FPV Mini Race Quad Video TX & RX i-Drone was established in November of 2011 and soon became the UK’s No.1 Custom Centre for the Parrot AR Drone. Based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom, our range grew as new products evolved. We now specialise in selling parts and equipment to the FPV Racing community worldwide. We regularly attend RC Model Shows such as Weston Park, The Nationals, Wings & Wheels and FPV Race Events, UK Drone Show, Formula FPV, The Mini Air Show  and more. We feel we are at the heart of the FPV racing scene, selling those essential parts to keep you, the pilots in the air. We supply ARTF race quads and always have a selection available from stock, all you’ll need to get them flying are a battery and receiver for your transmitter. They are pre tuned to a basic set of PID’s, but as your flying skills progress, you will need to alter these to suit your own flying skills. i-Drone are certified resellers of Parrot, DJI, Video Aerial Systems, Acehe, FX Tech, DAL Props and many more.

Its all here, props, batteries, upgrades, genuine spare parts, lights, bearings etc…. We are always looking for new and the latest products that you will only get from a specialist. i-Drone offers a place to purchase with confidence, the Multirotor of your choice.August 28, 2015 – Austin. As it is our business to understand the design and cost characteristics of technologies people use, monitoring the evolution of the prosumer drone market continues to reveal just how quickly the manufactures and designers of these technologies are changing.parrot ar drone heli One of our previous drone teardowns, the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 – GPS Edition, showed that thisparrot ar drone parts nz $350 product had a bill of material cost of roughly $140. parrot ar drone costo

As identified in our analysis, it sported technology from the likes of Micron, Texas Instruments, and Atheros (now part of Qualcomm). Image: Parrot AR Drone 2.0, August 2014 This August we updated our look at Parrot’s products, this time looking at the Parrot Bebop Drone (retail price $499.99) as curiosity had us wondering how drone technology has evolved over the past 12 months. has noted significant changes in the electronics that Parrot chose for its newest product.drone gopro buy Image: Parrot Bebop Drone, August 2015drone helicopter buy While the price is higher, Parrot has greatly reduced the overall size of the drone, yet it weighs roughly the same as the AR Drone. parrot ar drone with lightsFrom an electronics perspective where the AR.

Drone 2.0 contained eight circuit boards the Bebop has only two which greatly simplifies design. Image: Parrot’s AR Drone 2 (PCB mainboards) versus Parrot’s Bebop (PCB mainboards) ’s analysis shows the team at Parrot has definitely upped their game in terms of technology innovation by simplifying their design choices and taking advantage of increases in processing power and access to more memory for at or lower costs to the previous versions. The upgrading of camera and imaging technology has been a significant influence to many of the design changes. In an effort to handle the additional loading of 1080p video capabilities, Parrot upgraded the AR Drone’s Texas Instruments Cortex-A8 processor to a dual-core Parrot-branded P7 processor based on Cortex-A9 technology. This is the first processor that we have seen branded by Parrot and additional analysis will be required to see what exactly is inside this chip. Memory (DRAM), to support the application and guidance needs, has also been increased from the AR's DDR2 256MB to the Bebop's DDR3 512MB along with a significant bump in internal NAND flash memory storage from 4GB to 8GB.

While the NAND Flash continued to be supplied by Toshiba, Parrot chose Nanya DDR3 SDRAM over the previous drone’s Micron DDR2 memory. has identified while doing our initial teardown. Image: Parrot Bebop Drone Mainboard Side 1 Image: Parrot Bebop Drone Mainboard Side 2 While the processing power and the memory are important to make a drone successful is all about making it easy and dependable while aloft. At Teardown we were somewhat surprised to see the changes made by Parrot in moving away from Qualcomm Atheros to rival Broadcom for Wi-Fi connectivity. While both are low power chip designs we feel this change in design was likely based on further power improvement requirements they achieved with the Broadcom chipset. We noted that Cypress has been added for flight control duties with its PSoC 3. The adoption of the Cypress’ technology has likely been to allow the designer (in this case Parrot) to be able to further improve the drones capabilities as the PSoC platform allows the programming and customization of how the hardware can interact with application specific requirements as well as adds a CPU with additional software designer capabilities.

Based on location and hardware connections, it appears the single PSoC device has integrated the motor control of all four brushless motors. The Cypress PSoC3 replaces four Atmel Mega MCUs and their PCBs that provided motor control in the previous design and replaced an MCU in the older drone as well, an impressive reduction of 5 integrated circuits to a single chip. This likely results in further bill of materials cost savings for Parrot. Meanwhile, Invensense maintained its design win with the MPU-6050 6-Axis MEMS gyroscope and motion control sensor. This was an upgrade from the previous Invensense MEMS IMU-3000 chipset.This battery should work for the AR2.0 Elite edition, correct? I don't see why it shouldn't, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Parrot Parts (or either a full AR.Drone 1.0 or 2.0 for disassembly) Tools / optional Parts Using a PPM Reciever Using a PPM Encoder Prepare FTDI UART connection cable Flash Firmware on PX4FMU Throttle cannot be raised

The PX4 autopilot can be used on AR.Drone 1.0 or AR.Both versions of the AR.Drone share compatible center frame and motor controllers. This is a quick and easy way to build a light, stable quad rotor without having to design your own, or shop around for parts; the entire vehicle can be sourced from just two suppliers. The instructions below guide you through the process of assembling the PX4IOAR shield and mounting it on an ARDrone frame. These PX4 autopilot parts are required: Power supply and cabling: Turnigy 1800 mAh 3S1P ePower EXP eco 1500 mAh 3S1P DesirePower 25C 1800 mAh 3S1P 5 pack XT 60 connector and silicone wire 1x Parrot Central Cross (Mfr Part# PF070008AA) (Parrot Store Link) 4x Parrot Motor Set for AR.Drone 2.0 (Mfr Part# PF070040AA) (Parrot Store Link) 1x Parrot Propellers for AR.Drone 2.0 (Mfr Part# PF070045AA) (Parrot Store Link) 1x Parrot Gears & Shafts for AR.Drone 2.0 (Mfr Part# PF070047AA) (Parrot Store Link)

Some shops are now selling the AR.Drone Shell, that is just the AR.Drone airframe with out the AR.Drone Mainboard, or Nav board. You can get one from Unmanned Tech, or BYOD 1x Charge Lead for XT 60 batteries (HobbyKing) 1x Balancer adapter for XH plugs (HobbyKing) 1x Parrot Mounting Tools for AR.Drone 2.0 (Mfr Part# PF070048AA) (Parrot Store Link) These pictures show the step-by-step assembly on a finished AR. You can connect a PPM receiver directly, or using an encoder as described below: The PX4AR is designed to use a PPM capable receiver for manual flight control, through connector J3. J3.1 - PPM input The following shows the correct connection between the PX4AR and the FRSky D4R-II. J3 pads and the D4R pin spacing is sized to fit a standard servo connector (recommended). J3.1 Connects to Ch1 (Purple) J3.2 Connects to Ch1+ (White) J3.3 Connects to Ch1- (Black) The D4R also requires that a jumper is connected between CH3 and CH4 to enable PPM mode, as shown

You will need the following: Simply connect the +5V, GND, and SIGNAL to the designated locations on the board as described in the picture below Please download and install QGroundControl 2.0 and follow the steps in the video. When selecting the airframe, please choose the AR. Before you fly the ARDrone, you need to adjust the scaling factor of your battery (specially if you are using a batter other than the ARDrone batter), otherwise you will get battery warning beeping sounds. The controller gains provided automatically during setup should work just fine. For advanced users: please refer to the multirotor_pid_tuning page to learn how to tune your system This section shows how to set up the AR.Drone Airframe for convenient RC-Flight and Testing. At the end you will have a wireless MAVLink connection to a ground control station + a NuttShell terminal on a FTDI adapter. In addition to the part list on top of the page you further need: 1x Xbee Adapter or similar for the helicopter + 1 module on the computer side

1x DF13 5 Position Connector Solder the DF13 5 Position Connector to a header according to the picture below. Go through the 9-Step Quickstart tutorial for Developers in order to be familiar with flashing the FMU. Now plug the microSD card into the PX4FMU + the Xbee module and the DF13 5 Position Connector into the PX4IOAR Board. After powering the quad you should be able to connect via a ground control terminal (Xbee link) and a serial terminal (DF 13 cable on UART5) to the onboard electronics of the AR.Drone setup while flying with the RC remote. If you are using XBee Pro (speed up to 250kb/s) and you want to increase the XBee link speed from the default 57600 to 115200, then this is what you can do (warning this might not be the best way to do it!):Copy the /etc/init.d/rcS file to /fs/microsd/etc/rc.txt and modify it so that it does almost exactly as rcS, but change the baud rate to 115200, and remove the part at the beginning where the script calls /fs/microsd/etc/rc.txt (otherwise the script will keep on calling itself).