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September 21, 2017 in Announcements, DroneCore

DroneCore Library – Easy MAVLink Integration with PX4

Dronecode is excited to announce the creation DroneCore, our new open-source MAVLink Library for the PX4 flight stack. DroneCore is the best way to integrate with PX4 over MAVLink!  …

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September 19, 2017 in Blogs

U-space Drone Traffic Management Takes off in Switzerland

U-space is Europe’s vision for a traffic management system that will support safe, efficient, and secure access to European airspace for millions of drones. Like the U.S. “Unmanned Traffic Management”…

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September 13, 2017 in Newsletter

Dronecode Newsletter: September 2017

September Newsletter. Dear Dronecode Members, Reminder: Dronecode will be presenting at InterDrone on September 7th. Read below to find all the news!   Lorenz Meier honored to be included in MIT Technology Review’s…

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August 31, 2017 in TSC

Technical Steering Committee – September 2017 Update

The TSC Working Groups provide brief summary updates here. More detailed monthly status updates may be found in the Dronecode blog here. UX WG The group have suspended activities temporarily... Read More

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