Parrot MiniDrone Rolling Spider - Blue
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Product Specifications
- An ultra-compact drone with amazing stability and speed, indoors and outdoors. Before using the Rolling Spider, the user needs to make sure its own smartphone or tablet is compatible with the Rolling Spider. The list of compatibility is available http://www.parrot.com/usa/compatibility/ on the Parrot website. Then, in order to establish the Bluetooth connection with Rolling Spider, we recommend following the instructions mentioned on the attached user guide (Page 5) or take one minute to watch the tutorial videos showing to set it up for the first time https://youtu.be/BsTvOozjcxg
- Turns 90° and 180° and performs acrobatic 360° forward and backward flips. If the Rolling Spider isn’t flying, we recommend making sure it’s paired correctly using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and also confirm the battery was charged prior to attempting a fly. This procedure is explained on Page 4 of the user guide. Please note the pairing is automatic from the FreeFlight 3 App. If the battery is defective, we ask end users to contact Parrot at 877-9PARROT (972-7768) and we will immediately replace it. The front or rear propellers are already mounted accordingly on the Rolling Spider; therefore, we recommend adjusting the settings of the Rolling Spider by selecting “Flat Trim” to get back to the default settings of the device.
- Fitted with a propeller circuit-breaker in the event of a crash
- Removable wheels to roll anywhere: across the floor, up the walls or across the ceiling
- Take aerial shots like selfies from the sky with the embedded vertical mini-camera
- FreeFlight 3 app offers an intuitive control from your smartphone or tablet through Bluetooth® Smart and is free
Lithium-Polymer battery, rechargeable and removable, lasts up to 8 minutes and full recharge in 1 hour
Product Description
Parrot Rolling Spider - Bluetooth 4.0 Controlled Robotic Toy - Fly & Roll Blue
Product Reviews
Yes, I had the battery issue… and you’re pretty much guaranteed to as well.
Man… this thing is so cool. Quadcopters are so cool.I got this with the intent of scripting interactions with it. As it communicates over bluetooth, one can actually pair with it using their laptop/computer and if you know how, you can get it to fly using a program (and have it do scripted interactions).That’s really hard though, and I can spin the motors but I’m too cautious to programmatically control it just yet.And yes, I had the bloody battery issue. I was very busy and am only just getting around to fix it. If you submit a warranty claim though, they’ll take it.. however they’ll also offer up this advice:If you would like to try a potential fix, it may resolve the problem. Inside the drone there are 3 battery contacts that stick up from the bottom of the battery tray. Slightly bending these inward toward one another will allow them to make better contact with the battery and should resolve the problem. You want to be careful when doing these that you don’t cause the pins to touch, or bend too much. This adjustment is best done with a small pair of needle nose pliers.The little guy does take a beating though. I still haven’t broken a prop and I’ve banged it around a bit, with and without wheels.It’s balancing/position holding isn’t very strong, and it seems to have some issues over grass where it’ll start going down for landing and then just get stuck in the air, no longer responding to communication.Stuff like that actually seems to happen a lot, especially with landing/taking off, where it’ll receive the action and just lock up. At least it doesn’t fly away like it apparently used to!Overall, this is a nifty little device but quite expensive. If you want an intro quadcopter and don’t mind a regular controller there are far cheaper ones of at least the same quality. However, the novelty of bluetooth connectivity was worth it to me.
Great Drone But follow this rating!!
Ok on here people are complaing about it taking off and being hard to use here is the truth I thought that at first too. Some things you will need to buy with this are extra blades and an extra or a couple extra batteries so you can practice. I have not had a problem with any of the batteries like some people have put either.Now to controlling it there are three sets of controls one is ace one is joystick and there is one normal. I have found anything other than the joystick a pain and seems to just go up and down the joystick gives you more control of the drone.Problems you may have: something’s that I have found that messed up flight are one not charging the battery all the way because it seemed to just take off when I did that with no control and that’s probably because the battery was dead. Two it didn’t take off for me for a while and I figured out that I had the blades on the wrong parts even though they look the same they are different sizes. And three and this is going to happen when you first get it you are going to hit someone or something and hurt the blade meaning it will be off and it won’t work quite right like I said before buy extra blades.Once you get the hang of it it does work I bought this because it was 100 bucks and I also bought the bebop drone and I wanted to practice with something that is a little more replaceable than the bebop. It is a good product you do need to do updates and things before you use it as well.I have seen many complaints about its range and it taking off but keep the battery up and have spares and it won’t take off. Make sure the blades are good. Practice before trusting it out and if you have a house big enough to test the range try doing that before going outside so you know what the range is. And if you do wanna test it outside tie a string to it because I have also read that if its out of range it may take off so until you are comfortable with knowing what’s going to happen test it out first.It’s a good product follow this post and you will be successful trust me I got a little flustered a few times but once I got it down it works very well.
Fly fly away….
this is a great drone for beginners! worth the price for what it is! controlled by an app for your phone! buy extra batteries and props with this product
Definitely recommend, worth the price!
I bought this drone for my husband for his birthday and he was so happy with it. It has an app that syncs the drone via bluetooth to your phone or tablet for the remote, which is pretty cool. It’s a fun little drone to start out with if you are a drone newbie. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is the battery life on these things is so short! I think it only lasts around 8 minutes. However, it is quite a lot of technology for such a little device, so I can understand. Overall, great little drone, worth the price!
Will not work with any device!
Drone is cool, but 1 major flaw. The app that you have to use to control it can only be used with devices that are low voltage bluetooth compatible. No where on the description did it say this. It said it works with any smart phone. Luckily I had a device that supported it but as it was for my son he now has to use my phone instead of being able to use his own device to control it.
Terrible product
Do not purchase this drone.The controls are finicky, it is cheaply made, loses connection easily, battery lasts for 5 minutes at most, and you can’t fly it in any sort…
Five Stars
This Drone is a computer lab favorite grades 3-8.
Good product.
Worth the price. Good product.
Don’t buy
Battery problems galore. If you want to follow the trail of tears just do a Google search for “parrot rolling spider battery problems”.
Missing Part!
I love the drone itself, but the bar that attaches the wheels, were missing with the package! Now, I cannot attach my wheels to fly my drone outside, which was the main purpose of…
It was good in first 3 month of useg but it stoped …
It was good in first 3 month of useg but it stoped working after that. When you turn it on it won’t take off
One Star
Crap
Loads of fun!
This thing is awesome! Hours of fun at your fingertips!
Highly disappointed for the price we paid
My son got this for Christmas and was only able to use it twice before it broke. Highly disappointed for the price we paid.
Watch your $$ fly away!
comments powered by DisqusI am so disappointed and upset with this product! My son (8) got this yesterday as a Christmas gift and it was by far his favorite thing he got.
