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The Christmas Gift

Posted by uavdiyutah on January 10, 2008 at 10:09pm
The sale plane that i was building is about 3/4 of the way done, and i had to stop (unexpected guests and no where left in the house to build it), but for Christmas i was givin a small 95% ready to fly park flyer. now its the 29.99 special from Harbor freight called the yellow bee. but its actually a fun little airplane to play with until i get my other one done and get a radio for it. i have already crashed my "yellow bee" on the first test flight i lost control and it landed in a neighbors window well. but damage was limited and it still flys well.

i have also found one of the video systems i think i might use. it is called the FlyCamOne2. its about 100 bucks and is 3"x1-1/2"x1/2" in size and only weighs 1oz it does 640x480 video and 1280x1024 still. it uses SD cards for storage, and the camera lens can be rotated 90 degrees so you can point it basically any way you need. if any one has used this or the previous version i would be interested to hear how it works before i buy one.

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Tring to get started

Posted by uavdiyutah on November 1, 2007 at 6:26pm
So i found this page after i watched the DIY UAV segment on wired the other day, and it has been something that i have been interesting in trying to do ever since i saw the preditor and the global hawk. But i just didnt know where to start, and the ideas that i had would have ended up costing thousand of dollars. so im really happy to find a group of people interested in doing the same thing.

so enogh about that. i was looking around the interenet today tring to find suitable aircraft for my project when i came around this.

http://www.redrockethobbies.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=HBL-AT6601&Click=6136
(sorry for some reason the insert a link thing wasnt working)

a prebuilt comes with everything uav. the camera in it sucks alot, only 26 pics :( but im sure that could be modified easily. but i just thought that it was kinda cool that there was a kit out there for people who wanted to get started.

well i think that is gonna be it for now.


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