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Permalink Reply by Karla Jean Fripp on January 21, 2012 at 1:07pm

Hi Barton. What camera are you going to use?

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Permalink Reply by Barton Stein on January 21, 2012 at 2:14pm

Initially my cousins 7D. Eventually (hopefully) red epic or similar.

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Permalink Reply by Gareth Rens on January 21, 2012 at 1:09pm

Im not sure if you found this blog, but perhaps it might help:

Check out blog posts 1-14.

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0v3uy1u12mpkw

G:)

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Permalink Reply by Barton Stein on January 21, 2012 at 2:20pm

thanks nice octo. i liked the voice of reason, "dont get too brave" haha. so true.

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Permalink Reply by CarbonCore on January 22, 2012 at 3:42pm

Hello Barton,

Thank You for all the interest and I hope I have been able to answer as many of your questions as possible.

More information will come as I find out but it all takes time sorry.

I would recommend that you get the multicopter flying first and get it all setup and tuned, then add the camera mount, and then the camera.

A bit like a scale helicopter - get the basics flying first before adding the expensive body!

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Permalink Reply by Barton Stein on January 22, 2012 at 7:38pm

Thank you Cameron, you have been very helpful. I definitely plan to do some test flying before strapping up any pricey camera gear. Looking forward to putting your design to work.

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Permalink Reply by Duran - SteadiDrone on January 22, 2012 at 2:10pm

Hey Barton. We specialize in octos for film and production and use arducopter in our systems. We will have our first batxh of systems ready within two or three weeks. Weve been flying many jobs and tv shoots, film etc with ourcurrent rig wich is droidwoxlrx ad8. Our new frames and cam mount will be very cool super smooth and affordable. We will mainly do full ready to fly kits with everything required but will also sell frames seperately as well. With our current system, weve flown about 1500 flight without a single issue. Check out this vid i loaded yesterday of a quick test flight over the weekend.

http://vimeo.com/35455735

if yiu need any advuce or hwlp with yiur build pop me a mail anytime. Info@steadidrone.com

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Permalink Reply by Barton Stein on January 22, 2012 at 7:45pm

Duran,

Thanks for the link. Looks like you got that octo flying nicely. Good to hear that arducopter is working for you. So far I have heard it can take some time to perfect, (especially considering my nonexistant programming skills). I will keep an eye on the steadidrone website. Where are you located?

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Permalink Reply by Barton Stein on January 22, 2012 at 8:29pm

Ok so.... The latest is trying to decide what flight controller to use if i dont use ardupilot. At this point I am actually leaning towards taking the plunge into arducopter. At first the sound of an out of the box setup such as the DJI WKM sounded nice. But i dont like to do things the "easy way" or sometimes even the "right" way. Also i think once i get the ardupilot tuned i will end up being happier with it's versatility.

As far as motors I have been recommended AXi 2826/12 motors with hobbywing ESC's.

I was also wondering how power is distributed to everything aside from the motors. I assume the flight controller and various sensors all need power.

Any input on these or any other part of my project would be greatly appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by CarbonCore on January 23, 2012 at 4:49am

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001971419147

Collected and sorted a few carbon parts this morning. :)

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Permalink Reply by Barton Stein on January 23, 2012 at 8:32pm

Good! get to work so I can start breaking things. Ordering APM tomorrow. Sorry i dont do the facecrack anymore. Deleted my account when they removed occupy wall street pics from my wall.

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