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Eric Cheng

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Brushless gimbals, which are now commonplace for stabilizing video in the air, can also be used on the ground in interesting ways. Photographer Thomas O’Brien took me over Taylor Pass near Aspen, Colorado, today in his highly-modified Toyota Tacoma, and we had some fun by attaching a gimbal-stabilized GoPro to various areas of the car. ...

DJI​ Inspire 1 flying aggressively at the beach with a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis Wearable Gimbal for GoPro​ attached to the rear via curved GoPro mount. Shot with GoPro HERO4 Black. Footage taken during the lynda.com​ documentary shoot with (Santa Cruz) Flight Club. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYhINw-k0OA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I attached a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis Wearable Gimbal for GoPro to a DJI Inspire 1 and went for a little flight. Wheee! The vibrations you see are coming from the shaking of the GoPro extension, which is attached to the Inspire a using a standard GoPro adhesive mount. It is not very rigid, ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_9le2NnFo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Last week, I met up with Norman Chan, Will Smith and Adam Savage to do a Tested.com podcast episode about my time flying DJI Global Phantoms at the Holuhraun eruption (Bardarbunga Volcano – Bárðarbunga Volcano) for the first “DJI Feat.” It was the first time I was able to tell the whole story. ...

A short aerial film showing the beauty of Cape Town and its surrounding area, including Lion’s Head, Table Mountain, Cape Point, Hout Bay, Simon’s Town, and Seal Island. Footage includes great white sharks from above at Seal Island, an aggregation of spotted gully sharks / sharptooth houndshark (Triakis megalopterus) in the surf near Cape Point ...

Flying a DJI Phantom 2 at Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland. About 10 days ago, I had the great fortune of spending a day close to the Holuhraun eruption at the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland. The eruption sits right up top of the largest glacier in Iceland, and has been spewing out lava in large ...

This Instagram post by skyhighmedia explains how to use the DJI Zenmuse H3-3D gimbal with the new GoPro 4. To balance it in your H3-3D you will need to attach a penny to the tilt motor. You will also need to grind down a little of the frame to avoid contacting the settings button on the ...

Aerial footage of Burning Man 2014. Shot with DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter, Zenmuse H3-3D gimbal, GoPro HERO 3+ Black, with DJI Lightbridge and Lilliput monitor as FPV and livestreaming solution. Some of this footage was streamed live to Burning Man’s Ustream live webcast during the event. If you’re interested in what it was like to ...

The flying of drones at Burning Man was highly-regulated in 2014. I was told by Firefly, the main organizer of drones this year, that a big reason for the new regulations was that some idiot flew over the Temple last year during the moment of silence before it burned. This prompted hundreds of complaints from ...