The Director Mode lets you program automatic movements for your AR.Drone 2.0 so that you can shoot great 720p HD videos just like a movie director.
As a new feature within the main piloting application (AR.FreeFlight) the Director Mode grants pilots with both an easier and more thorough new way to create amazing videos.
Parrot organized an International contest of short films under the topic: ‘The eye from above’. This contest gathered 10 professional teams from 8 countries.
LIKE and POST a comment under your favorite movie and get a chance to win a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 per week!
Contest begins on Nov 7th and closes on Dec 07th 2012.
Team:
André MECHALY
Marketing VP Europe, Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs & Terminal IOT Center teams
Yoni BENATAR
AR.Drone Project Manager, Parrot
4G Antenna
AR.Drone 2.0 with 4G USB Dongle
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AR.Drone 2.0 over Wi-Fi : Wi-Fi connection lost!
The website Paper Replika.com organized a contest between July 4th 2012 & July 18th 2012 and the winner have the rights to claim a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0! http://paper-replika.com
It’s time to announce the winner.
To use the FreeFlight application, your Android phone or tablet must meet the following criteria:
- Your device must be running Android version 2.2 (or a later version). To check what version of Android is installed on your phone, go to Settings > About phone > Software information > Android version.
- The screen of your device must have the Multitouch function. Please refer to the user guide or specifications for your phone for more information.
- Your device must have an accelerometer. Please refer to the user guide or specifications for your phone for more information.
The support page has been updated: http://ardrone2.parrot.com/support/
The official list of supported phones (tested and validated internally) is as follows. More phone to come every month.
SenseFly, a Swiss company, joins Parrot to strengthen its position as a leading provider of ultralight flying drones (also called UAV) for mapping and geographic information system (GIS) professionals.
Two pioneers of ultralight drones for civil use, SenseFly and Parrot, have joined forces to further develop their respective markets. Parrot has sold over 300,000 of its AR.drone quadcopters to the consumer market since its release in 2010; while the Swiss start-up, senseFly, has seen global and fast growth demand for its fixed-wing drones
for the mapping and GIS market.
New AR.FreeFlight 2.0 App Enables NOOK Tablet Owners to Control Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 with Their NOOK®
Top features on the app include video and photo recording and sharing in HD, incredible flip capabilities and much more…
Forget about personal trainers and jogging buddies, Chad Toprak prefers to work up a sweat alongside a hovering AR.Drone.
The RMIT honours student is part of the team behind the Joggobot, an autonomous whizzing device that levitates in front of joggers and encourages them to get fit.
”It’s a really unique feeling to be running with a flying robot,” the 22-year-old says. ”Social joggers have partners they jog with. Sometimes they are not available and the next best thing can be a robot.”
They bought an AR.Drone and programmed it to respond to an orange and blue marker on a T-shirt worn by the jogger. A built-in camera attached to the AR.Drone lets it track the jogger and move accordingly. ”The original product was controlled by a smartphone. We turned that into an autonomous robot that controls itself.”
