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 by Paul

Cook Islands Preparation Update #2 Yesterday 07/21/15 After further investigation, we found that many of our ROVs had several small nicks in the wires. This allowed salt water to enter the plastic jac... Read More