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Quadcopter view of La Manzanilla

Posted by Daniel H on December 24, 2014, 2:37 am
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Jimmy (son of Bob and Cissie) came by the beach bar this evening with a quadcopter.
The idea was to do a video of Greg's house but it turned into more than that as
you will see below. I didn't edit this video so there are a couple minutes of
places where it doesn't do much but then changes to a scene where it does.




If you click on the You Tube it will take you to the You Tube page.
There are a few ways to view this, the method with the highest clarity is to go to the
little gear in the bottom right corner and select 1080p HD. Once it is playing go
again to the bottom right corner and click full screen. It may take some time to
load but the clarity is really something. The link above is the lowest resolution.

Here is a photo of Jimmy and his quadcopter



Here is a link to the quadcopter he is using

http://www.gizmag.com/dji-phantom-quadcopter/25672/

I have been following quadcopters for a couple years now and was pretty
excited to see my first one up close and even got a chance to fly it! Jimmy
is my kind of pilot, first thing he does is send the quad over Greg's house
then he takes it up to 500 feet, so high we temporarily lost track of it!
Which is why it stays in one place for a while around the 3 minute mark.
Next he takes it over the ocean at about 5 feet off the surface and then
even lets me and Greg try it, quite brave IMO. Mind you this quad is transmitting
live HD to the iphone on the controler that Jimmy is holding via wifi! he
can see what the quadcopter is seeing in real time! Just think of that
next time you go into the next room with your laptop and loose the connection.

Here are some links from my bookmarks of quad stuff I have saved in the
past couple of months which show some of the things they are doing with quadcopters.


The astounding athletic power of quadcopters

Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Kit

Underwater Multicopter

Make It Wearable Finalists Reddit

FPV Racing Mini Quadcopters Advanced Course Reddit







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