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Regulations will facilitate integration of small UAS into U.S. aviation system WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. The FAA proposal offers safety rules for small UAS (under 55 pounds) conducting non-recreational operations. The rule would limit flights to daylight and visual-line-of-sight operations. It also addresses height restrictions, operator certification, optional use of a visual observer, aircraft registration and marking, and operational limits. In addition to this proposal, earlier today, the White House issued a Presidential Memorandum concerning transparency, accountability, and privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections for the Federal Government’s use of UAS in the national airspace system which directs the initiation of a multi-stakeholder engagement process to develop a framework for privacy, accountability, and transparency issues concerning commercial and private UAS use. The current unmanned aircraft rules remain in place until the FAA implements a final new rule. The FAA encourages new operators to visit: http://www.knowbeforeyoufly.org You can view the FAA’s Small UAS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking later today at: http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/rulemaking/recently_published/ For more information on the FAA and UAS, visit: http://www.faa.gov/uas/

Finally! A custom-built Millennium Falcon drone that Han Solo would be proud of. Take my money please! Drone hobbyist, Oliver Chapuis, shows off his impressive mini replica with a tutorial video on how to make one as well. Video by Olivier Chapuis/ViralHog.com View our line of thermal imaging cameras and components for UAV/UGV integration at OEMCameras.com A quadcopter: Prophecy 335 (custom frame, carbon and aluminium) Motors : T-Motors 2208-18 1100kV Speed controllers : T-Motors T30A Propellers : HQprop 8×4.5SF Battery: LiPo 4S-1800mAh Flight controller : Naza v1 Radio system : Futaba 14SG, receiver FrSky TFR6 Onboard camera : Gopro 3 black 1080p-50 (removed) Video transmitter : 5.8GHz 400mW + Spironet v2 (removed) All up weight : — Editing : Sony Vegas Pro 13 More info on Oliver Chapuis’ copters here

Check out this fun video by the Buzzfeed crew which used a FLIR thermal imaging camera to show high quality footage of temperature readings in everyday situations. Life in predator vision. Product Info: Check out our line of high-end thermal imaging cameras, cores, and components here Video by: Buzzfeed See more Buzzfeed videos here Music by: Lament Of The Droids Warner // Chappell Production Music

Check out this great night vision flashlight hack with an infrared filter you can do at home. Perfect solution for walking around at night undetectable, to scare unexpected trick or treaters this Halloween. Video by Kip Kay.

With the ongoing 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak escalating to 10,000 reported cases with 4,500 deaths in Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; the World Health Organization has stated “the current epidemic of EVD, caused by Ebola virus, is the most severe outbreak of Ebola since the finding of ebolaviruses in 1976. The epidemic has caused significant mortality, with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) reported as 71%.” With no signs of slowing down or an accessible cure, governments are now taking necessary steps to prevent the virus from spreading into foreign borders. One tool being thermal imaging cameras for scanning high body temperatures among large crowds of people. The procedure is a fast, easy, and non-invasive method to identity and test potential carriers of the disease who show signs of fever-like symptoms. Learn About Our Thermal Fever Detection System Benefits of thermal imaging as a screening tool: Quick and non-invasive application Real-time images that take less than a second, allowing crowds to keep moving Rapid screening of large numbers of people Heat pictures detect and display even the smallest temperature differences Options allow you to create a visual heat map of skin temperatures in real time

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D’Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D’Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together — and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.

Amazing aerial footage of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. Shot by Alex Klinghoffer with a Phantom 2 and an attachable HD action camera.

This is a sample of some of my lunar videos and images taken with an Imaging Source DMK41AF02 astronomy camera attached to a 10″ dobsonian telescope. Each video (avi file) is processed using AviStack to stack only the best portions of each frame in the avi to produce one image (shown after each avi). Each image is then processed in AstraImage (LR Deconvolution) and Photoshop Elements (Levels, Enhance Shadows/Highlights, etc). See more Imaging Source Monochrome Cameras at www.OEMCameras.com Video by Mike White The music track is from John Boswell’s Symphony of Science – We Are All Connected. You can see John’s Symphony of Science project at http://www.symphonyofscience.com or http://www.youtube.com/user/melodysheep

The following script is from “Drones Over America” which aired on March 16, 2014 , and was rebroadcast on June 22, 2014. Morley Safer is the correspondent. David Browning, producer. They’re everywhere – we’re talking about drones – not the impersonal killing machines that patrol the badlands overseas, but drones used by the FBI, by university researchers, by amateur photographers, even by your nosy neighbors. As we reported in March, domestic drones are poised to become a multi-billion dollar industry, revolutionizing everything from crop management down on the farm to possibly – package delivery to your front door. The federal aviation administration is trying to figure out the rules of the road for drones, but for the moment, they’re barely regulated.

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