MicroDrone 4.0 (crowd funded drone) looks like it will fail to deliver

Johnmcl7 · Mar 3, 2020

I hadn't heard of this one until reading about it on the news and perhaps unsurprisingly it's another crowd funded drone which appears like it's not going to deliver anything as promised:

MicroDrone 4.0 - losing altitude

A UK-based crowdfunding project blames coronavirus for its latest delay - but backers are concerned.

www.bbc.co.uk

What does surprise me is that a crowd funded project like this could still draw a large amount of funding even after several large scale crowdfunded failures including the very similar Zano drone which apparently this company has bought a portion of. This drone was also able to gain an award like the Zano at a show where it was entirely non-functional

Rattydude77 · Mar 3, 2020

They want to take on the inspire hahahah better against the spark

Johnmcl7 · Mar 4, 2020

Rattydude77 said:
They want to take on the inspire hahahah better against the spark

This is the problem with crowdfunding because they want to draw in as many people so they're encouraged make outrageous claims by offering features similar or better than existing devices on the market and at a much lower price. Personally that immediately puts me off but it works well with consumers and frustratingly even works well with 'professional' outlets.