Ready-To-Fly Aircraft Also ... Well ... Almost Ready-To-Fly

Pre-orders are now open for the Intel Aero Platform for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Designed from the ground up to support drones, the UAV developer kit is powered by an Intel Atom quad-core processor. It combines compute, storage, communications and flexible I/O all in a form factor the size of a standard playing card.

When matched with the optional Vision Accessory Kit, developers will have opportunities to launch sophisticated drone applications.

The Aero Ready To Fly drone is a fully-assembled quadcopter with compute board, integrated depth and vision capabilities using Intel RealSense Technology — the fastest path available from Intel for developers to get applications airborne. Aero Ready To Fly Drone supports several “plug and play” options, including a flight controller with Dronecode PX4 software, Intel RealSense for vision and AirMap SDK for airspace services.

The Aero compute board is available at click.intel.com. The Aero Ready To Fly Drone will be available by end of year.

(Image provided with Intel news release)

FMI: www.intel.com