Home Grown Drone finds missing hiker

This is pretty cool.

@ HughB - I have been watching the even over the last 5 years, it’s a very interesting challenge to say the least.
Like this year and the last event 2 years ago Joe had been found but both times the UAV’s have had premature…bottle drops.
I have been thinking about and researching a .Net enabled UAV for this event over the last 18 months on and off and with the G120 things a taking shape…

I was really impressed by this story and feel gutted for them that they missed the bottle drop! I guess it gets very complex to work out when to drop the bottle… and droping the liquid to early is sure to upset…

@ HughB - I don’t think the ballistic trajectory was the problem either time - both were uncommanded drops

My wife says that all the time…

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The crew who won were from Make Hack Void, the Canberra hacker space http://www.makehackvoid.com/

Nice blog site too. Great article on making your own PCB’s http://www.makehackvoid.com/projects/pc-pcb-under-30-minutes-quick-n-easy-pcb-fabrication

Very interesting write up from the winners…