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Short clip of Memorial Day DIY Drones Fly-in

Posted by Mark Harrison on June 1, 2012 at 2:00pm

 

Chris needed to do some prep for the upcoming SparkFun Challenge, so he asked if anybody wanted to get together for a Memorial Day fly-in.  I drove up with Andreas and Charlie Burtoff; there were about 15-20(?) people all together, although I didn't actually count.

Here's a shakycam of Andreas flying the Zii, a hex, some of the flyers, and Andreas with his fine-looking FPV mask.

http://eastbay-rc.blogspot.com/2012/06/short-clip-of-recent-diy-drones-fly-in.html

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  • Rob_Lefebvre June 2, 2012 at 2:51am

    Charlie, Ok, I see so it only took off once you throttled up a bit?  Very strange, and scary.  Is this with a 9X?  What do the logs show?  Any input registered at all?  What made it come down?

  • Moderator
    Mark Harrison June 2, 2012 at 12:19am

    Chris, will do... [update: done!]

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson June 1, 2012 at 9:36pm

    @Mark. Not fixed yet. Maybe reupload and edit the post with a new embed code?

  • Carl La France June 1, 2012 at 7:28pm

    Good Tune up run 

  • Moderator
    Mark Harrison June 1, 2012 at 6:03pm

    whoops, blame it on the tube!  I applied the stabilization mode, didn't like it, and backed it out, which flipped the image!  I think it's fixed now.

    Or, this was the long-distance cam from Australia!

  • John Wiseman June 1, 2012 at 5:30pm

    Mark (and everyone else, in case you didn't know) -- You can fix the video orientation in youtube.  Go to the video, click "Enhancements", and you should see some rotation buttons.

    You can also use the "Stabilize" button to help with handheld shakiness (I wish youtube would give viewers the option to do that on all videos, regardless of whether the video creator used it).

  • Rob_Lefebvre June 1, 2012 at 4:43pm

    Regards to Charlies video... how did it arm if it was at full throttle?

    I gotta get me a quad.  I can't believe that.  If my heli fell like that, it would be completely destroyed.  My last crash, it just tipped over on the ground, and did more far more damage than yours suffered crashing from 1 mile up, onto pavement.

    :(

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson June 1, 2012 at 4:15pm

    Jack: We announce them on the SF Bay Area UAV Fliers mailing list. (It's in the Members tab above) Sign up!

  • Jack Crossfire June 1, 2012 at 3:27pm

    Mentions of future east bay RC events are conspicuously absent from diydrones.

  • Moderator
    Mark Harrison June 1, 2012 at 3:12pm

    Jack, as far as I know the AMA doesn't care, since this isn't an AMA field or event.

    Mark

    proud member of:

    Concord Model Engineers, AMA Club #2130

    chartered 1953 <-- and still with charter members at every meeting!

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