It was by accident that I got into drones lately. I hade 3 tiny drones in the past(the unbranded Chinese drones sold at SM Toy Kingdom) but my curiosity was killed by these drones because it did not meet my expectations. 2 Months ago, I got to noticed the DJI store at Sm North Edsa and got me a small drone(tello). Before I purchased it, I usually ask these questions so that I will have an idea what's it capable of:
1. Can it balance on its own without me exerting much effort to make fly and not crash immediately?
2. Will it hover just like the toy in the movie "flubber"?
3. Can I do some programming to enable to perform certain task on it own? ("flight mission").
The seller at the DJI store said yes to all of my questions so I requested a demo and he did grant my request and it seems that 1 and 2 questions as my deal breaker was fully met and demo'ed so without any hesitation, I purchased it.
I only got to fly the tello inside the tiny room I am renting 1 to 3 times every week and watching youtube videos and researching on what are the possibilities I can do with it.
As my knowledge increased in droning, I realized that the tello is indeed so tiny and not only that, it lacks the most basic features I need to develop a certain system just to jumpstart my learning curve on the subject matter.
I came up with an idea that the drone should be able to perform a flight mission twice a day to collect data and store this data and as data accumulates, i will search for patterns that can not be seen by naked the eye but it is there(data mining).
This is my initial thougths on this project. Will add more information soon. Part of it is face recognition, optical character recognition, extensive use of google maps and on the hardware side, I would initially be needing an arduino or raspberry pi, battery charge level sensing to automatically turn off the power when the battery is fully charge and a custom drone charging station because the idea behind this is that this whole system will be operated in a remote location.
And certainly tello can not be used for this purpose so last week, I bought the dji mini. It is still a tiny drone but it can already meet my project's initial specification.
