DJI Systems Introduces Inspire 1 Drone

Re:DJI Systems Introduces Inspire 1 Drone by zobzu on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @10:23PM (#8599738)

actually a bunch of uavs can fly 15,000 ft. Most of them can.

What's nice is the way they do 360d view, the 6s, the low drag, the smaller camera (setups with gopro - which is 4k too - or bigger are quite .. massive).. and they also seem to be catching up to the APM/Pixhawk on the software side. Also, lightbridge/HD.

Now price, non-opensource, etc.. of course. Still a nice piece of hardware.

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Re:DJI Systems Introduces Inspire 1 Drone by bri3d on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @10:56PM (#8599823)

One really neat feature I see on this build vs. a (much) cheaper DIY Pixhawk-or-alike based build is optical flow.

As far as I know both PX4 and APM have half-baked optical flow code in various branches, but no out-of-the-box / off-the-shelf support in mainline (even though 3DR sell optical flow hardware).

Knowing DJI's past I'm not sure their integration is much better, but if it is, that's a big win IMO. Optical flow is awesome for new pilots as it makes the quadcopter's position hold ability in hover much more stable. It's one of the main reasons the AR.Drone works so well despite its relatively imprecise / high-latency phone-based control interface.

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