DIY Drones friend Gonzalo Martinez of Autodesk has been in Kenya with Louise Leakey and his Octocopters. Fantastic stuff! (The copters are gorgeous $12,000 Mikrokopter-powered Cinestars)
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DIY Drones friend Gonzalo Martinez of Autodesk has been in Kenya with Louise Leakey and his Octocopters. Fantastic stuff! (The copters are gorgeous $12,000 Mikrokopter-powered Cinestars)
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This is a neat idea for a UAV application. Maybe I missed it--does the video show what a fossil site looks like from the air?
By the way, tacocopter is not an MIT project, it was done by someone who happens to be an MIT graduate. And I found it to be an inspiring and fun project, even if it wasn't useful (I'm guessing a very small fraction of DIY Drones members are doing anything other than having fun).
I think this is one of the most interesting application of UAV's I've seen.
Contrast this with MIT's worthless "tacocopter" program.
Here is a legitimate use; which provides a great benefit over largely unpopulated areas.
Congratulations to those involved - and thanks for the find.
This is the kind of applications multicopters are perfect for.
And regarding the $12K copter. Cinestar's are very highly priced as a strategy I think (so that people will go "since it's so expensive it must be something special"). And yes, they are one of the best platforms for video and photo at the moment. But a lot of the cost is just to have the Cinestar name on the copter. I am currently halfway build a same performance level 100% CF octocopter, and total materials/equipment cost including a 3 axis camera gimbal was just under $3000.