{"id":39296,"date":"2015-01-06T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39296"},"modified":"2015-01-06T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T07:10:46","slug":"geek-toy-3d-robotics-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/geek-toy-3d-robotics-iris\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Toy &#8211; 3D Robotics IRIS+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m no different to any self-respecting geek; you see a link to a new gadget and you can&#8217;t help but click on it \u00a0to find out about the shinny new thing. \u00a0Equally I&#8217;m sure that most of the time you finish reading with a&#8221; Meh&#8221;. \u00a0The IRIS+ \u00a0from 3D Robotics however made me stand back and say WOW!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39297\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6qWKMZho-kTvb-9DUJ-i2a-1tP3-TL3KhMPHuAEr8w.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39297\" src=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6qWKMZho-kTvb-9DUJ-i2a-1tP3-TL3KhMPHuAEr8w-250x172.jpeg\" alt=\"Auto Mission Planning\" width=\"250\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auto Mission Planning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This thing is seriously cool. \u00a0It a personal drone that will do more than just fly around with the added camera to record amazing Ariel images. \u00a0If has &#8220;Follow me&#8221; allowing you to run or race about while the drone follows you centring the images directly on you. \u00a0It can do 3D image scanning, autonomous flight by giving it a set mission. \u00a0You just draw a line of a map to tell it where to go. \u00a0If will even return home when the battery is running low or it goes out of range of you controller.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39298\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sKchZStuRZbsHic23X_vZ4Y5QobqpKMiLlQ8skqbhyc.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39298\" src=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sKchZStuRZbsHic23X_vZ4Y5QobqpKMiLlQ8skqbhyc-250x131.jpeg\" alt=\"IRIS+ From 3D Robotics\" width=\"250\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IRIS+ From 3D Robotics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A must buy for anybody that has the cash to spare and is looking for an amazing drone that you don&#8217;t need to spend months learning to fly so you\u00a0won&#8217;t crash into a tree the first time you try to fly it.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout the promotional video to really see what it can do.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_yOCTgVqmeQ<\/p>\n<p>@SMLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m no different to any self-respecting geek; you see a link to a new gadget and you can&#8217;t help but click on it \u00a0to find out about the shinny new thing. \u00a0Equally I&#8217;m sure that most of the time you finish reading with a&#8221; Meh&#8221;. \u00a0The IRIS+ \u00a0from 3D Robotics however made me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/geek-toy-3d-robotics-iris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geek Toy &#8211; 3D Robotics IRIS+<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35,138,176,224,395],"class_list":["post-39296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-3d-robotics","tag-drone","tag-geek-toy","tag-iris","tag-smlp-geek-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sKchZStuRZbsHic23X_vZ4Y5QobqpKMiLlQ8skqbhyc.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}