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Eric Cheng

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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 ...

Discovery Canada has released a short mini-documentary about our first DJI Feat, which features me flying Phantoms into the volcanic eruption at Bardarbunga / Holuhraun in Iceland. It is really well done, and tells the story effectively—thanks, Discovery!

I have been way too busy over the past two months to do any non-imaging, non-press-briefing flying. This week, I plan to get some FPV practicing in while visiting family in San Diego for Thanksgiving. I brought the 3-D printed Hovership MHQ2 (http://shop.hovership.com/hovership-mhq2/) with me, and plan to crash a lot while exploring rate mode. ...

DJI Inspire 1 Live Q&A (Nov 24, 11a-1p PT)

DJI Inspire 1 Live Q&A (Nov 24, 11a-1p PT) A very special #MentorMonday for our #DJICreators. This week, DJI’s very own Director of Aerial Imagery, Eric Cheng, will host a live, 2 hour Q&A on the… Hi, everyone. I did a 2-hour, live, Q&A session over at DJI’s Facebook page today. There were around 125 ...

The Tested.com audience kept making comparisons between the Inspire 1 and GLaDOS, calling the Inspire “GladOS Alpha 0.1.” It certainly does share similar design language…

DJI SDK for Phantom (and Pix4D example)

One of the things we announced last week at the Inspire 1 launch event was the DJI SDK for Phantom. This has been remarkably under-represented in media coverage, and represents a huge step for DJI. Suddenly, the off-the-shelf Phantom 2 Vision and Vision+ can be appropriated for use in specific vertical industries merely by running ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKht76-zRBI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Will Smith at Tested.com takes the new DJI Inspire 1 through the most-thorough features discussion currently out there. Check out the video! [original link on tested.com] (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)