A Cheap Folding Drone That’s Strong Enough To Carry a GoPro

They say the undecomposed quadcopter is the one you have with you ( or is that cameras ? ) because not every opportunity to catch some splendid aerial footage is planned . So while you may expend thousands of clam on a giant rig designed to hoist a heavy DSLR , why not save yourself some immediate payment and opt for this howling $ 495Pocket Dronethat close up into a pillowcase small than a seven - inch pill .

When contract the Pocket Drone is just three inches thick-skulled so it ’s easy to toss in a backpack and always have on script when you ’re adventuring . And as an added bonus , since the strut supporting the prop all fold , they ’ll collapse in a crash absorbing impingement forces . alternatively of remaining inflexible and potentially cracking or snapping .

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You ’ll also observe that the Pocket Drone is actually a tricopter , not a quadcopter , since it only has three propeller brand . One less motor means the craft can stuff about 20 minutes of escape meter from its rechargeable batteries , even with a GoPro impound , and it ’s also a batch quieter than a four - engined quadcopter . So it ’s wins all around .

The Pocket Drone can be aviate using its included controller , an accompany free app for your mobile equipment of choice , or programmed to mechanically follow a series of pre - plotted GPS waypoints . But if those alternative do n’t work for you , the tricopter ’s flight of steps control software is open source so you ’re free to hack in your own solution .

The only downside is that the Pocket Drone is currently being crowdfunded viaKickstarter . And while the video of the pre - production models raise our hopes that this tiny trade could deliver as promised , there ’s always the risk it will be late , hit an unwitting barricade , or never in reality materialise one day . [ AirDroidsviaGizmag ]

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