This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, laser, 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 quadcopter 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 micro-sized, lightweight, easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) quadcopter. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.
The reason that I call it a quadcopter and not a drone is because the Sparrow lacks an onboard camera.
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This toy is remarkably easy to use for a quadcopter...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, press & release the large wgite button.
2: Plug the quad's battery cable into the small female receptacle for it on the rear side of the Sparrow's fuselage. Place the quadcopter on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the visible battery cable) faces you.
Move several feet away from the quadcopter.
3: The blue light on the remote should now be blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then let it go back. This "arms" the quadcopter. If you did this correctly, that blue light will go from blinking to steady-on and the R/C should emit a series of two tones in rapid succession. The LEDs on the underside of the Sparrow's fuselage should also go from blinking to steady-on within two or three seconds.
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 quadcopter 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 Sparrow 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.
Turn the the remote control off and unplug the Sparrow's flight battery when finished using them.
The battery in the Quadrone Sparrow 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 termites 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 termites 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 termites with full bladders now?
To charge the battery in the Quadrone Sparrow, 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 on. When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn off.
You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the USB dongle from your computer.
Fully charging the Quadrone Sparrow's battery should give you 6 to 10 minutes of flying time.
This RC quadcopter 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 cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" 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 cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata 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 quadcopter'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 (R/C hobby talk for "transmitter") is ~45.72 meters (~150 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 quadcopter will fly in the direction dictated by the joysticks on the radio, regardless of the actual orientation of the quadcopter in the sky. In addition to this, the radio has a, "RETURN" button which supposedly causes the quadcopter to return to you; though I have not yet tested this function.
As a toy grade quadcopter, it flies very well -- a little TOO well actually!
If you give it too much throttle, the gay* little plastic quadcopter 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 quadcopter 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!!!
Photograph of its remote control.
Photograph showing how I have the video camera (a cellular telephone that shoots decent video) affixed to its radio.
Photograph showing the LEDs on the underside of the Sparrow's fuselage illuminated.
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 Ebay on 01-12-17 (or "2017 12 Jan." or even "January 12, Twenty Stick-Broken-Stick" if you prefer), and was received at 9:13am PST on 01-18-17.
* Gay = bright & lively, ***NOT*** homosexual!
UPDATE: 01-29-17
My Quadrone Sparrow has gone to pot -- please see the short video directly below to see how it now behaves.
Because it gone down the tube and no longer flies, the dreadful, "" icon will now be appended to itss listings on this website.
MANUFACTURER: Quadrone
PRODUCT TYPE: Micro-sized R/C quadcopter
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: 6 (1 blue in R/C, 1 red in charger, 4 {2x ea. green & blue} in quadcopter itself)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off on R/C
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 4x AA cells for R/C; 3.70V 300mAh Li:PO battery for quadcopter
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance only
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡HUSOOS CRISTO EN UNA MULETA, NO!!! \
ACCESSORIES: USB charging dongle, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, sm. Phillips screwdriver
SIZE: 381mm Sq. x 152mm T
WEIGHT: TBA (scale has apparently grown wings & flown away) incl. battery
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: 90 days
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