April 22, 2015 at 1:49 am
Saved from Certain Doom, a Drone’s Perspective
Watch this pilot make a mad dash to save his quadcopter from certain doom. It’s a race right to the finish!
Watch this pilot make a mad dash to save his quadcopter from certain doom. It’s a race right to the finish!
Watch this resourceful chimpanzee at Burgers’ Zoo take down a drone using a branch. The curious chimp then inspects the downed quadcopter, taking a selfie with the attached GoPro.
Won’t somebody think about the sheep dogs? Technology replacing yet another job sigh… 😛
Adam Woodworth transformed an old Imperial Speeder Bike toy from Return of the Jedi into a fully operational, flying quadcopter complete with a POV camera for FPV racing. You can see the finished product in action in the embedded video below. In an extensive post on Make Magazine, Woodworth says he used…
Warning: This will make your palms sweat. Rider Michal Kollbek rides the ‘White Line’ in Sedona, Arizona. Filmed by Marshall Mullen.
Experience the world’s largest cave, Vitenam’s Hang Son Doong, from a quadcopter’s POV. The video was filmed by Ryan Deboodt near the entrance and the first and second dolines (skylights), which are 2.5 and 3.5 km inside the cave respectively. Deboodt used the following gear: Canon 6D, Canon 16-35mm f4, DJI Phantom 2, GoPro…
A quadcopter captures a pod of bottlenose dolphins playing in the waves along the Esperance coastline in Western Australia. Amazing to see them leap out of the water like that!
In FPV Racing, drivers sport video camera goggles that show them exactly what their quadcopter sees. They then race each other through custom-designed courses trying their best not to crash (too hard). As video streaming quality improves, FPV racing will continue to grow.
Quadcopter enthusiast Olivier_C transformed his RC helicopter into the iconic Millennium Falcon from Star Wars using polystyrene and LED lights. The builder posted the step-by-step process on reddit and Imgur. Aside from the cost of the actual drone and radio, which he estimates at 1000€, the remaining materials were incredibly cheap: 10€ for the…
Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during…
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