so we're here in the NC parking lot doing a bit of a range test on the
parrot AR drone so I got my iPad here you can see the front mounted camera
view and actually that is oh well why don't to show you guys the settings in
here as well can you see that at all no how about if I go up this way can you
see it now okay cool okay so I'm just going to turn on uh outdoor Hull and
outdoor flight are both on okay so it looks like we're ready to go already so
I'm also going to switch on my alternate camera which is right here okay so
that's my downward facing camera and I just want to show you guys for the for
the sake of interest that it's a little bit windy out here today so you can see
that drifting I'm going to go ahead I'm going to take off with the AR drone and
I want to show you guys how little it
actually drifts even in the wind check
that out so it actually controls itself
using the bottom mounted camera to keep itself from drifting away see it got
blown away a little bit and then corrected itself and brought itself back
pretty cool eh so we're going to do a bit of a range test here I'm going to go
ahead and uh fly it down the parking lot
keeping it nice and low no need to put it up high especially on a windy day
like
today so remember this is Wi-Fi controlled so
here I'm going to go ahead and stop for a second here there we go so just for scale guys
so the Drone is about it's got to be at least about 50 60 M away at this point
and I still do have my video feed and I still do have control of the Drone so
here I'm going to turn it around and point it at us let's see if we can see
ourselves here o it's getting uh oh it's pretty Gusty right now so you can see
the Drone struggling a little bit but it is managing to uh hold itself in place
so I'm just going to bring it back tilt it this way tilt her that way oh here we
go okay there we
go oh okay I couldn't figure out if it was coming back or not cuz it's going
kind of slow cuz it's uh in the breeze
here there we go come on Mr
drone so there you go we can comfortably go about 50 to 60 M away without any
difficulties so I brought it back now let's wait for this car to move along
and then we'll we'll pick this up again in a
sec so we're back we're going to take the Drone all the way down to the end of
the parking lot but first let's go harass our uh our HR manager over
there he's all like WTF and I'm all like
hello
and I can't see it behind that tree right now but I'm just going to go ahead and uh bring it back over here I
think okay let's just bring it between these
trees turn it
around oh I lost my orientation oh I hit
the tree oh here well I'll show you guys what happens so this is a cutout
emergency so what happens is uh what the
blade here come come check this out because this is a great demo of how
durable the AR drone actually is a cutout emergency occurs when one of the
propellers strikes an immovable object and what the AR drone does is it
actually turns off all four Motors before immediately before the AR drone
even hits the ground in order to minimize the amount of damage that can
be done to it now the propellers are made out of a very flexible material
they're very difficult to break I've crashed it like this a couple dozen times at this point but what you can see
here is that so yeah they've got that Flex to them and if they all turn off
when one of them encounters an obstacle then you dramatically reduce the risk of
serious damage to the Drone so in this case we hit a tree and that was bad but
uh let's go ahead and uh take off again here and see if we can do another little
range test here we go make sure all systems are
functional there we are and let's go ahead and wow it's getting pretty windy
though I got to say this is definitely not the optimal conditions for uh for
flying a small RC aircraft like this so
let's go ahead and take it down to the other end of the parking lot and uh see
how far we can go I'm flying into the wind right now so this represents pretty
much my top speed into a strong
headwind really you're realistically
you're going to lose control of the AR drone in terms of your visual ability to
determine what's forward and what's backwards before before you're going to
lose control of the AR drone from the iPad so you can see it's getting blown
around quite a bit over there but I guess that pretty much wraps us up there's my range test on the AR drone
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videos so here's cameraman trying to fly the AR
drone he approves of this product because uh he's using the iPad to
control it I'll just zoom in on his uh his drone
flate here
please don't hit the car cameraman so we're quite far away at
this point I'm going to max out the zoom of my camera
here wow I think I can actually see it better through the zoom than I can
uh with my
eyes oh please don't hit that
car so yeah this cameraman flying the
Drone something's cool is that is that if you actually do manage to go outside
of the maximum range of the Drone what it does is it just switches off and goes
into hover mode so there's no risk of uh
it damaging Itself by like flying away or anything like
that so yeah