Jason Muscat proposes marriage to his beloved and delivers the ring by quadcopter:
This is nice and sweet, however as shown in the following video, involving quadcopters in marriages can be a real knock out.
Tag Archives: quadcopter
Arendatorovnet strikes again – Quadcopter flying in Thailand
New videos posted on the Arendatorovnet youtube account. The guy seems in perfect control of his personal drone, apparently a DJI F450 quadcopter with an enormous battery:
piloted either FPV or LOS from a moving motorcycle. Each one of the videos talks freedom and control and is outstanding and inspiring, so we will continue to monitor the account.
Here’s the pilot, click to go to the youtube channel:
And here are a couple of great videos:
LOS from moto: “Thailand, Koh Samui, Chaweng. 2013”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3D-hOPm9w
FPV: “Low flying”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZn2j05JbY
I’d like to thank this guy for inspiration. Keep posting and keep up with the good work!
Amazing very long range FPV with mystery quadcopter in thailand
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.
Video 1: Koh Samui Sunset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dpQwggsLI
Video 2: Thailand, Koh Samui, Lamai, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4O_fP-8Krs
Halloween drone – Ghost quad – Best quadcopter decoration ever
Alton Porter had a great idea for the best use of his personal drone during halloween.
Can’t miss this movie, here you go:
Hobbyking’s Integrated PCB Micro Quad PNP with kk2.0 flight controller setup (success!)
As a follow up to the previous post on
Advances in setting up Hobbyking’s Integrated PCB Micro Quad PNP with kk2.0 flight controller
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.
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.
Pilot of the phantom quadcopter that crashed in Manhattan arrested
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.”
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”.
You can read the story and watch a video here.
Here’s the original footage from the phantom:
RCtimer 450 quadcopter build with kk2 board
Those are a few details of my latest project
– 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
The new personal drone flies, it works! Stay tuned for videos!
Personal drones parenting: kid tracking drone
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.
Story and tech details
Call your personal drone by phone
Call your drone by phone wherever you are with the SkyCall app and then let him guide you to destination.
Skycall is a project developed in the Senseable City Lab of the MIT.
Read the story and watch the video:
Quadcopter collides with Sidney Harbour Bridge
And here’s a report on another quadcopter out of control, that ended up colliding with the Sidney Harbour Bridge. It was found near to one of the pilons of the bridge. No information has been released on the specific model, however a GoPro attached is mentioned. The police is investigating the footage on the sd video card.
“At this stage police don’t believe that the quad-copter is suspicious”
Good to know the quadcopter is not “suspicious”, looks like by default a quadcopter could indeed be suspicious. This is an interesting observation. In people’s mind quadcopters are related to drones, and drones are for surveillance, hence the suspiciousness I would guess.
Here’s the full article
A statement by Peter Gibson, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
The Sidney Harbour Bridge – Source: wikipedia
Update: “Counter-terrorism officers monitor police and aviation authority search for owner of quadcopter found near pylon. The authority is downloading data from the drone’s control system to try to find its owner”. Read the story