April 3rd, 2013

ExtremeFliers Releases A Teeny-Tiny Quadcopter That Can Flip In Mid-Air

We were lucky enough to meet with Vernon Kerswell at ExtremeFliers, a 20-something inventor with a passion for little flying things. His latest creation, the Microdrone 2.0, puts a surprisingly powerful brain inside a drone that is about as big as a baseball. → Read More

April 1st, 2013

The GPS-Enabled DJI Phantom Quadcopter Makes The AR.Drone Look Like A Toy

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Back in 2010, our own John Biggs rightly described Parrot’s AR.Drone as ” the coolest thing [he had] seen in a long, long time.” Since then, Parrot has launched the AR.Drone 2.0 and while it’s still a very cool gadget, quadcopters have come a very long way since 2010. Last month, the folks at DJI, who mostly specialize in developing unmanned aerial systems for commercial… → Read More

February 6th, 2013

The Teeny, Tiny Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Is Available For Pre-Order

A few weeks ago the Crazyflie Nano captured our collective imaginations by winging its way around an open plan office and looking like a cross between a hummingbird and the robotic butterfly that steals things in Dora the Explorer. The tiny quadrotor robot is now available for pre-order for $173 for the multi-sensor version and $143 for a basic version with position sensors. The product should… → Read More