The Best Way to Watch a Polish Riot Is via Remote Helicopter
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[video=youtube;9vOor1xmVDs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vOor1xmVDs[/video]
It's Polish Independence Day, and like in any other country, the youngins love celebrating their country's liberty by [URL="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Violent-youth-clash-with-police-in-Warsaw-2264113.php"]destroying[/URL] parts of it. "Youths" butted heads with (and threw things at) riot cops in Warsaw. Check out the view from above.
Although the whine of the drone is irritating, it sure beats having your skull cracked open by a cop. This is actually a pretty terrific news-gathering tool—can you imagine a tiny, nigh-impossible to destroy camera drone over a battlefield? [[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=9vOor1xmVDs"]YouTube[/URL] via [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/mc52w/diy_video_drone_captures_birds_eye_of_riots_andor/"]Reddit[/URL], [I]thanks[URL="http://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/136187918413856768"]Adrian[/URL]![/I]]
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Clearly a skilled MAV pilot.
That's quite awesome.
neat
Now I want one. How much are these things?
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;33279893]Now I want one. How much are these things?[/QUOTE]
I believe they are expensive as fuck if you don't build it yourself.
Ingenious!
What the fuck Poland, these people are just doing this for the hell of it?
[QUOTE=Socram;33280683]What the fuck Poland, these people are just doing this for the hell of it?[/QUOTE]
Canada did it because they lost a hockey game.
[QUOTE=Nexus435;33280243]I believe they are expensive as fuck if you don't build it yourself.[/QUOTE]
Any links to DIY or how much one of those cost...
Dammit OP, now I want one...
[QUOTE=abananapeel;33280801]Canada did it because they lost a hockey game.[/QUOTE]
"canada did it" you mean Vancouver did it because Vancouver lost a canucks game.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33280846]"canada did it" you mean Vancouver did it because Vancouver lost a canucks game.[/QUOTE]
And by Vancouver, you mean the small handful of "extremist" Canuck fans.
useewhatididthere?
Signed up for my schools 'Design, Build, Fly' club, and they have shit like this just lying around the lab. We're talking quad rotors, RC airplanes, even a massive RC helicopter roughly the size of a person, apparently you can just tell it where to go on google maps and it will fly there itself. Can't wait, in a couple years I'll probably be able to do something resembling the video helicopter myself.
[QUOTE=bull3tmagn3t;33280868]And by Vancouver, you mean the small handful of "extremist" Canuck fans.
useewhatididthere?[/QUOTE]
Nope, it was reasonable. It happens in any city with a nhl team in it. I was fucking pissed when they failed our city the Stanley cup.
[QUOTE=bobsmit;33279194]Clearly a skilled MAV pilot.[/QUOTE]
First thing I thought of when the author wrote:
[quote]This is actually a pretty terrific news-gathering tool—can you imagine a tiny, nigh-impossible to destroy camera drone over a battlefield?[/quote]
[QUOTE=Nexus435;33280243]I believe they are expensive as fuck if you don't build it yourself.[/QUOTE]
And if you build it yourself, there's the possibility that you did it wrong, which will likely cause a drastic failure.
I am myself working on something very similar right now, for my graduation work.
[b][url=http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/en/MikroKopter?action=show&redirect=FrontPage]You can build one from the the MikroKopter project[/url][/b]
[editline]15th November 2011[/editline]
You can get pre-completed kits which cost from 875 to 1700 euro, without any camera or radio equipment.
You can aswell get just the control boards which are the most complicated part for like 500, and build chassis and get the engines and such on your own, to have it cheaper.
[QUOTE=bord2tears;33281802]First thing I thought of when the author wrote:[/QUOTE]
It'd be quite useless to be honest, it could easily just be shot out of the sky.
I'm actually building/planning to build a quadcopter myself. The cost will be somewhere between $100-$200 depending on what I'm going to get. I'm doing it in small steps as I don't have all the money yet.
Right now I've got the flight board/controller ready($25). Next I will get the frame, motors and electronic speed controllers. I'm wondering if I should go with some cheaper stuff, since I'm just starting out.
The frame I'm going to get is still not in stock, but it will be made of plywood and fiberglass.
I was thinking of making a thread when I get everything together, which may take a few months though.
Just PM if you have any questions, I got some good links.
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By the way I'm not counting radio controllers or cameras or FPV systems. Then it'd cost quite a lot. I'm thinking about only mounting my cellphone on the frame, must get some vibration dampening stuff though.
I wouldn't try that. If batteries run out in mid-air helicopter and camera - both will break.
[QUOTE=Recco;33285417]I wouldn't try that. If batteries run out in mid-air helicopter and camera - both will break.[/QUOTE]
That's why you got voltage alarms :v:
Basically a thing you connect to the battery that beeps loud as hell when the voltage dips below a certain level.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;33285498]That's why you got voltage alarms :v:
Basically a thing you connect to the battery that beeps loud as hell when the voltage dips below a certain level.[/QUOTE]
Or an accelerometer-based independent parachute system :v:
[QUOTE=Swebonny;33284822]I'm actually building/planning to build a quadcopter myself. The cost will be somewhere between $100-$200 depending on what I'm going to get. I'm doing it in small steps as I don't have all the money yet.
Right now I've got the flight board/controller ready($25). Next I will get the frame, motors and electronic speed controllers. I'm wondering if I should go with some cheaper stuff, since I'm just starting out.
The frame I'm going to get is still not in stock, but it will be made of plywood and fiberglass.
I was thinking of making a thread when I get everything together, which may take a few months though.
Just PM if you have any questions, I got some good links.
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By the way I'm not counting radio controllers or cameras or FPV systems. Then it'd cost quite a lot. I'm thinking about only mounting my cellphone on the frame, must get some vibration dampening stuff though.[/QUOTE]
I hope you're not getting one of those speed controllers that get a servo-signal. By the love of god, don't waste your money on them, they're waaay to slow for quadrocopters! You need one with a faster interface (Most common used is i2c), and have them controlled with a microcontroller. All in all you will pay 50€ for each motor controller, unless you make them yourself, but it will come out at a similar cost and you need a shitton of electronics knowledge for it.
Now I want one :(
Icing on the cake would be rubber bullets/beanbags whizzing past it...
I swear, as soon as it took to the sky, I started hearing Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries"
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