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The industrial, research, mapping, disaster response and exploration uses are *endless*. I could spend all day listing them, which I'm not going to do... But as an example: peering into active volcanoes. A UAV can go where nobody else can. In fact, a colleague of mine is exploring dropping...

Yeah, the DJI stuff scares me. I've gotten into an argument with a local DJI Phantom dealer. He has called me elitist because I have stated that I actually don't want our system to be *too* easy to use. I think 9 minutes from the box to the air is actually a really bad thing. There's enough...

That comment was tongue in cheek, but it does reveal my cynicism. I don't really know if it was a planned ditch, or if it was luck. But I don't immediately believe what people tell me. I've had plenty of "planned ditches" where I miraculously threaded the needle and didn't hit anything. At...

This has been a fantastic thread guys. Thanks. Especially Stacky, that really put things in perspective. This is still a hobby for me. Luckily, I've tried to keep my spending at that level too, though I did dip into my savings a bit to build an Octo... But still it wasn't too bad. I have...

The effort involved in tuning is not bad at all. Many people are flying with default settings. There are really only a few settings that you need to touch in any case. Your Rate PID settings, which is true of any system. And the Throttle PID settings for Altitude Hold. The AH is currently...

Yeah, I was an early participant in that contest, and thought I had it nailed with this entry: That was with Arducopter. A 24 minute flight which I thought was pretty good. But I'll admit the AQ guys came in and totally schooled us. At first I thought their entry was faked.:dejection: Not...

It's on RCG. It was said to me directly when I asked them a few technical details and offered some advice. They said because of people copying it/cloning it/whatever, they have closed the project. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1815204&page=167&highlight=gps#post24626024

That would be another good way to go. We don't see that a lot, but in industry, that's how it's done. I've had enough copper layer delaminations on circuit boards that I really just don't think PDB's are a good solution.

They would still have airflow there, due to induced airflow through the frame, and I left huge cut-outs in the frame. Plus the ESC's were over-specced. Plus I cut out a window in the wrap to help. I had no problem at all. The design worked well. But I'm just going to try an H-8 because I...

It was tricky, no doubt. The trick was to keep the washer cool as possible, and get the iron as hot as possible. Then just hit it with the heat, get it soldered, and be done with it. If you lolly-gag, it starts to melt adjacent sites. But I never had them actually pop off. I think it helped...

No, just a rendering. But isn't it gorgeous? No, not at all. If you've seen the things I've done, you know I'm all about function over form. What I really complain about is that so many of these designs lack function, forget about form. The only reason people think they look good is...

It's ultimate until you need to rework it for any reason. Try getting that wire out, and then getting another wire back in without destroying the board. I simply used some solid copper washers, and soldered the wires to it. It takes a LOT of heat to do this (260W gun) but it's super solid and...

I really don't think FF could have a "copyright" on that gimbal design. I don't see any new or unique ideas there. I would bet if I bought my 7 year old son some Lego Technic and told him to build a gimbal, he would produce something looking pretty much like that. ;) I want to see something...

Proprietary bonding process = welding? ;) My H-8 frame is going to be welded aluminum. I found the carbon fiber plate is way overrated. 1/16" aluminum is stiffer than 1/16" carbon fiber plate. Flat carbon fiber plate is just pure bling. You will never seen anything professionally designed...

It's all about the bling bling baby! Gotta have that carbon fiber! At least if they used aluminum screws or something....

Actually, turns out that this board is not a copy of the AlexMos board, but is manufactured according to an Open Source project coming out of Germany. I think it may be completely legitimate? I haven't been following that project too closely. But I may take a look at it. I didn't realize the...

I'm actually waiting for BLG motors to arrive from RCTimer, first time I've ordered from them. I'll see how it goes. I would love to be able to purchase a ready-made gimbal for $200, but I just can't bring myself to use something designed that badly. Ugh. 100 grams of lightweight high...

Is it not OK to contrast and compare various product offerings here? Or should we just make a separate thread for that?

I tend to be result-oriented. I'd like to know what problems you want to solve, that the Turnigy isn't doing for you? Other than the fact that they say Turnigy on them. ;) Maybe I should buy a reel of the stuff, wipe off the print with MEK and reprint it with another name and sell it for 5x...

Sorry. Like I said, they are the first to have a product that will handle that size of camera, and they deserve to make however much money they can selling to the Pro industry at whatever price they want. I'm not the target market.