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Eric Cheng

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I absolutely love the aerial perspective. This is a picture of my wife snorkeling outside of Swallows Cave in Vava’u, Tonga. You can see the little mushroom island’s entire underwater reef structure.

DJI | DJI Released Naza-M Firmware 4.00

DJI | DJI Released Naza-M Firmware 4.00 DJI has released Naza-M firmware 4.00, the next iteration of firmware for the Naza-M multirotor flight controller. It supports ground station software (if you have the required hardware), but for beginner DJI Phantom owners, the most-interesting new feature will be the flight limits function, which allows you to ...

Aerial footage taken in Tonga, September, 2013. Huge thanks to Julian and Ildi Cohen and the crew of the S/Y Bella Principessa for their hospitality (I used the catamaran as a launch platform). GoPro HERO3 w/polarizer on a DJI Phantom quadcopter with Zenmuse gimbal. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

I went to visit 3D Robotics last week, which was a ton of fun. They let me fly an Iris prototype and a Y6 running APM 2.6. I love the idea of a folding Y6 for travel. It has plenty of power and can fold into a compact little package. Thanks, guys!

I managed to get great aerial footage of whale sharks is Isla Mujeres by launching a quadcopter off of a 34-foot boat, but the flight controller (DJI NAZA v3.14) made the experience a pain in the butt because it refused to arm until the quadcopter was (relatively) still. had to wait until the boat was ...

This is my prototype multi-rotor aircraft launch platform for boats. It should allow me to arm and launch my quadcopters from pitching boats without waiting around for that perfect moment, like I had to while I was in Isla Mujeres.

GoPro polarizer solutions for Phantom Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal

LayerLens for GoPro3 with circular polarizer lens mounted on GoPro in Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal Lately, I’ve been flying my quadcopters over the ocean, which makes me want to put a polarizer over the GoPro HERO3 Black camera that I use on my DJI Phantom. So far, I’ve found two solutions for putting a polarizer on a GoPro ...

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&station=kgo&section=&mediaId=9189253&parentId=9189250&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site= KGO ABC7, the SF Bay Area’s local ABC affiliate, did a little piece about my aerial photography today. I spent a couple hours with reporter Jonathan Bloom showing him how the DJI Phantom works (with Rotorpixel gimbal!) and talking about how the word, “drone,” can also be associated with beauty. Jonathan was super-engaged, curious, and friendly—it was a ...

Clean DJI Phantom quadcopter with gimbal and internal FPV transmitter

DJI Phantom with DJI Zenmuse H3-2D brushless gimbal, GoPro HERO3 Black edition, internal ImmersionRC 600mW 5.8Ghz FPV transmitter, and modified radio with pitch knob on back. I’ve ben using my first DJI Phantom quadcopter now for about 6 months. It’s been on hundreds of flights, and I crashed it numerous times while I was learning to fly it, ...