Sunday, December 1, 2013

More cheap drones on the horizon


I have noticed that these have started to show up in the maker community stores. This is exciting since A-I own a couple and B-they are compatible with the hardware I use for the HCD.
I actually started work on the radio interface for the HCD using one of these.
I find them less easy to fly and they have less load capacity but they have a cool flip feature that let's the quad do a flip just by sending a command.
If these takes on I plan to expand the HCD library (NOTE: not currently compatible with this model) to control these too..

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  2. +1 on adding U816/U816a support to the HCD Library! After working with hackable quad platforms like the Crazyflie and the MultiWii PocketQuad it would be awesome to find a cheap, hackable platform that I can try some of the stuff I normally wouldn't on something that costs over $100.
    Might I ask if you've added the HCD Library to Github? Doing so might enable others to adapt it and add support for different models. IN any case, Great Work!

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  3. Phantastic work! It would also be interesting to get some information about hardware used in the other side. Would it be possible to exchange the flight controller by a more powerful model for example?

    Keep going and keep us in the loop about progress.

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