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(3) Traxxas Camera Ship (well, Camera Dinghy...)

Posted by Oliver on December 31, 2012 at 12:05am

Pic 3 of 3: This camera was marketed for $100 by Hammacher-Schlemmer who advertised it for a time as the world's smallest. It's neither the smallest nor is it worth anything close to $100. But it is cute, and it does work, sort of. This huge project was just for fun, but I think this little quad could actually be useful as a camera platform. Now if we could just shrink an APM to fit ...

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  • Oliver January 6, 2013 at 2:44pm

    3692584844?profile=originalAs promised, here's the next (third) project with the Traxxas QR-1 micro quadcopter: Having conquered sea and air (see earlier videos) with the tiny Traxxas micro-quad, we now take on land, in yet another multi-hundred-cent cutting-edge project. This time we blew off all budgetary constraints and spent $2.99 on a nice thumb-size skateboard. A flexible mount made of about 30 square millimeters of Velcro set us back another cent or two. Construction time was about 30 seconds, not counting maybe two minutes of pondering. Stay tuned for our next NASA-scale project! Video is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSIryW4-gTY&feature=youtu.be .

  • Oliver January 4, 2013 at 10:07pm

    3692583585?profile=originalContinuing our incredibly high-tech experiments with the new Traxxas QR-1 micro quadcopter (which is a real little beast, not at all just a mall-class toy), here we've swapped the camera (see earlier video) for floats! See video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVnVnM-0VUM . Unlike the camera mount, which took maybe 20 minutes from conception through fabrication, this took an enormous amount of time - maybe as much as two hours - and burned right through a budget that approached two figures! Final iteration hardware cost came to 147 cents. No modifications were made to the quad itself. Why have we done this? If you need to ask, you're not going to understand the answer! More to follow! Wheee!

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