May 01
I have an Action Cam for evaluation in my hand. The specifications are close to GoPro HD, with a few exceptions of course. It has a elongated shape instead of the blunt shape of GoPro cameras that should cause less drag. It also has a small LCD display that is useful. Under the LCD are …
Apr 15
Last time I crashed my GoPro HD I was feeling a bit sad. I figured – I got this camera as a replacement for the previous one (insurance) I do not know if the insurance is valid for the replacement as well. Yesterday I went by my local shop where I bought the GoPro and …
May 26
I did not like having the GoPro obstructing the view from my FPV camera. Time to do something to change this. How about cutting out a piece of the front making room for the camera? I drew the outline and used a sharp saw toothed knife in the kitchen. Now the camera has its own …
Nov 15
As the GoPro HD Camera has an astounding 170 degrees FOV I have to mount it in a very forward position to get rid of obstructing items in the view. I do not want the motors or propellers in view so the camera has to be mounted X cm forward (when Quadcopter is flying in …
Oct 21
I finally got my GoPro HD Here is a quick samle pic (resized to 800*600 from 2592*1944/5mpix) Its taken from a conference room at work… Now I really have to get the T-copter in the air Yesterday I started dismantling my TriCopter and I will mount the big motors and ESC’s on the T-frame. I …
Oct 07
I have finally ordered a GoPro’s HD HERO Naked including a 16Gb SDHC memory card Now I will be able to shoot high definition movies, shoot interval pictures and record 720P slow motion. Here are the description from goprocamera.com GoPro’s HD HERO Naked is the world’s highest performance wearable 1080p HD video and still photo …
Jul 30
This video is by far one of the best I have made with the Tricopter. The soundtrack is by A.R Rahman. The “Mumbai Theme Tune” this can make grown up people cry… I worked hard to get the sequences to fit the music as neat as possible See the result in HD below… ▶ It’s …
Jul 22
Looking back at all videos I made earlier I must say I am a bit disappointed. This made my brain think a bit and I came up with a camera mount that will give me the option to aim the camera in any direction (tilt) and to have it horizontally aligned at almost all the …
Jul 02
A new FPV flight session. I flew around on an open soccer field and was trying to record the thing but it was not very easy as it was once again at 22:15 and getting really dark… Anyway – the Tricopter works great after relocating some gear to move camera forward and LIPO backwards in …
May 29
I bought a new camera today! A 1/3″ Sony CCD with 420 lines. It connects to 12 volt (3S) and has AV-out – but I will most likely make a new cable to save some excess weight. The image was much better than my previous mini-mini camera
