What futurist, especially us mechanically inclined futurists, doesn’t want their own drone? RefactorU, founded by our own alum Sean Daken (’12), now offers a 10-week course held every Saturday on building and piloting your very own drone. Taught by hobbyists and within FAA regulations, the classes will teach about the different types of drones, their associated technologies and how to fly them over the neighbor’s house and spy on the shady guy next door for the good of the nation… Okay, I might have made that last one up.
In an interview with Business Insider, Sean stated, “There are build-your-own-drone kits out there, but our aim is to reduce the trial and error time in getting yours to fly. I miss flying RC stuff, so that’s my diabolical motivation, that I get to play with drones all day. They’re a synthesis of things we care about at RefactorU — the creative hands-on building of something, then using it to do creative things like aerial video and photography.”
Sign me up when you’ve got a course out in Houston!
