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    What drone to get

    Thanks for your reply, I have been looking at pixhawk and it looks promising! Just to clear up my understanding - pixhawk will be compatible with certain quadcopters, and can monitor its acceleration / direction etc, but itself has little processing power. However, a raspberry pi (or other, more...
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    What drone to get

    mission planning is an option but as you say the gps signal would be weak. I was hoping to use computer vision to detect the table and visual odometery to determine position relative to the table, and then be able to fly to and hover a pre set distance above the centre of the table. Therefore no...
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    What drone to get

    Thanks for the advice! Fully prepared to accept that building one is beyond me in my time frame. The room is very spacious, without any radio devices nearby. However I was hoping to have it fly itself, extremely slowly into position, where it would hover. I do have one other question - how...
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    What drone to get

    I have always wanted an excuse to get a drone, and finally have one! I am looking for a drone that will hover above an indoor table, and take pictures of objects on that table at at least phone quality. Therefore, it would need to be programmable in order to detect the table (I have experience...
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