The Pocket Drone - Your personal flying robot

[EldarNi]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdroids/the-pocket-drone-your-personal-flying-robot

 

The Pocket Drone key features

1. Unique cutting-edge collapsible compact design
2. Easy to fly and simple to maintain
3. Lightweight with maximum payload
4. Ready to fly (RTF) with everything you need out of the box and quick to deploy
5. Advanced software and systems with autopilot and "follow me" mode
6. Longest flight time of any multicopter under $500
7. High quality materials and components
8. Upgradeable, expandable and hackable
9. Designed with multiple safety features

but what's interesting for me is the "follow me" function

5. Advanced software and systems with autopilot and "follow me" mode

• State of the art flight controls, algorithms and connectivity
• APM compatible flight controller 6-axis accelerometers, 3 axis gyroscopes, barometric sensor (altitude)
• Integrated onboard autopilot Flight planning with Google Maps
• Fly by GPS waypoints
• "Follow Me" mode (requires mobile device with GPS)
• Altitude Hold
• Return to home (RTH)
• Headfree mode (orientation independent flying)
• Load/Save and repeat/replay flight missions
• Real-time flight data
• Artificial Horizon
• Altitude Heading indicator
• GPS signal strength
• PC, Mac and Linux compatible
• Mission Planner or QGroundControl Compatible
• Android compatible (tablet and phone)
• iOS compatibility coming soon

[Lord Pantaloons]

I like how this thing's goal was so thoroughly annihilated.

[DLM_012]

I wish I had $500 of disposable income

[XTankSlayerX]

Hey guys!! ANOTHER flying gadget!

 

 

EDIT This looks interesting

[Coswar]

I want! Don't have the money though

[mr.squishy]

When will people realize that "drones" have been in the hobby scene for YEARS. Stuff like this is NOT NEW and does not deserve the attention it gets. At the very least the "World's first" title is EXTREMELY undeserved. I mean, tri-copters are cool, but they are not new, even if they do "follow you" and fold up.