Building a 3D Printer for a Friend
Posted on April 5th, 2013 in 3D Printing, Custom Projects, DIY Anodizing, DIY CNC, Science, Technology, Video
Partway through building my own 3D Printer my friend Addidis no (Google+) expressed interest in having his own so I offered to put a hardware kit together for him as long as he covered the material costs and thus began the process of cloning my OB1.4 3D printer (designed by Wired1 on Thingiverse) in black […]
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New Multicopter FPV Flight Video
Posted on July 15th, 2012 in Custom Projects, FPV, GoPro, Multicopter, Radio Control, Technology, Video
I shot another more interesting multicopter FPV flight this evening. My buddy Ollie shot the video from the handycam and was my backup pilot and spotter and I flew the camera on my Y-6 hexacopter. On my previous flight, which was my first time flying a multicopter via FPV, I just lazily strolled around because […]
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Multicopter FPV
Posted on July 14th, 2012 in Arduino, Custom Projects, DIY CNC, FPV, GoPro, Multicopter, Radio Control, Technology, Video
I just did my first flight with my Multicopter FPV setup and it was AWESOME! I’ve flown planes and gliders via FPV before, but one of the main reasons for building my Multicopter was to do FPV. My final goal is to attach a stabilized DSLR onto my multicopter rig and shoot some high quality […]
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Y-6? Why not!? My Custom Built Y-6 Multicopter
Posted on March 11th, 2012 in Arduino, Custom Projects, DIY CNC, Electronics, GoPro, Helicopter, Lighting, Radio Control, Technology, Video
I have wanted to get into multicopter building and flying for a few years now but this year I finally took the dive and got into it pretty quickly. I did a lot of reading and shopping for which flight controller to purchase and while I would like to experiment with the open source software […]
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GoPro Hero 2 Snapshot Glitch
I was having a glitch with my GoPro Hero 2 where the photos would come out with 1/3 or 2/3rds of the image corrupted and darker than the rest of the image. This occurred while I was shooting 5mp time-lapse with spot metering enabled. You can see a couple of corrupt photographs below. Since this […]
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