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Flone, the flying phone

Posted by lot on July 10, 2013 at 4:00pm

 

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We are developing Flone: a interface that allows smartphones to fly.

Right now we are starting with the project, so first we design the airframe, it's a H quadcopter with space for electronics and free field of view for the camera of smartphone.

We would like to keep the design "mini" and easy to build.

 

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At the moment we are using a Multiwii as flight board and a standard camera app in the smartphone.

Our plans is to develop an app than allows to fly with the onboard sensors and telemetry of the smartphone.

We plan to release the hardware with Creative Commons ShareAlike and the source code with GPL, so we would like to have the feedback of the diydrones community.

We published the airframe in Thingiverse, so you can already cut-it with a laser cutter, and we made a Instructables with all the instructions to build one yourself ;)

 

You can get updated about the project in our webpage: http://flone.cc ( In spanish )

 

One more thing... we would like to take advantage of this post to remember you that the last day to vote in Drones contest is coming, so if you like our project please vote us in Instructables ;)

 

Tags: h, airframe, android, drone, frame, quad, smartphone
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  • Mirek von Fajx V. (NLP) November 28, 2016 at 7:54am

    Dear gold Flone developers,


    I am contacting you because of specific open source development thread. In Vijay Kumar TEDxPenn Talk (Sikang Liu, Giuseppe Loianno, Yash Mulgaonkar, Gareth Cross) is highlighted Flone, drone with simple robotic hand and drones with software enhancement for precision farming (fruit recognition).


    https://www.facebook.com/mirecek.lacoste/videos/1355933114439228/


    My interested is in open source intersection - flone fruit (apple) harvester. Any workgroup relating to such flone enhancement?
    Thank you for your ideas, connections and actions - pointed attention.


    With best regards,

    Mirek Fajx
    Diamond Multi Level Marketing Dealer
    LR Health & Beauty Systems / COOP GAY.CZ
    http://lr.neocities.org
    http://www.gay.cz

    Leben der Porsche. Living the Porsche. Endless discussions about how to treat fruits are over. Flying phone (Sony Gold Xperia) and instead of fisches we put fruits in the boxes with it too... Connecting with right brains puts our supply chain into action... Oh... SILICON HILL Marketing goes so well with overblacked 911.

    Posted by Mirek GayMlm Fajx on Wednesday, November 23, 2016
  • lot July 15, 2013 at 5:31am

    Hi Jim, I think that Android phones are fast as well, first we need to see the performance of Ubuntu phones.

    We are flying under wifi, with a 20% JPEG quality with no delay. It's not a high quiality image, but we can see the landscape for fpv.

  • SOAR July 12, 2013 at 10:56am

    Dude, this is an incredible idea. My kids love the idea. You are on to something here.

  • lot July 10, 2013 at 5:30pm

    Yes HeliStorm, we are making tests with the Osino periscope lens:

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    But we are designing for nexts releases a 3d printed pan-tilt mirror mount with two micro servos.

  • HeliStorm July 10, 2013 at 5:16pm
    Just a quick question. The phone camera will point down, or up, depending on which camera is used. Could a periscope type device be added to provide a forward looking view?
  • Jesse July 10, 2013 at 5:07pm

    Gives a new meaning to 'air time'.

  • lot July 10, 2013 at 4:55pm

    Thanks!
    The maiden flight is here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsdF9hWk-o

    I can not embebed-it in the original post.

  • The Sun July 10, 2013 at 4:34pm
    That is adorable.
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