Easy to perform jumping stunts Video and audio recording and broadcast Would you buy this? Parrot is best known for its wide variety of Bluetooth devices, from in-car mounts to the rather excellent Zik headphones, but over the past couple of years it's also made a significant number of Wi-Fi connected drone products, both in its larger AR Drone series and a number of smaller "minidrone" products.This year's crop of minidrones covers both small quadcopters and two-wheeled remote jumping drones. They're essentially remote control vehicles with inbuilt cameras and a few cool stunt tricks as well, all connected and controlled via Wi-Fi rather than Parrot's more traditional Bluetooth approach.Parrot sells its Jumping Race Drones in two types with three colour patterns each. We tested the Jumping Race Drone, but there are also three Jumping Night Models, all of which differ only in base colour. The $279.99 Jumping Night drones feature IR cameras and inbuilt lights for usage once the sun has gone down, but you pay for that with a lower overall operating speed.

The model we were sent for review was the mostly white $289.99 Racing Drone "Jett" unit. If you care for names, the red Jumping Race drone is "Max" and the yellow is "Tuk Tuk". This attempt at personality extends to the variety of noises that the Jumping Race drone makes if you leave it unattended, or after specific stunts.ar drone power edition unboxingSetting up the Jumping Race Drone involves charging its battery and then connecting to it via Wi-Fi, before launching Parrot's FreeFlight 3 app (iOS/Android) to actually control your drone of choice. storm drone ff flying platform manualFans of Parrot's existing drones will find this familiar, because the one app controls all of Parrot's current drone fleet. ar drone 2 power edition купить

It's also worth noting that the new Parrot minidrones also work with Tickle, a third party programming app with a Scratch-style interface intended for educational purposes.You can't call a drone "jumping" and not allow it to jump. The Jumping Race drone has two jump types on offer; a straight up jump of around 75cm vertical, or a longer 75cm forwards jump. It's got to ready itself prior to every jump, and it can only jump forwards relative to its current orientation. After each jump it'll steady itself automatically, although the manner in which it does so can vary a lot depending on the surface it lands on. In one test scenario we tried to jump up onto a path, only to find the Jumping Race drone falling down and rolling right back down every time in an effort to stabilise itself. The Jumping Race drone features soft foam wheels, which gives it some stability when landing from a jump, but at the cost of overall durability. If you're using the Jumping Race Drone indoors this won't likely be a problem, but even a small amount of outdoors testing saw some visible wear and tear on the tyres.

They are a removable part, but compared to the hard rubber and plastic tyres of units such as Sphero's Ollie drones, they feel a little cheap.The Jumping Race Drone can capture both stills and video to its 4GB of internal memory, although the resolution that it does this at is still somewhat lacking. In the age of the GoPro, it's a touch disappointing to step back into a world where video is captured at a paltry 640x480 VGA resolution. We guess it could be good if you wanted to recreate the world of 1998 in low-slung video form. It's slightly more fun to use the Jumping Race Drone to broadcast your voice, although you'll need a set of headphones with an inline microphone on your smartphone or table to take advantage of this feature.Drone battery life is always a touchy subject, and here the Jumping Race Drone's lack of weight means that it only carries a 550mAh battery. That's good for around twenty minutes of driving fun, at which point you've got to recharge it via the front mounted microUSB port.

A microUSB cable is provided in the box, but you don't get a charger. One plus here is that if you've got a larger capacity 2.4A charger, the Jumping Race drone can be backed up and driving in a scant 25 minutes or so.As with most drones, play is the point of the Jumping Race drone, and we can't deny that it's fun to scoot around with it, randomly chirping or adding your own sound effects when it comes into a room to startle people. The asking price of $289.99 is rather steep for what essentially becomes a remote control car, however, especially given those somewhat fragile foam tyres.FREE shipping on orders over $199 LiPo 1300 3S 11.1v AR Drone / Drone 2.0 Battery PackPrice:Ask A Question Click here to watch a video of this pack in action. This is a high-performance upgrade LiPo battery pack for the Parrot AR.Drone and AR Drone 2.0 version. The perfect upgrade from the stock pack, this pack boasts a large capacity of 1300mah for 33% more flight time from your AR Drone. It features a 100C rating for tons of punch and extra power.

Pack includes JST-XH balance connector and small Tamiya female plug so you can charge it with your original stock AR Drone wall charger, or upgrade to a hobby-grade charger for faster charge times. 5C fast charge capable Built today with factory fresh cells We add the connector and JST-XH balancing tap for you 64mm x 35mm x 26mm, 118g Perfect battery for your Parrot AR Drone and AR Drone 2.0 version.  Get up to 33% more flight time than the stock 1000mah pack. Note: This pack is built with the stock plugs shown in the picture that comes on your AR Drone for easy plug and play.  If you need a different plug or balancing tap, please mention it in the notes section when checking out. Note: If you have the AR Drone 2.0 charger only, you will need to upgrade to a hobby-grade charger that allows for charging with the Tamiya plug or JST-XH balancing tap.« Next » 5 (Show All)Click to review this product Click to review this productMAVLink is a very lightweight, header-only message marshalling library for micro air vehicles.

It can pack C-structs over serial channels with high effiency and send these packets to the ground control station. It is extensively tested on the PX4, PIXHAWK, APM and Parrot AR.Drone platforms and serves there as communication backbone for the MCU/IMU communication as well as for Linux interprocess and ground link communication. The MAVLink generator was first released early 2009 by Lorenz Meier under LGPL license. The generated output was always considered equal to the input message spec and has since been clarified to be MIT. The current MAVLink Protocol Version can be looked up here: Common MAVLink Message Documentation These tutorials show how to integrate MAVLink with your autopilot or Linux robot. Message documentation is generated for all MAVLink messages automatically and always up-to-date. To get the details of a MAVLink message, please refer to the message lists below. You can additionally generate Doxygen API docs from the MAVLink source. Create a new MAVLink Message

On-the-wire format and extra CRC calculation –HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ARTICLE EXPLAINING API vs INTERNAL FORMATS MAVLink Release 1.1 Compatibility and Features MAVLink Data Types and Conventions QGroundControl users: Although MAVLink itself does not rely on it, QGroundControl adjusts its views and settings based on the HEARTBEAT MAVLink message. QGroundControl uses this message also to track if a system is alive or if the connection broke. Therefore make sure to send a heartbeat every 60, 30, 10 or 1 second (1 Hz is recommended, but not required) There is a “common message set” containing widely used messages, which is distributed as header-only C library. If you like to use your own custom messages, you can generate these with the MAVLink Generator (C/C++, Python) or QGroundControl. The MAVLink message definitions and generator code is hosted at: Installation / usage instructions can be found at: Downloading / Installing MAVLink Instructions how to use the generator can be found at:

MAVLink Generator (C/C++, Python) Instructions how to package MAVLink releases (developers only) can be found here: There are by now many systems and software packages using MAVLink: Maintainer: Lorenz Meier, lm@inf.ethz.ch pxIMU Autopilot (main protocol) SLUGS Autopilot (main protocol) SenseSoar Autopilot (main protocol) SmartAP Autopilot (main protocol) AutoQuad 6 AutoPilot (main protocol) HK Ground Control Station (Windows) QGroundControl w/ AutoQuad MainWidget (Windows/Mac/Linux) MAVCONN Lightweight Aerial Middleware http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/software/middleware/start MAVProxy (allows to connect multiple UDP/serial links, including flightgear): ETH Flying Machine Arena http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/FMA ETH SenseSoar Solar Airplane Project http://www.sensesoar.ethz.ch/doku.php?id=news ETH Skye Blimp Project http://www.projectskye.ch/ UC Santa Cruz SLUGS http://slugsuav.soe.ucsc.edu/index.html

The MAVLink generator is LGPL licensed and its output is MIT licensed and can therefore be used as a library royalty-free in closed-source and open-source applications. Q: Is the upgrade easily done? - Yes, v.1.0.0 is almost fully API-compatible with v.0.9.0. Only a few messages have changed, all protocol-functions like the message parsing (mavlink_parse_char) are fully compatible. Q: What are the main benefits from upgrading? Q: Is the new version to be used soon? Q: How many aircraft does MAVLink support? Q: How efficient is MAVLink? Q: Where can I use MAVLink? Q: How safe is MAVLink? Q: Can I use MAVLink in a closed source application without copyright issues? - Yes, without any limitations. The LGPL license only requires you to contribute changes to MAVLink itself to the community, not any code that uses MAVLink. So you are not required to publish any of your application code. Q: MAVLink uses only one start sign - isn't this less safe than using two or three start signs?

Q: How does MAVLink detect and decode messages in the byte stream?n Q: What use do the system and component IDs have? Q: MAVLink contains a sequence number in the header - is this really necessary? Q: I would like to help improve the decoding/encoding routines or other features. Can MAVLink be changed? - Yes, but only very, very carefully with safety testing. MAVLink is by now used as a safety-critical component in many autopilot systems and has undergone more than two years of testing. Please suggest new features on the MAVLink mailing list. This is the anatomy of one packet. It is inspired by the CAN and SAE AS-4 standards. Byte Index Content Value Explanation 0 Packet start sign v1.0: 0xFE (v0.9: 0x55) Indicates the start of a new packet. 1 Payload length 0 - 255 Indicates length of the following payload. 2 Packet sequence 0 - 255 Each component counts up his send sequence. Allows to detect packet loss 3 System ID 1 - 255 ID of the SENDING system.

Allows to differentiate different MAVs on the same network. 4 Component ID 0 - 255 ID of the SENDING component. Allows to differentiate different components of the same system, e.g. the IMU and the autopilot. 5 Message ID 0 - 255 ID of the message - the id defines what the payload “means” and how it should be correctly decoded. 6 to (n+6) Data (0 - 255) bytes Data of the message, depends on the message id. (n+7) to (n+8) Checksum (low byte, high byte) ITU X.25/SAE AS-4 hash, excluding packet start sign, so bytes 1..Note: The checksum also includes MAVLINK_CRC_EXTRA (Number computed from message fields. Protects the packet from decoding a different version of the same packet but with different variables). The checksum is the same as used in ITU X.25 and SAE AS-4 standards (CRC-16-CCITT), documented in SAE AS5669A. Please see the MAVLink source code for a documented C-implementation of it. MAVLink supports fixed-size integer data types, IEEE 754 single precision floating point numbers, arrays of these data types (e.g. char[10]) and the special mavlink_version field, which is added automatically by the protocol.