This post grew out of the drone detector article, where I mentioned using Sintra for the FPV side of the work. That mention deserves its own treatment, because it raises a question I want to address directly: why am I using an external AI tool for this instead of building my own? Why Sintra, Not My Own AI There are …
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For years my drones travelled with me. A DJI Air first, then a Mini 3 — camera platforms that rode along on every trip, packed next to the rest of the gear. They were good at exactly one thing: hovering somewhere legal and taking a clean photo. That was the problem. Hovering at the permitted altitude, framing a …
Read MoreTraining a Neural Network to Detect Shaheds and Quads from Audio
Jul 13, 2026 · 14 min read · machine-learning audio neural-network pytorch shahed drone-detection onnx quantization drone-detector ·Live demo: drone-detector.sintra.site A note before the technical content: the staggered training protocol described in this article was developed with significant help from Sintra AI. What started as a series of questions about why the naive P1→P2 schedule kept plateauing turned into a structured debugging …
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