Hawkeye Firefly Micro Cam 2

[Multipla Studios]

Hi, if the tello usb power doesn't work inflight, the power with Li-Po battery would not be more lightweight and convenient than powerbank ? I have seen on the web few ways to do that with "Zero LiPo" or "JuiceBox Zero" cards.

Sorry @SaschaUhlig, i am a little far from your initial thread...

Yes you are right, but a Zero LiPo thing costs like 12€ and then you also need a Lipo Charger which costs 10€. Plus the Lipo, but that only costs 5€. I try to do it as cheap as possible. Maybe I should start a new thread. I will post the link in the next reply

 

[Multipla Studios]

Here is the new thread: Link

 

[Multipla Studios]

You'd need to use the Pi as a relay / man in the middle. That is app connects to Pi and Pi connects to Tello.

AFAIK the normal Pi can be both Wifi AP and client at the same time. I read someone articles of people using it for filtering wifi which used exactly this feature. No clue if the PiZero W can do the same. If it can, then this should work.
It wold work only in close rage, as the Tello has certainly better antenna & wifi compared to the Pi. OTOH this would also allow to build some truly autonomous functions, like a real RTH even with wifi lost.


BTW: My Pi Zero W boots when connected to the micro USB port.

just had an idea: If you put GPS on the Pi, it would actually turn the Tello into a dji spark. It could fly like 2km away (without controls but preprogrammed with waypoints). But it probably would be useless anyway because the battery life is too short

 

[volate!lo]

yep. cool idea for a bored student with too much time at his hands.

Would also allow a cheaper and more capable swarms than tello edu.

 

[Multipla Studios]

I don't know how much power it can supply, but its works as a OTG host. Tello just doesn't do anything with this capability.

So the Tello could actually save data on a Micro USB-Stick. Let's start a petition so that Ryze Tech adds that to the firmware!

 

[volate!lo]

petition? This is a chinese company and they could not care less...

I'm pretty sure that such a function exists, maybe not in public releases of the firmware but certainly in their development builds.

 

[Multipla Studios]

petition? This is a chinese company and they could not care less...

I'm pretty sure that such a function exists, maybe not in public releases of the firmware but certainly in their development builds.

xd the petition was only a joke. But actually it would be easy for them to add it. So if anyone reading this knows somebody working at RyzeTech, tell them to add that!