"How much cheaper can you make it, I wonder? Which Gimbals did you use? Can you post some videos to see how good video there is?S900+A2+Zenmuse GH4 is sold for around 2500EUR, I seriously doubt you can get anything much cheaper with same results.…"
"Probably the most challenging part would be finding someone who would be piloting and taking care of your multicopter. Buying one is piece of cake, operating .. it's a whole other story
jk"
"well, that's brave of you :) cinematography is there for more than hundred years and yet most of the stuff is still done manually, we saw very little improvement in last 10 years.. it may change - also with help close range aerial copters - but it…"
"practical usability of such things falls into very far future, i'd say.. and even if technical issues are all solved i still am a bit sceptical on person's ability to see and digest 360deg video - we're not even able to see everything on our…"
"hey,
i think thermal camera must have some kind of live output, whether it is analog or digital, which can be converted then to "normal" analog and you could use powerful video TX with proper antennas to have live video stream to couple of…"
"first thing to do for you is to buy cheapest quad/hexa/heli you can get and start learning how to operate it - and by "operating" i mean more than just "flying" (though, flying will probably be the trickiest part).
something that can carry gopro on…"
"are you sure that vibration is caused by motors?
i never balanced any single motor on my quads, hexas, octas, planes and still was always (well, *almost* always) able to get good quality video. it has to be something massively wrong with motor to…"
"there is nothing "exceptional" in the design except bigger size. it's like saying everyone else is copying axi's (or whoever was first to build brushless motor) motors, because they are all outrunners :)"
"I was comparing two motors on the links, T-motor's u8 and that turnigy hobbyking is selling. start with simple things - one is 385g, while other is 240 - they just cannot be "same" (or rip-off) motor.."