• RC helicopter

    From Carnsteve@VERT/STARR to All on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 19:22:03
    Hi ALL,

    Im not sure if " Hobby Corner " is still being used as the last post was quite a while ago..... But any way here goes,


    I have been looking into getting a model rc helicopter for some time and strangely enough I got one for Christmas :)

    I was given a T-40 (T640C), Its a Co-Axel and runs on a 2.4ghz radio system.

    Im a total beginner to RC, Any advice for a novice such as myself


    All the best,

    Steve (CarnSteve)

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  • From Curly@VERT/TSGC to Carnsteve on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 19:55:54
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Carnsteve to All on Wed Dec 25 2013 07:22 pm

    Hi ALL,

    Im not sure if " Hobby Corner " is still being used as the last post was qui a while ago..... But any way here goes,


    I have been looking into getting a model rc helicopter for some time and strangely enough I got one for Christmas :)

    I was given a T-40 (T640C), Its a Co-Axel and runs on a 2.4ghz radio system.

    Im a total beginner to RC, Any advice for a novice such as myself


    All the best,

    Steve (CarnSteve)


    I got one of those little ones.
    flew it all day, battery went dead over the nextdoor house,
    the ladys dog ate it. well, there is always next year...

    "Practise safe Lunch, Use a Condiment"


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  • From Carnsteve@VERT/STARR to Curly on Friday, December 27, 2013 15:38:06
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Curly to Carnsteve on Wed Dec 25 2013 07:55 pm

    Aww god lol

    so you got it back in Kit form lol

    Ahh well,

    Ive been flying it and taking a bit of video with the on-board camera.

    The battery on mine seems to last about 10 mins but should be about 7
    its great fun just waiting for the wind to die down again to have another go



    Steve ...

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Carnsteve on Thursday, January 02, 2014 00:18:13
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Carnsteve to All on Wed Dec 25 2013 07:22 pm

    Hi ALL,

    Im not sure if " Hobby Corner " is still being used as the last post was quite a while ago..... But any way here goes,


    I have been looking into getting a model rc helicopter for some time and strangely enough I got one for Christmas :)

    I was given a T-40 (T640C), Its a Co-Axel and runs on a 2.4ghz radio
    system.

    Im a total beginner to RC, Any advice for a novice such as myself

    I've dabbled in RC helis as well. I just got a few WLToys V262 Quad-copters (as
    gifts, and for myself) from banggood.com and they are *very* easy to fly and pretty resilient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHVxX67zlA

    Very fun. I ordered the camera (VGA), bubble blower, and missle launchers for them too, but they haven't come in yet.

    digital man

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Thursday, January 02, 2014 19:01:40
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Carnsteve on Thu Jan 02 2014 12:18 am


    I've dabbled in RC helis as well. I just got a few WLToys V262 Quad-copters (as gifts, and for myself) from banggood.com and they are *very* easy to
    fly and pretty resilient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHVxX67zlA

    Very fun. I ordered the camera (VGA), bubble blower, and missle launchers for them too, but they haven't come in yet.


    that quadcopter and all the accessories are cheaper than i expected.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mro on Thursday, January 02, 2014 23:01:15
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mro to Digital Man on Thu Jan 02 2014 07:01 pm

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Carnsteve on Thu Jan 02 2014 12:18 am


    I've dabbled in RC helis as well. I just got a few WLToys V262 Quad-copters (as gifts, and for myself) from banggood.com and they are *very* easy to fly and pretty resilient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHVxX67zlA

    Very fun. I ordered the camera (VGA), bubble blower, and missle
    launchers for them too, but they haven't come in yet.


    that quadcopter and all the accessories are cheaper than i expected.

    Yeah, very reasonable and very fun (so far). I think I'm going to get the Mobius (HD) camera soon after the cheap VGA camera arives, so that might have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8

    digital man

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to Digital Man on Friday, January 03, 2014 00:42:42
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8

    You mean private citizen spy drones?

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Deuce on Friday, January 03, 2014 05:01:14
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Deuce to Digital Man on Fri Jan 03 2014 12:42 am

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8

    You mean private citizen spy drones?

    That's one use-case. :-)

    digital man

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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to Digital Man on Friday, January 03, 2014 13:48:48
    On 1/3/2014 2:01 AM, Digital Man wrote:
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mro to Digital Man on Thu Jan 02 2014 07:01 pm

    > Re: RC helicopter
    > By: Digital Man to Carnsteve on Thu Jan 02 2014 12:18 am
    >
    >
    > > I've dabbled in RC helis as well. I just got a few WLToys V262
    > > Quad-copters (as gifts, and for myself) from banggood.com and they are
    > > *very* easy to fly and pretty resilient:
    > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHVxX67zlA
    >
    > > Very fun. I ordered the camera (VGA), bubble blower, and missle
    > > launchers for them too, but they haven't come in yet.
    >
    >
    > that quadcopter and all the accessories are cheaper than i expected.

    Yeah, very reasonable and very fun (so far). I think I'm going to get the Mobius (HD) camera soon after the cheap VGA camera arives, so that might have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me.

    Heh. We work with aerial photos all the time. The guys would love to
    have something like this for shots during field work. :)

    Not sure the boss would go for it though.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Saturday, January 04, 2014 05:12:26
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    Yeah, very reasonable and very fun (so far). I think I'm going to get the Mobius (HD) camera soon after the cheap VGA camera arives, so that might have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8


    if i were you i'd get a throwaway smart phone with a decent camera and then use an app to do timed photos.

    wow that video is pretty amazing.
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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Mindless Automaton on Saturday, January 04, 2014 05:13:24
    Re: Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mindless Automaton to Digital Man on Fri Jan 03 2014 01:48 pm


    Heh. We work with aerial photos all the time. The guys would love to
    have something like this for shots during field work. :)

    Not sure the boss would go for it though.


    i'd like to get one with the water cannon for harrassing my ex gf since she only lives 2 blocks away from me. and the camera to record the attacks. :D would make for some funny youtube videos.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mro on Saturday, January 04, 2014 16:39:10
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mro to Digital Man on Sat Jan 04 2014 05:12 am

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    Yeah, very reasonable and very fun (so far). I think I'm going to get
    the Mobius (HD) camera soon after the cheap VGA camera arives, so that might have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8


    if i were you i'd get a throwaway smart phone with a decent camera and then use an app to do timed photos.

    I'm more interested in videos than photos. Like this one, but much better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qELrEoggiQw

    But cell phones are too heavy (yes, believe it or not).

    wow that video is pretty amazing.

    Yeah, and with a pretty cheap (and light) camera at that.

    digital man

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  • From KF5QEO@VERT/MAINLINE to Mro on Sunday, January 05, 2014 03:19:03
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mro to Digital Man on Sat Jan 04 2014 05:12:26

    the Mobius (HD) camera soon after the cheap VGA camera arives, so that might have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling:
    I bought a cheap HD Camera when I had a nicer regular camera.
    The only reason I bought it was because I got a DVD mastering program
    that was supposed to support multiple camera angles, so I used 2 cameras
    to record me talking at different camera angles. Turned out the software
    do quite what I wanted, but still came in handy having multiple cameras.

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  • From KF5QEO@VERT/MAINLINE to Mro on Sunday, January 05, 2014 03:24:46
    Re: Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mro to Mindless Automaton on Sat Jan 04 2014 05:13:24

    i'd like to get one with the water cannon for harrassing my ex gf since
    she only lives 2 blocks away from me. and the camera to record the
    attacks. :D would make for some funny youtube videos.
    O.k. this brings so many thoughts to mind!

    1. Get a bunch of those pin-hole cameras, and mount them on different places for several different angles at once. Eg. Straight down, nose down, nose up, tail view.... O.k. so you might need to carry a small hard drive on the plane to record it all... ;-) And that means, you may need a bigger gas tank to supply the power to carry it... And the get-away speed might not be fast enough.

    2. Not volunteering for the job of loading the ammo, but if you *REALLY* want to annoy your girlfriend spraying cat urine upsets most folks more than spraying water.

    3. How about spraying old rotton eggs?

    4. O.k. now I'm just getting expensive... Spray gasoline during the hot part of the day all over her lawn. Imagine as she tries to grow a pretty yard, she gets frustrated because grass won't grow anywhere!

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to All on Sunday, January 05, 2014 09:50:52
    Speaking of RC helicopters, I just bought one for myself a few weeks ago, thinking it would be fun to play around with one. The one I got is the Yiboo Dragon 807:
    http://www.ujtoys.com/UJ807-RC-Helicopter-Red-p/uj807-r.htm
    The manual that came with it mentioned that the battery should not be charged longer than 3 hours. So I recently bought a wall power timer so that I could set it to charge the helicopter for just a few hours overnight or while I'm at work, etc.. After using the wall timer one day, the helicopter is not responding to the remote control (i.e., the propellers don't turn when I turn up the throttle). I know the helicopter has power because the light inside it comes on. Just in case, I tried charging the battery a little bit without the power timer, but it still won't respond to the remote control. I'm not sure what might be wrong with it.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to KF5QEO on Sunday, January 05, 2014 12:00:15
    Re: Re: RC helicopter
    By: KF5QEO to Mro on Sun Jan 05 2014 03:24 am


    4. O.k. now I'm just getting expensive... Spray gasoline during the hot part of the day all over her lawn. Imagine as she tries to grow a pretty yard, she gets frustrated because grass won't grow anywhere!


    i would like to drop an egg on her head and film her reaction as it hoovers and flies away.

    i'm not feuding with her and i talk to her all the time, she is just such a good target for this kind of stuff. also she's so close to me.
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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2014 17:17:19
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Nightfox to All on Sun Jan 05 2014 09:50 am

    don't turn when I turn up the throttle). I know the helicopter has power because the light inside it comes on. Just in case, I tried charging the battery a little bit without the power timer, but it still won't respond to the remote control. I'm not sure what might be wrong with it.


    sounds like it no workey and you should return it.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mro on Sunday, January 05, 2014 16:21:21
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Mro to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2014 17:17:19

    don't turn when I turn up the throttle). I know the helicopter has
    power because the light inside it comes on. Just in case, I tried
    charging the battery a little bit without the power timer, but it
    still won't respond to the remote control. I'm not sure what might be
    wrong with it.

    sounds like it no workey and you should return it.

    It did work at one point though. Not sure what happened.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2014 18:46:48
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Nightfox to Mro on Sun Jan 05 2014 04:21 pm


    sounds like it no workey and you should return it.

    It did work at one point though. Not sure what happened.


    electronics are crap nowadays. if you opened it up and saw how it was
    wired, you'd probably be sorry you left it alone in your house.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2014 23:26:17
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Nightfox to All on Sun Jan 05 2014 09:50 am

    Speaking of RC helicopters, I just bought one for myself a few weeks ago, thinking it would be fun to play around with one. The one I got is the Yiboo Dragon 807: http://www.ujtoys.com/UJ807-RC-Helicopter-Red-p/uj807-r.htm
    The manual that came with it mentioned that the battery should not be charged longer than 3 hours. So I recently bought a wall power timer so that I could set it to charge the helicopter for just a few hours overnight or while I'm at work, etc.. After using the wall timer one day, the helicopter is not responding to the remote control (i.e., the propellers don't turn when I turn up the throttle). I know the helicopter has power because the light inside it comes on. Just in case, I tried charging the battery a little bit without the power timer, but it still won't respond to the remote control. I'm not sure what might be wrong with it.

    Is it one of the new 2.4GHz style where the channel is auto-negotiated when you
    turn on the craft and the controller? My new quadcopter is like that and sometimes it takes a while for them to "sync-up" (and agree on a channel/frequency). I sometimes have to turn my controller off and on again or play with the controls a little bit to get it to sync-up. The lights on my copter change their blink rate when it's successfully synced to a controller.

    digital man

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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Deuce on Monday, January 06, 2014 11:39:54
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Deuce to Digital Man on Fri Jan 03 2014 12:42 am

    You mean private citizen spy drones?

    Friend of mine got one of those arial drones over the holidays, second flight they "lost" the drone, I guess it flew out of range or they lost sight of it. No remote camera so they spent the better part of the afternoon looking around the neighborhood for it.

    I suggested he place one of those GPS locator tags on it so he could use his smart phone to find it in the future.

    drone apparently touched down a few blocks away, no worse for wear. Apparently they are extrememly easy to fly and are able to land in case of catistrophic failure. They were lucky no one found it before they did.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Monday, January 06, 2014 13:09:37
    Speaking of RC helicopters, I just bought one for myself a few weeks
    ago, thinking it would be fun to play around with one. The one I got is the Yiboo Dragon 807: http://www.ujtoys.com/UJ807-RC-Helicopter-Red-p/uj807-r.htm
    The manual that came with it mentioned that the battery should not be charged longer than 3 hours. So I recently bought a wall power timer so that I could set it to charge the helicopter for just a few hours overnight or while I'm at work, etc.. After using the wall timer one day, the helicopter is not responding to the remote control (i.e., the propellers don't turn when I turn up the throttle). I know the helicopter has power because the light inside it comes on. Just in
    case, I tried charging the battery a little bit without the power timer, but it still won't respond to the remote control. I'm not sure what might be wrong with it.

    Is it one of the new 2.4GHz style where the channel is auto-negotiated when you turn on the craft and the controller? My new quadcopter is like that
    and sometimes it takes a while for them to "sync-up" (and agree on a channel/frequency). I sometimes have to turn my controller off and on again or play with the controls a little bit to get it to sync-up. The lights on my copter change their blink rate when it's successfully synced to a controller.

    It might be. It does have a light that blinks at a different rate when I turn the controller on. Perhaps that's what's happening and I just need to wait a bit longer sometimes.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Deuce on Saturday, January 11, 2014 20:55:24
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Deuce to Digital Man on Fri Jan 03 2014 12:42 am

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8

    You mean private citizen spy drones?

    Here's my first POV video with this setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgnIh1zsBY

    I'll make a lot better video on a less-windy day.

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Deuce on Sunday, January 12, 2014 17:18:11
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Deuce on Sat Jan 11 2014 08:55 pm

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Deuce to Digital Man on Fri Jan 03 2014 12:42 am

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8

    You mean private citizen spy drones?

    Here's my first POV video with this setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgnIh1zsBY

    I'll make a lot better video on a less-windy day.

    Today was a less-windy day:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DgD2Y83fmI

    digital man

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  • From Access Denied@VERT/PHARCYDE to Digital Man on Sunday, January 12, 2014 14:08:56
    Hello Digital,

    On 11 Jan 14 20:55, Digital Man wrote to Deuce:

    Here's my first POV video with this setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgnIh1zsBY

    I'll make a lot better video on a less-windy day.

    Dude, you gotta do something with that lawn. Then again, you have kids so I can see where the lack of motivation to do so would come from, as they'd just mess it up again afterwards. :)

    Cool video, though. Is it hard to fly? I thought I saw it crash a couple times..

    I watched some show on TV (I think it was about digging for gold or something) where the camera crew setup a copter with an HD camera on it. Then took it over a waterfall and recorded a bunch of REALLY cool arial shots of it, whereas those wouldn't have happened from any kind of regular camera man. Excellent stuff. You can definitely get good angles that wouldn't be fathomable any other way.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Access Denied on Sunday, January 12, 2014 21:30:16
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Access Denied to Digital Man on Sun Jan 12 2014 02:08 pm


    I watched some show on TV (I think it was about digging for gold or something) where the camera crew setup a copter with an HD camera on it. Then took it over a waterfall and recorded a bunch of REALLY cool arial shots of it, whereas those wouldn't have happened from any kind of regular camera man. Excellent stuff. You can definitely get good angles that wouldn't be fathomable any other way.



    they also had a 'coper like that do the 'dildo copter' ... you might have seen a animated gif or a video of that. pretty funny shit


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhQQAeRFoc
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Access Denied on Monday, January 13, 2014 00:37:27
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Access Denied to Digital Man on Sun Jan 12 2014 02:08 pm

    Hello Digital,

    On 11 Jan 14 20:55, Digital Man wrote to Deuce:

    Here's my first POV video with this setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgnIh1zsBY

    I'll make a lot better video on a less-windy day.

    Dude, you gotta do something with that lawn.

    Yeah, I have over an acre of grass, we haven't had much rain in long time, and my water bills have approximately doubled, so I'm cutting back and thus, the grass suffers. Cie la vie.

    Then again, you have kids so I
    can see where the lack of motivation to do so would come from, as they'd just mess it up again afterwards. :)

    It's the drought (and lack of cutting and weeding) that really have taken their
    toll on the yard. The kids mostly just leave their toys and clothes/shoes (and cell phone!) outside to get sprinklered on and generally don't take care for stuff. :-)

    Cool video, though. Is it hard to fly? I thought I saw it crash a couple times..

    It's generally surprisingly easy to fly, but there was a breeze which basically
    turns the copter into a somewhat-remotely-controlled kite. Yeah, I put her down
    on accident a few times, but no damage. She's very tough.

    I watched some show on TV (I think it was about digging for gold or something) where the camera crew setup a copter with an HD camera on it. Then took it over a waterfall and recorded a bunch of REALLY cool arial shots of it, whereas those wouldn't have happened from any kind of regular camera man. Excellent stuff. You can definitely get good angles that wouldn't be fathomable any other way.

    I want to get a better camera and iso-mount it to avoid the "jelly effect" and make some better vids. We'll see.

    digital man

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  • From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to Digital Man on Monday, January 13, 2014 13:13:00
    On 01-12-14, Digital Man said the following...

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Deuce on Sat Jan 11 2014 08:55 pm

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Deuce to Digital Man on Fri Jan 03 2014 12:42 am

    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 11:01 pm

    have been a wasted $20, but the idea of HD arial photography is intriguing to me. Some of the examples on youtube are mind-boggl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2saUt4wR8

    You mean private citizen spy drones?

    Here's my first POV video with this setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgnIh1zsBY

    I'll make a lot better video on a less-windy day.

    Today was a less-windy day:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DgD2Y83fmI

    digital man

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  • From Access Denied@VERT/PHARCYDE to Digital Man on Monday, January 13, 2014 13:34:52
    Hello Digital,

    On 13 Jan 14 00:37, Digital Man wrote to Access Denied:

    Dude, you gotta do something with that lawn.

    Yeah, I have over an acre of grass, we haven't had much rain in long
    time, and my water bills have approximately doubled, so I'm cutting
    back and thus, the grass suffers. Cie la vie.

    You could always be the first in the neighborhood to do what people in Arizona do: Rock lawns. :)

    Maybe even some astroturf. Damn. Now that I mentioned it it sounds like an awesome idea. Never have to do yardwork again!

    Then again, you have kids so I
    can see where the lack of motivation to do so would come from, as
    they'd just mess it up again afterwards. :)

    It's the drought (and lack of cutting and weeding) that really have
    taken their toll on the yard. The kids mostly just leave their toys
    and clothes/shoes (and cell phone!) outside to get sprinklered on and generally don't take care for stuff. :-)

    I hear ya. My yard is currently covered in snow, and just as much, all the kids toys were covered in it since they didn't pick them up and put them away before winter. Eh well. I'll go through them in spring and throw away what they don't use or was damaged from the elements - yet again.

    Cool video, though. Is it hard to fly? I thought I saw it crash a
    couple times..

    It's generally surprisingly easy to fly, but there was a breeze which basically turns the copter into a somewhat-remotely-controlled kite.
    Yeah, I put her down on accident a few times, but no damage. She's
    very tough.

    How much does something like that run? And do you have a link to a picture of the actual unit? I may be interested in something like that at some point. Even something like a MQ-27 Draginfire drone like in Black Ops 2. I haven't found anything quite like it in RC yet though.

    I want to get a better camera and iso-mount it to avoid the "jelly
    effect" and make some better vids. We'll see.

    What you have currently seems to be doing a good job so far. The clarity of the video it shot both times wasn't bad at all, really.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Monday, January 13, 2014 16:38:49
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Digital Man to Access Denied on Mon Jan 13 2014 12:37 am

    Yeah, I have over an acre of grass, we haven't had much rain in long time, and my water bills have approximately doubled, so I'm cutting back and
    thus, the grass suffers. Cie la vie.



    astroturf!
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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Access Denied on Monday, January 13, 2014 16:39:31
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Access Denied to Digital Man on Mon Jan 13 2014 01:34 pm

    Maybe even some astroturf. Damn. Now that I mentioned it it sounds like an awesome idea. Never have to do yardwork again!



    around here a few years back the draught was so bad people were painting their lawns green.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Access Denied on Monday, January 13, 2014 15:15:48
    Re: RC helicopter
    By: Access Denied to Digital Man on Mon Jan 13 2014 01:34 pm

    It's generally surprisingly easy to fly, but there was a breeze which basically turns the copter into a somewhat-remotely-controlled kite. Yeah, I put her down on accident a few times, but no damage. She's
    very tough.

    How much does something like that run? And do you have a link to a picture of the actual unit?

    Here's both: http://bit.ly/1dkwNXQ

    digital man

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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to ACCESS DENIED on Thursday, January 23, 2014 09:46:00
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    You could always be the first in the neighborhood to do what people in Ari do: Rock lawns. :


    Heh. Most people in Phoenix want grass lawns, despite there being... no water.


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