Key Features

• Ready to use gaming drone, just take it out of the box and start playing. No assembly no soldering required.
• Laser + IR marker and proximity weapons.
• Double coaxial propellers for higher stability and longer flight times.
• Swashplate mechanism to allow for movements in every direction.
• Fly it using your smartphone or any standard RC transmitter (using a bridge Checkpoint).
• Fly it indoors or outdoors (if there is no wind).
• High end sensors for higher stability, automatic altitude and easier flying.
• Almost unbreakable, very easy and cheap to replace damaged parts in case of extreme crashes.
• High performance, swappable battery for 12+ minutes of flight time with a single charge and unlimited gaming changing batteries.
• Light weight (<50 grams) so it can be flown anywhere and does not need FAA registration.
• Fully safe propellers for kids, pets and objects.
• Checkpoints to define special areas in games.
• Laser battles, drone racing and many other games.
• Fully open source product, both hardware and software.
• Learning platform for drone piloting, electronics and coding.
• Customizable, hackable and expandable.

Control

You can control Droiko from your smartphone using our free Droiko App, available for Android 4.3+ and iOS 5+ devices.
The Droiko App is used to connect to Droiko, change its configuration, start new games, fly it, show relevant game info, and also to update Droiko's and Checkpoints' firmware.
It is very flexible: you can customize game rules, select piloting difficulty and change control modes. You can decide if you prefer to pilot it using your fingers on the screen, or maybe prefer to control it turning and tilting the phone, or a combination of both methods. You can also select from different piloting difficulties depending on your experience and ability to fly drones, from very automated flying with automatic altitude and limited speed, to manual mode for expert pilots.
Control range depends on the smartphone used, but on our tests 30-50 meters is no problem, and it already becomes quite difficult to see Droiko at those distances.
We wanted to keep Droiko as affordable as possible, and as light as possible, so there is no on-board camera. Droiko is always piloted in visual line of sight.
Droiko can also be controlled using any standard RC transmitter, but a Checkpoint is needed as communication bridge. Just connect your RC receiver to the Checkpoint expansion port, no extra batteries needed because the Checkpoint will power up your receiver. Using this control option range increases up to 100 meters or more.
A dedicated Droiko Gamepad will be available in the future, check the Stretch Goals section.

Droiko Technical Specs

• Double coaxial 19 cm diameter propeller with stabilizer bar.
• Servo actuated swashplate mechanism.
• Double high power, high efficiency DC geared motors.
• Low power laser pointer.
• IR led marker and several IR receivers.
• High power RGB led.
• 1 cell 3.7V, 300 mAh, high performance LiPo battery, 30 minutes charging time.
• USB programming port.
• nRF52832 Arm Cortex M4-F 32bit 64MHz MCU.
• MPU9250 9 axis Gyro, Accelerometer and Magnetometer.
• LPS22HB high precision barometer.
• High efficiency motor, servo and led controllers.
• High quality PCB and pasive components.
• Total weight including battery of 45 grams.
• 23 x 13 x 13 cm dimensions, including propellers, stabilizer bar and tail.

Checkpoint Technical Specs

• High power RGB led.
• IR receiver.
• Expansion port.
• USB programming port.
• On-Off switch.
• 1 cell 3.7V, 300 mAh, high performance LiPo battery, 30 minutes charging time.
• nRF52832 Arm Cortex M4-F 32bit 64MHz MCU.
• LPS22HB high precision barometer.
• High efficiency led controller.
• High quality PCB and pasive components.
• Total weight including battery of 25 grams.
• 6 x 4 x 2 cm dimensions.