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From the "deep south" part of Canada
Richard in Smithville
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Bade Millsap
Bulverde, Texas
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Heading out on vacation today and just watching TV to kill time. Saw this. Criminals trying to use drones to drop contraband into a MD prison.
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For all you guys still wanting to shoot down drones, saw this today:
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Atcgpaul, that's just great, now something else to worry about getting in wrong hands. If it will burn a hole in a drone i feel sure it could take out the pilot, fuel tank or engine of a commercial air plane!Comment
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Talk about drones! This Brit, for about $10 thousand dollars, (or there 'bouts), built one for his self.
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Last week while I was in Vancouver I noticed a Drone store! I'd like to have been able to stop and look around but didn't have time. I guess they use them to view all the homeless people and pot stores?Comment
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Here is some video I shot of my church. It's the 150th year anniversary this year and Ill be using it for a commemorative video I'm making. I learned the tower is about 120 ft high.
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That's cool! Nice and steady. At the beginning of the video, was that you in the parking lot with someone standing next to you? It seemed like you might have lost sight of the drone at some points. Was the flight pre-programmed (is that even possible?) or all manual?
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Yes that was me. I had line of sight the entire time. But I also made sure I was higher than anything even remotely close. The remote also has a screen so I could see what the camera sees, along with telemetry. Although I never do it people do fly out of sight by just flying really high. I'm way to scared to do that. There are many drones that do way points but not mine. The next model I plan to get will have one though. Maybe next year. I'm still having fun with this one. The gimbal works very well. Only thing I don't like about it, and it goes with pretty much all th premade copters, is that it uses proprietary batteries which is way more expensive than regular lipos.Last edited by jussi; 09-13-2015, 12:12 AM.I reject your reality and substitute my own.Comment
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Hank Lee
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted!
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As an engineer I began to see these quadcopters (and 6 and 8 versions) about 5-6 years ago in the engineering magazines. They were touted as easy to fly because the controls are so easy compared to a regular helicopter.
The short thing is that rotation is a problem with helicopters, but with counter-rotating propellors at every other positions (why you only have even nos of motors)rotation is not a problem, if you want to turn you just turn the clockwise ones a little faster and the CCW ones a little slower and it spins on center. To hover, just spin all the motors the same speed. To go forwards you speed up the rear propellors and slow the front propellors that tilts the craft forward and its slips to the front. To rise, just speed up all the motors.
The beauty of this is that you have very easy to control craft using a microprocessor rather than all the analog channels and visual feedback you needed to control a typical RC helicopter. Instead of a balancing act with a joystick, the remote control would only have to say go up, go forward, turn, etc. Gyroscopes would take care of the rest and maintain a steady direction or even an assigned compass heading commanded. Waypoints, altitude, etc. can be preprogrammed. Thus the control becomes very simple, something you can handle with a touch screen or something you can even program out a course before hand and also have a lost mode where it returns to the original launch spot if its running low on juice or hasn't received a command for a while. All the user interaction is greatly reduced from the skills of flying a traditional RC helicopter.
As mobile electronics - iPads, iPhones proliferated the remotes became very sophisticated and also very widely available whereas the early stuff was only to enthusiasts on the trade magazines and dedicated web sites. Wifi and blue tooth made for sophisticated digital control vs. analog joystick RF controls and finally bidirectional wifi links at high bandwidth and miniturized camera tech made it so that you could see a real time navigational view on a wifi controller screen. Some have both front cameras for navigation (steering) and down cameras for "reconaissance"
So now any Joe can simply buy a quadcopter for relatively cheap and control it with great sophistication with his iPad he already has.Last edited by LCHIEN; 10-18-2015, 05:36 PM.
Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
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I see on the CBS News earlier this evening that the FAA is attempting to enact a rule that would require any new Drone buyers to register their craft at the time of purchase. The comment was also made that current owners would be asked to register also. The idea being that this would help find those who might be responsible for violators of air space or even the center of complaints.
The question in my mind is whether this might be considered an "enfringement" of someone's rights... and will there be a "National Drone Association".
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It's biggest backer might be Amazon:
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