Colony 5

02/07/2024

For my birthday, I did a thing for my daughter Sarah. Please share.

Ella Reaches for the Sky: A Young Girl's Adventurous Mind

02/28/2022

Making Lemonade: We designed a platform for Digital Flight Rules to be part of our Drones as a service operation. The Small Business Administration recommended we submit a funding proposal to the National Science Foundation, as the DFR platform offers huge benefit to cities with smart city infrastructures. We recently received the review stating why WE DID NOT get the NSF Smart Connected Communities grant, but my takeaway were the positive comments in this image.

02/11/2022

A quick chat about our start to the year for MySkaut Air Mobility.

Sandra Formenton and Steven Philpott Sr rehash January 2022 activities.

02/08/2022

We've joined CIVATA Global.

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02/01/2022

Honored to be from such a storied and resilient history.

02/01/2022

01/28/2022

With great innovation comes great responsibility

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01/15/2022

The last of 4 - A Raceman

This is the final episode explaining the Maury Povich Effect and the negative effect it has had on our system society.

12/20/2021

In this yearend video, Formenton and XtraMedium ponder barriers to working in a certain city.

This is a 403 error, and it's not as ominous as it sounds. Bitly can only show this page to people who have permission to see it. Maybe what you are looking for can be found at Bitly.com.

12/09/2021

Yay, Urban Air Mobility. I personally see it as an potential economic game changer for cities like Chicago.

For: Leaders, Urban Planners, UAM Operators and Investors

This video introduces our approach, for our own operation, toward establishing the beginnings of 'skylanes' by leveraging public sensor networks, i.e. the Argonne National Labs' Array of Things.

We created this webinar to explain our intended use of public sensors to support commercial drone-specific flight over neighborhoods. (BTW, I'm a software designer, not a video producer - allow a little grace for quality).

NOTE: first 20 minutes are UAM BackgroundHow will cities implement Urban Air Mobility? Well, Urban Air Mobility is here. It's questionable whether or not so...

12/03/2021

How can drones be used to deter street crime in Chicago? This video is an open invitation to the University of Chicago and Chicago Police Department to give that premise a test drive.

This is an invitation to University of Chicago president Paul Alivisatos and Chicago Police Department superintendent David Brown to pilot a community contro...