Aussie 19-year-old takes Intel prize for building drone

[Brumby]

You never know where a winning idea can come from:

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/aussie-19-year-old-takes-intel-prize-for-building-drone-491317

Looks like he might be a Sydney local, since it's reported he is enrolled at UNSW for an Engineering degree.


Just a warning - he apparently used an Arduino...

[EEVblog]

I can totally see that replacing windows cleaners.
Could maybe have been done with a crawler of some type too, has anyone ever done that?

EDIT: Yep, it has:

I can picture a drone based system being too loud.

http://www.kiterobotics.com/
http://www.ipceagle.com/products/category/highrise-automatic-window-cleaning-system#.WwUy90iWTD4

[Howardlong]

Techmoan did a video of a crawler type window cleaner here

https://youtu.be/16P5Rqagem8

[Ampera]

Sagan's gotten a lot bigger than I remember!   . Would be neat to see him there one day, but I'll stop talking about things that aren't really my business, I'm just here for that joke.

I've got 3 years, time to beat him.