A US$49 personal autonomous micro UAV?
Imagine if you had your own tiny quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that you could control with your voice, that would automatically follow you while avoiding obstacles, and that could shoot and stream video of you using an onboard camera. Now imagine that you paid less than 50 bucks for it. Well, if the hype is to be believed, that’s just what tech firm Always Innovating is promising with its MeCam.
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- The UAV is built around the company’s ARM Cortex-A9 processor (pictured), and features 1GB of built-in RAM, an SD card slot, and is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled
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- The MeCam is a tiny autonomous quadrotor UAV currently in development
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- The idea is that when users wanted to shoot videos of themselves, they could just launch the UAV by hand
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- In autonomous flight, 14 real-time sensors and two Linux-based auto pilot algorithms would keep crashes to a minimum
If the user wanted it to move, such as going higher or lower, they could get it to do so using voice commands. If they wanted it to follow them as they moved about, it would do so autonomously. In that mode, 14 real-time sensors and two Linux-based auto pilot algorithms would keep crashes to a minimum, while a video stabilizing algorithm would keep its shots smooth. A real-time sound filter would remove the whine of its motors from the recorded video.
The company is suggesting that the UAV would retail for US$49. That’d be nice, but … we’ll see.
More information is available in the video below.
Source: Always Innovating via Ben Coxworth
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