Why the name ZiptieAI

• Zip tie: Front-line Ukrainian soldiers often use zip ties to configure a drone package. My focus is on learning the components (HW and SW) that can quickly be "ziptied" together for any mission.
  
  A zip tie drone on the cover of The Economist.
  
  
  
  
• AI: Lost connection to the drone pilot? Carry on without him. Want to swarm the target? No problem, send an intelligent group of drones to do the job. You implement the AI routines on a companion computer (a PI4/5 or Nvidia Jetson mounted on the drone that sends flight commands to the drone flight controller).
  
  Below: AI object recognition running in a simulator (part 1 Total simulation shows how to this step-by-step).