Very imaginative use for a Pi

[John Rumm]

and a handful of other microsystems:

[The Natural Philosopher]

Seen that done already. Gyros plus GPS is all you need to send a model a few miles and then return.

Or in one case, a few miles and then be landed by a pilot in a car randomly chasing it down lanes..

[John Rumm]

Indeed, but its the autonomous waypoint flying and the image analysis that makes this rather cute... Self landing is also quite nifty.

[Brian Gaff]

Was there not a plan for using an I phone for this?

This seems a lot cheaper. Brian

[Adam Aglionby]

Your perhaps thinking of multicoptor, a.r. drone, parrot type multi rotor helicopter type things.

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[John Rumm]

Plenty of things out there will let you fly them by remote control using a smart phone... this application is rather different in that it does all its own flying - you just plan where you want it to look. Much more like some military drones in that respect.

[Graham.]

The first 5 min of a film I first saw in boarding school when I was 7

[dennis]

There is open source software and hardware for multicopters that does automated flights. I suspect some of the military drones use the software.