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Eric Cheng

Tag: quadcopter

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDC_JbT1zSA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] I know I always say that no one wants to see your local park flying video… but here’s a video of me in the local park, doing a test flight with my re-built ADS 400Q frame running OpenPilot Revolution. Jimmie Fulton helped me to tune the quadcopter, which was fairly easily done by ...

My travel setup for the DJI Phantom quadcopter is a Nanuk 940 case with cubed foam. The case is $166 (shipped free with Prime) at Amazon, and I really like it because it’s built well, not insanely heavy (8.4 lbs, empty), and has easy-to-open, locking clamps. The Nanuk holds a TON of stuff, including the Phantom w/Zenmuse H3-2D ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5v0EFNs2w?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] DJI gave me an evaluation Phantom 2 Vision, and I absolutely love the new cartridge-style battery system and props with integrated nut. The battery is a 5200 mAH 3S battery, which is 2.36x greater in capacity than the old Phantom’s battery capacity. This thing will fly for 25 minutes straight, even with the ...

Treasure Island’s famous 40-foot tall Bliss Dancer. The light and shadows at sunrise are beautiful, here. Taken with 3D Robotics Y6, GoPro HERO3 Black camera, Rotorpixel gimbal.

I did 13 FPV flights in the past few days using Fat Shark Dominator Goggles. After previously having done over a hundred flights using an inexpensive, 7" LCD (I’m still using my starter FPV kit), it was really cool to be effectively projected into a flying virtual camera. When there is something like an Oculus Rift available for ...

I flew Salvation Mountain yesterday, and it was really amazing. A mountain of paint, love, and the sweat of countless volunteer-hours blazes in colorful glory in the middle of a drab ocean of dust. I highly recommend a visit. Also, Slab City is right behind Salvation Mountain, and everyone we met there was super friendly. I ...

The badlands of Anza Borrego Desert are really cool. We hiked a slot canyon called “The Slot,” and it snaked along until it was really narrow and tall—beautiful. It’s hard to see from this still image, but I also got some video from straight above the slot, which I’ll post after I put something together ...

I went back to the Sausalito Gate 6 houseboat co-op last weekend at sunset to get some more shots of the community. At least one building has been removed since I was there last time. What an incredible place.

Hanging out with Blind Jimmie Fulton, who was thoroughly jacked into FPV.