It looks like our theme about new product features this week is "small is beautiful". We featured two days ago the new GoPro Hero 4 Session, the smallest HD action camera from GoPro and today we are featuring the Micro Drone 3.0, a small HD camera drone that is on Indiegogo, raising funds to get funding for its production.

As you have noticed on YouTube, a growing number of airsoft videos are now taken with civilian camera drones from the likes of DJI Phantom and Parrot. Having camera drones provide enthusiast videographers to capture the airsoft action, especially massive airsoft and milsim events at angles that were not easily done before unless they spend a lot of money.

But most of these of videos are taken outdoors where the popular camera drones are big enough. Some videographers want to take footage of the airsoft action indoors, but the drones are too big to exactly go through most of the doors and windows at CQB sites. Furthermore, they can easily get in the way of airsoft players as they go through stairways, corridors and rooms.

The Micro Drone 3.0 is the answer to that.  While it can do aerial video footages outdoors with ease, this drone can work best indoors due to its small size, as it can fit the size of an adult palm. It has the world's smallest Gimbal for stabilization of the video camera that takes 720p High Definition Video at 30fps. This video footage is then streamed to a smartphone via wifi and can work with livestreaming services such as Periscope and Meerkat. With Google's Cardboard VR, you can do first FPV flying with the Micro Drone 3.0. Of course, you can also store the video on board the Micro Drone 3.0 by using a micro SD card.

Since it’s  also modular, it can allow third party developers to design and create modules that can be snapped to the Micro Drone 3.0, as long as it can easily carry the weight of such modules.  It has intelligent motion sensors so it can fly and hover at level and straight lines without deviating from its fixed axis.

For airsoft videographers who use drones to cover airsoft events, there are no one size fits all drones and if they intend to do cover indoor games, then the Micro Drone 3.0 is the perfect drone to use, as long as the lighting conditions allow. It is not as expensive as the popular drones in the market as it will cost US$150 for the early bird supporters on Indiegogo. With 7 days left, the developers of Micro Drone 3.0 have already released over US$1.1 million in funding pledges, and it is way beyond their original funding goal of US$75,000.