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  • benbojangles November 13, 2014 at 5:14pm

    I agree with John Dennings, the optical flow + sonar sensor needs to be addressed especially if the inspire 1 is using the $2 HC-SR04 sensor which Ardupilot has been dismissive of:

    http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/inspire-1-optical-flow-sonar?xg_s...

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  • Ray Gamero November 13, 2014 at 11:19am

    This looks pretty cool actually.  Very polished.  It looks like a lot of money went into it.  At that price of $3400 (you save $150), it will keep most people on the phantom 2.  

    I'd rather build my own, though. 

  • Emin Bu November 13, 2014 at 8:46am

    http://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/dji-inspire-1-hollywood-calibre-drone-...

    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1097099-REG/dji_inspire_1.html

  • Denny Rowland November 12, 2014 at 7:36pm

    What I find so amusing is that this team of Numbties, despite all of the high end investment in gear can't even hold a straight and level horizon. Why don't they give the promo productions to professionals. who know what they are doing. That video sucks, does it not! Would you pay 4,000 bucks for a machine that has so much lens distortion and can't even stay level.

    At least do some basic editing before releasing it to the public domain. 2 out of 10 at best....

  • Jiro Hattori November 12, 2014 at 6:29pm

    I am thinking after watching promotion video of Inspire 1.

    It looks like enough that retractable camera and gimbal will protect and provide good sight for the camera.

    Perfect marketing gimmick!

  • benbojangles November 12, 2014 at 4:54pm

    So:

    Retractable arms
    360 degree gimbal
    Uses an Optical Flow sensor
    18 mins flight time 
    camera 4k
    New remote
    dual controller compatible
    HD ipad & iphone video transmitter
    $2899 basic
    $3399 gimbal
    controller$650 each

    ....And a whole bunch or Ardupilot/Droidplanner similarities.

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    Gary Mortimer November 12, 2014 at 2:53pm

    I'm sitting on the press release and videos until 17 PST it looks quite cool. The event starts at 1630 and Veronica from our SFC office will be there tweeting and filming.

  • benbojangles November 12, 2014 at 2:43pm

    P.S: 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3kgN7qKHA

  • benbojangles November 12, 2014 at 2:35pm

    So, its basically a copter that can auto retract it's landing gear at 5 meters...But its landing gear is also it's motor arms. 
    I'm pretty sure DJI S800, 900, 1000 also auto retract legs, and also there is an Arduino IDE port of Ardupilot that supports auto retract:https://github.com/timotto/ardupilot/tree/landinggear

    I am greatly looking forward to seeing the DJI inspire release today. What I am looking forward to for my own copter is a $10 landing gear modification using Arducopter for cost & function purposes. 

    Will the official Ardupilot software incorporate the function in the link above, once it's been tested satisfactorily?

    Thanks

    timotto/ardupilot
    APM Copter modified to support automatic landing gear. The branch 'landinggear' tries to keep track of upstream/master and I backport my modi…
  • Mike Knott November 12, 2014 at 7:48am

    That video of the inspire1 is already gone. Someone got in trouble.

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