Quadcopters and other tech toys?
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I did this earlier on my lunch break. Got a new 1.8mm lense in the mail today for a CCD camera. Put it on my little Sony 700TVL CCD camera on my quadcopter that I use for FPV. I like the results!
Stock wideangle lense:
New fisheye lense:
And yes, that is my bathroom, lol.
I need to cut some of the hotglue from the fresnel lense inserted in the body of these DIY FPV goggles I'm working with.
I did this earlier on my lunch break. Got a new 1.8mm lense in the mail today for a CCD camera. Put it on my little Sony 700TVL CCD camera on my quadcopter that I use for FPV. I like the results!
Stock wideangle lense:
New fisheye lense:
And yes, that is my bathroom, lol.
I need to cut some of the hotglue from the fresnel lense inserted in the body of these DIY FPV goggles I'm working with.
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These goggles are hilarious. I need to cut all the wires to length and resolder the connections and cut off some of that wire weight. I'm not even going to attempt to mount a battery to this beast and will be alright with keeping it in a shirt or jacket pocket.
Talk about ghetto:
Talk about ghetto:
There is a 4.3" screen in the black box, connected to a 5.8Ghz receiver for video feed. My quadcopter has a little Sony CCD camera board like the one shown below that is wired to a transmitter.
This allows me to fly and navigate the quadcopter based on 'what it sees' instead of my direct line of sight. Good for racing and when flying outside of your direct light of sight as well.
Previously was streaming the data back to my latop for FPV but there is a bit of a delay when doing so since I was using a USB a/v device.
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I've had this sonar module for about 4 months now. Since this weekend will be too cold to fly I figure I'll work on cleaning up the wiring on the FPV goggles and getting this wired up and configured.
I like how the module looks like Johny 5....
It should be actually quite easy to get setup and configure. Just need to solder some leads from those 4 pins to pre-existing pins on the flight control board. The software I use to tune/configure/tweak settings on that board is already pre-configured to accept sonar modules so it should (hopefully) be pretty straight forward.
This will be used to assist with collision avoidance with... the ground.
Unsure how fast/responsive it will be but I'm hoping that when doing low proximity flying this will assist maintaining some minimal distance from the ground and want to do some tests where hills/slopes are invovled.
I've seen tests where this same module was used to have a quad 'climb stairs' without additional throttle input from the operator to make it increase it's height. It just detects the distance from the ground and automatically adjusts motor speed to maintain a set distance.
I like how the module looks like Johny 5....
It should be actually quite easy to get setup and configure. Just need to solder some leads from those 4 pins to pre-existing pins on the flight control board. The software I use to tune/configure/tweak settings on that board is already pre-configured to accept sonar modules so it should (hopefully) be pretty straight forward.
This will be used to assist with collision avoidance with... the ground.
Unsure how fast/responsive it will be but I'm hoping that when doing low proximity flying this will assist maintaining some minimal distance from the ground and want to do some tests where hills/slopes are invovled.
I've seen tests where this same module was used to have a quad 'climb stairs' without additional throttle input from the operator to make it increase it's height. It just detects the distance from the ground and automatically adjusts motor speed to maintain a set distance.
I'm sure you can find a little mini quadcopter toy that is basic to get you started. If you have fun with that then you can certainly build your own. I'm surprised by how simple it is and how large of an RC community exists for such a thing. It's a lot of fun and will teach you some new skills. I know a little bit about electricity and how to solder now, for example. Those are things I did not know before. Now I'm interested in radio frequencies and would even like to get into Amateur/HAM Radio.I didn't know this thread existed. Sounds like really funny stuff.
I am not good doing this kind of things, but I wonder if I can get some of this pieces at Mexico to build something like that
If I can do it, anyone can. Tons to learn, but you don't need to know it all to get off the ground.
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Took my little quadcopter out for some night flying with a mate who just got a new quadcopter (one of many). There was a bit of wind later in the night (there was a few trips between home to charge and to the near by park) and I managed to get picked up by the wind (TBH I was up a bit too high for the conditions and descending rapidly and moving sideways trying to avoid the road) and stuck reasonably high in a tree.
Got it down in true engineering fashion (and, with a fair bit of swearing).
The photos are a but poor, Nexus 5 has a pretty poor camera in low light.
My review for this drone should really be the battery lasts a long time idle, i.e when stuck in a tree.
Got it down in true engineering fashion (and, with a fair bit of swearing).
The photos are a but poor, Nexus 5 has a pretty poor camera in low light.
My review for this drone should really be the battery lasts a long time idle, i.e when stuck in a tree.
I've got a few different drones however a great one is the following.
http://coptershop.com/collections/drones/products/estes-proto-x-nano-r-c-quadcopter
Very cheap and has the same controls like the larger versions minus a camera however at $30 it's a blast.
I have the AR.drone2.0 and it's not nearly as fun as the little ones. It's amazing how much our technology has advanced over the years.
http://coptershop.com/collections/drones/products/estes-proto-x-nano-r-c-quadcopter
Very cheap and has the same controls like the larger versions minus a camera however at $30 it's a blast.
I have the AR.drone2.0 and it's not nearly as fun as the little ones. It's amazing how much our technology has advanced over the years.
Was wondering why I couldn't get FPV to work. Looks like a wire broke and shorted on my carbon frame that leads to the transmitter. Uhg. These are tiny little wires with virtually no slack and soldering them are a PITA.
Getting my stuff charged up though now so I can get a flight in later.
Drone Registration it's coming!
http://gizmodo.com/report-drone-owners-will-now-have-to-register-with-the-1737038255
http://gizmodo.com/report-drone-owners-will-now-have-to-register-with-the-1737038255