Drone news,
every morning,
curated.
Defense contracts, DIY builds, research papers, and industry moves — pulled from RSS feeds, summarized, and posted daily. Plus weekly editorial on the most important story of the week.
Weekly analysis.
Companion shootout: Jetson Orin Nano Super vs RPi 5 + Hailo-8L
The two single-companion options for an autonomous drone in 2026, in concrete detail. Plus why the split-companion architecture got cut.
The autonomous drone stack in 2026: PX4, ROS2, and the companion computer decision
How the modern autonomous quadcopter stack fits together — autopilot, companion computer, ground station, and the DDS bridge between them.
Why I built a drone news aggregator instead of a build log
A note on what changed, why, and what to expect from the 2026 reboot.
What we cover.
Drone warfare & contracts.
Skydio, Anduril, Neros, Kraken, Shield AI, AeroVironment, Tekever, and the broader defense drone industry. Contracts, deployments, capabilities.
- · Contract awards
- · Field reports
- · Capabilities analysis
- · Export controls
PX4, ROS2, edge AI.
Autonomy stack news, PX4/ArduPilot releases, ROS2 updates, companion computer hardware, community projects, build logs.
- · Firmware releases
- · Hardware launches
- · Build tutorials
- · Community projects
Papers, weekly.
arxiv cs.RO + cs.CV papers filtered for drone applications. Visual SLAM, obstacle avoidance, multi-agent coordination, sim-to-real transfer.
- · Visual SLAM
- · Obstacle avoidance
- · Multi-agent
- · Sim-to-real