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About
About Me:
Software consultant...always wanted to get into RC but was afraid it was a money hole :-)
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Interested in use for aerial photography
Hometown:
Boston, PRofMA
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"No video output from the GoPro?
That looked jerky watching you move the bar around so the video probably won't be smooth..."
That looked jerky watching you move the bar around so the video probably won't be smooth..."
"Neat design....is the 9150 more stable?
Would love to see how well it stabilizes video."
Would love to see how well it stabilizes video."
"$1400 isn't bad for being able to lift 2lbs...but if the cam isn't centered properly as eduardo mentioned, it's not that great :-("
"Doesn't the processor suck too much power? Looked at it a while back for a work project and it wasn't acceptable because of that...nice to have linux on it though."
"Who's arming theirs w/ missiles first? :-)"
"Rana: did the LM358N work? Just wondering if the type of dual opamp makes a difference...usually, analog circuits are dependent on the type of opamp..."
"An Android version would have been less painful to build...sounds like a good chunk of their work is for Apple approval of their dongle :-)"
"Cool...can this be adapted to other transmitters? Would be really cool if you could display the output of a FPV receiver on the Android tablet too :-)"
"What's the range?"
"The AXI motors are only capable of 500g thrust (less than 1/4lb) or so. That explains the tiny MIT quadcopter... :-("
"Those motors are tiny (no thrust value listed in the specs on either of those pages)...explains why the MIT quadrotor is so small..."
"And related on yahoo today...seems this is snowballing now...so they'll either be banned or approved or something because the legiscritters will grab this and spew our a whole new set of laws to show they're "doing something" ;-)…"
"Wow...that's pretty high end stuff. I looked at some guy's build notes and he used a $500 euro Kopterworx Hercules board for the ESC's :-O
Thanks, for the PhotoHigher pointer, Adam."
Thanks, for the PhotoHigher pointer, Adam."
I've never seen retracting skids on an N-copter before.The Flying Fern folks' octa has that to get the skids out of the way of their DSLR copter holding a C300 :-O
"It's nice that Paul remembered the camera gimbal that was missing from the Eye3 kickstarter project :-)
I'd use a Hitec Aurora 9 radio w/ the built-in telemetry to save $150 though...you're not going to do high speed maneuvers w/ this thing so the…"
I'd use a Hitec Aurora 9 radio w/ the built-in telemetry to save $150 though...you're not going to do high speed maneuvers w/ this thing so the…"
"LOL...you guys did it again...you made into a filmakeriq article :) http://filmmakeriq.com/2012/02/kickstarter-campaign-for-eye3-drone-...
I'd agree w/ Ellison on the engine change from Paul's list assuming you want to duplicate the original Eye3…"
I'd agree w/ Ellison on the engine change from Paul's list assuming you want to duplicate the original Eye3…"
