G+_Neil Carmichael Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 My brother made the classic quadcopter mistake, he handed the controls of his syma to our 10 year old nephew who having never flown before, flew it high, it caught the wind and it was gone never to be found again. Does anyone know of a tracker tag light and cheap enough to be attached to a entry-level quad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chad Winters Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 https://www.thetrackr.com/ This one seems small enough Range might be an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steve C Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 A Bluetooth device only has a range of about 30', Wi-Fi up to a couple hundred but not even out of sight in either case. Those little ones like the Syma don't have much power to lift any accessories except for a really tiny camera. You could probably put a telemetry transmitter on it if you left the camera off. For a larger, more expensive quad you could track it with a directional antenna if you had a telemetry transmitter on it and the signal wasn't blocked by anything and it still worked after hitting the ground. A better way might be to use a $20 GPS tracker like you would use to track a car. They are pretty small and light and run on ~12 volts so it could run off the copters battery but not depend on the other electronics. The way they work is you set it up with a mobile phone number then when you want to find the location you text it the command to report the location and it returns a text with a link to the location on Google maps. Mine will report the location of my car sitting in my driveway so it would be quite easy to find a copter that was lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Barry Brown Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Best bet is to put your name and phone number on the quad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Yanke Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 ^old school tracking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steve C Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 But if you put your name and phone number on the quad they will find you and want you to pay for the window it broke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Barry Brown Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Take responsibility for your mistake and fly safer next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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