We stopped by the last couple hours of an Engineering Expo at the (very new) Bangkok convention center. Open to the public, and free, you just had to register, and “Company” was a required field in the registration … so we put down Wade’s robotics team, “CC4H 4027 Centre Punch”.
There were many cool things on display, including these giant screws.
We stopped and chatted for a while with the rep for the company that builds this drone. It’s mostly for civilian uses like surveying, he said - you can mount a LIDAR unit in its belly, and get 120 km range - but also the government has used it for aerial surveillance to find drug plantations.
We also stopped for a while and Wade chatted about cubesats with this rep … who it turned out was not a corporate rep, but one from Thailand’s nascent national space program, which is basically just at the level of designing, building & operating their own small cubesats. Pretty neat!!
