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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVbqveNe6c?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] The wonderful folks at Tested have put up the video of my talk from the Tested Live Show, which took place at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on October 23, 2015. The talk is about our Good Morning America trip to Iceland to broadcast live from the Holuhraun volcano eruption. I gave ...

We are having our pool filled in this week, so I went out with the DJI Inspire 1 and preproduction Zenmuse X5 camera and made an aerial 3D map of our house (processed using both Pix4DMapper Pro and DroneDeploy’s new—and free—Map Engine beta).  I decided that I wanted to measure the volume of the empty pool ...

I tried to take a spherical panorama inside 16th Street Station in Oakland, today. The prototype DJI Inspire 1 w/Zenmuse X5′s Visual Positioning System wasn’t working, so I had to pilot manually the whole time in ATTI, which was challenging for aerial panorama movements.  There were a couple major issues with my attemps: 1) I ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KzA5ZWKlr0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I spent part of the day hanging out at 16th Street Station in Oakland with a few mapping people from Autodesk, 3DR, Leica, and others, and it was a great opportunity to capture some mapping source data using a DJI Inspire 1 and prototype DJI Zenmuse X5 Micro Four Thirds camera.  In typical fashion, ...

Last week, I went to Thomas Fogarty Winery to do some aerial mapping with a beta DJI Zenmuse X5 Micro Four Thirds camera (and DJI MFT 15mm f/1.7 ASPH prime lens). I flew the map manually, taking about 600 pictures (both nadir and oblique), and Antoine and the folks at Pix4D were nice enough to do ...

Here’s the full version of the DJI Inspire 1 beach flight with Feiyu Tech rear gimbal (side by side, with Inspire view). The gimbal is a Feiyu Tech FY-WG 3-Axis wearable gimbal for GoPro, and I’m using a GoPro HERO4 Black to record the rear video. I’ve mounted it to the Inspire 1 using a ...

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/)

Aerial 360º spherical images

I’ve been enjoying taking aerial 360º shots using the DJI Inspire 1 and Phantom 3. They take only a couple of minutes to capture, and processing is easy using web-based services like 360cities. Here’s a shot I took earlier today in San Francisco with an Inspire 1. I can’t seem to embed the spherical version ...

[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, ...