Our IT guys found this in a closet. It's an old quadcopter that uses thermopiles rather than gyros for stabilzation. It's RC only, but it's got a big old webcam on a stalk. Like a Parrot AR.Drone from the dark ages!
The only identifying writing on the board says "Spectrolutions, 2004" and when you Google that it comes up with this site, which shows a very similar board with "Draganfly" markings. Maybe this is a prototype of an earlier version of the current DraganFly?
[Update: it looks like it is indeed a prototype of the DraganFly V, which came out that year. Here's a good pictoral history of that development]
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Oh, wow, he's right:
http://www.wired.com/about/staff_magazine/
Where do you find the time? Amazing.
It is fun to fly but it really lacks expandability. It is also really bad for video, it is very shaky because of the gears between the motors and the propellers and it has an approximate 150g max payload capability.
It was made by Spectrolutions and sold by Draganfly until last year
- Charles
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