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How about these, for $300? http://www.parrot.com/usa/ http://www.parrot.com/usa/ Or if you're more adventurous, you can chop 4 30 dollar helicopters from amaz

How about these, for $300? http://www.parrot.com/usa/ http://www.parrot.com/usa/ Or if you're more adventurous, you can chop 4 30 dollar helicopters from amazon, add in an arduino and IMU with xbees, and come up with your homebrew solution, like my friend who I've been helping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZKr47qt-A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZKr47qt-A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_uS9clTDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_uS9clTDY (These are pre-arduino, pre-IMU. Now it's hung from the ceiling and is controlled through the computer with an xbox controller. It's on a PID control right now, but eventually it'll be swapped out with a kalman filter based system.)

fab13n 16y ago
As long as an iPhone is used by Parrot as the controller, you're stuck with the AppStore's diktats; in this case, Apple won't let them record videos. Also, Parrot's drone is fun to play with. The idea with sensefly is that you don't control it in realtime: you give it an itinerary before launching it, it follows it and comes back on its own. That's not as good for a toy, but more efficient for a professional tool.
- pornel 16y ago
  ARDrone has an API, so you may be able to write your own Apple-free controller: https://projects.ardrone.org/projects/show/ardrone-api https://projects.ardrone.org/projects/show/ardrone-api
chopsueyar 16y ago
That's pretty cool.