Eyes in the sky¶

I am building an open aerial payload platform. Not because I needed a drone, but because communities that can see what is happening around them are communities that can respond.

The platform is called libdrone. It carries sensors. Any sensor, on a documented open interface, from 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 the hardware files are at libdrone.eu.

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