Very impressive design and what looks like top-quality components. [UPDATE: It appears to be a stock Xaircraft frame that costs $160. Thanks to the commenters for catching this]. You can back the project here ($999 for the copter, $1,499 for the full deal with APM 2)
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I was going to guess the illegal to fly thing was a possibility...the off-the shelf parts so it's really an assembly project...or the use of open source stuff in a commercial venture. Weird that Kickstarter isn't talking, but it seems that they're going to have a go at it themselves given the interest, so I hope it works out for them and any buyers...
In the meantime, I'm still waiting for my TriggerTrap Kickstarter...nearly a year after funding when it's supposed to ship this April :-P
Looks like funding as been cancelled. I wonder what happened?
@Ken, the answer is: 6x expensive motors, 6x expensive ESC's.and 1x big and expensive battery. All this on a light frame. A nice motor like Mikrokopter, Pulso or Avroto costs from $60 to $100 each one. So, you could invest $600 just with motors (excluding importing taxes, depending on the country where you live). E.g.: I live in Brazil. Here we pay 80% on taxes, so it would be $1080 just with nice motors. :S
$75,962 until now. 28 days to go. 70 backers.
They're appealing to the photographer community that's getting into HDSLR aerial photography (i.e., people who have the money to spend on it :-)
Most people don't understand that some sort of camera stabilizer is needed that's ideally servo controlled for changing camera angle while a wireless video downlink gets sent down to a camera operator.
I'm hoping we'll see a lot of Futaba 8FG radios on sale soon, though I was hoping they'd bundle the Aurora 9 as well ;-)
On a different note, why isn't there another hexacopter that can lift as much weight as they claim? Most seem to max out around 6lbs instead of the 12-20lbs they claimed...
Marc: Our documentation is licenced under Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0, which requires that they "share alike". So too for the PCB files.
The code is licensed under the L-GPL.
Neither requires that they can't charge, but they must make every derivative work as open as our own work.
The whole thread led me to a more general question: How is documentation you produce and sell with a product based on GPL hard/software to be licensed?
If the company in our example here provides manuals and videos (which they will have to, to achieve the promised level of service...), is there a rule that this also has to be free, since it´s based on an open system? Just interested since this could then add value back to the community. Otherwise there is not much other then more work by more people coming and demanding help (as a service)...
Some experts in the field? Chris?
Oh no, this is going from bad to worse....
Jack that's a really sad situation, I agree. I can also identify having recently recovered from an extended hospital stay myself. This is all the more reason that they need to get in touch with their suppliers, as soon as possible to pre-arrange for stock to fill these orders. They do not need the stress of more people chasing after them. I'm sure Chris can arrange for her to get priority on the APM2s, and people community could wait a little while longer for theirs. Maybe 3DR can even do some of the assembly and testing for them. Although that Goodluckbuy frame is nice, I can't see any reason that a 3DR frame cannot be used.
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