Parrot Bebop : New flying camera

Parrot Bebop able to be driven up to 2 km distance through a Wi-Fi signal and connectable to an extended Oculus Rift helmet. Bebop weighs 380 grams without its shell with 400. The heart of the machine is a 14 megapixel camera, with a resolution of 1080 by 1920 and able to shoot 180 °. The machine is capable of flying for ten minutes before being recharged.

According to Henri Seydoux, CEO of Parrot, who presented the Bebop preview an exhibition devoted to drones, "it is a flying camera, with which it is possible to make films." Mr. Seydoux said that the development of this unit had mobilized nearly 50 engineers to the management of the digital signal, aerospace, and industrial design WiFi signals.

Parrot drone Figure A7 processor dual core(based on ARM), a graphics processor quad-core and a proprietary DRM system signals. The images are stored in a flash memory of 8 GB.

Parrot Bebop is equipped with many sensors (3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis magnetometer) to facilitate its stability and maneuverability by driving from a smartphone or tablet. It has 4 ceramic antennas operating in the 2.4 or 5 GHz. In addition to the control from a smartphone, different devices can be connected to drive gear, including helmet Oculus Rift. It is also capable of using geolocation through GNSS chip that receives signals from GPS, Glonass and Galileo satellites. Therefore, on the basis of these data, it is able to perform a round trip flight independently. Flight data are automatically recorded in the Cloud Parrot.

The first tests, the Bebop is amazingly simple to drive especially with the FreeFlight 3.0 app for iOS or Android. Simply press the takeoff button to turn the unit on peeling off and it starts in the air waiting for further instructions. Therefore left thumb control a virtual joystick for altitude, the right  thumb to control the camera. To extend the capabilities of flight 2 km, it should be equipped with a special controller called Skycontroller.