Hacking a $20 Toy Helicopter into an Autonomous Drone
We chat with Kyle Moore, a member of the Stanford Robotics Club, about his project that converts cheap remote-controlled toy helicopters into autonomous drones that can map and navigate around environments.
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That pretty cool
The impressive thing is just getting a $20 helicopter to fly for more than 3 seconds!
Honestly, these cheap to build drones scare me. People using them to film inside houses/gardens/through windows..
Extremely impressive, especially in such a short time!
That was pretty cool. Two things I took away from that, a) Reverse engineering is really hard. b) That kid works fast.
like the Arduino logic analyser problem solving…..gona be tricky coding the use of the laser, but i get the feeling he will do it…..god i feel like such a newbie at making stuff…..this guy will have a swarm of these things attacking fort knox before i get my home heating system working with a raspberry pi.