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Ar Drone Price

September 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Ar Drone Price 

Ar Drone Price, iPhone or iPod touch as a handheld controller for many other devices: iTunes, Apple TV, TiVo, Logitech, Sonos, Roku players and media, home automation systems, “and many more. But Parrot and 299 iPhone-app kicks AR.Drone control to a higher level, making the IOS device in the primary, or rather, the only-way to control the four-propeller, flying gadget. We have been testing and implementation partner AR.Drone free, free flight. Here is a sample of geek fun we had.

Parrot calls the AR.Drone a quadricopter “,” name of the company for a quadrotor or quadrocopter-rotor aircraft-based computer that uses four separate rotors. Quadrotors While it may seem more complicated than traditional helicopters, the design is actually much easier and cheaper: Instead of complex mechanisms that control the aircraft by varying the passage of each rotor blade as it rotates, a rotor used quadrotor fixed pitch. You control the aircraft by simply varying the relative speed of rotation of each rotor.

The main body of the AR.Drone consists of a layer of polystyrene foam containing main circuits of the vehicle and the battery compartment. Four metal arms protruding from the shell in an X pattern at the end of each housing a motor, a flexible plastic rotor, and a plastic foot landing. In the bottom of the body are two altimiter ultrasonic sensors, along with an interior “inertial” the help of AR.Drone maintain its orientation with respect to ground.

Also inside is a CPU running Linux, and a wireless access point that creates a network AR.Drone control, which lets you play with other AR.Drone owners, and even upload firmware updates to the AR. Drone ‘s built-in FTP server (more about these features in a moment.) Finally, the AR.Drone has not one but two video cameras on board: one in front, facing forward, and the other at the bottom, looking down. This is not the parent RC plane.

Before you fly the AR.Drone, you must attach one of the two helmets included. For indoor use, you slip in the largest town, surrounding each flexible rotor with styrofoam. This helmet provides a moderate degree of protection of the rotors when you bump or crash into things. And you will crash into things when they start flying the AR.Drone. For outdoor use, once you’ve gotten the hang of flying, you can change the helmet, a minimalist version that only covers the main body of the vehicle. The AR.Drone weighs just 11.7 ounces with the inner hull and only 10.6 ounces with the outdoor version.

Also included with the AR.Drone are a lithium-ion battery, battery charger and AC adapter, and several bright stickers to help you keep track of what vehicle is that when multiple AR.Drones are flying together.

The hardware is impressive, but what really makes the AR.Drone unique is that instead of controlling the vehicle using a dedicated hardware remote control, download a free iPhone app, free flight, and then use your iPhone, IPAD, or iPod touch as the controller.

When the battery is connected AR.Drone ‘s, the “helicopter automatically creates a standard wireless network with a range of approximately 50 meters. Establishes the IOS device to join the network” is an open network, so it is not necessary password, and then launch the implementation of Free Flight. The wireless network name, in the case of our review unit, ardrone_000752-should be obvious enough, but can be changed later using the application for the iPhone. (Note that once you use a special device IOS AR.Drone, if you later want to use a different IOS device to control the vehicle, you must first manually Unpair the original iPhone or iPod touch using from the AR.Drone a button on the bottom of the vehicle. This procedure is indicated in the setup guide, but it is easy to overlook.)

Parrot discourages the use of AR.Drone in an area with other Wi-Fi networks. Here in San Francisco Bay, the search for a place without wireless networks is almost as difficult as hunting unicorns, but fortunately the AR.Drone worked well indoors, even in a room covered by multiple networks.

AR.Drone, and 299 of its price seems outrageous, but that’s still a little dough to spend on a toy. However, if you have money to burn, the AR.Drone is a heck of a lot of fun once you’ve mastered the controls, and I was impressed by the little things Parrot intended to blow up the “helicopter easier. Short Battery life and the risk of rupture are disappointments, and were not able to test any of the upcoming games augmented reality, but I suspect that AR.Drone be a hit with wealthy gadget lovers, especially if developers build a library of robust applications.

Ar Drone

September 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Ar Drone 

Ar Drone, In the event Gamescom, a new augmented reality, such futuristic drone has been shown. The new AR. Drone, quadricopter is one aspect that can be easily controlled from an iPhone, iPod, or IPAD.

What is a Quadricopter, you may ask. It is a futuristic flying machine with four helicopter blades all spin. They help control the plane with incredible accuracy. The Drone AR cameras located in the drone itself. These videos are sent instantly to the iPhone back the drivers or the like “i” device like the iPod, IPAD, etc.

The user can control where the AR Drone flies simply by pressing buttons on the device and the inclination directly the desire to fly the drone in. It can be used both indoors and outdoors, and there are games for augmented reality download and play.

The new HR drone will be available to the public for purchase on September 9, and can pre-order now for 299.99 and Amazon

Watch the video below:

Ar.Drone

January 6, 2010 by · Comments Off on Ar.Drone 

ar.drone_3D_renderAr.Drone: almost certainly the world’s first Wi-Fi enabled iPhone-controllable miniature flying device.
Three years ago, in one of my more fanciful columns for the sadly defunct Technology section of the newspaper, I predicted that the future of gaming was augmented reality robot battles. Inspired by the news of Bandai’s NetTansor, a miniature droid that could be controlled remotely via Wi-Fi, I suggested that we’ll all one day be indulging in real-world death matches, commanding robotic slaves into battle on the streets of our towns and cities, as we controlled the carnage via our computers.

Well, it turns out, these weren’t the ‘oh Christ, I’ve got one hour to file a story’ blatherings of a desperate man.

Parrot, a Paris-based tech company specialising in wireless devices for mobile phones, has just unveiled the AR Drone, a model ‘quadricopter’ pilotable via, yes, a Wi-Fi connection with your iPhone or iPod Touch (and potentially any device with wireless connectivity and a decent screen). The ‘copter features two camera, one acting as an Inertial Measurement Unit to stabilise flight, the other streaming real-time video footage of the flight to your phone screen. Controls are via the iPhone accelerometer, which handles changes in direction, and a series out icons on the touchscreen for rise, drop and rotate functions.

Parrot has the field of augmented reality gaming firmly in its sites, and sees aerial combat as a possible killer app for the device. According to the website, the AR Drone will ship with two AR games, including a simple shooter in which you blast computer-generated craft that are overlaid on the video display. Furthermore, a Software Development Kit is now available for the developers who want to create games for the AR Drone.

Interestingly, the craft can apparently be flown both inside and out in the open, suggesting two possibilities: massive multiplayer deathmatches in the skies above; and mid-air voyeurism. Well, someone was going to point it out eventually – and let’s face it, the CIA has been working on insect-like spy cameras since the ’70s, and a swarm was apparently spotted over Washington two years ago. Is this the consumer version?

There’s no word on costing or availability yet, but Parrot is showing the technology at this week’s giant Consumer Electronics Show. I’ve put in a request for a review unit, though I’ve probably blown my chances pointing out that whole spying angle.

What do you think? The future of gaming?

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