Is Spiri the Programmable Quadrotor You’ve Always Wanted?

There’s an autonomous, programmable drone on Kickstarter right now called Spiri. For under $600, you get a quadrotor that runs ROS and can autonomously execute flight commands so that you don’t have to worry about all the tricky stuff like not crashing. It includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cameras, GPS, an accelerometer, a gyro, a magnetometer, temperature and pressure sensors, and a nifty 3D time-of-flight camera system. It’s designed to be a platform that you can easily innovate on without having to deal with hardware. [Read More]