Drones Come In All Shapes and Sizes

Jan. 26, 2015

You needed to keep an eye out for identified flying objects at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show where drones were everywhere.

William G. Wong

You needed to keep an eye out for identified flying objects at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show where drones were everywhere. Mostly it was smaller drones taking up open airspace with the larger versions behind screens to protect the drones from the masses of onlookers. The level of sophistication has risen with HD gimbaled cameras being common. Control applications and controllers aim to simplify every more complex tasks. It was amazing to watch someone throw a drone into the air and have it immediately level, hover and then zip off under user control with little more thought than using a Frisbee.

About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form.

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

You can visit my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.