Autodesk creates 3D model of headquarters using Octo-Copter UAV

[IshayJ]

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The Mikrokopter Octocopter is an 8-rotor flying platform which has a 2 kg (4.4 lbs) capacity to carry cameras. It can be flown using an internal camera to give the operator a copter-based vantage point on video glasses, or can be programmed to follow a GPS-controlled flight path. An Octocopter can fly autonomously at altitudes up to 1000 meters (3280 feet), or can be manually flown as high as 3500 meters (11,480 feet). In the Autodesk tests video was captured using a GOPro Hero 2 camera, and the still pictures from which the 3D model was later built were taken by a remotely triggered Canon SLR camera.

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[kloner]

I went to the 1st annual scale master heli event in Sac a couple years ago and the guy running the event worked at auto ad and was all up in the hobby. A really good friend of his came out with his boy that flew for mikado but he was flying a single rotor doing aerials. Naturally I was already looking into flying cameras so got to talking but this guy flew rmax for nasa developing commercial flight controllers. I wound up winning auto cad inventor at the event. no surprise they did this. Think three guys from there were at the event with turbine scale helis. Really big ones