Unbelievable Mini Qaudcopter

[wireframan]

Enjoy!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/

[mave]

very impressive. I never knew quadcopter can be that agile, aggressive and accurate....

[silver]

This Quadcopter only works in that special enviroment, cos they used special lightings and video progessing for the flight path too. It is a controlled enviroment project.

Anyway its a good clips to showcase multirotor's capabilities.

[mave]

Yup, did find the bright light a bit suspicious. But nevertheless good clip.

This Quadcopter only works in that special enviroment, cos they used special lightings and video progessing for the flight path too. It is a controlled enviroment project.

Anyway its a good clips to showcase multirotor's capabilities.

[daveth26]

I agree with that controlled environment!

I agreed with that, that it is flown under controlled environment. No flier could be that precise with speed or even FPV as to fly thru' any small window of that size unless it is machine or waypoint angle directed path planned. It could have been preprogrammed in the first place for special purposes & not to be on the shelves for retail to any consumers...

[wireframan]

another one

I wonder what would be the RC technology 20 years from now for sure some of us still around and still flying lolz!

But as of the moment, this is how humans manipulate technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52FqfOi0Ek

[mave]

When these thing start doing tic-toc, we can pack our bags and go back to our home liao..

Need to get my hands on one of these programmable Quadcopter.

I agreed with that, that it is flown under controlled environment. No flier could be that precise with speed or even FPV as to fly thru' any small window of that size unless it is machine or waypoint angle directed path planned. It could have been preprogrammed in the first place for special purposes & not to be on the shelves for retail to any consumers...

[tucfaz]

These drone don't really need a control environment to perform the task shown in the video, in fact there are many project that has sensors, and software that is already in the mature stage, and most effort are now focus on developing better sensors with more advance routine to push the development to the next level.

There are already those that can prowl and trigger actions.. Not that they can shoot laser and such, but these drone can trigger alarm on burglary attempt, send feedback to base when it sees something missing from a fix location etc, etc..

What actually most of these nerds wants to do is really to scale the model down to palm size or smaller drones, with each performing different task at random.. like 1 out while one is home to recharge.. with 20, to 30 of these drones flying around a premises performing their programed task, and this is not a fantasy.. It's already out there..

[daveth26]

I believe u on the sensors.

Good post!

I foresee when there're lots of sensors coming in the future, it would be quite redundant for us as any fliers but will end up being programmers. It will be time for us to retire & grow plants or even rear some goldeneye fishes...

PS: Technologies does reduce costs & increase the efficiency of our models but it makes human errors more vibrant..

[tucfaz]

You're right about Efficiency and the risk of errors through technology.. Fortunately, a lot of these things usually evolve back to where it begins.. Talking about "HOBBY" here..

When everything is push button and programming, then technology for that is already in the full mature stage, and how is it fun to do piro flip through programming? and that's where people like us "Hobbyist" will evolve back to the good old stuff..

But for real.. people complaining about FT?? Look at the possibility here.. http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/ro...-one-warehouse

With the quadcopter.. Cisco officer may one day curse .. F**king droid!!!

[silver]

Need to get my hands on one of these programmable Quadcopter.

Visit Skyhobbies, derrick should have some low costs starter kit for you.