POWERUP FPV INSTALL

You can maneuver the plane as an RC plane, or FPV style by looking at the screen.įor a more immersive FPV experience, you can install the phone inside the VR viewer, and command the airplane by your head movements. With two virtual 'joysticks' the left joystick controls the throttle, and the right controls the roll. The onboard Autopilot ensures commands are executed perfectly for easy flying. Increase thrust in both propellers causes the airplane to ascend, reducing the thrust will cause the airplane to descend.The basis of the body is made up of the two 13-inch carbon fiber struts that are spaced out about 3.5-inches apart. Differential thrust between the propellers allows for turning left or right. The PowerUp FPV brings out the kid in you, including the repeated failures.We do not have any moving control surfaces, such as ailerons or elevators, the two direct drive propellers enable control in all axis of the airplane - yaw, pitch and roll.

Our airplane is unique in the way it is controlled. The app connects to the plane via Wi-Fi the airplane is actually a flying hot-spot!ĭownload the POWER UP FPV App on your mobile device from the App Store or Google Play (not valid in the beta version). The POWERUP FPV smartphone app enables you to communicate with the FPV Module and control your airplane with the Gamepad mode, or the VR mode. Wearing your smartphone with a head-mounted display (VR viewer sold separately), you see what your airplane sees, controlling your paper airplane with intuitive movements of your head. PowerUp FPV will retail at $199, but PowerUpToys promises to offer both early bird and general discounts to backers of the Kickstarter campaign.POWERUP FPV lets you experience flight as if you were sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane. Funding for the PowerUp FPV will similarly be launching in early November on Kickstarter and you can sign up to be notified when its crowdfunding campaign begins. This was well over the Kickstarter's original goal of $50,000 and holds the record for highest funded campaign for a 'flight' project ever. PowerUp's previous smartphone-controlled paper airplane did very well on Kickstarter, amassing the princely sum of $1.23m (£798,000) in 2013. Its antenna supports 2.5Ghz and 5Ghz Wi-Fi and it can stream and capture video at up to 30fps. When in the air, the plane's battery allows for up to 10 minutes of continuous flight and it can travel at speeds of up to 20mph. Once your flight is complete, you can share the video or any images taken from the plane straight to social media and video sharing websites from the app. If you want the plane to tilt or swoop, you move your head, and the motion is picked up by the app and sent to the plane, or you can tap an on-screen gamepad in the smartphone app.

The footage is sent to a companion app on your smartphone, which converts the plane's video stream into a virtual reality experience that you can watch on a smartphone VR headset, like Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR. The idea is that you launch the paper airplane from your hand, and its propellers keep it going, while the camera relays back whatever the plane sees while it's in flight. Obviously with such technical capabilities, paper wouldn't be able to cut it, so while the PowerUp still looks like a paper airplane, it's actually made reinforced carbon fibre and nylon. PowerUp FPV comes with Wi-Fi streaming with a range of 300ft, a 360-degree rotating camera, a rechargeable lithium polymer battery, fancy sensors and even a microSD card slot to record videos. But that wasn't good enough, so the firm teamed up with Parrot – a UK firm specialising in a range of consumer drones such as the Bebop Drone and racing drones – to give the plane the controls and functionality of a drone. The Powerup FPV drone is the brainchild of PowerUp Toys, which previously made the news for designing a paper airplane that could be controlled by a smartphone. PowerUp is launching a paper drone that offers you a virtual reality flying experience PowerUp Toysĭid you enjoy folding and flying paper airplanes as a kid? Well, today's children (young and old) can enjoy flying a paper airplane drone that live streams video footage and lets them experience the journey on a virtual reality headset. You'll never look at a paper airplane the same way again.

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