Hex: A copter that anyone can fly!
“HEX Air Robot is a portable robotic multi-rotors copter designed for rescue research, 3D re-modeling, geographical surveying and mapping and short distances transportation. It had many features such as autonomous pilot and pre programmed air maneuvers, obstacle avoidance, trajectory movement, etc.
Since last year, more features have been added to the design, including:
- Bluetooth 4.0 for communication between the smartphone and the circuit board
- A RC Touch control system with a user-friendly interface
- A Wi-Fi webcam for real time video stream flow to the smartphone
- A pair of First Person View (FPV) that let users experience what it really is to be in the air
- A 5.8G Radio telemetry module used for real time transfer of videos to the FPV glasses
- You are allowed to choose shells or desgin personalized shells to customize your Hex” ~ 3ders.org
Current (27.08.2013) status of the kickstarter:
444 Backers
$43,264 pledged of $10,000 goal
43 days to go !
Soooo cool! Reasonable price tags starting from $39 for Basic Set – it’s going to be huge success… 😀