Originally posted on TechCrunch:
The 3DRobotics Iris+ is the one that got away. Literally. I've flown my fair share of drones lately - anywhere from over empty football fields and beaches to small rivers. They all came back unharmed. But not the Iris+. It's the first drone I tested that simply flew away from me.
To be fair, chances are I got something wrong when that happened. I had taken the drone to an empty field to test its autonomous flying modes (that's why I feel okay calling it a drone instead of a quadcopter). With a circuit around the field programmed into the Android app, uploaded to the drone and everything else set of takeoff, I pressed the "arm" button in the Android app and the drone took off - and flew in the wrong direction. Before I knew it, it had crashed into the trees behind me. I remember frantically trying to...
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