Eyes in the sky¶

I'm building an open aerial payload platform. Not because I needed a drone — because communities that can see what's happening around them are communities that can respond.

The platform is called libdrone. It carries sensors — any sensor, on a documented open interface, on a 3D-printable frame that costs €0.50 to repair after a crash.

The use cases I care about most are the unglamorous ones: air quality monitoring over a residential neighbourhood, thermal imaging for infrastructure inspection, radiological survey in the hands of a civil protection agency rather than a contractor. Capabilities that matter to communities and currently depend on expensive proprietary systems with locked supply chains.

Full technical documentation, payload specifications and hardware files are at libdrone.eu.

If you have a sensor and a question about deploying it aerially, get in touch.