Is it just me

Posted by Local Idiot on June 16, 2015 at 4:31am

Im behind the times, but how did technology, lead us from a $40 battery to a $140 battery with SOLO. From a $200 gimbal to a $400 gimbal?

3dr wants to compete with phantom, thats nice, now its time to find all the parts they can make only available from 3drobotics

Any 3s battery would work, now you are in the model like dell? This is not the result of open source, this is the opposite, and I wish companies like 3dr would stop acting like they are in the open source.

The fact that the software is claimed to be open source means little, you've close sourced something pretty simple and at one time, kinda cheap, the battery. 

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    • meavydev > meavydev June 25, 2015 at 12:19am

      In fact the price and size means I just got a Phantom 3 Pro...

      The range, flight times and video feed are great.

      Stability with the ultrasonics and optical flow seems good.

      As there is an SDK I am updating my DronePro app to support DJI drones as well as 3DR.

      Not sure what the smallest pack for the Solo is, but this is my Phantom 3 Transport, and the hulking great packs needed to even transport my Iris mean I didn't take it on my bike, but Phantom 3 is fine.

      New photo
  • Sigitas Ciapas June 16, 2015 at 4:38am

    How can you compare IRIS battery with SOLO?

    And how can you compare 2-axis gimbal with 3-axis gimbal?

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