My helicopter (quadricopter) arrived back today, after undergoing warranty repair. The crash a couple of weeks ago was my fault, but “fortunately” right after it crashed I tried to upgrade the software and it corrupted the firmware. That’s covered by the warranty, and while they had it they fixed everything else.
So it flies fine now, but only in my family room since it’s been raining all day. I’ll have to wait a day or two before I can take it outside.
I crashed my quadricopter today. Got too close to a tree and bumped it. It spun out of control and fell to the ground.
The damage was minimal, but it became harder to control. Then I tried a software update which “bricked” it — rendered it completely unresponsive. I have contacted the company and it looks like they may repair the software update problem for free. Hopefully that will also repair the stability problem. But it looks like no more playing for a while.
I was capturing video when it crashed. Maybe I’ll put it online.
I flew my quadricopter up to take a quick look at the solar panels. I left this in full resolution when uploading to YouTube. Set it to highest quality when viewing to see how the original looks.
Here’s my newest toy; a quadricopter:
I got it yesterday from Brookstone
It’s a remote control helicopter with 4 rotors that work together to give amazing stability and control. It can be easily controlled with either an iPad, iPhone or Android tablet or phone, indoors or out. There’s one mode where you just tilt the tablet or phone to have the copter move that way, easily getting it to fly in circles or hover motionless.
It has two cameras; a 720 HD front-facing camera and a lower res down-facing. Live video can be viewed on the tablet or phone, and can be recorded. The down-facing camera is also used to help keep it hovering in place, along with sonar sensors to keep it at a constant altitude.
It’s a neat toy, and I’ll try to post some videos I’ve taken with it later on. I’m still just learning the fine details of control.
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