I'm working on a quadcopter for aerial video of track events.

[rogue]

Took it out for my first outdoors practice today. Since I haven't been feeling well enough to drive, I figure I might as well get into a hobby that allows me to fly :)

Its a gaui 330x. I'll be using a 3 axis gimbal to keep the camera stable with a computer. I'm hoping to have 20 minute flight times with 5000mah 3s batteries.

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Ralphie finally realized its not an evil robot out to get him.
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Eventually I'd like to play a bit with systems to see if I can get it to chase a car at a certain height and have a friend in the car manually operate the gimbals. I can even tell the quadcopters battery life so I know when I need to fly back.

Would be real fun at some automotive events.

[BBC69Camaro]

That's pretty cool. I bet some on-board video could be interesting of it flying around :unibrow:

[RECOVERY ROOM]

You really want to get pi....off try and mess with a regular helicopter, Flown rc planes for a long time and decided to try copters, There frickin hard. That looks like your getting it, Keep at it your idea sounds good

[Sieg]

My 12 year old has an AR Drone, the quad copters are pretty cool. :thumbsup:

[rwhite692]

Not to hijack...My company makes processors and other components used in that AR drone. Parrot is selling a boatload of those things, I can tell you that. I would buy one but I would probably wreck it too quickly. They gave our sales guy one.

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine let my fly his new, pretty high end RC plane. I had some experience flying these things, but still managed to crash it in what (we thought) was a field of high marsh grass. Thought, well, it probably won't be too bad.

It wasn't till we got to the crash site that we realized I had crashed it directly into an irrigation ditch concealed beyond the marsh grass. So it not only crashed, but was washed away in bits.

I just closed up the antenna, and handed him the transmitter.

(I did buy him a new plane)