[The hand] helicopter toys AR.Drone 2.0

AR.Drone helicopter is called a remote control toy over the airwaves WiFi Parrot from France by its development. AR.Drone helicopter is designed for users to control through IOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad) and Android phones. Parrot AR.Drone first introduced at CES 2010 exhibition in the U.S. technology. Two years later, at CES 2012, Parrot launched AR.Drone version 2.0 with some improvements in functionality, such as main camera 720p HD resolution or the number of sensors is increased, allowing easy flight operations and more stable. Configuration details of helicopter AR.Drone 2.0: Processors: Cortex A8 1GHz clock RAM: 128MB Connectivity: WiFi standard n Connectors: USB 2.0 Camera: Main camera 720p, QVGA camera Sensors: pressure sensors, ultrasonic sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes Operating System: Linux 2.6.32 Engine: 14.5 W 4 engine, 28.500Rpm Range: 50m, height: 6 m, flight speed: 18km / h, limited wind: 15km / h Main material: carbon fiber and foam Weight: 380g to 420g outdoors and flying cap with the cap in the air Battery: LiPo capacity 1.000mAh Colours: blue, green and gold U.S. Price: $ 300 Software drivers: AR.FreeFlight (free, App Store and Google Play) Many multiplayer game modes After several days of play AR.Drone 2.0, I have some initial comments about the strengths and weaknesses of the helicopter is as follows: Strengths: Light weight, by using carbon and porous materials Porous framework is quite durable protection propeller, had a few accidents but porous frame is any significant damage Control software intuitive, easy to use Control software has several features, such as locate the flight time through Google Maps, statistics and displays some quite detailed flight Control plane is easy, but if you want to show the unique afternoon game needs a little practice time Main camera for quality image and video stability Weaknesses: An engine is quite noisy Battery life is poor. Ad said helicopter is 12 minutes when fully charged, but actually less than 10 minutes have been exhausted Camera for bad pictures Do not get sound   $ ("# Galleria_1802959440"). Galleria ({ width: 640, height: 420, imageCrop: false, thumbCrop: false, clicknext: true, maxScaleRatio: 1, showInfo: true, preload: 3, idleMode: false, trueFullscreen: false, });   ...