Hi,

- The reason to build this project is only one: JUST FOR FUN so please don't ask whats the point, there is no point besides that one,  We here at AV AirFilms have fun too...  

- I'd rather be flying to record this, but the pilot wasn't home and since I just finished this, I wanted to record it.

- The animations are pretty simple at this stage, but I'm learning some tricks so they will evolve a lot in the next days.  

And I'm sorry for the little red chairs, its from my kids and I forgot to remove these from the scene... its was just a test anyway.  

About the project. These are WS2811 RGB Digitally Addressable LEDs, with 68 LEDs/Meter density and a total of 3.2 meter (11 feet) and 216 LEDs in this project. Its SMD 5050 LEDs so its pretty bright, so bright that it was very difficult to record, the video can't show how nice the colors are. 

I didn't want to deal with arduino, so I got a T1000-S and someone stripped the case for me, so the controller has little over 100g now. The animations are made with LEDedit 2012 + FLASH that is pretty easy to work with.

I have/had many flight controls, Hoverfly Pro, MK, YS-X6, NAZA, Autoquad and APM. I test these a lot, on small quads and big octos, and I have to say that arducopter is getting better and better and I'm all for open source plataforms like Autoquad and Ardupilot. The speed of these open projects can't be matched and the performance differences between the early APM and the current APM is incredible, so big that I was comfortable to use APM during 2 days instead YS-X6 or Hoverfly Pro that I'm used to. And it worked really well. 

The flying parts of the video were made with a heavy lift hexa + Ardupilot and a hoverfly pro as gimbal controller (not hoverfly gimbal) it is from a big motorcycle event in Brazil. 

I couldn't preview my video embeebed, so please some moderator embed it for me? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5AZ8VEQ28A

Av Air Films

This week we used one of our Drones (this time skyjib6 since its smaller than our cinestar8) to film a mining company  here in Brazil, This company is the fourth largest zinc producer in the world. One of the things they wanted us to film was the Murici Deposit. In the 60s a lot of rejected material (after zinc processing) was placed very near (100 mt) the Sao Franscisco River, one of the biggest rivers in south america (almost 3000km / 1900 miles long) and now over 50 years after the initial place the company started a US$250 million project to remove ALL the material to a new and high tech deposit, a very big one, it has over 50 ha of size and can receive over 15 million tons of material.

After removing the material, the old area will be recovered with the best reforestation technology avaiable and in 20 years it will be indistinguishable from the native forest. Right now the deposit and the reforestation is the biggest envirolmental project in Brazil. 

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We are editing the video, but here's a picture of the hexa flying near the deposit. Its so big that we were able to get all the deposit only when we went over 180 meters / 590 ft the highest altitude we achived with this drone, it was SCARY...

This picture is not ours, its from an airplane but is to show the size of the project. 

The other picture is from inside the mine, that has over 7km of galeries at 2km deep, since at 2km it has 100% of humidity and a temperature of 35C we decided not to go below 200 meters, and using a NEX5n and a lot of light we flew inside the mine. :) 

Thanks for reading!

http://www.avairfilms.com.br