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Eric Cheng

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Here are some stills from Gordon Laing’s visit. Shot with DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ in Adobe DNG raw.

While at Stanford University for a concert yesterday, I sent a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ up for some still shots. Shot in Adobe DNG raw and processed in Lightroom.

During a demo of my Ground Station-enabled Phantom 2, I did something stupid. I was at the base of the beautiful, rolling hills of eastern Fremont and wanted to send the Phantom 2 up over the hills on a waypoint-driven mission. It looked like the hills went up at least 400’ above us, so I ...

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 ...