Today I was in Florida and walked into a Brookstone, they gave me a demonstration of the Parrot AR Drone. To me the AR Drone is AMAZING!!!! A four rotor helicopter controlled by an iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad! And it all runs on wifi to about 150 feet. The range is okay but unlike most RC vehicles that don’t come from a hobby shop this AR. Drone is equipped with a real LiPo battery with a real amps rating. Replacement parts are also available from online or Brookstone unlike most helicopters sold in stores today. For me I might get the drone and the apple iPad, I noticed that the camera did not have the best frame rate but the camera is obviously not for navigation purposes. The app store sells different games that you can play by yourself or with friends, such as AR. Drone pursuit which is essentially a dog fight.
The apple store was right across the street from Brookstone (the store that sells the tx.) I went over there and I thought the iPad is the perfect tx module for this quadrucopter. I decided that the iPad has better response than the iPod touch and a bigger screen for viewing the fpv (First Person View) camera.
Hopefully the AR. Drone is something that I will get in a couple months, weather I get during or after the indoor flying season I will make an awesome review that features both flying conditions. Just watch this video from Parrot Co.
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Later this week I have planned a trip to the Fantasy of Flight Museum. I will post plenty of pictures and most likely a youtube video.
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