Cardboard drones running open source flight software take off in Ukraine and beyond
An Australian engineering company has created a cardboard drone that runs on open source software, standard hardware, and can be assembled and flown with no prior experience.
The Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System costs less than $3,500 apiece, a price made possible by the craft's use of FOSS and commercial-off-the-shelf hardware.ArduPilotThe drone takes around an hour to assemble, we're told, and its lithium-ion batteries give it a range of up to 100km with a 3kg payload.
The craft ships in a flat pack complete with tape, glue, and instructions on how to assemble it. A tablet computer is also included so users can tell Corvo where to fly by entering GPS coordinates. A wired connection to upload that flight plan is required, but once Corvo is aloft, it will proceed along its route, at a specified altitude, and land itself at its determined destination.
Partridge declined to discuss details of the tech on board the drones for operational reasons but said SYPAQ has ensured that flight plans are encrypted so that if a Corvo is captured, the location of its pilots can't be retrieved.The big brother of our operationally proven PPDS - this system increases payload capacity, range and endurance - bringing even greater mission flexibility to the battlefield.
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