AR Parrot Drone

Woohoo! Didn't expect it so soon, but nice surprise anyway for a Monday. :) The box is slim but big! Kinda knew what it was when i first saw it. Haha, delivered by USPS too, was worried that it'd get lost or something!









The set comes with the main body with the outdoor body and indoor body kit, there's a LiPO charger/balancer and one 1100mAh batt (which i know won't be enough). There's also a quickstart guide and stickers to paste on the body of the frame so that it can be detected during the AR game portions. Controller? Haha, it's the iPhone or iPad, cool huh?

Guess the only time i can take it for a spin is this weekend! Can't wait!

AR Parrot Drone

Man, gotta get myself one of these soon, the AR Parrot Drone from Parrot (Which is actually a French company more famous for their Bluetooth devices) is a quad-rotor RC heli controlled through the iPhone4 or iPad!

It has two camera's, one forward facing and on downward facing, according to Parrot's site : " Thanks to its many sensors, the AR.Drone can maintain stable flight at a height of up to 6 meters / 20 feet. Since the altitude at which the AR.Drone can fly depends exclusively on the Wi-Fi range, it can fly up to a height of 50 meters / 160 feet. The "Altitude limited" option in the AR.Drone's settings can be adjusted to restrict the height to 3 meters / 10 feet. "

It even appears in the game Homefront as a militarised surveillance version! :) Imagine the uses for the drone, neighbour surveillance, or how about mounting a 100mW laser or two on it for crowd control! The possibilities are ENDLESS! ;)