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Eric Cheng

Tag: drones

Every once in awhile, I try to fly a quadcopter in a place with really strange magnetic interference. Earlier this month, this happened in Scoble’s studio—I couldn’t sustain a magnetometer / compass calibration in the studio, so we had to go into Rackspace’s main work area. Today, the same thing happened at the end of ...

I had a fun day flying the Phantom 2 Vision+ with Gordon Laing, Jim Goldstein and Stu Maschwitz. San Francisco was rainy and windy in the morning, which proved to be challenging conditions for flying, but the clouds went away in the afternoon, and the light was pretty glorious (but it was still cold and windy!). ...

Had fun shooting a so-called #dronie with friends, this morning (posted to Instagram). Phantom 2 with H3-3D gimbal and GoPro HERO 3+ Black. Fun! (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

I love using large sensors in the air. I drove to Palomar Observatory today and sent the Phantom 2 Ricoh GR up for a few pictures (nowhere near the structures). Last year, I read Richard Preston’s First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe, which made visiting the observatory all the more special. The modified Phantom ...

How to install DJI Ground Station in a Phantom 2

Not long ago, DJI release iPad Ground Station, an iPad app and hardware combination that allows Phantoms and other DJI-powered multicopters to fly autonomous missions using waypoints. iPad Ground Station is a free app in the Apple App Store, but it requires that you purchase and install 2.4G Bluetooth Data Link. This post is specifically about ...

If you are too impatient to wait for DJI to come out with Ground Station support for the Phantom 2 Vision / Vision+, you can add CAN-BUS to your Vision yourself and get support immediately. The video above is by Gary Hilton, who made his own CAN-BUS cable and installed 2.4G Datalink to enable Ground Station ...

I was part of a great interview on Monday on some cliffs overlooking a beautiful Northern-Californian beach. The waves were breaking in tight sets, and the aerial view straight down was spectacular. Shot in Adobe DNG raw using a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter.

It turns out that you *can* stuff a DJI 2.4G Bluetooth Datalink (buy) and an iOSD mini (buy) into the shell of a Phantom 2. This flagship Phantom 2 is configured with Ground Station support, a Zenmuse H3-3D 3-axis GoPro gimbal, GoPro with Ragecams lens mod, and Boscam TS353 5.8G 400mW FPV transmitter. The radio has ...

Here are a few sample raw Adobe DNG still pictures from the new Phantom 2 Vision+, for your evaluation. The download is good for 14 days. Photos were taken from right above the Wynn’s swimming pool, insured and with permission, during a media event.