POWERUP FPV Drone - BETA
HOW IT WORKS:Get product tutorials here
- https://poweruptoys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
POWERUP FPV let's you experience flight as if you were sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane. Wearing your smartphone with a headmounted display (Google cardboard viewer included), you see what your plane sees, controlling yourpaper drone with intuitive movements of your head.
POWERED BY PARROT:
We teamed up with the leading minds at Parrot® to create the world's most incredible live streaming paper airplane, giving you the thrill and exhilaration of flying up to 300 feet in the air!
MAIN FEATURES:
● GamePad and FPV control modes
● 10 Minutes flight per charge
● Over 300 ft Wifi streaming range
● Autopilot stabilization for easy flying especially in windy conditions
● Video and Audio recording and streaming
● Wide angle rotating camera providing front, side and rear camera view
● Extremely durable Carbon Fiber Polypropylene frame
● Automatic takeoff and crash detection
● Endless airplane design possibilities
● Airplane gross weight 2.8 oz/80 grams
● Does not require FAA registration
HOW TO CONNECT:
Slide in the battery into your PowerUp FPV, Drone will automatically turn on. In your smartphone settings, choose the PowerUp FPV Wifi network, launch the POWERUP FPV app.
HOW TO SET UP STREAMING QUALITY:
Open the app and choose settings and go to the wifi page, Choose your country and available wifi channel, use the Wifi scanner to search for available wifi channels when you go out flying.
PILOTING MODES:
Take-off
- press the launch button, push the throttle to full and launch the PowerUp FPV into the sky, once airborne the propellers will spin automatically and airplane will ascend and keep straight heading.
GamePad flight mode
- similar to RC stick and throttle control, increasing/decreasing the thrust will cause the airplane to go up or down, moving the control lever right or left will steer the airplane.
FPV flight mode
- Experience immersive flight on a paper airplane via the included Google Cardboard viewer, control is done by tilting your head in the direction you want to fly.
Recovery mode
- Return Home flight mode (RH), provides safe recovery during loss of control or communication, airplane will turn back and land close to the pilot proximity. A high intensity buzzer will automatically activate during recovery mode in order to assist the customer in locating the drone after landing.
VIDEO AND STILL IMAGE CAPTURE:
● Videos photos can be captured during flight in all flight modes. Recorded content is saved on the micro-sd card (not included) all reordered media can also be transferred directly to your smartphone over wifi for sharing on Instagram Facebook or Youtube
GOOGLE CARDBOARD VIEWER:
POWERUP FPV includes a high quality Google Cardboard from which enables real time and low latency FPV from your Paper Airplane, control is very intuitive even for the novice pilot thanks to our 10 sensors and autopilot stabilization software. The viewer includes external button for capturing still photos during flight and for innitiating takeoff and abort functions
SETTINGS:
● Toggle between quality and performance modes
● Wifi country and channel control
● Wifi scanner
● Firmware update button
*Note: This App requires the POWERUP FPV wifi module and will not work without it. MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT http://poweruptoys.com
Category : Entertainment
Reviews (21)
It needs improvement: after connection via WiFi, it takes a few minutes for the video and battery level to appear. The throw launch mode disabled seems to work better than enabled when Thrown since I don't have landing gear. During the very few flights, it seems to struggle due to weight or not having enough thrust. The throttle slider seems to snap back after the airplane is thrown. In throw mode, it doesn't auto thrust, just hits the ground.
Even though it had been on kickstarter for a while, the actual release of the product is still relatively new, and for it's age, I think it works very well. The footage is stable and I think they have done a very good job with the app. So far it seems like they are listening to feedback and trying to improve the app while still having plenty more features coming.
Not intuitive at all. Asked me to join the powerup wifi network even though I was on my home wifi network. Would never go away. Could not connect with my Samsung once.
Someone stole the damn Wi-Fi module and now I'm not able to fly the piece of s*** and plus the prongs are bent to go in a plane and it came with only three sheets of paper I tried to learn how to what all of them pretty much crumbled up and all the third one when I actually flew it it crumbled up mid-flight in the thing just plummeted down
worked once for about 30 seconds not worth the frustration
Terrible app nothing works 😑
Shame on you Powerup for making such a horrible app and releasing it! Crashes more than it stays open.
It took me a while to make it work properly. I had trouble throwing the plane right, had to try different phones to find one that had a steady connection. But it's worth the effort, it flies beautifully. Uri from the support team really helped me a lot to make everything work.
Incredibly unreliable. Have tried it now on 3 phones (motorola, samsung, oneplus), have updated the firmware on the drone, and it still only rarely connects. On the occasions it does connect, within a few seconds it then disconnects. Basically a terribly executed app that makes the drone completely useless.
Runs way too slow on Nexus 5X. The app runs well on the LG G5, though.
Maybe early access? Anyway, lg g4 doesn't work, pixel XL doesn't work. Motorola X Pure does work. Best of luck fixing it, until then I have a non functioning unit. UPDATED now that cardboard mode works. Will update after retesting new version on XL and G4.
Unusable. Horrible connection issues on a Nexus 6P phone running the most up to date available OS. Installed the latest firmware and the App crashes all the time, won't connect to the drone and the VR functionality is completely absent. Clearly the developer is focused on iOS. I'd stay away from this product on Android until they decide to take it seriously.
Kickstarter backer, and upgraded. No love. Late. Double tap does not work. It's been so long I cam report the S6 and V20 both don't work. #pleasemakeitrightbyspring
I spend more time trying to connect than actually flying, and while flying I'm always hoping that it won't disconnect to quickly (it always does eventually after 4-5 mins even if the plane is literally in my hand and not in flight)
At first I tried to fly it in the park it didn't fly 😓 . Then I went to a RC field . I was amazed to see , it flies so well .At that time I understood that it was because other wifi houses were interupting the wifi network 😋😄😄😁😁
Can't connect to the plane, rendering the whole thing unusable. Requesting a refund for the entire product.
Not able to connect and make it work on A droid. Ok -ish on ios
Needs a lot of work
bad connection galaxy s4
Superb, I love it
This is an awesome plane, and still very relevant even though it's been discontinued lots of people own one. It'd be a shame to abandon us and show that your company doesn't support products when a new release is made... The app could use some work for an example the settings are inaccessible except for one tab. Please return to this and fix the issues with old products before moving onto new. Us FPV owners would greatly appreciate it. It'd be cool if you offered batteries and parts still too.