Quadriplegic looking for some help.

Hey,

My name is Scott and I'm a 24 year old C-5 C-6 quadriplegic and I'm hoping that you could give me a hand or possibly point me in the right direction to help me out.

Pretty recently I've become infatuated with multi rotors. It looks like such a fun, creative past time. I think it would be a great way for me to almost get back out there and explore some places that my disability doesn't allow me to go anymore. 

The help I would need for this would be building or modifying an RC controller (2.4?) to work with an iPad or some device that has a touchscreen capabilities (because my thumbs don't work properly for the traditional toggles on the radio receiver) I have no idea how to even begin to do something like this.

I have a AR Parrot drone 2.0 that is controlled by my iPad but it has an extremely limited range and all of the range mods involve removing the iPad for standard Radio controller, that doesn't work because my thumbs don't work right, i need a touch screen.

The Parrot is a great toy but I'm intrested in getting into some more serious arial photography.

something that has stuff like; gps, auto takeoff/land, altitude hold


If you could help me and point me in the right direction to possibly getting a project like this rolling, that would be awesome!

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  • This is what I've done with my friend Aldo

    Ground control station was Andropilot on a Galaxy Tab controlled thru wheel chair mouse controlled joystick.

    This was the very maiden flight

  • You can get a gopro cable from HK for $2 or so that feeds the video signal straight to your MInimOSD. You can also get the GoPro to record to its internal sd card in HD while it outputs SD (about 640x400) to your MinimOSD. The MinimOSD (On Screen Display) can then add all sorts of telemetry stuff like battery remaining, flight time, direction of home, altitude, warning messages and more. Look up projects like MinimOsd-extra.

    Your setup If you take my suggestion will be something like this.

    Gopro ----> gopro vid cable --> minimosd --> vtd -->air <--rx --> goggles

    • ok slow down haha, I'm very new at this

      these are all great ideas.

      this will be my first rc project so please excuse me not knowing anything.

      i guess i don't know what i need

  • I think a P600 may be a bit much for most quads -- certainly for most gimbals intended for GoPro-sized cameras.  At 550g the weight alone is fairly hefty, but the size of the body would also be a problem. 

    A smaller camera with similar pixel count may be a better choice for stills. Maybe a Coolpix A or similar PNS. As for controlling zoom, I'm sure it's possible but it would take some serious hacking.  As an aside, most aerial stills are taken at a fixed focal length of between 35mm and 50mm when working with 35mm-sized sensors. I think if you were shooting stills with a quality PNS and left your zoom at those equivalents you might be very pleased with the results.

    • Perfect!! Scrap the big fat camera. As long as I can take high quality stills, I'll be happy.
      • I haven't looked the specs for the better PNS cameras but something with a built-in intervalometer will save you a lot of headaches.  Instead of worrying about how to trigger the shutter you could just tell the camera to starting shooting stills once every second or so.

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        Take a look at this videos from Team Black Sheep:

        https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAMZOHjmiInGYjOplGhU38g

        I think most of them are made with a Gopro 3.

        Team BlackSheep
        The time for FPV is right now! ►►► team-blacksheep.com __________ #FPV #drone #quadcopter #teamblacksheep #aerials #GoPro #DiscoveryPRO #TBSGemini #T…
        • Those are awesome clips they've put together.  I love all the people waving at the drone =)  

        • haha ok those are exactly the kinds of shots i need, looks like the go pro 3 will work fine.

          • Sorry i dont know if you can or cant build your own copter, but a good place to get cheap stuff is hobbyking. Personally ive got a Sk450 deadcat from them and built it up. The Tarot 2D gimbal is nearly half the price from 3DR. You can buy the autopilot, compass & gps from 3DR and put everything together.

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