For those in Houston area only, drone deal, $20.....

[max]

You either get $20, or you get to keep the drone, win win situation....

[Mr Downtown]

What can you do with a drone for which you don't have the remote control [codes]?

[Onamuji]

Mr Downtown wrote:
What can you do with a drone for which you don't have the remote control [codes]?

Most "drones" are just quad-copters with cameras. They do not have unique remotes. I've swapped in various heli remotes for my quads when batteries were low on the original remotes.

We really need to start defining "drones" better.

I think that a real "drone" should have some autonomy. A toy that you have to control like an RC car; that can only go about 50-75 feet from you; and stays up only for 7-10 minutes is not a true "drone."

One of those quads with WiFi and GPS that can be programmed to go to a specific location without you, can carry/drop payloads and returns to its starting place when a signal is lost... THAT's a drone. And a reward for one of them would be more than $20 bucks.

[Speedy]

Houston, we have a problem! (Maybe it was brought down by small arms fire. Or, in Texas, shoulder fired weaponry.)

[MrNoBody]

" We really need to start defining "drones" better."
Onamuji is right, The media seems to consider any R/C aerial platform a 'drone'.

$180 - NOT a drone


$$$$$ - OnyxStar Drone

[Carnos Jax]

As if I need say it again, Onamuji and MrNoBody are right. The media is talking about 'drones' (or what currently masquerades as one) as if they were a new thing. In this sense, they've been around for decades. What's changed relatively recently is the advent of cheap gyro stabilized remote controlled toy 'copters' that have (because of the gyro) made flying theses things magnitudes easier, thereby making them accessible to a far wider group of people (who otherwise wouldn't have the skill to fly such devices).