Tell Me About Drones

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell Me About Drones

Khorne: May 1, 2002

photomikey posted:

The $40 pre-built bird you bought from Amazon will not fly for poo poo. I'd expect a decent drone kit to start in the $400 range.

If you're looking for video, look for a (used) DJI Phantom 2 Vision+. It was the first version with stabilized video. I'd expect (used) they'd be in the $400 range by now.

Hubsan H107C (camera), Hubsan H107L (no camera), Syma X5C are all around $40 and fly pretty nicely. Stable, maneuver decently even in fairly gusty wind, very resilient, and are a great introduction to drones.

If you are a beginner I'd get one of those to start with. Then you can decide whether you want to go the fpv racer route or the more phantomy route.

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Khorne: May 1, 2002

Tony Homo posted:

I see the 5c and 5c-1. Any difference?

They both have identical parts so unless there is a large price gap I'd go for the x5c-1.

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