Tag: diy - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: diy

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JsGggcQRTM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Everyone who is interested in the DJI Inspire 1 should watch this Tested.com episode, which features Mythbuster Adam Savage and all the cool accessories he’s made for the quad! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

If you are too impatient to wait for DJI to come out with Ground Station support for the Phantom 2 Vision / Vision+, you can add CAN-BUS to your Vision yourself and get support immediately. The video above is by Gary Hilton, who made his own CAN-BUS cable and installed 2.4G Datalink to enable Ground Station ...

Version 3 of the Ricoh GR APS-C camera mount for DJI Phantom 2 is done! It’s ready for some serious field testing.

My Ricoh GR camera mount for the DJI Phantom 2 continues to evolve. The first version used the top vibration dampener plate of the Phantom 2 Vision (the dampener assembly is available for $10 from dealers), a bottom plate laser cut for me by Keri Wilk, and an inexpensive Giotto mini-ballhead. I wrote about the ...

This seems to be my new morning ritual. I wander downstairs to check out the newest 3D print I made, which is inevitably some kind of adapter for mounting cameras on to quadcopters. This piece will be used to mount my Ricoh GR camera to my Phantom 2 in a recessed way, closer to the ...

I managed to get great aerial footage of whale sharks is Isla Mujeres by launching a quadcopter off of a 34-foot boat, but the flight controller (DJI NAZA v3.14) made the experience a pain in the butt because it refused to arm until the quadcopter was (relatively) still. had to wait until the boat was ...

This is my prototype multi-rotor aircraft launch platform for boats. It should allow me to arm and launch my quadcopters from pitching boats without waiting around for that perfect moment, like I had to while I was in Isla Mujeres.

Clean DJI Phantom quadcopter with gimbal and internal FPV transmitter

DJI Phantom with DJI Zenmuse H3-2D brushless gimbal, GoPro HERO3 Black edition, internal ImmersionRC 600mW 5.8Ghz FPV transmitter, and modified radio with pitch knob on back. I’ve ben using my first DJI Phantom quadcopter now for about 6 months. It’s been on hundreds of flights, and I crashed it numerous times while I was learning to fly it, ...

Add a knob to your Phantom remote for gimbal pitch control

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOZZ07E6htE] For my non-Phantom quads, I use a Spektrum DX8 radio, which has plenty of channels including one on a knob, which is perfect for controlling the pitch of a gimbal (so you can make the camera look up and down during flight). The Phantom radio has a secret 7th channel which can be ...