Quadricopter Drone Buzzes Heads @ CES

[exfileme]

Parrot's AR.Drone was surprisingly popular at the CES pre-show event.

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[sliem]

Cool, expensive, noisy, hard to control, needs missile launcher or laser blaster or tractor beam

 

[NapoleonDK]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Cool, expensive, noisy, hard to control, needs missile launcher AND laser blaster AND tractor beam!!!!!!11[/citation]
Fixed.

 

[kravmaga]

Mmh...
The thing with those RC models is that nobody ever bothers to mention the autonomy. Flying gadgets are cool until you find out that due to weight constraints, the heaviest battery they can put on there is worth 15minutes of flight in perfect conditions, planets aligned and everything.

 

[Guest]

... they stole my idea!! D:
Hopefully they will offer a wicked laser mount.... then I can finally complete my ultimate weapon!

 

[mr_tuel]

How does the iPhone interface with it?

 

[richmaple]

>>but we're a little weary about the eventual price

Unless the eventual price makes you tired, you're "wary," not "weary" of it. It's a totally different word.

 

[jhansonxi]

The SDK is available (when the server recovers).

 

[NapoleonDK]

But can it... ...do a barrel roll?

 

[FSXFan]

[citation][nom]kravmaga[/nom]Mmh...The thing with those RC models is that nobody ever bothers to mention the autonomy. Flying gadgets are cool until you find out that due to weight constraints, the heaviest battery they can put on there is worth 15minutes of flight in perfect conditions, planets aligned and everything.[/citation]
That's convenient, because that's about the maximum amount of time you can enjoy flying a toy like that before if crashes into something and breaks, then goes into the trash.

 

[Guest]

If you are looking for an existing and extendable open source quadcopter look at http/www.mikrokopter.de. There are lots of videos on youtube and vimeo.com. It is also configurable as an hexa- and octocopter. I also saw a video with IPhone control.

 

[extremepcs]

I was interested... until I saw that you control it with an iPhone.