DYI armed drones

doublejj

doublejj

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I didn't get many comments in Toke&Talk, so I'll re-post it here. Have you guy's seen this video?:shock:

Check out this video of a DIY armed personal drone
DYI citizen drone warfare:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jplh7...yer_detailpage

“We didn’t post the footage of this, but some of the guys who worked with me on the project weren’t afraid of being shot by paintballs. They wanted to see if they could escape the drone. The answer was, no, they could not.”

Milo Danger
 
Grandpapy

Grandpapy

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When did operating R/C plane become an activity that one needs to conceal his identity? Did I loose more freedoms overnight?

Ariel motion detector with microwave emitting dish set, the next home hobby.
 
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NoDrama

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The "Drone" he has is called a FireWheel 450, I have one also, camera use for taking commercial video for clients is what I use mine for. GPS or Manual control. Less than a grand for everything.
 
Doer

Doer

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You are in the hobby. This is off the shelf stuff. No Hollywood magic here, right? It's real. It's a computer hobby. All gyro stable, gps control.

Paint balls is a great idea. The days of the cowboy and even danger chasing them with little R-22 helicopter is over. Probably be able to vaccinate an entire herd this way, by air robots, soon enough.

They use the quads to make the Hollywood magic. Why do you think the shots were "magic?"
 
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NoDrama

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Doer said:
You are in the hobby. This is off the shelf stuff. No Hollywood magic here, right? It's real. It's a computer hobby. All gyro stable, gps control.

Paint balls is a great idea. The days of the cowboy and even danger chasing them with little R-22 helicopter is over. Probably be able to vaccinate an entire herd this way, by air robots, soon enough.

They use the quads to make the Hollywood magic. Why do you think the shots were "magic?"
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Oh yeah the quadcopters are real, remote controllable, GPS guided and all that, I was commenting on the FPS Russia piece, its not real at all, its completely generated by a computer.

Either that or FPS is the most skilled pilot in the history of pilots.

It took me over a year of practice and training to be able to fly a Helicopter in forward flight without crashing. 8 years later and I can fly them upside down, do loops, tic tocs, rainbows, chaos spins, all sorts of crazy shit, but it took YEARS.

[video=youtube;G4CZudCkI0A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4CZudCkI0A[/video]
 
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NoDrama

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Doer said:
Got it. I'm still tail in, hovering on an Align 250. Got a ways to go. :)
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Once you got that little 250 flying good, try a big .90. You will shit your pants when you see how stable a big chopper is compared to a small one, almost like you could just put the transmitter down for 5 minutes and the heli would never move stable. The problem with the big ones is the space needed to fly them and the fact that you have to be extra safe because the big ones can really hurt someone.

I got a tiny little E-Flite Nano CPX, this thing is a hoot. Durable too, I accidentally flew it into the side of my barn at about 30MPH and absolutely nothing was broken. The only problem is the size, its so small its pretty easy to lose if you let it get too far away. A falcon swooped down to attack it one day too, so watch out for predatory birds if you ever get one. With the AS3x three axis gyro on board it is a cinch to fly inverted, almost hands off hovering as the gyro keeps it pinned down in one spot for you.

You can do the flying inside when it gets too cold out.

[video]http://www.bladehelis.com/ProdInfo/Files/BLH3300-HI.wmv[/video]

[video=youtube;AsuT6AHA6-w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsuT6AHA6-w[/video]
 
Doer

Doer

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I also have the M-CPx. It works well, but only with a DX-6 or better. Does your's have the exposed servo tracks? On mine, the servo tracks get contaminated from the carbon frame.

It is a 1 hr + clean up. The rest of the problems like a splitting mast and tail boom, I fixed with upgrades or DIY.

On that I'm up to sometimes, nose in hover.

Oh, and I have the Phoenix sim and 30 hr in the Robinson R-22, for real. I see what you mean. I fly the A-700 much better. I practice autos on the sim. Big difference between the biggest and the smallest.

Of course, I can't AUGER IN so badly with the featherweights. And much less damage when I do crash for real.
 
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NoDrama

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Doer said:
I also have the M-CPx. It works well, but only with a DX-6 or better. Does your's have the exposed servo tracks? On mine, the servo tracks get contaminated from the carbon frame.

It is a 1 hr + clean up. The rest of the problems like a splitting mast and tail boom, I fixed with upgrades or DIY.

On that I'm up to sometimes, nose in hover.

Oh, and I have the Phoenix sim and 30 hr in the Robinson R-22, for real. I see what you mean. I fly the A-700 much better. I practice autos on the sim. Big difference between the biggest and the smallest.

Of course, I can't AUGER IN so badly with the featherweights. And much less damage when I do crash for real.
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my M-cpx is in pieces, it was the gen 1 version and the gyro quit working , so it was unflyable after that. I like the nano much better anyway.

no problems with the servo tracks, i spray a little bit of dry film lube on them in the beginning and never worry ever. never had a servo stop working, even after years of use. Have destroyed a few in crashes though.
 
Doer

Doer

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I don't currently have a main board for mine. Another $56 for a 3rd main board. I'll check the Nano. Cheers!

Need to use the lube, next time I clean the servos. Thanks.
 
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NoDrama

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Doer said:
I don't currently have a main board for mine. Another $56 for a 3rd main board. I'll check the Nano. Cheers!

Need to use the lube, next time I clean the servos. Thanks.
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Make sure the dry film lube is PTFE (Teflon) aerosol based. Graphite will screw up your servo and the Moly won't stick to the plastic.
 
fb360

fb360

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NoDrama said:
Oh yeah the quadcopters are real, remote controllable, GPS guided and all that, I was commenting on the FPS Russia piece, its not real at all, its completely generated by a computer.
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No it's not fake LOL.

And helicopters are 1000x harder to fly than quadrotors.... Especially quadrotors with gyros for stabilization. The quadrotor is an inherently stable flying platform

Quadrotors ARE NOT hard to fly. If you think so, you haven't flown one, or anything else to compare.

I also have a few quadrotors, MANY coaxial and regular helis, as well as prop planes and inline fan planes, and a inline fan hovercraft I designed and built myself. On top of that, I also have nitro powered shit too. I literally have $1000s of RC shit. I also have some REAL UAVs.

Check out the AR drone. Easiest thing to fly, and is done so with your phone... In fact, it can even fly itself. For ~ $200, you have yourself a standalone, decent size quadrotor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8AS6kczErg (<- dudes are pussies but yeah, you can see it is easy to fly, even with only mediocre-quality parts)

At asu, I'm doing research on making a "mothership" which holds 1000 nano quadrotors, which is able to release them for surveillance, and able to recollect all of them for departure. (<- POS Forum doesn't d-link)

PS: Here's Justin Jee, a young asian who flys the FUCK out of his 3D helis and planes, and was able to do so at 5yrs old.
Heres a video of him demolishing the guy in your vid, at 8 years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eZCcc5HeY

Heres him at 7...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJs1gBLiuQ <- Watch this lol. Kid is a monster

Him at 3 fuckin years old, 3D on his electric prop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lkturl6YKs

I'm just busting your balls, I know flying helis is hard, especially 3D, but quadrotors, nope.
 
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NoDrama

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fb360 said:
No it's not fake LOL.

And helicopters are 1000x harder to fly than quadrotors.... Especially quadrotors with gyros for stabilization. The quadrotor is an inherently stable flying platform

Quadrotors ARE NOT hard to fly. If you think so, you haven't flown one, or anything else to compare.

I also have a few quadrotors, MANY coaxial and regular helis, as well as prop planes and inline fan planes, and a inline fan hovercraft I designed and built myself. On top of that, I also have nitro powered shit too. I literally have $1000s of RC shit. I also have some REAL UAVs.

Check out the AR drone. Easiest thing to fly, and is done so with your phone... In fact, it can even fly itself. For ~ $200, you have yourself a standalone, decent size quadrotor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8AS6kczErg (<- dudes are pussies but yeah, you can see it is easy to fly, even with only mediocre-quality parts)

At asu, I'm doing research on making a "mothership" which holds 1000 nano quadrotors, which is able to release them for surveillance, and able to recollect all of them for departure. (<- POS Forum doesn't d-link)

PS: Here's Justin Jee, a young asian who flys the FUCK out of his 3D helis and planes, and was able to do so at 5yrs old.
Heres a video of him demolishing the guy in your vid, at 8 years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eZCcc5HeY

Heres him at 7...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJs1gBLiuQ <- Watch this lol. Kid is a monster

Him at 3 fuckin years old, 3D on his electric prop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lkturl6YKs

I'm just busting your balls, I know flying helis is hard, especially 3D, but quadrotors, nope.
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I never said quadrotors were hard to fly. Perhaps you can point it out to me. All I said was that FPS russia didn't learn to fly it like that, because look at his stick movements and then look at the aircraft, not synchronous AT ALL, because its a fake.
 
fb360

fb360

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NoDrama said:
I never said quadrotors were hard to fly. Perhaps you can point it out to me.
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NoDrama said:
Oh yeah the quadcopters are real, remote controllable, GPS guided and all that, I was commenting on the FPS Russia piece, its not real at all, its completely generated by a computer.

Either that or FPS is the most skilled pilot in the history of pilots.
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He was flying a quadrotor.
 
fb360

fb360

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NoDrama said:
FPS isn't flying anything.
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What are you talking about? And that doesn't change the fact you said that he would need to be "skilled" to fly it...

fb360 said:
FPSrussia and his quad rotor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
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FPSRussia is flying a quad rotor with a tablet. It is not hard and that fool is crazy. Even if it is computer animated, which it may be, but I'm not completely sold, it wouldn't be hard to fly. Unless you think tilting a tablet in the direction you want the quadrotor to go is hard, in which case, yes, it's crazy hard
 
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NoDrama

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fb360 said:
What are you talking about? And that doesn't change the fact you said that he would need to be "skilled" to fly it...



FPSRussia is flying a quad rotor with a tablet. It is not hard and that fool is crazy.

You are either blind or trippin
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Have you ever tried to fly anything with a tablet? Believe me, the things that aircraft are doing and how it responds are not possible on a tablet, the delay is way too great to do anything more than simple maneuvers with a tablet. Look at his aim, perfect every time.
 
fb360

fb360

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NoDrama said:
Have you ever tried to fly anything with a tablet? Believe me, the things that aircraft are doing and how it responds are not possible on a tablet, the delay is way too great to do anything more than simple maneuvers with a tablet. Look at his aim, perfect every time.
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Actually I have, multiple times.

I own an AR drone, and I use it with my phone and tablet...
What you are saying is completely fallacious. And funny enough, my first post demonstrates how accurate UAV quadrotors can get. UAV is as hard as it gets dude. Go watch the 3 videos...

He misses the first few shots. The only reason I believe it might be computer animated is because he destroys it in the car at the end. Why destroy it? If you watch carefully, whenever it is moving, he is tilting.
 
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