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Is there an off-the-shelf that will handle 30oz of weight and be good for 30kt winds? I think my hard ceiling on price is $900. I can probably break out a 3d printer if it will decrease my cost by more than $100. I've got an old (1999) digital controller that runs in one of the unregulated bands at some stupid wattage; I think it's publicized as 5W, but I think it's limited by a jumper to 900mW for US usage. That jumper didn't come installed on my TX as far as I can tell, and I know it uses batteries at a prodigious rate.
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ease posted:This really bothers me. Trying to get action shots of waterskiing/tubing, and it'd be nice to be able to launch/recover the craft from a boat at speed.
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How miserable are Air Hogs helis? Can you mount any kind of camera to them at all?
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Sep 6, 2013 21:42
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I went by the store to check them out in person and they seem tiny. I assume the IR control means no outside at all, or even open garage door stuff. Is there a radio helicopter for $60 or so? My indoors is very cramped and cluttered, but I've got a huge still-wind parking lot and a reasonably open garage. This is just for dicking around.
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http://hackaday.com/2014/10/06/quadrotor-pod-racing/ Looks like a lot of fun! I watched the video without sound, so it may all be in French or something.
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Oct 7, 2014 15:36
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Mister Sinewave posted:I received my recorder and managed to get out yesterday late afternoon I love the sun halo around the shadow. That's always a cool effect.
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Oct 10, 2014 21:54
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Elendil004 posted:Then I'm amazed it happened. But honestly I'd rather have ten of these than ten "near misses"with aircraft. I'd rather have the airspace incursions than something like this. "Remember that time when Carol got hit in the face by THAT DRONE! And how loud it was, blowing napkins everywhere. They should't let people use those." Public opinion for crashing things in restaurants has a much worse backlash industry-wide. At least with airspace incursions there are people with some kind of technical background of airspace systems and air vehicle operations in general that propose fact- and usage-based rules -- hopefully. Especially since something used indoors is much more of the kind of thing that hobbyists are likely to want to use.
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Dec 9, 2014 15:46
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Golluk posted:I see you like to live dangerously. You can tell the pack is charging because it's getting bigger!
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Feb 27, 2015 19:17
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It seems like the square-cube law is helping you in zeppelins as they get bigger instead of hurting you like heavier-than-air craft. One cool thing you can do with small stuff is make them lighter than air by making the envelope out of something stiff and light (carbon fiber) and sucking the air out of it. Vacuum is much lighter than air; lighter than hydrogen, even!
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DreadLlama posted:Unfortunately vacuum buoyancy doesn't work (Yet. Also, it may never work). The idea has been kicking around for a few hundred years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship) but nothing practical has yet come from it. I have witnessed with my own eyes a contraption thus: four carbon fiber triangles approximately one foot on a side. These four triangles were butted up against each other and a refrigeration vacuum pump applied to a schrader valve installed in one of the triangles. This tetrahedron was then sucked down to about 15torr. When the pump hose was removed, the tetrahedron floated off the table and hit the ceiling. This dislodged one of the triangles, and the whole thing deflated with an impressive POP, and the four triangles fell to the ground. I don't know how much net buoyancy the device had, but I suspect not very much. edit: some math says that it was probably bigger than a foot on a side. This was 15 years ago, and just "hey, that's neat" at the time. But certainly less than 3' on a side.
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Arrest that rear end! posted:Did a bit of carpark FPV last night Videos like this need to be set to the Wipeout XL soundtrack.
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Aug 1, 2015 03:34
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My neighbor just came over to my house to borrow my shotgun to shoot down a drone. Apparently, the guy up the street bought one to spy on his wife sunbathing nude on the back deck. Seems like shooting it down with a shotgun is morally ambiguous; should we call the FAA on the "drone operator?" I realize they're very understaffed and this isn't a priority, but the guy who got the drone is the neighborhood rear end in a top hat, so we're of the opinion that "going and talking to the guy" is not going to work. Or should I just shoot it down and harvest the parts? It's a testament to the legal framework in the US that shooting at the thing with a shotgun in my back yard is a more defensible position than a dish antenna with a 2.4GHz 1kW emitter on it.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Here is a thing I have always wondered and could never puzzle my way through: This is an actual effect of the atmosphere. If you're flying in an airplane and look at your own shadow, it's got a halo around it too. Neat effect.
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Splode posted:edit: I guess what I'm trying to get at is the stigma around drones is real and dumb, but it's not likely to go away if people really are flying camera drones into their neighbor's backyard This all day every day.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Please refrain from discussing how best to shoot people, animals, or things, here in our forum 210, and probably wise for the rest of the forums too. Man, I was just typing up a post about how he could have a nuclear-powered rocket-propelled jammer system that hacks the drone's camera TX to trace back the operator. That way he could have the FAA, ATF, DOE, FCC, and NSA all after him at once!
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May 3, 2020 15:15
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Ok, so now it's time to suggest building a medium-range (100s of meters) GPS spoofer under a class delta airspace near the approach end of an airport so you can fly your drone without its software complaining. Just keep replaying the data that says its 9/11/01 and you're in the Azores and you'll be fine. Of course, you're going to have to re-map your geo altitudes to match the local geoid or your thing will just fly to 0ft MSL, which I hear is a problem outside of Florida. I think that's only FCC and FAA. But maybe the Air Force Space Command (Space Force now?) because it's GPS. And of course, USGS because you're messing with their WGS-84 geoid data.
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Sagebrush posted:People who post in the rc thread should be aware that ham is not an acronym I always read HAM as "Holloman Aero Medical" because they're the people that sent a monkey into space for the USA and HAM was buried behind my high school.
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Here you go I thought he was ramping up a bunch of quads in the background, but that's just the sounds of the goalposts moving.
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