Originally Posted by Charham
throw away the fucking key, you gotta be kidding.
throw away the fucking key, you gotta be kidding.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Prick should be in prison.
HILLARY WON
This post was made over three years ago
Welp, the party is ending soon.
There have been an absolute plague of near misses around the world recently. Someone came within 15' of a landing jet in New Zealand last week.
The call to have all drones registered and tracked is getting international traction. Zero problems with this.
That said I also dont really see how its feasible. Building your own drone seems easy enough, open source software is out there in the wild, and the components arent exactly rare.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
I just ordered one. anyone have any thoughts on it? seems decent price for a starter drone.
How did thks work out?I just ordered one. anyone have any thoughts on it? seems decent price for a starter drone.
Also, ran across an interesting compilation vid of slick drone footage.
And the guy who shot the footage that was used in that comp vid seems pretty legit as a drone racer.
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"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
you want funny?
this cannot be beat
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
“I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Los Angeles has a few nice months regarding landscape scenery, and then it turns brown and ugly.
Some years it's brown the entire time because of lack of rain.
This year we are getting some rain, including 6 inches this week alone.
Should be interesting this year, as it tends to be extra green after fire damage in the fall (provided enough rain comes).
If I'm feeling up to it, I might take the thing down to Agoura to survey fire damage.
drones for babies
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
“I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Underwater drone...
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My drone is fucked up. It's a Phantom 4.
It gets all confused about its altitude, and can't hover without slowly sinking.
For example, if I fly it to 30 feet and let it hover, it will eventually sink down to like 8 feet, and will still think it's at 30 feet. Then if I attempt to auto-land it, it will get all confused and make kind of a hard landing.
Even worse, it also just kind of drifts to the side, and again, forgets where it is. I've been afraid to fly it away very far because I'm afraid it won't be able to come back properly.
Any idea what's wrong?
Oddly this shit started out of nowhere. I flew it in March in Mammoth to take some mountain scenery, and it worked 100% fine. I flew it like 1.5 miles away with no issue.
Time to upgrade from that ancient technology.
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Be careful where you fly a drone.
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I like to revisit this from time to time; pretty sure I nailed this call, but could also be confirmation bias.This post was made over three years ago
Well, a huge part of the fade in this fad is that the FAA got all Nazi-ish on personal drone flying, making it a federal offense, literally, to not register your drone before flying it in public. Add in the tightened restrictions on where you can fly, and local authorities getting in on the government “overreach” in the game, and a lot of people were probably highly discouraged by these new regs and restrictions to the point of not wanting to bother. I know that it did for me.I like to revisit this from time to time; pretty sure I nailed this call, but could also be confirmation bias.
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I still have mine but it just sits and collects dust.Well, a huge part of the fade in this fad is that the FAA got all Nazi-ish on personal drone flying, making it a federal offense, literally, to not register your drone before flying it in public. Add in the tightened restrictions on where you can fly, and local authorities getting in on the government “overreach” in the game, and a lot of people were probably highly discouraged by these new regs and restrictions to the point of not wanting to bother. I know that it did for me.
It is such a pain in the ass to even get it in the air now ( I live within 5 miles of a very small airport). Those airports used to not block the DJI software, it was just the big international airport before... Now every where is a pain to fly it seems.
I haven't flown mine in awhile but for a different reason. It started having an odd issue where it would lose altitude and not know it, especially when hovering. It would also drift without knowing it. This would be a problem because it wouldn't know exactly how high it was or where exactly it was, which would affect the return to home, as it would come back a little bit away from where it started, and it would also need to "see" the ground so it didn't crash while descending (which fortunately it seems to be able to do correctly).I still have mine but it just sits and collects dust.
It is such a pain in the ass to even get it in the air now ( I live within 5 miles of a very small airport). Those airports used to not block the DJI software, it was just the big international airport before... Now every where is a pain to fly it seems.
DJI support is terrible and you get some Chinese guy who doesn't speak English. You can barely get a conversation through. Basically I was told I need to send them $60 and the drone and they'll diagnose then go from there. I was actually going to do this, then coronavirus shut everything down, so here we are.
Kinda blows because I do like taking it out in southern CA in March and April because that's when it's pretty here. After that everything turns brown.
I do still occasionally use it to examine the health of my trees and any issues on the roof, but still, I'm nervous because it can't hold in place well.
So are you gonna let a giant nosed Iranian teenager named krypt shit talk u like this todgepoker.
Biz
does anyone know if the new dji drone has autoflight plotting?
eg where you map out a flight path / camera and then send it happily on its way?
up until now one had to buy a fairly pricey third party app for it and im not about that fuckin life.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
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