On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:42:53 -0500, KC wrote:

On 3/4/2014 7:27 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:58:36 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:35:51 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:07:24 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:42:28 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

Cute boat: http://www.horizonhobby.com/products...tr-v2-PRB4250B

There, now no one can bitch about the lack of boating content.

I'm about to decide that in order to get into the current crop of RC airplanes, the various
transmitters, electronic speed controls, battery elimination circuits, the lithium polymer batteries
and their chargers, balancers, brushed and brushless motors, etc., one needs an EE degree at a
minimum.

But, I went out a few days ago and watched a few RC airplanes being flown. I've got the bug.

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This stuff is only going to get better over time. I was looking at a
spec sheet the other day for a thumbnail sized micro chip that
contained not only a 3-axis gyro but also 3-axis accelerometers and a
magnetic compass sensor - everything you need for an inertial
navigation system, automatic flight controls and an auto pilot. The
retail price was only about $40 which blew me away. It's only a small
step from there to creating a helicopter that almost anyone could
learn to fly in very little time.

Like this?

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products...yro-GWSPG03#t3

Note the review.

Here's the technology on airplanes: And, it doesn't add a whole lot to the price of the airplanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKA88noI9rY

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Yes, although I think the chip technology has already advanced well
past that point. It's only a matter of time before it shows up on
real helicopters.


My millionaire Dutch neighbor has a quad rotor that looks like
something the NSA should have. It knows where it is, knows where you
want it to go and knows how to get home if you lose it.
The camera is scary.

He did have to ditch his I phone because it wasn't "hobbyist ready"
and he has a bad assed Samsung.



I got this one with a camera, but it's not very fast and the camera
isn't like your friends I suspect.. We do have a company here that will
come out and film with you for a day with one of those quad copters, but
it's expensive...

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I had no idea that these things were getting to be this powerful and
this capable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxoQaaI3-7A

Interesting stuff.