Snap’s first drone, the Pixy, was fully revealed in FCC photos

Updated April 28, 13:09 ET: Snap officially unveiled Pixy and we’ve been working on it. You can read our entire article – with video! – right here.

Our original article on FCC documents follows.

Snap seems to be working on a drone called Pixy, and the whole thing just leaked out with a huge amount of detail, including photos and a seemingly unfinished user guide published by the FCC. It’s small: the lines on the photos show that the drone is approximately 130 millimeters wide and 120 millimeters high, which means approximately 5.1 inches by 4.7 inches.

In the user guide, Snap described the drone as “a small smart drone with a camera and a camera function.” The drone itself is a rounded rectangle in the typical Snap yellow hue with translucent orange propellers. At the top there is a button that seems to offer a bunch of different settings – it looks like a camera mode dial, all the way to the traditional “landscape mode” logo – and it looks like there are cameras on the front as well as the bottom of the drone. We’ve included some of the photos below so you can see for yourself.

Translucent orange propellers and USB-C port. Image via FCC There’s a big yellow button above something that looks like a camera mode dial. Image via FCC I can’t figure out the battery capacity here, but the documentation says separately that there is a 3.3Wh package, which seems quite small. Image via FCC Inside the Pixy drone. Image via FCC The drone has two boards inside. Image via FCC

It has a USB-C port, probably for charging, as well as a removable battery underneath; it is not clear how the battery behaves, but there seems to be a lock with a button on one end. It operates at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, like most other drones (and Wi-Fi, for that matter – most cheap drones just use Wi-Fi), although there is a remark that 5GHz with a shorter range is for indoor use only. There is also Bluetooth, according to the file.

Snap’s previous hardware products were goggles, but The Information reported in March 2021 that the company was stepping up its efforts to build a drone.