How to Troubleshoot your AR Drone after a crash (1.0 and 2.0)……. Sooner or later (probably sooner) you are going to have a nice little wreck with your AR Drone. Maybe you hit a wall too hard, hit the ceiling, smacked a tree, or sucked in a twig. Wrecks, crashes, and other emergency stops are par for the course with [ Read More ]
Having been in marketing and sales for 30+ years, I get very frustrated watching the poor ways that Chinese quadcopter manufacturers present their products to the English speaking (and perhaps other languages) world. In the hopes of helping this industry to grow and prosper, I’m going to offer some free advice to the makers and marketers of these great products! [ Read More ]
Amazing! Now you can sit indoors by the fireplace and get some idea of what it is like to fly a Parrot AR Drone! The new app is available both for Android and IOS and costs less than $2.50. This makes it a inexpensive investment for any newbies thinking of getting into quadcopter flying. Although the app is by no [ Read More ]
Note – This article reflects our philosophy of Drone Information “for the rest of us” – assuming that most of us are just getting started in our research and quest for knowledge. You can certainly find more complete reviews, but here at Droneflyers we pride ourselves on providing the Executive Summaries which will head you in the right direction! This [ Read More ]
The AR Drone is a four-rotor aircraft which combines many of the new and advanced technologies in R/C Flight. Parrot, the company behind the AR Drone is marketing the AR Drone as a “flying video game” since it combines actual flying of the aircraft, real time video streaming to the controller, and the ability to add real-time gaming with hunter-seeker [ Read More ]
A recent NOVA special entitled Rise of the Drones was quite informative on the emerging technology, although much more focused on the Military and surveillance angle. The program can be watched online or on your favorite PBS station. However, there is another revolution in these aircraft occurring right now! They go by many names – Quadcopters, Multirotors, UAV’s and even [ Read More ]
Walkera has posted about a new quadrotor craft that should be hitting the shelves soon is now available, the QR Ladybird. This tiny little quad, only 4″ across, is pretty loaded with features including some telemetry functions. Flight time should be about 10 minutes per charge. Specifications Telemetry function Motor: 0720RN57A-9M-130NL52 Receiver: RX2634H-D Battery: 3.7V 350Mah Height: 1.2″ For more [ Read More ]
I got a chance to sit down with the folks from Parrot at CES and ask them about the AR Drone 2.0. Unfortunately, for existing AR Drone users, there isn’t a whole lot of good news to report. Virtually everything on the AR Drone 2.0 is brand new and is NOT, I repeat NOT compatible for the original AR Drone. [ Read More ]
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