I know this has been covered, but things seem to be picking up quickly on the subject.
Here is last night's Nightline report on drones and all of the negatives of putting them in the hands regular people hands.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/d
Read more…So, last weeks episode ended with me with my head hanging low and the contemplation that hard drugs and hard alcohol could possibly act as a substitute for my obsession to get into multicopters.
(See http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/things-that-go-u
Read more…Prior to it's last flight, my hexa, which I am thinking of naming after some sort of bug like the queen bee, was finally flying. I had taken it out three times to see how it did. Used a couple simple modes which seemed to work okay (RTL, Loiter).
Read more…While learning how to fly my bird, I have given up on the crappy little legs provided by jDrones as they were broke, repaired and broke again. Time to go to Lowe's and see if they have something to make legs out of. Searched all the ailes and found
Read more…Complete noob here and need some help. I bought a jDrones hexa (big motors, 10x4.5 blades). I am running 2.3 (which may be a problem after reading about it's premature release). My copter did this with 2.2b4 as well.
The issue is that the copter
Read more…I thought I could et through this build without posting stupid questions. Someone said, "there are no stupid questions"....... well, here is mine. I am building an Octo and made it through the setup, driver download, firmware and program load, but
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