Organising my ICs

Quite a few were on display at DroneX in London this week.

As to which is the most serious issue in this screenshot, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.

The Vampire on stand at DroneX in London

Ukrainian business was well represented at DroneX in London these last two days. It was interesting to see the drone development driven by the invasion of Ukraine. Long range, battlefield quads and interceptors all in evidence. 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

This might be pushing dual use on the open market.

Need to run 20 mobile phones in a rack mount case on an ethernet connection?

More use of mobile technologies to control drones. Also reports of unmarked SIM cards being used by Russia.

Fibre drones go fixed wing.

Looks to be an interesting payload on this FPV drone. There’s a 4 pole connection at one end and open copper detonator wires at the other. There’s also an interesting window at the presumed rear near the connector.

I think a Soviet era Grad is an odd choice of image for the BBC here.

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“SBU General Ivan Lukashevich shared images of a sea drone equipped with a heavy machine gun with a range of 1,700 km.

"They can protect the Black Sea from Russian sea drones for several days," he explained.”

I note that the two 90 degree circles appears to have become the most popular configuration for the electrical detonator connection.

The new Ukrainian Peklo further blurs the lines between cruise missile and one way attack drone. This is an interesting design, relatively simple overall, externally mounted turbine engine. Looks like relatively low drag design. Ease of manufacture will be critical to success.

So that’s why my Pi wasn’t booting. Mechanical fault.

That doesn’t seem to preview so here’s a screenshot.