ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development

Re:ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:25PM (#22873075)

I don't know where you got the idea that autonomy is why we call them drones. FPV drones are all analog and they've been around a while.

They assume you have a transmitter, because a majority of non parrot drone users are flying analog.

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Re:ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development by bigiain on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:35PM (#22874241)

Yeah. There was a time maybe 8-9 years back where at least a section of the hobby tried to push back against the people using the term "drone" for any quadcopter/multirotor, and trying to educate people that only things capable of autonomous flight were "drones", while regular non-autonomous quadcopter really are just RC helicopters.

We lost that fight a long time ago.

(And I'm not even sure we were "right" to be honest. The term "drone" got used back in WW2 era for radio controlled aircraft used for target practice. There sure as hell were not autonomous... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_OQ-2 )

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Re:ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:06AM (#22875568)

What drones are autonomous? The most well-known ones, used by the US military, aren't autonomous, AFAIK. A in UAV stands for Aerial, not Autonomous.

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