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Gallery: Clean DJI Phantom quadcopter with gimbal and internal FPV transmitter

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 ...

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 ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktWYNULX3N0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI Phantom Quadcopter with Rotorpixel Gimbal Lite and GoPro HERO3 camera set to 2.7K / Wide / 24p, with bonus crash footage, at end. 🙂 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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 ...

First-person view (FPV) photo gallery to accompany the “DJI Phantom Quadcopter Deconstruction” post.

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 ...