Apparently similar to a regular airplane, it has an electric motor and is controlled with the app. Also available in a micro-camera version
Drones aren’t the only flying objects that can be controlled thanks to a smartphone app. Although some may find it hard to believe, even paper airplanes, if properly modified, can become smart gadgets that can be controlled from your mobile device.
Take, for example, PowerUp 3.0, to all intents and purposes a paper airplane (cardboard, to be precise) similar to the dozens we made in our childhood and adolescence. Compared to the latter, however, PowerUp 3.0 has more than a few elements that differentiate it: not only a different material with which to make it and a shape and aerodynamics studied in the laboratory. The smart paper plane, in fact, is also equipped with a small electric motor and a control system that allow the user to control its evolutions in the air from the smartphone.
How PowerUp 3.0 works
Buy PowerUp 3.0 (the cost is around 45 euros, like a normal drone of equal power and flight autonomy) you will receive at home an assembly kit consisting of a sheet of shaped cardboard, a small frame connected to an electric motor and a radio control system. Following the instructions in the kit, you can build the paper airplane (just follow the lines), assemble the frame and motor and synchronize everything with your smartphone. The PowerUp app, in fact, will allow you to control the power of the engine and follow the evolution in the area of your aircraft.
Subjective flight
Buy the FPV kit (in this case the cost rises to about 180 euros), however, the chassis and the engine will also add a control module with a micro camera. Mounting everything and synchronizing the aircraft with your smartphone, you can control the PowerUp in subjective, using the images that come live from the camera. Wearing your smartphone as an inexpensive VR viewer, it will be exactly like being on board the small paper plane as it soars through the air.
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