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Best FPV and mounts for IRIS?

Hello IRIS family,

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                               a line and welcome myself to the forums. I am fairly new to DIY and Drones in general, but right out of the

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APC multirotor props

Has anyone tried the APC multirotor 10x4.5 props on the IRIS or other quad?They have a larger diameter hub which more closely matches the diameter of the prop mount.They are also a bit different shape, narrower at the tips, and wider near the hubs.I

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Mounting brackets

I'm interested in designing different attachments for the Iris.  Does anyone have a STL file (for 3D printing) featuring a knuckle to interface with the camera mounting stub that comes attached to the front of the Iris?

Has anyone explored the metal t

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IRIS Props and Batteries

PROPS

In the learning phase, I have been going through a couple of sets of props.  I have heard some people say that they don't like the props that come with the IRIS, but I like them because they are cheap.  3DRobotics sells the Push/Pull (2 prop) se

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Tarot Gimbal and GoPro Hero 3

Wow..

All I can say about this Tarot gimbal on the IRIS is that it is amazingly steady.  I had the IRIS in some 5-8MPH gusts and had to work it to keep it above the treeline where the wind caught it, and the video turned out really nice and steady.  I

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Iris Resiliency

Some questions about the Iris:

1) If the ground station (mission planner running on a laptop) bluescreens during a mission will the Iris continue completing the mission?

2) Has anyone tried adding algorithms to keep flying after the loss of a prop?

3) W

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Iris Freakout!

I own a few single and quad rotor helicopters and have flown them for a few years but took my Iris out for the first flight yesterday and had a very unfortunate response.

Setup:

Plugged in the USB and updated the firmware and the ran the calibration on

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