Lights, Camera, ACTION!

[nurburgringer]

Let's see some moving pictures

6010


6025


6010 with S106 Hughes body, Picooz tail rotor


S107M (6020 tail motor and fan, Walkera fuselage)


Here's how I take the POV shots (hopefully won't go cross-eyed...)

[killbucket]

Love the camera-aiming wand out front. Ingenious.

[lerninmore]

I think I would go cross eyed looking at the stick and crash.

[killbucket]

Explains why those head-tracking vidgame thingies I saw in Silicon Valley in the 90's didn't work for beans...We humans move our eyes independently of our heads.
But Valley engineers don't.

[nurburgringer]

Dec 18, 2010 21:34:22 GMT -5 lerninmore said:

I think I would go cross eyed looking at the stick and crash.

LOL
The drink-stirrer itself is thin enough that as as long as your eyes are focused 2+ feet out it's not noticeable. On the other hand the 1" piece of red tape facing in floats there in your peripheral vision, acting to frame the left/right area roughly within the cameras FOV. Centering the chopper vertically is a trickier since it more accutely depends on the distance to the subject: when the chopper is close to my head I've got to remember to tip my head down slightly to keep it in the shot.
Takes some practice, and helps to be loose and nimble to smooth out the video as much as possible.
And yes, my wife has 'busted' me dancing around the living room with this contraption on
She had a really good laugh the first time

[killbucket]

So FUN when new...


Found the high-speed switch...darn thing was DEAD less than 2 weeks later.


Stuffed Double-Voltage in, got a FEW more flights.


A custom-painted Syma S032 -I'd no IDEA it would die so fast, or I wouldn't have bothered to paint it.


Stuffing it with over-voltage to eke a few more flights from the POOH motors.


Same diff- over-voltage with the Syma S031, to get JUST a bit more FUN out of its hapless carcass.


The much-better Costco Copter.




The two S031's, the two S032's and, the S006G's final video.

ALL of these had been in the garbage can and back. Multiple times! I would get frustrated and TOSS them, only to later decide they just HAD to be SOME WAY flyable.

After literally dozens of hours/days' bench time, I was fed up with MYSELF for wasting my TIME on them, so this vid was done, and they went on to the recycle bin...to stay.

Pics of what's left is filed under "Viking Funerals" on my site.
Which is also my screen name.