As the third and last episode of these summer flights in France, I played around with a great little quad, from Walkera, the Ladybird. It looks like a toy really but it is a full fledged quadcopter with amazing compacity:
-the controller board integrates all of the electronics : ESCs, Radio receiver, Accelerometers (6-axis), etc
-in a tiny form factor: the board's size is a little bit more than 1,5 inch WxL:
This is truly amazing. You can program it in the equivalent of our APM "Stabilize" mode or "Acro" mode.
In Acro mode you can do flips and rolls! (i broke quite a lot of shells => foresee replacement parts).
The idea of completing your quadcopter/hexa/octo existing arsenbal with such a small addition is obvious for me: you get the best training platform, ultra resistant to shocks, and much better than a simulator. It really behaves like a real quad int he flying sensations (very sporty one). With this I learned to fly my more expensive and serious drones in different orientations, something I would never had tried with "expensive" material. (and I do not like the artificial simulators to train). Further it is half the price of a software simulator !!!
It flies and sounds like a drone (you'd think a big insect is flying near you) : when we will have killed all of the bees, we should have some robotics substitutes... The attached video shows some fun with it.
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