Silverlit X-UFO
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| Silverlit X-UFO | ||
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| Homepage: | ||
| Started: | ? | |
| First flight: | ? | |
| Status: | end of life | |
| Price/EUR: | 46 | |
| Distribution: | ready to fly | |
| Sourcecode available: | No
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| Schematics available: | No
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| PCB layouts available: | No
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| MCUs: | Unknown | |
| Sensors | ||||||
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| Gyro | Acc | GPS | Compass | Pressure | DSL | Temp |
| Mech | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Flight modes | |||||
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| HH | ACC | AH | Height Hold | GPS PH | GPS FP |
| N | Y | ? | N | N | N |
| Configuration(s) | ||||||||
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| Tri | Quadro | Hexa | Octo | >Octo | ||||
| + | x | ☆ | Y | ☆ | + | V | ||
| N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
Silverlit X-UFO is...
History
In 2003 German students Daniel Gurdan and Klaus M. Doth participated in the national Jugend forscht ("Young Scientists") competition, presenting the radio-controlled, self-leveling quadrocopter they had developed (retroactively named "Jufo-Ufo"), and finished 4th place in the technology section. Further information can be found here.
Silverlit became aware of this through a local newspaper and contracted the inventors. The X-UFO was then developed as a toy-grade, inexpensive "interpretation" of the original design, with less sophisticated and cheaper sensory equipment, and started production in Silverlit's factory in China in late 2004.