History Of Drones
The first drones were developed for this purpose in World War I.
What is reconnaissance?
This component keeps a drone steady and balanced in the air.
What is a Gyroscope (or IMU)?
This phrase describes someone talking too much, often to the annoyance of the listener.
What is "droning on"?
This industry contributes the largest revenue share of the drone market.
What is agriculture?
This company uses drones to fly medical supplies in Africa but could soon be delivering your packages.
What is Zipline?
This German weapon from World War II is considered the first offensive use of a drone.
What is a V1 (Buzz bomb)?
This part of a drone provides the lift needed for it to fly.
What is a propeller?
The sound/whirr of an engine. Also, a sound produced by one's mouth when replicating a song.
What is humming?
The entire drone market valuation in 2025 is over ________ (This is a mutiple of 10)?
What is 40 billion?
This Bay Area startup, with their blue color scheme, has moved from a focus to autonomous and human tracking drones to military-focused quadcopters?
What is Skydio?
This drone became the first extraterrestrial multicopter (Looking for the NASA name)?
What is Ingenuity?
This component is in charge of keeping a drone stabilized and processes all sensor and telemetry data.
What is a Flight Controller?
This common synonym for drone is widely used as a more technical name.
What is Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)?
This company has the largest volume of sales of UAVs in the world?
What is DJI (Da-Jiang Innovations Sciences and Technologies Ltd)?
This startup is co-hosting an upcoming UAVs@Berkeley event and is developing a large, fixed-wing agricultural drone.
What is Pyka?
This company made the first commercial drone delivery in the United States in 2019.
What is Wing (Alphabet)?
This component streams telemetry between a drone and the ground station/controller.
What is a radio?
Enjoying a record or Spotify download, throughout the song you may hear multiple drones, a musical note of a _____ pitch?
What is a low pitch?
Choose between:
18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65+
What is 45-54?
UAVs@Berkeley had the opportunity to fly our drone off of this US Naval Ship.
What is the USS Hornet?
This drone platform is one of the first ram-jet vehicles, launched of the back of an SR-71/A12 Blackbird.
What is the D21?
This component allows our drone to fly without GPS, it is a type of camera that measures the relative velocity of the drone.
What is an optical flow sensor?
What is a bee/honeybee?
What is the percentage by which the drone market size is growing annually?
What is 14%?
This drone-flying style is common among Bay Area pilots. It involves flying a drone as if you were sitting in the cockpit/on to of it.
What is FPV (First Person View)?