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Eric Cheng

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Here is raw, aerial, behind-the-scenes footage from the CBS This Morning live broadcast at CES, during which I flew a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter around behind the anchor. Note that we did three different live segments: a teaser, the main segment, and a web segment, each involving a take off and flight / hover around the hall. ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXVRPrt10w0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I sat down with Stuff’s Stephen Graves at CES last week to chat about the recent surge in popularity of UAVs / drones. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

It’s been a long time since I have posted anything here, which is unfortunate—I’ve been so busy, both personally and professionally! But I was outside today during the beautiful light at dusk, and put my Inspire 1 straight up over the canyon near my place to shoot this 3-shot panorama, taken with the DJI Inspire ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMBpSY5IXdQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Hello, everyone. TTI/Vanguard, who run the most amazing conference series ever, has posted my on-stage conversation with Michael Hawley about aerial imaging. TTI/Vanguard [next] conference in San Francisco, (December 4). It was one of the most fun presentations I’ve done because the audience was so totally engaged. Thank you for the opportunity, Lisa McErlane ...

Best FPV experience I’ve ever had—looking at the back of my head w/Avegant Glyph (functional prototype) while flying the DJI Inspire 1 w/built-in Lightbridge. We plugged the Glyph into the Inspire 1 radio’s HDMI out, and it just worked.

I went to visit Signe Brewster at GigaOM, and flew the DJI Inspire 1 around their office in San Francisco. Wheee! (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

I’ll bet that a good number of my (male) friends have been spending their Thanksgiving family time playing computer games. Among them are successful CEOs and VC partners… but there is something about late evenings during family holidays that brings us all back to simpler times. After all of my family went to sleep, I spent ...

Removing the case of a Skyzone TS58500 5.8Ghz video Tx for FPV

A bunch of my flying buddies, including great FPV pilots like CHARPU and BayAreaCrasher, use the Skyzone TS58500 500mW video transmitter. I purchased a couple of them from GetFPV, but when I received them, they were encased in a metal housing. So instead of getting what the product looks like on the left (from the ...

Black Friday DJI Phantom 2 / Vision+ sales

Hi, everyone. There are a couple good Black Friday sales on DJI Phantoms. Amazon has the original DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ for $1,039.00 on Prime. The refreshed Vision+, which has a refreshed propulsion system, new compass, and upgraded controller with physical gimbal control dial, is $1,229.00 from both Amazon and direct from DJI. The Phantom ...