Jake DeCamp

Building things, asking questions, and writing about whatever I find on the way.

Recent Posts

Product

Flying Drones With Natural Language

July 2, 2026

A real-hardware demo: one typed objective became an operator-supervised PX4 flight, from arm and takeoff through movement, RTL, landing, and final verification.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase Four — Real Flight

June 30, 2026

Moving from using the remote controller to a fully software-led flight with video to capture the console and aircraft.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase Three — Real Hardware

June 18, 2026

Taking the MCP/PX4 stack off the simulator and onto a real Holybro S500 — from bench telemetry and RC failsafes to a failed first hover, a prop-layout diagnosis, and the first accepted hardware hover.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase Two — Missions and Vision

May 12, 2026

Turning a flyable drone into one that can run missions and see — adding mission intelligence, search patterns, and a photorealistic simulator with cameras.

Engineering

Autonomous Drone Buildout: Phase One

February 20, 2026

From first LLM-controlled flight to a fully containerized drone simulation stack — building an autonomous search drone system with Claude, PX4, and Docker on AWS.

Product

What is the future of drone technology?

February 17, 2026

Exploring the idea of autonomous drone flight