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Eric Cheng

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I spent the early part of August in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, photographing whale sharks (Rhincodon typus). Each summer, hundreds of whale sharks aggregate there to feed on bonito spawn. Tourists can literally jump into the water with upwards of 300 whale sharks in the water, at once. I took my quadcopter, this year, and shot ...

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, ...

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&station=kgo&section=&mediaId=9185291&parentId=null&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site= Gizmodo has picked up the Steamer Lane surf video, as has ABC7 in San Francisco, which aired the video on the evening of July 25. (Source: http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/)

Aerial footage of surfers at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, California. July 21, 2013. Footage taken with a DJI Phantom quadcopter, GoPro HERO3 Black edition camera, Rotorpixel HERO3 gimbal (http://rotorpixel.com/), ReadyMadeRC FPV transmitter, receiver, and remote monitor, and modified DJI Phantom radio. I did seven 4-minute flights with the GoPro in 1080/60p Medium, and cut the video in ...

Once you have a 2-axis gimbal on your quadcopter, it becomes really easy to take aerial panoramas. I sent my DJI Phantom quadcopter up into the air on GPS lock mode with the GoPro 3 camera taking pictures in timelapse mode—1 picture every 2 seconds. I spun the Phantom around once, capturing a full spin (360º) in ...

I set up a Rotorpixel Gimbal Hero 3 today (made specifically for the GoPro HERO3 camera), and it is totally awesome.  The GoPro Hero 3 camera just snaps into the camera mount, and the whole gimbal can be powered off of the auxiliary power lead on a DJI Phantom quadcopter. The isolation mount is flexible, so ...

Lytro light field pictures taken from a quadcopter

Earlier, I posted pictures of a Lytro light field camera mounted on an ADS 400Q quadcopter. Here are the light field pictures…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKps0feNZjQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Here is raw footage from a flight yesterday in San Diego. DJI Phantom with Rotorpixel Gimbal Lite and wire-isolation mount, GoPro HERO3 Black camera set to 2.7K/30p, Graupner carbon-fiber props, and landing gear extensions. It was a really windy day—you’ll see the props in the frame as the quad angles itself to stay ...

DJI Phantom Quadcopter FPV Deconstruction

Jan 28, 2014: Updated post is here (but if you’re a newbie, the content in this post is still very relevant). Multi-rotor aircraft like the DJI Phantom quadcopter are finally being sold, ready-to-fly, in a way that is accessible to mass-market consumers. However, the first modification a multi-rotor owner makes immediately pushes them into the hobbyist realm, which ...