PowerUO FPV: The paper plane becomes a remotely piloted drone

PowerUp FPV – Live Streaming Paper Airplane Drone. The project has already far exceeded the threshold of crowd funding request, coming to gather in as many as 57 days of the end of the campaign, already nearly double the funds required for the financing of the idea. The latter is simple: a paper plane on which is mounted a light remote control module with two propellers and front camera.

Everyone goes through that stage of life when the passion of the moment is to build paper airplanes: some love remains, for other back to bite so irresistible only occasionally. The dream of all is to control the plane launched, which takes a life of its own once it leaves our hands: life that can last a few milliseconds if our engineering capabilities with the card are very scarce or can conversely be unraveling in the flow of several seconds, giving those small pleasures that change the face in a day. The second dream would be experience first hand that flight, from the imaginary cockpit pulp.

Now this is possible. Or rather, it will possibility the end of the fundraising on Kickstarter Project PowerUp FPV – Live Streaming Paper Airplane Drone. The project has already far exceeded the threshold of crowd funding request, coming to gather in as many as 57 days of the end of the campaign, already nearly double the funds required for the financing of the idea. The latter is simple: a paper plane on which is mounted a light remote control module with two propellers and front camera.

According to the designers can fly up to 20 miles per hour and can be controlled via smartphone or via VR viewer (consisting of cardboard structure that houses a smartphone): in the first case moves the smartphone in your hands, in the second you drive the drone paper with head movements. Parrot is one of the project partners and has been certainly available to those who launched the idea his experience in the field of mini-drones. There is also a mode with autopilot, which is along an eight aircraft in the air.

Using the Wi-Fi connectivity you can drive the paper plane, but also to stream images of what you see on your smartphone: You can also record a movie on the MicroSD card installed on board. The frame is constructed of carbon fiber and the gravity sensor turns on the propellers only after the launching and off in case of impact on the ground, to prevent damage. With the drone will be made available for an SDK also open-source. The design of the plane of paper is customizable by users, who can have fun and try to improve stability or speed. The first shipments will begin in June 2016, with the Early-Bird package with display carton, drone and a battery starting at $ 159. The app will be available for Android and iOS.