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QUADRONE TUMBLER 2.0 CAMERA DRONE

Quadrone Tumbler 2.0 Camera Drone $79.99 (www.pulsetv.com...)
Manufactured by Quadrone (http://flyquadrones.com)
Last updated 01-12-17

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a bunch of LEDs on its undercarriage, so what the hey

I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago. I was also attracted to something that this drone has that many others don't...

1:It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
2: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a medium-small, lightweight (I), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) drone. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.

It sports a camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy is remarkably easy to use for a drone...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cat would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).

1: On the remote control, turn the "on/off" switch to the "on" position.

2: Turn the drone on. Place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the red LEDs) faces you.

Move several feet away from the drone (at least six feet away).

3: The red light on the remote will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then let it go back. This "arms" the drone. If you did this correctly, that red light will go from blinking to steady-on and the R/C should emit a series of two tones in rapid succession.

4: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a second time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the drone doesn't just blast away -- it has a good deal of thrust, so the possibility of it getting away in this manner does exist.

5: The Quadrone Tumbler 2.0 Camera Drone should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

To take an aerial photograph, push the button to the immediate right of the left-hand joystick up (toward the radio's antenna).

To shoot realtime aerial video, push the button to the immediate right of the left-hand joystick down (away from the radio's antenna). Press & release it again the same way to neutralise the recording of video.

Turn the drone & the remote control off when finished using them.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.

The battery in the Quadrone Tumbler 2.0 Camera Drone itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the battery door on the underside of the unit, using a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers worked well here). Set the screw aside.

Remove the battery door, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry piss ants that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable so that they drag it to the queen, who also finds it distasteful so she pisses on it and instructs the worker ants to do the same...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the four used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert four new AA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry piss ants with full bladders now?

To charge the battery in the Quadrone Tumbler 2.0 Camera Drone, take the thin cord that's attached to the USB charger dongle, and plug the small end into the cable on the battery itself. Plug the larger end into any USB port on your Mac or pee-cee

When the charge cycle is in progress, the red LED on the charger will be off. When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn on.

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the USB dongle from your computer.

Fully charging the Quadrone Tumbler 2.0 Camera Drone's battery should give you 6 to 10 minutes of flying time.

This RC drone is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a large open room indoors), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoņata is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

So this section of the drone's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The range of the radio in the Tx (RC hobby talk for "transmitter") is ~91.44 meters (~300 feet); frequency is stated as 2.4GHz.

The unit has a 4-channel remote control; this allows for forward / backward / up / down / left / right movement (movement on all three axes -- X, Y, and Z). It also has a fully proportional control system; simply meaning that the motor speeds can be varied depending on how far you move the joysticks -- it isn't simply "full power and no power at all" like some other R/C products.

It also has "headless" mode, in which the drone will fly in the direction dictated by the joysticks on the radio, regardless of the actual orientation of the drone in the sky. In addition to this, the radio has a, "RETURN" button which supposedly causes the drone to return to you; though I have not yet tested this function.

As a toy grade drone, it flies very well -- a little TOO well actually!
If you give it too much throttle, the gay* little plastic drone blasts away -- 20 seconds later, it's just a speck in the sky!!!

On the same note, one thing that it lacks is an altitude hold feature. When the drone is gaining altitude, it will keep going up, up and away unless you pay close attention to it so that you can throttle back on that left stick!!!

The video resolution is a bit on the low side at 640x480 (the camera is just 0.3 megapixels) so videos made by this drone are somewhat "furry".

This drone does not make an excellent camera platform primarily because it wavers around in the air -- not having a gimbal mount for the camera doesn't help much either. But for an entry-level drone, it generally performs very well!

On the + side, this drone is the quietest one that I've ever flown -- and not just by a little either!!!

I've begun to call this the Black Widow because of its red & black body coloration.

Photograph of its remote control.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs on the undercarriage of this drone.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs on the undercarriage of this drone; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 630nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 626.350nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at quadr.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the white LEDs on the undercarriage of this drone.

Spectrographic analysis of the white LEDs on the undercarriage of this drone; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 450nm and 460nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 454.700nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at quadw.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs on the undercarriage of this drone.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs on the undercarriage of this drone; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 450nm and 460nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 454.700nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at quadb.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

ALL OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on PulseTV on 12-22-16 (or "2016 22 Dec." or even "December 22, Twenty Stick-Very-Bernt-Sticks" if you prefer), and was received at 2:28pm PST on 12-27-16.

* Gay = bright & lively, ***NOT*** homosexual!

UPDATE: 01-12-17
The camera has become busted as a result of an upside-down crash -- the itty bitty power wires have been pulled out of the male plug and I don't have the manual dexterity to solder them back into that tiny plug. The drone itself still flies however; so that somewhat dreadful, "

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website.

Quadrone

Small-sized R/C quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera

LED

36 (1 red R/C, 1 red in charger, 1 green & 1 red in camera, 32 in drone itself)

N/A

Slide switch on/off on R/C

Plastic

N/A

4x AA cells for R/C; 3.70V 1Ah (1,000mAh) Li:PO battery for drone

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

ĄĄĄUN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTA DE PAPEL USADO PLÃSTICA, NO!!!

Charger, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, USB cable, 4GB micro SD card, small Phillips screwdriver, two extender pieces for radio joysticks

381mm Sq. x 152mm T

TBA (scale has apparently grown wings & flown away) incl. battery & memory chip

China

90 days

Quadrone Tumbler 2.0 Camera Drone * www.pulsetv.com...

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