We are proud and honored to take aerial photographs during the event I am HOPE : Spectrum by Kythe in the Quezon City Circle. We would like to share to you some of the photos we took and the video where our Chief Concept Engineer went wild on !

We are always willing to help out great causes and put smiles on kid’s faces.

And here is the video that our Chief Concept Engineer did

The grand prize $100,000 which is a lot of money that we can use to further develop our UAV Solutions for a lot of applications. So we are very serious on this project and we are putting a lot of effort in developing our concept and of course proving it. We are out to win this even though we are underfunded and to quite honest outgunned in this competition.

here is our concept :

A VTOL-FIXED WING UAS Hybrid that will complete the course.

One of the biggest problems we encountered is oddly power management, there is simply not enough battery power to fly 2 miles into the site, transmit video for 3 hours while perching and fly back 2 miles to the take-off point and do a follow me for maybe another mile.

We decided that a cool way to do this is to “poop” batteries. Batteries are heavy and for them to recharged you have to make sure they don’t go below a certain limit (especially for Li-Poly) or they might get destroyed or much worse blow up destroying you.

Those two things are the make-up of the solution we are proposing on this DARPA Challenge.

If you like what we have done, and found our music very very trippy then vote for us. Go to UAVForge.net, sign up and look for our entry in the “Solutions” and then like it

Image taken from Nightfury of the Ateneo de Manila University Loyola School Campus.

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here is a quick example:

Imagine a scene where there the earth is floating in space, along side the moon, then there is a giant fountain pen in the middle and it is ejecting blue ink  that is getting sucked into a giant, blue, number 2 cue ball above the earth, and behind the earth, there is a giant cartoon doughnut sprinkled with colorful sprinkles and glazed with violet syrup. Then there is a giant red cherry floating in the center of said doughnut.

how long did that take you to process? placing all these familiar items takes a little bit more brain power than expected,

now try this:

Wasn’t the image much simpler to actually see and understand that it was i was talking about in pure text? visuals make things easier to understand and contains more information without straining the brain too much, thus relaying the image more efficiently. I believe communicating really inst the important part, its being understood thats important, seeing things in the other person’s point of view.  Visuals  help in making things easier to understand. Sure, its easy to understand text or scenes that we all have seen before, just like when i say: imagine a child sitting on a chair, you would imagine a child sitting on a chair easily, cause, more often than not, you have seen a child and a chair before and you just merge these ideas together, but where visuals really excel beyond text and words is when you describe something, using visuals, that isn’t common.

for example:

lets see if you can get what i mean. I have imagined something called a Chuzzle-corn where it is a cross breed between a chuzzle and a uniron. Basically it is a chuzzle ball with a unicorn’s horn on it.  To those of you who don’t know what Chuzzle is, its a game where the characters are fuzzy balls with eyes. they pop when you match 3 of them together. but if you have no idea what a Chuzzle is, or if i haven’t described it to you, it be harder to imagine it.

in case you were wondering:

Skyeye is about passion, about new ideas, new innovations, something that the world hasn’t seen before, and what better and more efficient, simple, and fun way to deliver the latest things, from us to you , than a visual.

So lets end this post with an old Cliche: “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and assuming that my math is correct, a movie clip for 3 mins at 30 frames per second should be worth around 5,400,000 words. So instead of using 5,400,000 words to describe what skyeye is all about, here is a  3 min  video of who we are and what we can do.

Update : Sorry guys, it seems like our unicorns went on a rampage and destroyed the video files we will rerender them again and punish those unicorns with grape flavored skittles…they don’t like them bwhahahha

“To create a life that’s worthwhile, not just for ourselves but for those around us, we need to find something we love to do that benefits society.” – Tom Rath

We know that people are best when they do something that they really love, something they love so much that doing it by itself is the reward. Skyeye is a passion product of all its members, we are simply doing what we love doing and by doing what we love to do we create this, a multi-disciplinary company on the crest of a brand new industry. We wake up every morning not to go to work, but to live and because of that there is literally no such thing as a holiday in Skyeye. We are keenly aware of this and we want that every new person who enters the team are doing what they love to do, even if they are good, really good but their heart is not in their work, we would politely ask them to leave. To leave because

1. They won’t be happy in Skyeye , and come on everyone wants to be happy
2. We won’t be happy to see someone doing something because they just have to do it.

Because we are doing our passions, we are all energized and we want that to continue that even when we are 7 or 700. To protect this, we have to become a strength-based company.

“There are lessons to be learned from the best Entreprneurs & their struggle with self-awerness and the impact of their achivements. One such lesson can be summariezed by Gergen’s observation that “what we have been told since the time of the Greeks is that every leader must try to control his own passion before he can …hope to command the passion of other.”

What is a Strength-based company ?

A Strength-based company is a company that is keenly aware that each employee has unique gifts and that there are perfect for very specific roles, her hiring, firing, promotion and repositioning activities will reflect this. Also a Strength-based company knows that best way to grow its employees is not to fix their weaknesses but rather to grow them where they are already good and just create support systems to reduce the possibility of their weakness hampering their success.

We screw the conventional wisdom because it is easier, it is easier to believe that we all have the same unlimited potential; that the best way to help ourselves and others is to correct their weaknesses and treat everyone the same way. We believe in individuality and each and everyone’s unique way of expressing themselves.

We have a culture to protect. A way of life to protect. We have a company to protect and this is one of the tools we are going to use to ensure that.

Every week there will be new posts by members of the team ranging from the story of Skyeye, how we operate, robotics, computer vision, software development, new age management, and many more. Skyeye is really lucky to have such a multi-disciplinary team and we intend to take advantage of it.

We are the Freaks with Wings and this is our mission: to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to benefit our everyday lives.

Skyeye Project CTC Roofdeck Balloons

The freaks with wings while waiting for the weather to be more favorable to our UAVs tried to fly party balloons into Ateneo Airspace with a hacked Canon Camera. We flew 3 times starting with 48 balloons and upping it up till 120 Balloons. It was a sight to behold and the pictures were amazing.

Skyeye Balloons parked at SOM

Here is the video of us trying to control 120 Balloons over the SEC field of Ateneo.

We want to thank Rollyn Labuguen and Edsel Volante for helping us out.

Watch out for more flying things ! We aren’t done yet !

The mastermind of this project is Roy “Boytoy” Bayot