About

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Male


Location

Capistrano Beach, CA


About Me:

I am a uav / fpv enthusiast. I currently have tried a few elements of fpv and in flight recording. I have not yet tried assembling a uav but I have been following events on diydrones for quite some time. My current platform is the Easystar.


Hometown:

capistrano beach, ca


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John M commented on John M's blog post Lucky shot of a hawk in flight
"I just watched the vultures video. WOW! awesome. A real-time fpv rig is what I'm aiming for in the future but the price to put one together is a little steep for my budget right now. I have an 8-month old kid that's taking most of my spare time and…"
Mar 3, 2010
John M commented on John M's blog post Lucky shot of a hawk in flight
"in defense of my unstable flying, I'm sure that if that hawk tried remote-driving a terrestrial vehicle such as an R/C car, he would be at least as disadvantaged as I am when I try to fly a plane."
Mar 3, 2010
John M commented on John M's blog post Lucky shot of a hawk in flight
"Yes you have to create a text file in the root directory of the device and I think you name it something like set-time.txt. I can get the details for you if you don't have the directions, etc.

Strangely, the next time you attach the device the text…"
Mar 3, 2010
John M commented on John M's blog post Lucky shot of a hawk in flight
"I just uploaded video to youtube, and it is still processing, so quality might suffer until its done.

hopefully this embedding link works"
Mar 3, 2010
John M commented on John M's blog post Lucky shot of a hawk in flight
"Regarding the camera, I really like it compared to my old flycamone 2 (which ended up in the pacific ocean). My favorite feature of this new camera is the ability to timestamp the video. It makes it great to find frames or keep track of when vids…"
Mar 3, 2010
John M commented on John M's blog post Lucky shot of a hawk in flight
"This was shot in Laguna Niguel, CA, not Ruzghan sorry. Just curious though, where is Ruzghan? looked it up on google and nothing really came up.

I will post the video for the purpose of demonstrating the recording quality, but most likely you will…"
Mar 3, 2010
John M posted a blog post
I realize that this isn't directly relevant to the development of uav systems, but here is a lucky shot I got last week of a red tail hawk in flight. I pulled this frame from a video using VLC player and the camera that I used was a keychain camera…
Mar 2, 2010