Hey everyone.
My name is Caleb.
I got into drones about 7 years ago. What’s funny is, it was totally on a whim. I was a senior as a Chemical Engineer in college, and I was beginning to realize I had other interests. So I spent my senior year summer starting out with Arduinos. Simple things like blinking LEDs, ultrasonic sensors, etc.
Then I decided my next project was going to be to build a drone. The resources available back then were much more scarce. There were no courses or anything like that. Really all there was, was a bunch of scattered expertise across 100s of different sites. My first drone took forever to build 
My maiden flight I’ll never forget. I was super excited, pulled up MissionPlanner and with the Plan Builder, built an autonomous mission to fly across the local football stadium in a rectangle.
I went out at night, pitch black, and started the AUTO mission. This.. is when I learned that the dimensions in MissionPlanner were in meters and NOT feet! I had the altitude of the waypoints at what I thought was 100ft, but it rocketed to 300ft!!! I was terrified, but couldn’t even see the drone. I just let Jesus take the wheel and much to my surprise, it finished it’s near-outer-space mission and landed near my feet after about a 10 minute increased BPM inducing mission.
From there, I kept learning and learning. Eventually, I thought there must be an easier way to learn than bootstrapping self knoweldge across 100s of Google search results. I decided to make the Drone Dojo to unify Drone/Rover/ArduPilot in general knowledge into courses/kits etc. The goal was to make it easier for new users with nothing but an interest in robotics, to hit the ground running with structured curriculum/knowledge etc. I wanted to take a year long learning journey (like for me), and make it a one month learning journey (like I hope I’ve done with the Drone Dojo).
From there, it’s been a blast. Still learning. Perhaps far along enough on the Dunning-Kruger curve to know I still don’t know so much. But that’s part of the fun. Regardless of how much you level up your robotics knowledge, there’s always so much to learn! And that’s actually been a forcing function to learn more about ArduPilot and push my current knowledge boundaries.
Anyways, that’s my journey so far looking forward to getting to know you all!