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Quadcopter becomes autonomous by using your smartphone as a brain
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Your smartphone is a lot of things — a phone, a camera, a media player, a portable gaming console. It's capable of plenty of other cool tricks, too, like becoming the eyes and brain of a fully autonomous aerial drone. At the University of Pennsylvania ...
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[Mike]

My phone weighs a lot more than any FC I've ever used, so this is kind of a waste. Plus I don't want my phone crashing to the ground from 200 feet in the air when something goes wrong.