Festival of Engineering Drones 4 Good Workshop
We did another Drones4Good workshop! It's been a while, but this one was part of the UCL Festival of Engineering 2024. We did a Drones4Good workshop on 19th July and the Planet of Play exhibition on Saturday 20th July. There were about 30 students, from two different schools, aged around 11-12 and 14-15, which did cause some problems. Next time we do this we need to make sure that we have groups of around the same ages. When I was giving the presentation I was aware that I was trying to put the more advanced topics in for the older ones, but keep it simple and fun for the younger ones. We started off with Lima, the eBee flying wing drone and the RepMapLima project as before: But we also had a new element where we've been using the OpenDroneMapper software to map favelas from drone flights that people have posted on YouTube. The main theme behind the Drones4Good presentation is that you don't need expensive equipment and that this type of drone technology is now cheap and av
