PowerUp FPV Paper Air Plane

PowerUp FPV lets you experience flight as if you were sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane. Wearing your smartphone with a head-mounted display (Cardboard viewer included), you see what your plane sees, controlling your paper drone with intuitive movements of your head.

We teamed up with the leading minds at Parrot® to create the world’s most incredible live streaming technology, giving you the thrill and exhilaration of flying up to 300 feet in the air! Pledge today and join us in experiencing flight like you never have before. It’s about to get real – really, really real – and we hope you come along for the ride!

Developed in partnership with consumer drone manufacturer Parrot, the FPV consists of a front-located electronics module, a nylon/carbon fiber frame, and two props in the rear, all of which are attached to the top surface of a user-folded paper plane. Turning is achieved by varying the thrust between the props, while climbing and descending are managed simply by changing the flying speed.

Along with a VGA-resolution 30fps camera, the front module also contains a 3-axis gyroscope, compass and accelerometer, plus a barometer, Wi-Fi antenna, MicroSD card for recording video, and a removable 550-mAh lithium-polymer battery that should be good for up to 10 minutes of flight time per charge.

The user controls the plane and views its real-time video via a smartphone app, from a maximum distance of 300 ft (91 m). This can be done either via a touchscreen interface, or by tilting the phone from side to side. The latter option means that the phone could be mounted in a VR device such as Google Cardboard, with the user then steering simply by moving their head.

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