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  • Talk to me about drones !
  • reedspeed
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    being a bit of a gadget freek, I keep thinking about these drones !,does anyone of you have one ?,whats the best in terms of all round duarabilty and value,ease of use etc..

    I already have have a camera !

    ahwiles
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    how is ‘drone’ different from ‘radio-controlled’?

    allthepies
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    I’ve got one of these on the way.

    http://www.hobbywow.com/product.aspx?productid=237632&sename=en-copy-of-cg022-6-axis-led-headless-mode-mini-rc-quadcopter-rtf-2-4ghz&

    Has “headless mode” which makes it easy to return to base if you fly it too high/far away.

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    AlexSimon
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    So cheap allthepies – but it wont take a GoPro will it?

    eat_more_cheese
    Free Member

    Do a search for hubsan x4, loads on here recently. It’s more of a ‘toy’ quad copter though, but plenty of food for thought on that thread

    allthepies
    Free Member

    It’s obviously very small and doesn’t come with a camera. It ain’t going to lift a go pro either 😉

    A cheap way of learning to fly a quad without the worry of crashing an expensive one though.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    indeed – looks great.

    nemesis
    Free Member

    So, how big a ‘drone’ would you need to be able to carry a mobile phone? I have a few old ones that aren’t worth much (eg if I lost them it wouldn’t be the end of the world) and it’d be cool to take some aerial photos or videos.

    aracer
    Free Member

    If you just want to film, I think the cheapest route is the X4 with camera – about £35 on ebay (search for h107c, which is the camera version – h107d is the FPV version if you want that). Of course there are other things you could do with a phone, but you’ll need something fairly big to carry one, and it will hit battery life quite badly.

    nemesis
    Free Member

    Thanks

    I guess that the advantage of a mobile is that you can get apps to do pretty much anything, be that timer photos, GPS tracking, remote triggering and so on.

    Milkie
    Free Member

    I signed up for a Hexo+ autonomous drone.
    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKy_Qa6lMU0[/video]
    Due for release in May next year.

    So come May/June I’ll be the idiot at the side of a trail crying because it’s crashed or getting angry because it’s not working, or asking people “have you seen my drone!?” 😕

    Still thinking about ordering the bits to build my own little quadcopter over winter.. Where was that thread on the £99 quadcopter?

    pk13
    Full Member

    Well it looks like existing laws might be enforced.
    http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29687769

    a work colleague has one cost about a grand and it’s ace when fitted with a gopro .

    andytherocketeer
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    Wish they’d stop calling RC multirotors “drones”\

    A few friends have DJI quad- and hexa-copters, with various levels of electronics and camera gear. All have the GPS gubbins. One has gimbal gyro camera mount. Most are set up in the n00b mode, so can fly at altitude hold, or let go of controls and it will hover and/or return home.

    Parrot (one pictured in the bbc article) is a nice toy but pricey when you compare it to a basic DJI (or similar) full RC set up.

    All the WiFi based ones are easily hackable.

    tthew
    Full Member

    Personal experience suggest avoid the DJI Phantom 2 vision+, it’s a great basic multi rotor, but when you smash it, (when!) the camera is vulnerable and costs half the price of the full kit.

    There’s a company called Heliguy in the North East, and they do Phantom 2 build with all the kit, excluding the camera which you already have for about £1k. If you break that, then the parts should be cheaper individually.

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