Qualcomm, a 3DR investor, has released a sneak peek of what it will be showing at CES next week. 3DR will be also displaying in the Qualcomm booth. Draw your own conclusions ;-)
From the Verge: "We believe that, with this chip, we can cut the price of the average 4K camera drone from $1,200 down to $300 or $400," Qualcomm's Raj Talluri told The Verge in October. "And we think we can extend the battery life from 20 minutes to 45 to 60 minutes. That will open them up to a much broader audience and a whole new range of applications."
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Please, Chris, make this board a github-able hardware like rpi, don't be another DJI.
@Randy
what SOM are you used for your video ?
Excellent! ... We want to get a dev board, but it looks like the stereo cameras are currently missing. Also, it will be nice to have a compatible ESC board, and an ARF kit will be even better.
I am guessing that we will eventually see the release a "SOLO2-like" product based on the Qualcomm components, including the DroneKit/SDK to enable some level of DIY development.... That being said, it would still be nice to have this board at a lower price. But it is what it is. :)
Hattori-san,
No, just regular Stabilize, AltHold and Loiter. On the board I have there's no special purpose optical flow sensor but perhaps the downward facing camera could be used for that along with other things like precision landing. It's significantly lower resolution than the forward facing camera so it wouldn't be any good for doing mapping.
Wow, very nice videos, Randy!
One question, have you utilize optical flow sensors on those flights?
Those who scour the ardupilot wiki may have noticed that we (mostly Tridge really) recently ported ardupilot to run on the snapdragon board (videos here, here and here). It's probably very similar to the one in the video but it doesn't have the stereo cameras.
It's a heck of a board with tons of CPU power, 2 built in cameras, wifi (of course) and potentially the ability to connect to the mobile network for 3G/4G/LTE telemetry.
The developer board's price is terrible but I hope it's a preview of the kinds of boards we get to work with in the future because it opens up a lot of possibilities. Of course, sadly it's not open source hardware but maybe other companies will make similarly high powered flight controllers so we can get some healthy competition going?
avionics tends to consume more power on 20% functions of the 80% of flight duration.
3D image processing, can self navigate through tight bends. sound scary!
Still some work left to be done, to beat those pesky humans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXCpQPa6OA
I could not find anything on double or triple flight time, nothing to do with making the motor/esc more efficient. Since the flight power train (motor/esc) uses 98% of all the other electronics on board, I have zero hope for the flight time increase claim. Here is the development board.
https://www.intrinsyc.com/snapdragon-embedded-development-kits/qual...
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