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Katowice, panorama of Mikołowska street
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We are hoping to eventually do FPV (First Person View: in short fly remotely by camera & monitor) with the quads and a Go Pro Hero 2 like this one might be the best choice. In this photo the GoPro is simply recording and it’s being flown by sight.
The GoPro could record video in true HD 1080P on-board to an SD card and the standard def “Live Out” could have OSD (On-Screen Display: provides data like horizon line, altitude, compass heading, GSP, signal strength, battery voltages/amps and more) mixed in before being transmitted to the pilot on the ground. This would provide the best of both worlds. Recorded HD video and live OSD info to the pilot.
The single biggest problem with this is the borrowed nature of the GoPro. We cannot drill a hole in the plastic housing to gain access to the “Live Out” and we can’t completely hack a mount to place the camera how we would like. I guess we need to splash out and get our own. GoPros are very cool and not too pricey.
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Sunday I flew my quad from Allendale Field southward over the industrial property there.
We also noted there is a for sale sign on the Allendale Field property which we have not seen here before.
Training flight #10. Am I now a licensed drone pilot?
This is not my machine. I happened upon this group of multi-rotor drones or UAV's when I went to a park in Berkeley to fly my own quadcopter.
Quadcopter Flying in Berkeley
The Spaxels, the quadcopter swarm of the Ars Electronica Futurelab were part of the big celebration launching the northern Swedish city of Umea’s term as European Capital of Culture on February 1. 30 Spaxels took to the sky for a five-minute performance during which they formed the Umea logo and the configuration of stars on the EU flag.
credit: Ars Electronica Futurelab
DJI Phantom Quadcopter test flight in Duthie Park on 20th July 2013. Some of the images include still image captures from the video recorded by a Kodak Playsport attached to the underside of the quadcopter
Fooling with quadcopters used to be a pretty risky hobby; one mistake, and your investment is a bunch of broken parts. I was interested, but declined on the basis of preferring to spend money mostly on things that have some reasonable chance to continue being of use.
But with units like this one (a Blade 350 QX), there are enough sensors on board, and smart enough software running things, that you can, if you like, fly in a very conservative, managed mode. Altitude isn't determined by throttle, but instead by altimeter, with a ceiling of about 150 feet for "max stick." So put the throttle (now altitude) stick at 1/2, and you're flying at about 75 feet. Easy. Want to hover over one place? Return the aileron / rudder stick to center (or just let go of it.) Hovering in a fixed position is just a matter of letting go of both sticks.
There's a GPS on board (GPS lock is part of what a steady green indicator at the rear of the quad tells us) and also a compass, so it not only knows where it is (when outdoors), it also knows which way it is pointing at any one time and how high it is. And of course it has tilt sensors so it can keep itself level even when dealing with gusty winds.
This particular quadcopter is powerful enough to carry a camera, and stable enough to serve as a decent platform for still images or movies. I don't have a camera for it yet, I don't much like the clunkiness of the usual culprit, which is a GoPro. They're really heavy and very bulky, and even though the quad can carry one, it'll reduce flight time sufficiently that it's not of much interest to me. Hopefully, someone will jump into the flight camera market with something much lighter, like a cellphone camera. My entire cellphone, display and all, weighs much less than the GoPro (perhaps I should just glue my cellphone to the bottom, eh? Hmmm.)
Lose sight of it? It can happen... just flip one switch on the controller in your hands, and the quad levels off, gains some altitude, flies right back to where it was when you lifted it off the ground, and softly lands. You don't have to do a thing but hold that switch down. How's that for handy?
Here, I've just lifted the quad off the ground, it's about two or three feet in the air, just hovering (because I'm not touching the control sticks -- I put the controller down for the shot.)
Now for some fun. :)
Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 @ f/5.6, ISO 100, 1/160th, handheld.
This uninteresting shot shows how high my brother flew his quadcopter. It also shows roughly how far the quad dropped from the sky like a 1.4kg (~ 3lb) rock. The results were surprising.
The cause is somewhat unknown. We are guessing it was caused by a radio brown out but we failed to check the radio (the blinking orange LED) before disconnecting the battery. Using the Spektrum DX8 we used the range check feature and found out the receiver an OrangeRX 610 (6 channel) was poor it stopped after about 10m (~33 feet) from what I’ve read this should be closer to 30m (98 feet). We also did a range check using my radio gear: a Spektrum DX6i and an OrangeRX 910 (9 channel) it dropped out just over 30m.
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Enthusiasts of radio-controlled drones or UAV showed up for a small meet. Some had home-made machines and others had commercially manufactured machines. Everyone customizes their flying machines!
Experiment in lightpainting using LEDs attached to a DJI Phantom quadcopter. By Patrick Dinnen, Brent Marshall & Dre Labre.
Taken with a Phantom 2 quadcopter and GoPro.
This and the previous image are the same with the exception of the lens correction. This image was left as stitched.
Ron's design for the 'Inception Quadcopter', or the Droneception ... three quadcopters on top of each other.
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Getting the feeling of the Phantom 2 Vision+
UNESCO Worldheritage site "De Stelling van Amsterdam" Fort Spijkerboor.
A quadcopter, also called a quadrotor helicopter, quadrotor, is a multirotor helicopter that is lifted and propelled by four rotors. Quadcopters are classified as rotorcraft, as opposed to fixed-wing aircraft, because their lift is generated by a set of rotors (vertically oriented propellers).
Unlike most helicopters, quadcopters use two sets of identical fixed pitched propellers; two clockwise (CW) and two counter-clockwise (CCW). These use variation of RPM to control lift and torque. Control of vehicle motion is achieved by altering the rotation rate of one or more rotor discs, thereby changing its torque load and thrust/lift characteristics.
Early in the history of flight, quadcopter (referred to as 'quadrotor') configurations were seen as possible solutions to some of the persistent problems in vertical flight; torque-induced control issues (as well as efficiency issues originating from the tail rotor, which generates no useful lift) can be eliminated by counter-rotation and the relatively short blades are much easier to construct. A number of manned designs appeared in the 1920s and 1930s. These vehicles were among the first successful heavier-than-air vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicles. However, early prototypes suffered from poor performance, and latter prototypes required too much pilot work load, due to poor stability augmentation and limited control authority.
More recently quadcopter designs have become popular in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research. These vehicles use an electronic control system and electronic sensors to stabilize the aircraft. With their small size and agile maneuverability, these quadcopters can be flown indoors as well as outdoors.
There are several advantages to quadcopters over comparably-scaled helicopters. First, quadcopters do not require mechanical linkages to vary the rotor blade pitch angle as they spin. This simplifies the design and maintenance of the vehicle. Second, the use of four rotors allows each individual rotor to have a smaller diameter than the equivalent helicopter rotor, allowing them to possess less kinetic energy during flight. This reduces the damage caused should the rotors hit anything. For small-scale UAVs, this makes the vehicles safer for close interaction. Some small-scale quadcopters have frames that enclose the rotors, permitting flights through more challenging environments, with lower risk of damaging the vehicle or its surroundings.[8]
Due to their ease of both construction and control, quadcopter aircraft are frequently used as amateur model aircraft projects.
Een onbemand luchtvaartuig of "drone" is een luchtvaartuig zonder piloot aan boord. De toestellen worden vaak op afstand bestuurd, waarbij de bestuurder zich in de nabijheid kan bevinden, maar ook op duizenden kilometers afstand. Er zijn ook autonomere toestellen, die volgens een geprogrammeerde opdracht handelen.
Er bestaan verschillende namen waaronder een dergelijk toestel bekend is: UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) of RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems), Micro Air vehicle (MAV), Autonomous Aerial Robotics (AAR), Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS), microcopter, mini UAV of small UAV, rotor-UAV of RUAV, Quadcopter.
In het Nederlands wordt ook wel eens het woord drone gebruikt. "Drone" is oorspronkelijk een militaire luchtvaartterm voor een onbemand vliegtuig dat dient als 'vliegend doel' om uit te schakelen bij oefeningen; het zijn vaak aangepaste voorheen bemande uitgefaseerde straaljagers zoals de F-16 Fighting Falcon en in de toekomst de F35 ofwel JSF. .