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Eric Cheng

Tag: prototype

Today, I put a pre-production DJI Phantom 2 Vision up in the air, and got around 20 minutes of flight time. It is super-responsive, as you’d imagine it should be—more responsive than is the original Phantom. The camera’s pitch-axis gimbal is servo-driven, so it lags behind aggressive pitch changes from the aircraft, but that is ...

Keri sent me one of the early Rotorpixel Gimbal Lite prototypes, which I promptly attached to my DJI Phantom quadcopter and sent into the air, holding a GoPro HERO3 Black camera. The gimbal controllers and motors are being powered by Phantom’s auxiliary power cable (with JST connectors soldered on).

A prototype Rotorpixel Gimbal Lite holding a GoPro HERO 3, mounted on a DJI Phantom Quadcopter. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Rotorpixel Gimbal Lite prototype on a DJI Phantom quadcopter. Verdict: it works very well. It is incredible to have such stable video platform from such a small platform. On a Turnigy Nano-Tech 2200MAh 45-90C LiPo battery, I got just over 6 minutes of flight time (no crazy stunts). This isn’t great, for flight time, but the ...