Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter Controlled by Apple iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad

Buy AR Parrot Drone - Undoubtedly the hottest robot of the year, the Parrot AR Drone is an ultra-talented quadricopter that uses four powerful propellers to cut through the air with ease while being far, far easier to control and to navigate than it’s less friendly R/C helicopter cousins.

This is the flying helicopter for the layman who just wants to have a wild blast flying around your home or your block while the AR Parrot Drone beams video back to your Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. 

The AR in the name stands for Augmented Reality, since you can play games where the video feed is overlaid to create fun games where you can fire virtual missiles at real or virtual reality targets (imagine firing harmless yet hilarious virtual missiles at your friends head).

The amazing self-righting capabilities of the AR Parrot Drone are what makes it so much fun to fly, eliminating the months or years of practice necessary to become a decent pilot with R/C helicopters.  Pure flying fun fast!

How It Works

The AR Parrot Drone creates a Wi-Fi hotspot that you connect to with your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.  It uses advanced sonar sensors (ultrasound) to keep itself from going astray but be aware, excessive winds can carry it away. iPhone owners will get an additional kick out of using the iPhone’s built-in tilt sensors for easy intuitive flying control.

The AR Parrot Drone creates a Wi-Fi hotspot that you connect to with your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.  It uses advanced sonar sensors (ultrasound) to keep itself from going astray but be aware, excessive winds can carry it away. iPhone owners will get an additional kick out of using the iPhone’s built-in tilt sensors for easy intuitive flying control.

High-technology Sensors Offer Simple Piloting
A mix of captors, wide-angle camera, high-speed camera and MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems), accelerometer, gyro sensors, and ultrasound sensor combine with a powerful on-board computer to make piloting the AR.Drone easy. Simply use your iPhone or iPod touch, and just tilt and touch to control the AR.Drone.

Connect and See
The Parrot AR.Drone generates its own Wi-Fi network to which you connect your iPod touch or iPhone to control. The front camera view is streamed to your piloting device display.

Autopilot
The AR.Drone autopilot allows easy takeoff and landing. After takeoff, autopilot stabilizes the AR.Drone at an 80-centimeter altitude. When you remove your finger from the iPhone/iPod touch, the autopilot function automatically puts the AR.Drone into stationary flight. Lost connection with the AR.Drone? Autopilot takes over again and stabilizes the device before attempting a soft and safe landing.

Indoor and Outdoor Hulls Included
The full hull shield protects the AR.Drone from impacts that occur during wild battles against enemies hidden in the rooms of the house. The streamlined colored hull is aerodynamic, allowing greater control outside.

High Durability and Easy Repair
AR.Drone is a quadricopter made of carbon fiber and high-resistance PA66 plastic. All parts can be changed for easy repair.

Free Piloting App on iTunes
Please download AR.Freeflight in the App Store to control the AR.Drone. iTunes account needed.

Augmented Reality Games
Not only see what the AR.Drone sees with the front-mounted camera, but enjoy a wide variety of games in augmented reality. AR.Games will be sold in the iTunes App Store. Choose from a selection of single-player and multiplayer games, using the AR.Drone's camera and the augmented reality applications. Shoot enemies or other drones.

Specification:

Battery

Motors

• 4 x 15 W electric brushless motors (3,500 rpm)

Construction

• High-efficiency propellers

• Carbon tube structure

Front camera

• VGA (640 x 480) CMOS camera

• 93-degree wide-angle lens

• 15 fps video

Vertical camera

• QCIF (176 x 144) High-speed camera (CMOS)

• 64-degree diagonal lens

• 60 fps video

• Horizontal stabilization

Altimeter

• Ultrasound-based

• Range: 6 m

• Emission frequency: 40 kHz

• Vertical stabilization

Internal guidance system

• MEMS (micro electro mechanical system)

• 3-axis accelerometer

• 2-axis gyroscope

• 1-axis yaw precision gyroscope

Embedded computer

• ARM9 RISC 32-bit 468 MHz

• 128 MB DDR RAM

• Wi-Fi b/g

• Linux OS

• USB socket

Dimensions

• Size: 28 x 28 inches with hull; 29 x 11 inches without

• Weight: 13.4 ounces