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[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, ...

Aerial live broadcast, 1 year ago

One year ago today, I did my first aerial live broadcast from a quadcopter, using a Phantom 2, GoPro, Lightbridge, and a computer broadcasting to Google Hangouts on Air over LTE.   .@djiglobal Phantom 2 w/Lightbridge and @Atomos_News Ninja Blade, recording 720p in ProRes, and live broadcast to Google Hangouts on Air. A photo posted ...

New (prototype) DJI Inspire 1 drone piloting paradigm using the beta DJI SDK for Inspire 1, Phantom 3, and M100: Nod Ring / hand control for flight, GoogleVR FPV for gimbal head tracking. Integration and demo by Spark Aerial at Nod HQ. DJI Inspire 1: dji.com/product/inspire-1Nod Ring: nod.comSpark Aerial: sparkaerial.com (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqr8xeVClE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] The DJI Phantom 3’s position hold and camera gimbal are impressive. Here’s a Phantom 3 Professional hovering, hands off, in gusting 20-knot winds. A short video of the Phantom 3 hovering (on the same day, in the same conditions), taken with an iPhone 6, is over at Instagram. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

One of the first things I did when the DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ was released was go to Golden Gate Park and photograph the California Academy of Sciences from the air. The roof of the building is incredible and really screams to be photographed from low altitude. 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpz22VRoQw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Aerial bedlam during a Flite Test event on May 21, 2015. I’m flying a DJI Phantom 3, shooting at 4K / 30p. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

I met up with a friend at a park in the Marina and shot this panorama of San Francisco using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter. The wind was blowing really hard, but it was no problem: sent the thing up, took 6 pictures in Adobe DNG raw with approximately 50% overlap in each, and ...

I spent the weekend at the 9th annual e.g., a special conference I look forward to going to every year. I spoke in the “air” session about my specific definition of the intersection between art and technology, and even though I was slotted into the “air” category, my talk also included water and fire. 😉 Eventually, the ...

Foothills fog at 70x speed, taken from DJI Phantom 3 Professional hovering for around 13 minutes 400’ over a canyon in the San Mateo Highlands in California. Video was fairly stable out of the camera, but was further stabilized using Adobe Warp Stabilizer. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)