Comments on: iPhone controlled personal drone

By: laurent

laurent — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:56:12 +0000

Exactly what I heard from people working at Parrot. Wait and see, it’s a proto, wifi based, with pretty limited distance of control. A case of over-hype which will end up having a negative impact on the product?

By: Kiljoy616

Kiljoy616 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:39:15 +0000

Lets see how far it really flies from you, wifi does not go very far and iphone is not a very strong controller for wifi output, still if this could be hooked up to a PC and do it from there with 802.11n then I could see something cool, oh the game battles you could create. let the red barren live again.

By: laurent

laurent — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:58:58 +0000

Very interesting prospects effectively…

By: Dave Brown

Dave Brown — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:57:38 +0000

Not just questions around privacy but civil disobedience, pacifism and all sorts of other things.

It’s naive to think one can stop a war by en mass walking peacefully onto the battle field. But if people send or pilot their drones to do this for them then it’s a strange sort of mass teasing, irritation, terrorism or protest.

You are restricted by physical borders, but your drones aren’t.

By: Frederic Sidler

Frederic Sidler — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:05:13 +0000

Check this one out http://www.sensefly.com This is a drone, completely autonomous and Swiss Made ;-)