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Drones are already very cheap, they already cost less than some flagship smart phones, I've been flying them for a while now and have quite a collection, this stinks of over engineering and shoehorning your product in a space where it is not a good fit. Marketing in drones is a huge huge problem, so many claims that are lies to part the newbies from their hard earned money.
A Linux SoC is really not an advantage compared to what is out there now, it uses a lot of power and the PCBs are much larger. I love Linux on the desktop and I know there is a bunch of marketing around it on drones, but that's just typical 3DR excessive bullshit marketing and they don't use Linux for much anyway, most is still done by other chips that are real time. Plus their Solo is well known as failed product now with many issues, loads of returns and so overpriced for what it is.
DJI are the leaders and use smaller processors from ST, my Inspire is amazing in what it can do, it's expensive but the Phantom 3 does 90% the same stuff for half the price including a 4K camera and a brilliant gimbal system. All the professional guys are using DJI for good reason.
The problem Qualcomm have is the software, adding overly complex hardware is the last thing to do there. DJI use the same ST processors others use and the same sensors but their software and years of research sets them apart, Sadly Qualcomm will likely use some open source code called Ardupilot for 8 bit Ardunios originally, 3DR use it and so do many other cheap Chinese ones as well, it's not very good.
You can already get that experience for less than $400, for example the CX-20 runs the open source software ardupilot stuff.
Lets not even count the kickstarter drones all using the same freeware.
Where a SoC could be cool is real time imaging where that power is required but the current open source stuff they will likely use can't even control a gimbal right or perform 50% as well as DJI stuff, they need to catch up with the basics before doing advanced stuff.
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[–] rob_white 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Drones are already very cheap, they already cost less than some flagship smart phones, I've been flying them for a while now and have quite a collection, this stinks of over engineering and shoehorning your product in a space where it is not a good fit. Marketing in drones is a huge huge problem, so many claims that are lies to part the newbies from their hard earned money.
A Linux SoC is really not an advantage compared to what is out there now, it uses a lot of power and the PCBs are much larger. I love Linux on the desktop and I know there is a bunch of marketing around it on drones, but that's just typical 3DR excessive
bullshitmarketing and they don't use Linux for much anyway, most is still done by other chips that are real time. Plus their Solo is well known as failed product now with many issues, loads of returns and so overpriced for what it is.DJI are the leaders and use smaller processors from ST, my Inspire is amazing in what it can do, it's expensive but the Phantom 3 does 90% the same stuff for half the price including a 4K camera and a brilliant gimbal system. All the professional guys are using DJI for good reason.
The problem Qualcomm have is the software, adding overly complex hardware is the last thing to do there. DJI use the same ST processors others use and the same sensors but their software and years of research sets them apart, Sadly Qualcomm will likely use some open source code called Ardupilot for 8 bit Ardunios originally, 3DR use it and so do many other cheap Chinese ones as well, it's not very good.
You can already get that experience for less than $400, for example the CX-20 runs the open source software ardupilot stuff.
Lets not even count the kickstarter drones all using the same freeware.
Where a SoC could be cool is real time imaging where that power is required but the current open source stuff they will likely use can't even control a gimbal right or perform 50% as well as DJI stuff, they need to catch up with the basics before doing advanced stuff.