<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">haha. that's what i was thinking of. have you seen this: <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/flying-drone-delivers-beer/27391/">http://www.gizmag.com/flying-drone-delivers-beer/27391/</a><div><br></div><div>Henri<br><div><div><br></div><div>On 2013-05-15, at 9:07 AM, Richard Wiens <<a href="mailto:richard.wiens@rogers.com">richard.wiens@rogers.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="RIGHT: auto" id="yiv0380537450">
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<div><br> I totally want in on this. :) Sounds like a blast.<br></div> 5 hours isn't very long for writing a quadcopter control system, though!<br></div>
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<div class="yiv0380537450gmail_quote">On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Henri Kuschkowitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:henri.kuschkowitz@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:henri.kuschkowitz@gmail.com">henri.kuschkowitz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">haha. that sounds like fun.
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<div>Thanks for sharing.<br>
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<div>On 2013-05-14, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Plumb <<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:andrew@plumb.org">andrew@plumb.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Forwarding this on since I know there are at least a few people interested in this sort of thing at ModLab too.
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium" class="yiv0380537450ms__id1843"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><b>[ORE_bits] Summer of Drones</b><br></span></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium" class="yiv0380537450ms__id1846"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium">14 May, 2013 9:14:44 AM EDT<br></span></div>
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<div>I just ran across this last night : <a href="http://ottawadrones.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ottawadrones.com/</a><br><br>They are running a small competition this coming July 6th, described as <br>"The Summer of Drones is a chance for local hackers to spend a day <br>playing with Parrot.AR Drones : programmable, flying robots.".<br><br>Sounds interesting.<br><br>Aaron<br><br><br><br>------------------------------------<br><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:<br><a href="mailto:ORE_bits-unsubscribe@groups.yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:ORE_bits-unsubscribe@groups.yahoo.com">ORE_bits-unsubscribe@groups.yahoo.com</a><br><br>Yahoo! Groups Links<br><br><*> To visit your group on the web, go to:<br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ORE_bits/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ORE_bits/</a><br><br><*> Your email
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