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  • Nigel Cartwright December 31, 2013 at 2:39am

    "I thought Apple banned apps that controlled drones. I seemed to recall this being a major problem for other apm apps and was the primary reason none currently exist."

    Wrong - Parrot do it, as do many far east companies with helis and quads.

  • Simon Wunderlin December 31, 2013 at 2:29am

    Why for the iPad? Last time I checked, the iPad screen is, unfortunately, unusable in direct sunlight. 

  • mP1 December 31, 2013 at 12:44am

     .. this is the main reason why dji must be using a bluetooth bridge.

  • mP1 December 31, 2013 at 12:43am

    Darrell:

    I thought Apple banned apps that controlled drones. I seemed to recall this being a major problem for other apm apps and was the primary reason none currently exist. The problem is not a technical one but rather an Apple problem. The only ios apps i am familiar with require users to basically to have an developer license so they can upload to their own ios tablets.

  • Mark December 30, 2013 at 10:54pm

    The reason it didn't hit the waypoints is because he selected 'Adaptive' for the path - in which case it does a spline-ish path.  It doesn't give you any control over the control points of the spline (if it is one), so it's probably just some kind of smoothing algorithm to transition between the two headings.

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    Gary Mortimer December 30, 2013 at 10:34pm

    Of course BVR is not the correct buzzword, its BLOS. Just saying.

  • Nikola Rabchevsky December 30, 2013 at 7:38pm

    Pretty slick.  I wonder when QGroundControl will arrive on the iPad given that it's written in Qt and Qt 5.2 is intended to work everywhere.

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    Chris Anderson December 30, 2013 at 6:12pm

    Droid Planner 2.0 should be released in beta later this week. It looks surprisingly similar to this -- great minds think alike ;-)

  • Rob_Lefebvre December 30, 2013 at 5:47pm

    Looks pretty slick.

    I noticed on the corners, it didn't hit the waypoints and was obviously rounding them.  But it's not clear if this was a simple algorithm like we currently have (we'll almost always round the corners), or if it was true spline.

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