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so the first time i saw the parrot bebop in person was at ces this year and man

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did they have a cool demo running they had quadcopters flipping and spinning

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and dancing and at one point we even saw a pretty spectacular crash although we

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didn't get it on camera unfortunately and while i actually haven't really

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gotten into a lot of the more advanced quads that have come out over the last

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year or so with the most sophisticated flyer in my fleet being an aerodrome 2.0

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the bebop piqued my interest and i asked parrot to send over a sample so i could

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put it through the paces for you and for those of you asking because i'm sure

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it's all over the place yes scrapyard wars 1c is going to contain the epic

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so i got the sky controller package and this is a must in my opinion since it

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dramatically increases the range and

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ease of control of the bebop compared to using the wi-fi antenna and on-screen

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controls on your tablet or smartphone and the out-of-the-box experience was

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actually really really good mostly the included documentation is abominable but

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everything was nicely packaged in an environmentally and cat stomach friendly

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paper material and unlike many hobbyist grade products it really comes with

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everything you need to get started the bebop drone the sky controller three

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1200 milliamp hour lipo batteries two for the drone and one for the sky

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controller a charger for the batteries a full set of replacement propellers with

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a tool to do it a hull to protect the props from damage when flying indoors or

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near obstructions a micro usb cable and neck strap and an awesome and essential

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when you want to use first person view on a bright day foldable sun shade with

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an ipad mini adapter so you can use it with a full size tablet or a smaller one

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so let's start with a closer look at the bebop itself the four motors have been

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upgraded to brushless compared to the ar drone 2.0 parrot has added eight gigs of

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on-board storage about enough for three flights worth of video and some photos

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from the 14 megapixel camera speaking of which the camera now features a 180

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degree fisheye lens full hd 1080p recording and an unbelievable

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virtual gimbal stabilization setup that makes first person piloting a bit more

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challenging more on that later but allows the bebop to deliver some

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astounding aerial footage on the back is the power button and a

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micro usb connector for offloading footage to a computer although this can

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be done over Wi-Fi and then on the underside is an ultrasonic sensor for

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low altitude height detection and a smaller camera to control drift and

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measure speed along with a couple of landing gear mounted antennas rubber

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isolators that will provide some impact absorption in crashes and will keep the

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motor vibration away from the rest of the internals because as interesting as

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what i've said so far may actually be that is where the bebop got most of its

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upgrades it now features a dual core cortex a9 CPU a quad-core GPU whatever

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that means ac wireless a 3-axis magnetometer a 3-axis gyroscope a 3-axis

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accelerometer and a pressure sensor lets

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it know how high it is once the ultrasonic sensor gets out of range of

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the ground gps is now built in out of the box so you can see a little map of

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where you went if you sign up for a parrot account and it can return home

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with a dedicated button oh yeah and the bebop runs a Linux operating system with

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an open source sdk in the works wow and

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the sky controller is actually much more than a couple of joysticks with an

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adjustable tablet or phone mount too i mean it has that you know the right

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stick does forward backward and side to side movement while the left one

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controls altitude and rotation or yaw but there's other stuff too it's got its

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own Android equipped computer inside with gps HDMI out for head mounted

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displays a usb port for optional accessories down the line and even head

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tracking for your hmd a micro usb port for applying updates a serious business

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wi-fi antenna that increases the range from pretty fun to holy crap this thing

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goes really far away like 150 meters up

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in the air with a live video feed that's actually working not half bad it's got

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battery and wi-fi strength indicators record and still image capture buttons

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and a joystick for panning around the recorded camera view too but enough of

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that what is it like to fly the answer is

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really really fun i've always kind of liked rc stuff i've got a dx7 radio an

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su-26 ready to fly and a blade msr that i can sort of fly but helies are hard

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and i kind of suck at it and compared to those the bebop is really stable and

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really easy to handle almost to the point where it's kind of boring wait

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Linus boring you just said it was fun yes i'm getting to that flying around

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staring at the drone is okay but about

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as exciting as flying a kite for 10 minutes if you're not a die hard rc

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aircraft person because there's really not much challenge in it the bebop with

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some exceptions that i'll get into a bit more later pretty much just

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goes where you put it and then stays there but even though i just spent the

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last minute griping about what i'd like to be better your focus shouldn't be on

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the complaints but rather on what kinds of complaints they are none of these are

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show stoppers that'll land the bee bot permanently in my closet collecting dust

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there are usability tweaks that i really want to see addressed because this thing

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is so much fun and i want my experience using it all the time to be as smooth as

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possible and i have a lot of hope for it rift dk2 doesn't support first person vr

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so i couldn't try it but the consumer one which i am getting will and i am

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stoked to play with that and parrot opening things up to the open source

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community has already resulted in some cool mods like this users on the parrot

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forum who figured out how to turn the gimbal off for more true to what the

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bebop is seeing first person view and this other one with leds added for

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better visibility of the drone's orientation in the sky so

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is the bebop the best drone for the price at 900 with the sky controller i

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don't know this is my first kick at the can for anything better than toy grade

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is it a really really cool gizmo that's going to provide hours of fun for me and

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my son when we want to go out and do something on the weekend yeah it is

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