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Eric Cheng

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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!). ...

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 ...

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.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXAMRQoIAA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Hello, everyone. Details are out about the new Phantom No Fly Zones and how exactly they restrict your flying. This new feature will be activated if you update your Phantom 2 series quadcopter to the newest firmware (3.0). If you do not want to be subject to this new restriction, you may elect ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESKl2dza16U?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI announced the Phantom 2 Vision+ today. It features an integrated, 3-axis-stabilized, 14-megapixel camera capable of shooting at 1080/30p (or 720/60p), and talks to an app on your smart phone to give you liveview from the camera as well as useful telemetry like battery life remaining. It also allows you to take pictures, ...

When I travel with my DJI Phantom, I usually use a Nanuk 940 case with pick ‘n pluck foam. It comes full of foam cubes that are partly stuck together, and you just rip out cubes to make space for whatever you want to put in the case. The Nanuk fits into overhead bin space in most airplanes, ...

I’ve been enjoying shooting raw DNG with the DJI Phantom 2 Vision (beta, unavailable to the public). The resulting files have a ton of detail in them. They also show quite a bit of noise, but after noise removal in Adobe Lightroom, they look good for images image captured by a tiny sensor. Many shots from the ...

A lot of people have been asking me for comparisons between the integrated camera in the Phantom 2 Vision and a GoPro carried by an original Phantom. The images in this comparison use a GoPro HERO3+: Silver Edition. The Phantom 2 Vision’s camera is a 14-megapixel camera that shoots at 140° at full wide. The GoPro HERO3+ Silver shoots at ...