I found this video from climbingarborist.com, I love the drone follow up the tree! The site has many great videos and techniques about tree climbing. Sequoia climb with J.T Footage captured from a flying camera of Justin Temple having a leisurely climb around a stunning Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant Sequoia/giant redwood) […]
Shot with the XPX quad and Silk Gimbal from XProHeli: www.xproheli.com#oid=5_1 Official height: 246 feet. Source: Measuring the Brotherhood Tree – Quadcopter Academy Very cool footage showing a large tree and climbers as they climb and orbiting the top. Unique perspective that gives non-climbers a sense of what it would […]
A quick look at some drone footage while ascending some large old Douglas Firs in Portland Oregon. Source: Portland Oregon Old Growth Climb – The Treegear Store I really like the drone footage from this video, the traverse is EPIC as well!
Drones will soon fill the skies with…pizza. Russia is now the next company to start offering pizza deliveries via the air-borne quadcopters. To be more precise it’s actually the DoDo Pizza co Source: Drones To Start Delivering Pizza In Russia
Fan-freakin’-tastic. It wasn’t enough that drones are already watching our every move and capable of raining down missile-locked death strikes. No, we had to give them the ability to swoop and snag items like a goddamn Golden Eagle taking a baby. Everybody duck. Source: Just What We Need—Drones with Grappling […]
an open platform for drone app development. DroneKit packages years of 3DR’s flight control R&D into a single robust and extensible platform which developers can use to create web-based drone apps, or even apps onboard the drones themselves. Imagine an agriculture app that surveys your land; a search & rescue app; a […]
List of Drone Tasks: photography/videography fun Abatement rescue other quad in a tree grappling hook payload drop install line in tree http://agribotix.com/specs-endure Enduro Drone Flight & Hardware Specifications Flight Spec Enduro Drone Size (Rotor center-to-center) 28 in (71 cm) Weight 6 lbs (2.72 Kg) Cruising Speed 30 mph (48 km/hr) Linear […]
I came across this page which lets you search for current road and trail conditions. Very useful stuff. 6830 Tonga Ridge Gravel One lane NOT CLEARED Icy snow at the 310 road spur. 04/24/2015 Source: Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest – Alerts & Notices I90
It looks like they are really close, the Phantom 3 now only offers their own camera’s and gimbals, and doesn’t provide HDMI from the controller but has a longer range (1.2 mi). They have two models the professional (4k) and advanced (1080p). They have included the lightbridge technology (HD videotransmission) […]
First of all I want one. 😉 [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] [/one_half_last] Doing a little bit of research it seems that there are 2 drones coming out at the same time from rival companies DJI and 3DR: It looks like they are really close, the Phantom 3 now only offers […]