BEAK DRONE: 1080p HD Wi-Fi quad-copter by Parrot takes to skies French phone-accessories-maker-turned-drone-manufacturer Parrot has built a quad-copter with a super wide-angle lens and hi-def cam. Like its predecessor, the Parrot AR Drone, the new BeBop has a polystyrene foam shell that protects itself and whatever it collides into. Also, like the earlier version, you control the device …
"... release a rotten egg"
The above is encouraging and supporting acts of terrorism, no less. And don't you try to protest that by "rotten egg" you meant a rotten egg. Or that you didn't mean it. Or that it was a (poor) joke. Or that the abovementioned politician deserves it. What you REALLY meant was "releasing a micro-thermo-nuclear device (as featured on youtube). We know your number, we're coming in farce.
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Too late.
Was watching a demonstration the other week of how raptors (feathered type!) can be trained by dropping lures from quadcopter.
Set up a flying pattern of direction and varying heights then have it drop the lure at a set way point before the 'copter returns to base.
this is nothing new. Check out the walkera 350, DJI phantom, blade 350qx. All can be kitted out with hd cameras (forget gopro, check out Mobius and sj4000 cams). Some *superb* video. All can be fitted with FPV.
The parrot is the most "toy-ish" of the lot....
And a 2km range is pointless with flight times of apx 10 mins...
"The parrot is the most "toy-ish" of the lot...."
And is there anything wrong with that? It is also the most affordable of the lot, comes with a camera already equipped and can do live video out of the box.
One thing I was missing on the previous Parrots was a physical controller, adding a cheap PS3 Dualshock made flying 'heads-up' much more comfortable.
"....but the PR company doesn't know how to spell distortion so they can FRO.
See around 2:05
Steven R"
'Distorsion'
I did wonder if it was some special Photoshop feature that twists the image up into a tiny little ball or summat.. Or maybe it was a PR fail, talking about the torque control on a helicopter that one of them had heard about in a winebar once..
Parrot pretty much abandoned s/w development for the AR.Drone 2.0 a couple of releases in. They have passively dropped Android by simply not doing anything beyond an advertised edition to support the GPS module - and that arrived 4 months or more late.
The AR.Drone 2.0 is a generally fun bit of kit let down by an attention-deficit led company.
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