Drone Lab Showcase

Join students from the School of Information’s Drone Lab for a demonstration of the projects they've been working on this spring, plus an opportunity to pilot a drone yourself.

This semester, a small team of School of Information students has been experimenting with unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones: becoming familiar with drones’ capabilities and developing open-source software for their drones.

The students are working with the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, a consumer-grade drone that’s a step above a model airplane, but many steps below military or civilian surveillance drones. The AR.Drone is a quadcopter — a small helicopter with four rotors — and it comes equipped with a high-definition 720p forward-facing camera, a downward-facing camera, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a pair of ultrasound altimeters, a rechargeable battery, and a 1GHz 32-bit processor running the Linux operating system.

More information about Drone Lab: “I School Drone Lab Reimagines Drones’ Possibilities”