Developer Comment by Randy on December 2, 2012 at 7:40pm

Here is a video taken by Yamaura-san of the SkyHigh UAV club in Japan.  I have some other videos of Miwa-san's ducted fan and from the video mounted on the back of the Hexacopter that I will upload tomorrow.

 

Here's some things that I found impressed people while giving a demonstration of a multicopter:

  1. start off slow and just hover around slowly for at least 30 seconds or so.  This gets people thinking that it's a slow, calm machine...then pitch forward to 45 degrees and give it full throttle.  You'll get gasps from the audience at the speed at which it flies.

   2. keep it low at first, then blast it up to 30 or 40 meters shift it into loiter and let it just hang out up there for a bit and make sure the audience realise that you're not touching it.

   3. fully autonomous missions including take-off.  At maker faire we didn't have a ton of space so i just did a back and forth mission..first at 15m, then repeated it at 30m.

If others have advice for giving a good demonstration please add below!

Developer Comment by Randy on December 2, 2012 at 7:50pm

By the way, in the intro shot of this blog, I'm pinching my fingers together to describing how small the copter is when it's 800m away which is how far away it was at the furthes point during a recent trip to Oshima.

Comment by Masafumi Miwa on December 6, 2012 at 8:51am

This is our demo flight video at Maker Faire Tokyo 2012.

Comment by Masafumi Miwa on December 6, 2012 at 8:53am

Another version.

Comment by AKcopter on December 18, 2012 at 9:57am

That guy seems to be using the Hobby King Multiwii Pro Board...or probably a board from a guy called whitespy who supplies similar boards...what amuses me is that he has got the APM 2 underneath ...what for???..the HK board is just a multiwii and a megapirate compatible board...so what is he trying to do??? probably check the flight quality and effect of newer sensors on the APM 2

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