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Warbird posted:That’s pretty neat, is that the “Flight Plan for DJI Drones” on the App Store? If so, do you figure that $15 is worth the cost of admission? I’m flying a Parrot drone with the built-in flight planner in the app, so I’ll have to let a DJI owner answer your first question. As for worth it? Absolutely. The flight planner is a $20 in-app purchase for the parrot app and it was a great purchase. It really lets you fly tricky routes without worry. There is no way I could have judged if the drone had cleared the lighthouse if I was flying LOS, and it lost video signal once it got out far enough, so this would have been an impossible hands-on flight. Throughout the whole thing the drone relayed its position back to me so I could watch it on the map. I was able to set a group of waypoints around the lighthouse that the drone followed, its height at the waypoints, it’s speed between the waypoints and I se the lighthouse itself as a point of interest so that the camera stayed tracked on it. Love Flight Plan, I’ve lost a lot of aircraft doing the things it does.
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I think Lichi is still the best for DJI stuff. Unless you want DroneDeploy for work, but that is a subscription and $$$.
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Alternative pants posted:Finally got back out with the Gecko, but picked a cold and windy day to do it. Very nice! I've only ever been ballsy enough to try stunts on fixed wing craft, the quads just seem way more difficult. How are you maintaining, mentally, where you are after those stunts? I find even on my slow, decidedly non-stunt-y photography drone, I can get disoriented on which way im facing and whether or not I'm looking at my house or my neighbors house and whatnot? I guess you only have one building to worry about as a frame of reference, but I find its pretty hard when you're dealing with just trees to keep your mental orientation.
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The fan on my lipo charger has been on the fritz lately and squealing and making a huge racket, so I decided its time to get a new charger. I really want one that can plug straight into a wall without me needing to tote a modified PC power supply around, and I'd also like to run it off a cigarette lighter if possible as well. Turns out Amazon has something for that. Cool, a charger with dual power inputs!   But wait, does it really have its own power supply internally? Well kind of........  Still bought it. I guess if the supply dies it will be easy to swap!!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Very nice! I've only ever been ballsy enough to try stunts on fixed wing craft, the quads just seem way more difficult. Practice and familiarity with the field. This is about a mile and a half from my apartment, so I tend to fly there a lot. If it's somewhere I haven't flown before, or where I fly infrequently, I'll usually spend a pack or two learning the area.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The fan on my lipo charger has been on the fritz lately and squealing and making a huge racket, so I decided its time to get a new charger. I really want one that can plug straight into a wall without me needing to tote a modified PC power supply around, and I'd also like to run it off a cigarette lighter if possible as well. Those have been around for ages. I have one somewhere that I used to take with me to races. You'd be much better of with ISDT charger, though.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Those have been around for ages. I have one somewhere that I used to take with me to races. You'd be much better of with ISDT charger, though. The iMAX B6AC was my first charger. I had to open mine up to get the protective plastic off the LCD screen and was mildly annoyed to discover that they just crammed a power brick inside it because the whole reason I got that version was to eliminate a power brick. Unfortunately, I don't think you can just drop in a replacement because it does look slightly modified. It has the bare DC output wiring coming out the side instead of a strain relief through the front (because there would be no space for that). If you want 1S support, be sure to get the V2. If the listing is cheaper and it doesn't say which version it is, it's probably the V1. If you do eventually get an ISQT charger, I hope you have better luck than I did. My Q6 Plus was really nice to use, but didn't tolerate parallel charging and had a screen lens made of really soft plastic that scratched really easily. I eventually had enough and got an HTRC C240, which has AC input and dual outputs for roughly the same price as a Q6 Plus and, while it isn't anywhere as slick to use, it just works. I didn't think I would use the dual outputs much, but it has saved me a lot of time so far. Zorilla fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I really want one that can plug straight into a wall without me needing to tote a modified PC power supply around, and I'd also like to run it off a cigarette lighter if possible as well. I started with a B6AC as well. It's not great. They're also very commonly faked/counterfeited and the fakes catch fire a lot. Get an ISDT Q6, go to Goodwill and pillage their piles of laptop adapters for something that spits out somewhere between 12-24V (higher the better) at whatever amps you need and put an XT60 lead on it. Get a cigarette lighter lead and put an XT60 plug on it. Ez. I did all of this myself except I bought a 15A 24V supply for cheap rather than scavenge something used that I'd have to probably run in series to get that much power at 24V anyway. Works fantastic. I also use my Q6es with a 10000mah lipo as power source for easy field charging, which is annoying with the B6AC since it doesn't have XT60 input.
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Had a real good talk with John Q. Public about fpv this evening. Took my Buzz and Gecko out for some laps around a field behind a bank and one of the customers came out to watch. He told me he was an RC fixed wing flyer from way back in the 90s and wanted to know what an easy step into quads was. Spent a few minutes on different options and YouTube to help get started and he left after ordering a tinyhawk rtf package off Amazon. All in all a good sesh.
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Ugh fine I cancelled my other one and ordered the isdt
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I like turtles posted:Eastern Washington state. I'll look into that! https://mil.wa.gov/preparedness-grants You're looking at whoever runs the HSGP grant, which looks like there's contact info there you can reach out to for more info. there may be a regional sub-body for your specific area.
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I like turtles posted:I know basically jack poo poo about drones, but I'm volunteering with a local FD in logistics. I realized that a drone with an IR camera would be quite useful in both structure fires and in mop up for brush fires. Mavic 2 enterprise dual. Used in a lot of S/R and fire department setups. Way more affordable than the matrice. The upcoming evo 2 dual may be interesting as well Drone U should have some videos discussing this / Fire Department work. Possibly look into a contact at airbears.org for insight as well. The legal and training side of this is just as important as the tech side. FDs can work under COA but you'll need to conduct training (which often can't be necessarily done under the COA flight area, and will benefit from having people trained through part 107)
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Warbird posted:That’s pretty neat, is that the “Flight Plan for DJI Drones” on the App Store? If so, do you figure that $15 is worth the cost of admission? get Litchi if you're going to get any third party paid app
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Ugh fine I cancelled my other one and ordered the isdt My B6 is actually charging up some batteries right now though for my Mobula6. I removed the canopy and moved the camera down to the front, mounted with a zip tie. I'm down about 1g from stock (to 19.5g), although my "stock" came with an external RX plug (0.22g) and a coax VTX antenna that was ziptied to the frame. 
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Got my 5" flying again after a crash and a week spent outdoors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c94EtO72hjw
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I mean, the ISDT does really look like the iphone of battery chargers compared to the B6 As long as its accurate I'm good. I have a sneaking suspicion that my B6 with the screaming fan isnt charging packs all the way up E: ^^^^^^^^Uh so what happened that made your emax fall out of the sky? Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I mean, the ISDT does really look like the iphone of battery chargers compared to the B6 Rx loss. Combination of being too far away from me and between me and the quad.
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Well, got my isdt. Clearly used. Screen is scratched to poo poo. loving amazon
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Return it and complain. Someone will be happy to buy it with a "used /cosmetic defect" discount.
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DreadLlama posted:Return it and complain. Someone will be happy to buy it with a "used /cosmetic defect" discount. I’ve done this and then literally bought the same item from amazon as used for a substantial discount
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Alternative pants posted:Rx loss. Combination of being too far away from me and between me and the quad. How much did the shingles cost?
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More dronin around Lake Michigan https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xSDUIHmTC/
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CloFan posted:How much did the shingles cost? Not a drat thing. The only good thing the HOA ever did was force people to get composite shingles, so they didn't get damaged at all.
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I like turtles posted:Eastern Washington state. I'll look into that! This just came across my radar, no idea if it's worth a poo poo. https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/drones/articles/how-to-buy-firefighting-drones-ebook-7iPp9MaHW6UxdTed/
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Oh the stuff you get up to on coronavirus-mandated-sheltering in place. I ran some of my Bebop 2 video through an AI video upscaler and the results are.......interesting. I'm not sure if its better or not yet, but at least its not all dogs like most AI images. I tried it on my normal desktop and it managed about 1 frame every 30 seconds. Sent it down to my gaming rig with a 1080ti and it bumped it to about 1 frame every second and a half. Still takes a while though 
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That's pretty neat. Is that a commercial product or some open source initiative?
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The upside to all this, I'm getting Airspace Auths in like, same day turnaround times. This is great.
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Warbird posted:That's pretty neat. Is that a commercial product or some open source initiative? Its this: https://topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai/ Results depend entirely on how many things the AI was trained on and what, which they dont tell you, but as a "click butan video big" solution it works exactly as advertised.
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Elendil004 posted:The upside to all this, I'm getting Airspace Auths in like, same day turnaround times. This is great.  "These fences can't keep out quads!", I said. Ah gently caress me, I guess your trees can though. Powerlooped, didn't get high enough, and as I passed through the apex the giant tree was RIGHT THERE. In the video it was 4 frames between blue sky and goggles full of leaves. Only took an hour with a slingshot and a rope to get it down. This was the first time I'd flown the 5" in 3 weeks thanks to work and, man, 5" is where it is at. I had such a dumb grin on my face with all that power and weight compared to the brushless whoop I've been flying every day.
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Here is the stock footage VS AI comparison, well it will be here once it finishes processing and you can see a video over 360p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Zm9gkj7jc Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Hmm, this seems like an even bigger deal with small details like the branches seen here, we'll see once it renders, I'm trying some different presets as well. Sorry, this thread is my livejournal now 
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DJI FPV is a complete game changer. Not a terribly exiting video as I was still dialiing in rates, etc, but this is so much nicer to fly with! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmfQ5Mrbb_U
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Comparison with stock 1080 Bebop footage and the 4K AI upscaling on the LQ and HQ presets. The AI seems to really do well with branches, oddly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In7AInXmR-E
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That's super interesting. What sort of presets do they have to let you tweak rendering? I do a decent amount of GPU rendering for Blender piddling and you can certainly go down the rabbit hole if you so choose.
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extremely bad news: i've discovered that there is a lively amateur high-altitude weather/radiosonde balloon community, and also that hydrogen is a safe + popular lifting gas that can be produced very cheaply in situ vs. needing large quantities of very expensive bottled helium. i assumed hydrogen would be prohibitively-dangerous to use, but nope, it's actually the go-to choice for p much everyone launching small balloons, even scientific/academic orgs in Europe use hydrogen preferentially over helium, so it's not as nuts as you assume due to *gestures at flaming Hindenburg strutwork* see here, for example, where the burning balloon latex is clearly much more of an issue than the burning hydrogen itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQXw_GF7Rk anyways what this means is that it's not prohibitively-expensive to experiment with, particularly for small payloads that don't meet the the FAA no-fun-hella-regulations weight threshold. brb sending a curated selection of 20-year old SA in-jokes to the edge of space, for the likes n faves Ambrose Burnside fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Oh wow that's the terrible secret of FAAce if there's no proposed restriction on hydrogen airships... because they weigh negative? There was an retired inventor who lived a couple hours North of me who invited me up to see his hydrogen generator and gigantic blimp that took like 2 weeks to inflate. I didn't take him up on it and he seems to have disappeared so I guess I missed my chance, but it sounded perfectly safe so if you get into that make sure you come back with pics.
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CapnBry posted:Oh wow that's the terrible secret of FAAce if there's no proposed restriction on hydrogen airships... because they weigh negative? There was an retired inventor who lived a couple hours North of me who invited me up to see his hydrogen generator and gigantic blimp that took like 2 weeks to inflate. I didn't take him up on it and he seems to have disappeared so I guess I missed my chance, but it sounded perfectly safe so if you get into that make sure you come back with pics. 14 CFR 107.3 does indeed use the word "weight" instead of "mass" and it specifies "on takeoff" sooooo
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