Working on the fairy tale "Vitya in the country of Lodyrantia", a wonderful children's writer O.I. Romanchenko probably herself dreamed of such a camera, which "in general, everything is by itself." Did her dream come true, although not at all in the way she imagined it, or quite the opposite?
AirSelfie 2 Power Edition is a device that is perhaps even more interesting than the one described in a fairy tale. There the camera walked, but did not fly. And it wasn't that tiny, about the size of a fourth iPhone and about three times as thick. But the first thing that greets the user is a rather large and weighty box with an almost Orwellian slogan:
On the back - the parameters, including the weight of 80 grams. Only the drone itself, of course:
A thick cardboard “suitcase” is pulled out of it, closing with a magnet:
In the pocket on the lid there is an instruction, a warranty card and two cards with the same slogan:
We take out the shock absorber in which the drone lies, and we see the heaviest item in the kit. Powerbank 10 Ah.
And from the compartment in the shock absorber, we extract a bag with a Type-C cord and an adapter from it to a regular large USB.
All this can be used in the following ways:
- Charge the power bank from the PSU with a cord
- Charge the drone from the power bank with the same cord
- Charge the drone from the power bank by placing the first in the second
- Charge the phone from a power bank through an adapter and its cord
The third is the most interesting, because it is done like this:
We are not afraid, we push it completely:
The whole secret is in another Type-C, there, in the depths, see?
You will have to wait half an hour, after which you can fly for five minutes. We turn the drone over and see the lower camera, the ultrasonic rangefinder and the power button:
The lower camera is designed not for shooting, but for orientation in space on the principle of an optical mouse, only the processing power is not an example more. The rangefinder determines the height. We press the button, but it is not pressed. It comes with a board with a camera and a rangefinder. This is normal, there is a great shock absorber. You just need to press a little harder, and the power will turn on. But it's too early to fly. You need to download the application, which is called AirSelfie2:
Click on "Ready to connect" and find out that the drone is an access point:
Enter the password like this:
Now you can choose one of three modes. The first time you need to choose the simplest one. Use only indoors until you bring all the actions to automatism. Fly over surfaces that reflect ultrasound well. Smooth surfaces reflect best, carpets reflect the worst, everything else is in the middle. And one more nuance. The device blows downwards no worse than a household fan. Not floor, but desktop for sure. A4 paper sheets fly apart cheerfully, even if the drone hangs above them at a height of more than a meter! And what do the lower camera and rangefinder see at the same time, can you imagine?
After selecting a mode, the application shows a series of prompts:
And then, finally, the device starts to transmit FPV, but does not even think about flying until you order it. By the way, you can take pictures with the engines stopped.
To make the drone fly, we put it on the palm of our hand with the lower camera and the rangefinder down, hold it strictly horizontally, and hold the start button on the smartphone screen for three seconds. The engines start, we slightly throw the device up, their speed increases, and the flight begins. I had to shoot the drone in flight from the side with a phone with a bad camera, because the app was working on the one with a good one:
And here is the side camera with which the device takes pictures:
We land the drone also on the palm, again holding it strictly horizontally and exactly under the drone. We hold the same button (now it is the stop button), the device smoothly lowers and the motors turn off.
It is important to accustom yourself to look not at the drone, but at FPV when controlling. Like it's your distant flying eyes. This makes it much easier to manage. Having mastered it, you can try two modes of automatically following the face, just do not forget that here it is like in Tesla: this is not an autopilot, it does not replace a person.
Other application modes. Viewing the pictures taken, transferring them from the built-in memory of the device (16 GB) to a smartphone:
Watch the tutorial video, instructions and FAQ:
Be sure to watch the video, it shows the correct methods of launching from the palm of your hand and landing on it. The instruction is the same as on paper, as well as in PDF on the website:
FAQ:
Settings section:
It has a calibration function, before launching it, we put the drone on a strictly horizontal table, slightly lifting it with the devices shown in the figure, then we start the calibration, and all the time while it is being calibrated, we do not move it:
The device automatically overlays its logo on the pictures. Macro mode, as we see, is not provided (but not needed), as well as autofocus and flash:
And this is especially for fans of EXIFs:
Ignore the EXIF width and height, the actual resolution is 4032x3024.
So has the children's writer's dream come true? Yes and no. You can freely, without hesitation, take pictures with this device only after some preparation. But after mastering all the nuances, this flying camera will become an extension of your eyes, seemingly natural. Which you will just watch without thinking about the mechanics. A compact, stylish device with a high-quality camera will be appreciated by users who often publish photos on LiveJournal, Instagram, etc.
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Source: habr.com