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ossumguywill said:
wifi controlled via ipad/iphone/ipod, which are all a lot cheaper than a nice RC controller. AR.Drone.com – Parrot Wi-Fi quadricopter. Augmented Reality games on iPhone, iPod touch & iPad
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Thanks for the link! $300 doesn't sound too bad for that. Didn't like the idea of buying & carrying a single purpose receiver & screen. laptop or phone for your screen & control makes alot more sense to me.
Add one of those sweet auto-aiming directional antennas & you have some range too. Tho it doesn't have the gps needed. Maybe one could be added. Losing the Indoor hull saves 40grams.
I have to say I'm not all that fond of the styrofoam hull.

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* ARM9 468 MHz
* DDR 128 Mbyte at 200MHz
* Wifi b/g
* USB high speed
* Linux OS
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NOW I'm Intestested!!
Hope the components are totally modular.
 
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^it's not supposed to be hackable in terms of hardware. I think the RAM is all SMD, and the system can't support any more power wise. We'll see though, I think they started selling recently.
 
Yea I was dreaming there. Modular won't keep the weight down. But I am hopping for USB host, ARM9 seems to be capable of it. Will it take the weight of what you might want to add tho?
 
I don't know about payload size for the parrot.ar, it's not designed to carry extra stuff around. It's not a very serious drone, I mean what's the best range you can get with wifi?
 
Exactly why it needs an auto-tracking antenna so bad. If only it could carry a usb gps.
Don't mind me, whenever I look at anything first thing I see is how I want to hack it up to improve it.
Hopping the parrot.ar inspires better copies.
 
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That is awesome!!! i wish they were alittle cheaper !!! but i have no RC skills hehe
 
I think this could be done under $3000... probably under $1000
this is rly co0L!!!1! I've got a wireless camera with about 500m range, now just get that RC plane :p
 
I have wanted to try this with my heli, but the video equipment has always been a bit too pricey
 
dude, you can get a pan/tilt setup for $30, and then stick on some tower pro servos... some guy on here sold a pair a week ago for $5 shipped. You can just mount a standard camera with a remote trigger and use the autopilot to take pictures. If you don't have an autopilot, you can probably use some other simple thing, or make a very simple circuit with a 555 timer that pulses, say, once every 15 seconds.
 
ossumguywill said:
dude, you can get a pan/tilt setup for $30, and then stick on some tower pro servos... some guy on here sold a pair a week ago for $5 shipped. You can just mount a standard camera with a remote trigger and use the autopilot to take pictures. If you don't have an autopilot, you can probably use some other simple thing, or make a very simple circuit with a 555 timer that pulses, say, once every 15 seconds.
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IMO you're making it look much easier than it really is.
 
Hallucynogenyc said:
IMO you're making it look much easier than it really is.
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it would probably be really hard on your own, but there are huge forums out there for RC, and even for DIY UAVs. They have loads of tutorials and support.... browse it sometime, it's pretty dang cool.
 
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That, some transistors, transceiver, modelling foam and some time and effort would make for a good starting-point. And explode, or take your finger off too, if you used it badly.
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Unfortunately, you don't have some of the most expensive stuff. You forgot an ESC, GPS, IR horizon sensors, gyros, differential pressure sensors, servos, and of course the plane :D
 
I was thinking along the lines of one of these:




This uses an onboard processor, gyros, accelerometer and sonar to keep a stable platform. With some foam, epoxy and fiberglass you could have a light but tough body. A prebuilt ESC would probably be a simpler solution compared with a selfmade ESC (the transistors I referenced). To build a complete, outdoors-capable plane would be a much larger investment as you described. I might build one of the quadricopters one day (not in the near future though, I think).
 
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Got it. The problem is if you want any advanced autonomous controls you need a lot more than an accelerometer, but otherwise I'm sure that would be plenty.
 
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