PhoneDrone gives your smartphone wings

[Mike Lucey]

The PhoneDrone uses a smart phone as its brain. This makes perfect sense when you consider that today's smart phones have powerful processors, multiple sensors and good cameras.

xCraft have developed the PhoneDrone and have managed to keep the cost very low in comparison to similar drones. There are two ways it can be flown, firstly using a free app on the phone, users can enter a flight path which the PhoneDrone will autonomously follow. The second method offers the user the ability to use a second smart phone or tablet (iOS or Android) to manually pilot the drone via WiFi and at the same time watch live streaming video from the drone's on-board smartphone while in flight.

At 200 to 250 dolars I think this is a great way to create land aerials for use as overlay textures in SketchUp. Their funding target is high at $250K but I would be confident they will reach it as they are offering a well design drone at great value.

Full details may be found here, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/137596013/phonedrone-let-your-smartphone-be-your-personal-dr?ref=nav_search