This are probably the most impressive FPV videos I have seen so far. The pilot skills are outstanding, and so is the video link range. The poster of the videos on youtube did not release the quadcopter specs and apparently is not answering questions right now. From another video, the quadcopter could be an F450 with a very very big battery on in it. Will follow the channel to see if more details are released.
Great news: propellers from hobbyking arrived today, so I was able to complete the setup. Trimming correctly was a bit tricky, but I think I got quite right. It is a bit unstable on take off but then catches up quickly as it gains some height.
The default landing gear seem to be expressly designed to have the quad tilt on landing and arms crash on the floor, as it provides a very narrow base. Hence the ping pong balls mod.
ping pong balls as landing gear for the hobbyking micro quad with kk2 board
Here you go:
Edit: Moved the ping pong balls more toward the center, as right under the motors is not a good place to avoid stress to the “weak spot”. Also added a mobius camera to check for video stability and as a first step toward an FPV setup. A soft sponge ball was zip tied to each arm, and covered with tape for additional arms protection.
Turnigy micro quad with mobius cameraTurnigy micro quad arm protections and landing gear (ping pong balls)Turnigy pcb micro quad arms protection with sponge balls
Marseille Police chief Jen-Paul Bonnetain is pushing the idea of using drone based aerial surveillance to aid law enforcement and police investigations. The idea is strongly supported by socialist politician Eugène Castelli, who is ready to propose investments for millions of euros in the project.
Will Marseille become a test ground for a wider aerial surveillance program in France? Are we entering a science fiction era in which multicopters and personal, or less personal drones will be part of our everyday life?
Team Black Sheep earned a reputation for their amazing videos in urban environments in cities all over the world, mostly taken either with their TBS Discovery FPV quadcopter:
We recently reported about the story in which a phantom quadcopter was flown over manhattan, went out of control and landed at the feets of a worried businessman, who handled the little personal drone, with camera and sd card, to the police and ABC News. This is the original story from ABC news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J71QG1WqWw
These is an important update on this story as 34 years old Brooklin musician David Zablidowsky was arrested for reckless endangerment, a class A misdemeanor, for “flying a remote control helicopter off a balcony, losing control, causing it to crash to the ground from an unreasonable height creating a substantial risk of serious physical injury.”
David Zablidowsky self portrait from the footage of the camera on his phantom quadcopter
This puts flying a personal drone over a populated area in a different perspective for people with this hobby. At the time, police said that “no laws were broken” and it looked like they were not going to pursue the investigations further. Eventually, somebody understood that the phenomena of personal rc drones will probably grow exponentially in the next years and something had to be done to “send the right message”.
An aerial, unmanned books delivery service might soon start in Australia. Flirtey, a tech statup born in Sidney University might well extend the plan to delivery of other good such as food and drink in the future.
The Flirtey website states that they are building an industry, not a company. At such an early stage of this technology, with so many still unexplored potential applications this might well be true.
Similar services are also under experimentation in the US, where Dominos plans to deliver pizza by a special multirotor called, you guessed it, the domicopter. However this one might be more an advertisement move that something that will really happen (in a near future). Here you go with unmanned pizza delivery from Dominos:
– RC Timer 459 quadcopter frame and arms
– KK2.0 control board flashed to firmware 1.6
– Alware carbon mount for add ons, nicely protects the board and receiver. For now occupied by the “pilot”
– RC Timer 30A ESCs
– DJI 950K motors
– Hobbyking battery monitor
– Red flashing leds on back arms
– Leds for front arms in progress
RC Timer quadcopter with KK2 control boardRC Timer quadcopter with KK2 control board and alware mount detailRC Timer quadcopter with KK2 control board and alware mount detail 2
The new personal drone flies, it works! Stay tuned for videos!
Tech inclined father Paul Wallich has built a personal drone to follow, everyday, his kid to the bus stop. The quadcopter (or childcopter) follows a GPS tracker that the kid alway carry along on the way to school.
Amazing presentation by Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor of Dynamics Systems and Controlat the Zurich ETH. Prof. D’andrea demonstrates the amazing skills that can be conferred to quadcopters by developing and applying the correct mathematical algorithms.
Here’s the video:
Raffaello D’andrea interviewed by Rolf Dobelli, talks about some of his ongoing projects:
A quest toward the perfect quadcopter or multirotor for aerial video and personal flying freedom and a permanent survey on the latest quadcopter news and multirotor news
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