Drones have changed how people work, explore and fight. Our mission is to help people understand that change and build the skills and equipment to respond.
Founded by Nicholas Trevino, a former U.S. Air Force EOD technician and longtime FPV pilot and builder, Parallax brings flight and workshop experience to drone engineering, prototypes and training.
Parallax is building a network across NATO nations that connects unmanned aircraft, ground robotics and Counter-UAS awareness with practical engineering and training. We want the same technology that makes people stop and pay attention to give them a reason to learn, build and contribute.
Our work focuses on awareness, detection, engineering and training systems that help people understand unmanned technology and interact with it.
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Russia’s war against Ukraine has made the consequences of weaponized drones impossible to ignore. Small aircraft, including FPV drones used for one-way, direct-to-target attacks, can cause devastating injuries. The danger reaches beyond combatants to civilians living and working near the frontline.
The International Committee of the Red Cross describes both the growing use of these attacks and the fear and disruption caused by drones overhead. That context shapes our focus: helping people recognize unfamiliar technology, understand its limits and prepare through structured practice.
Our mission connects three kinds of work. Each gives a different way to understand the aircraft, the problem and the people using the equipment.
FPV instruction builds familiarity with the aircraft and its controls. Arena creates another way in: people can observe moving drones, recognize their changing states and interact through a non-projectile system without becoming pilots first.
Explore training with ParallaxArgus is a portable, low-cost drone detection tool for frontline personnel and public safety officers, with an open-source release planned. Argus Aware is being developed to connect standalone detection nodes that record activity locally and relay observations across a mesh network.
Explore Argus and Argus AwareUseful equipment starts with a clear problem. We work on custom drone designs, frames, prototypes and small-batch builds, connecting workshop development with feedback from the people who will use them.
Prototype with Parallax
A moving aircraft attracts attention. An interaction gives that attention a purpose. Arena lets participants follow a drone, identify its state and see how the system responds, making robotics something they can experience rather than only watch on a screen.
We want those encounters to lead to questions: how does it sense, communicate, move and respond? For a young person, that curiosity can be the start of an interest in electronics, software, engineering or aviation.
Discover Parallax ArenaFrom our main base in Dayton, Ohio,, we are seeking engineers, manufacturers, educators and operators across NATO nations who want to contribute to this work.
Our aim is to connect practical experience with people who can turn an idea into a design, a prototype and a system others can evaluate. That includes developing relationships with university programs and giving younger builders room to contribute. A useful idea should have a chance to be tested, whatever the age of the person who brings it.
If you have a manufacturing capability, an engineering discipline or an educational program that fits, tell us what you want to build and where you can contribute.
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