Comments on: Parrot AR.Drone Review

By: Miketrt

Miketrt — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:31:00 +0000

Good review

By: Warne Gomes

Warne Gomes — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:19:00 +0000

I just completed reading the columns at “http://www.i4u.com/39701/parrot-ardrone-apple-ipad-video-review” and came to know that the Parrot AR.Drone is already selling for $299.99. The Parrot AR.Drone is a quadricopter piloted with an iPhone, iPod touch or an iPad that carries two cameras that deliver live video feed onto your iPhone. The Parrot AR.Drone generates its own Wi-Fi network to which you connect your iPod Touch or iPhone to control. The front camera view is streamed to your piloting device display.The real big fun with the AR.Drone are dog fights against another pilot.For more details just check out the above mentioned link and go through the column.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:04 +0000

Silverlit UFO certainly beat the market to the four bladed prop and was very ingenious with their use of differential torques to create the pitch, roll, yaw moments. But Silverlit is much simpler than this Parrot. The Silverlit model is an RC unit with its own stand-alone controller. The controller may in fact be better for the Silverlit as it uses joysticks which give tactile feel so the user can watch the flyer without looking at the controls. But the Silverlit does not have an altimeter of any sort while the Parrot uses an Ultrasonic model (don’t use Parrot near dogs; it hurts their ears!!) The Parrot also has two cameras and can use simulation mixed with real for Virtual experiences. This is where the Parrot comes up new! One can fly a Parrot without visually observing it! Think of every boys spying dreams! Also, the Parrot includes flyer self protection features. Though the Silverlit is half the cost!

By: RabidParrot

RabidParrot — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:02:46 +0000

They released an SDK which has been ported to both Linux and Win32. They’re working on android at the moment, but that will be a while longer. Meanwhile, Windows users CAN control the drone with a bit of effort. The app is precompiled, but requires the Windows SDK for sure, and they suggest the DirectX SDK and Visual Studio. (I’ve gotten it to run on Win7 x86 using just VS 2010 Express (C++ and C#) and the Windows SDK).

More info is here:
http://parrotsonjava.com/2010/12/06/some-bug-fixes/

The app, when combined with a game controller or joystick, works much better than the iphone/ipad apps, in my opinion. Especially for 3g users (the app runs, but the framerate and controls are terrible). It’s still a new product, but it’s getting around. So for anyone waiting to get a drone until Win32 support becomes available, it’s out there – just takes some effort. cheers.

By: ArtInvent

ArtInvent — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:08:52 +0000

I’m wondering how much experience you guys have with comparably priced RC hobbyist copters. For $300 you can get a very incredibly performing copter. Also, the 4-rotor thing: I don’t really see how this is an improvement over a single rotor/tail rotor, or a coaxial counterrotating design. There are also very easy to fly models with gyro stabilizers available for less than $100.

I will say that beaming back a live stream of the onboard camera to the iOS device is pretty cool and not something you see on other models at that price point. But personally I would rather have a dedicated copter controller with a place to mount your iPhone or tablet or phone which is used solely as a display. Having real physical buttons and levers to press is much better to control an aircraft, especially as you will spend a lot of time looking at the aircraft and not at the controller. (Sorry, iPhone.)

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:02:21 +0000

http://www.silverlit-flyingclub.com/xufo.htm

Here it is.. the only notable difference is the Iphone controls and on-board cameras.

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:57:25 +0000

This is NOT a new invention.

A Chinese company called Silverlit, mostly known for their PicooZ mini-helicopters, was making almost exactly the same kind of quadricopters as soon as years ago. I believe they’re still up for sale.

Look it up on their website and see for yourself. Parrot, and the writer of this article, makes it look like this is something new, while it’s definitely not. I think Parrot could even be sued for copyright infringements with this new product.

By: beautiful

beautiful — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:24:36 +0000

Thats really beautiful, isnt it? wanna have