Mumbaikars learn about drones at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

You’ve heard so much about

drones

and seen them – in films and in several

weddings

, taking those sweeping, panoramic baraati shots. There are an increasing bunch of lovers of this

unmanned aerial vehicle

and keeping this in mind, there was a whole

workshop

conducted on drones at the Times of India

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

.

Demo and DIY session

Learning about how drones are used and made

Learning about how drones are made and used
Held at the Artists’ Centre in the afternoon, the workshop saw a crowd of about 25 people attending the event, with three trainers. Says Gaurav Singh, who loves to teach technology, “Drones will change society in the next 12 years and so this is the right time to talk about it. A drone has multiple applications – agricultural, giving parcels, photography and

filmography

applications, and more.”

They used a basic drone to understand how to create a flying object. Gaurav began with a history on drones, why it’s called so and more. “Did you know, a drone makes a noise of a drone bee and that’s how it gets its name. It is also smaller in size than other flying objects,” he explains, adding, “The crowd was not entirely from an

engineering

background so I could not go into the details of aerodynamics. Participants instead learnt about its electronic sensors and other aspects.”

Post the talk, they also learnt to assemble the drone, where everyone had a hands-on session with it. They also had a 30-minute flying session within the hall. “Since there was a crowd outside we could not take the drone outside. It was fun and the participants loved their experience,” he says.