Hello! I am Henry from Feibot team, a flight controller group interesting in smart-phone-based flight controllers for drones. We made it true as a validation experiment six months ago, and truer as a real flight controller now.

We name it Feibot. It is an android phone based flight controller for drones, which consists of two parts, an app installed on the phone and an expansion board named “N1” connected. Feibot app is the core of the controller, which is in charge of sensor data acquisition and processing, algorithm solving and all the other superior tasks. The N1 board only manages the transmission of directives.

Smart phones has a variety of built-in sensors, such as gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, GPS and barometers. Apart from the sensors, they have many other features that a traditional flight controller can hardly have, such as HD cameras, 4G/5G networks, touch screens, excellent extensibility for Apps and devices, as well as remarkable multi-tasking computing capability.

These features bring many probabilities for drones. Feibot can control the phones’ front and rear cameras to take photos and videos, and you can switch photo/video state and alter the camera choice easily during the flying. You can also define images and words on the screen, as you fly the drone to the balcony of your girl to express your love. By the 4G/5G network, Feibot can transmit the real-time images from by the drone to not only the eyes of yourself, but everyone at every corner around the world.

Feibot supports multiple input modes, such as PWM, PPM and S-BUS. It also supports multiple phone mounting ways. If you want to take images during flight, a drone-frame similar to the one shown in our video maybe needed, which allows the phone to be mounted vertically. Still, you can fly drones of traditional configurations, although the phone could only be mounted in a horizontal way. Both four-rotor and six-rotor multi-copters are supported.

The most impressive facet of Feibot is that, it’s so interface friendly, that you don’t have to tackle with the preparation before the flying very hardly as you might experience when you are to play with a traditional controller. By the simple and direct interactions between you and a phone, you can handle everything so easily.

This is Feibot. And we are the Feibot team, on our way, never stops. Hope you enjoy!