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Eric Cheng

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This secret Google barge at a guarded dock in Treasure Island has been making news here in the Bay Area (and in Portland, Maine, where a second one has been spotted). People are speculating about its purpose. Is it a water-cooled data center? A floating Google Glass store? Who knows…

Pictures! 3D Robotics Iris with GoPro HERO3 and prototype gimbal, DJI Phantom 2 Vision prototype, and 3D Robotics Y6 running APM 2.6 (love this thing!). Pablo Lema and I unboxed the RTF Y6, attached the props, added a receiver, did some light configuration in Mission Planner and on my Spektrum DX8 transmitter, and it flew beautifully. ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKLfeHbIlrA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Pablo Lema and Steve Doll launch and fly a plane running APM. Bonus: carbon fiber props can shatter! 🙂 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Transporter 3D Oculus Rift FPV Interface

EMR Labs is running an Indiegogo campaign for their Transporter3D, a device that facilitates FPV usage of the Oculus Rift (generally considered the most-immersive inexpensive head-mounted display available). The Transporter3D consists of a custom board that accepts 2D or 3D video input, converting video into a low-latency signal compatible with the Rift. The board also converts head-tracking output ...

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 ...

It is total insanity to build golf courses in the middle of the desert! This is La Quinta, California (near Coachella and the Salton Sea). You can also see all of the pictures from our trip.

Bombay Beach, a community on the east shore of the Salton Sea, is the lowest community in America (223 feet below sea level). The part of the community closest to the Salton Sea has been totally reclaimed by nature and lies in ruins (a berm protects most of the houses from the fluctuating water level)—super ...

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 ...