I ordered a drone

[artimrj]

https://shop.hyper-tech.co/collections/all

$99. Funny thing, I was finishing up the order and it came to the shipping part and International was already checked and I could not uncheck it. Then I discovered the company is in China. I should have it between 14 and 30 days.

[mindenjohn]

Didn’t realise that they could fly so far nor that the battery lasted that long. If they do you have a bargain!

[buzz456]

Good luck ever getting it.

[Chacal]

Watch for the new forum: "Aerial pictures of cats"

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Solar powered drone autonomously flying and homing in on the Artim residence by GPS?

PS, a drone could come in handy in mapping plots on grave yards and to get a quick aerial overview of the state of the monuments.

[NYWhiskey]

I've been flying them for years. Keep low and slow at first. 5 miles from an airport..... ehhh not good.

Get your FAA registration or you can get fined. When the law came out it was free. I don't know what they charge now. Your reg # should be on your drone in case you take down a jetliner. You can be fined if you don't have it.

Pretty cool if you have a gimbal camera. Don't fly over private property in Texas. They'll shoot it down like skeet.

Have fun!!

[NYWhiskey]

$99? Better hope there isn't even a slight breeze. Sounds like an indoor one.

[artimrj]

Well, it is the starter version. I can terrorize my cats at least.

[robbit]

cost is $5.00 for 3 years
0 - .33 lbs you do not need to register
.33 - 55 lbs need to register and mark the drone with reg # no license needed (as long as there is no income generated)
any heavier and you need to have a license

[artimrj]

$99? Better hope there isn't even a slight breeze. Sounds like an indoor one.

It Is rated for 6 - 7 mph winds.

[crosstie]

That counts as a " light breeze". At 10 mph you might lose it!

[GSkid]

When I was at Bealville on Tehachapi Pass a couple years ago, this guy (and not a very sociable one at that) was filming trains with DJI's top-of-the-line Inspire 1 drone. It had a top speed of 49mph, 22mph wind resistance, a signal range of 3.1 miles and 18 min flight time. The new Inspire 2 has the same $3,000 price tag, but has upped the speed to 58mph, the signal range to 4.3 miles and a max flight time of 27 min. Their top-of-the-line version is called the Inspire 2 Cinema Premium. It has a 6K res camera on it and costs $20,000. Imagine losing that investment to some unfortunate event!

This guy I see sometimes at a local park had a $150 Parrot Bebop drone. He controlled it with the touch screen of his smartphone and the camera view displayed on it. He really wanted me to try it and I did, but I hated it. Controlling with a touchscreen that offers no tactile feedback just sucks and your thumbs block some of the screen. It also didn't help that it can lose track of your thumbs if they stray too far outside the range of the onscreen thumb sticks. So I handed it back to him soon after cause I didn't want to be responsible for crashing and breaking his drone.

So the next time I saw him, he brought along his gamepad controller for it cuz he really wanted me to fly it even though I was still nervous about killing his drone. I reluctantly agreed since I feel more at home with a gamepad and it had an unobstructed view of the screen clipped to the top of it. So the plan was that he would get it up in the air out in an open space, then hand the gamepad over to me afterwards. So he fired it up, had it hover 150ft up and 100 yards away from us.

He was just about to hand the controller over to me when all of a sudden the drone had a mind of it's own. It started quickly moving away from us. It wouldn't respond to the controls, nor would it respond to the panic home button that has it automatically return to the GPS coordinates from which it was launched. So we just sat there helplessly watching it speed away towards the horizon over a farm that is next to the park. It eventually crashed into the very top of a tall eucalyptus tree sitting almost a mile away on the other side of a lettuce patch and became stuck there. It was too high to climb up to, so he just left it there and eventually bought another one.

I told him I was soooo glad that the controls weren't in my hands, cuz he would have blamed me somehow for it's loss. I lucked out there!

[dejoh]

Let us know when you get this good. Practice,Practice.

https://youtu.be/nFF1VuPmeeE

DJ

[artimrj]

Wow that guy was awesome!!! Landed on the train, went between cars, inside a boxcar and underneath the tanker. Wonder how many he lost before he got that good.

I am going to try to fly under one of my cats ;)

[EngineerJohn]

Wow that guy was awesome!!! Landed on the train, went between cars, inside a boxcar and underneath the tanker. Wonder how many he lost before he got that good.

I am going to try to fly under one of my cats ;)

Some drones have the option to disable the gyroscopic stabilizer, it makes the drone much harder to control but much more maneuverable. Not sure if yours has this ability but I tinkered with a small drone once and you could do all sorts of crazy stunts with it... Granted it wasn't one of these fancy camera drones it was just a little toy about the size of a human hand.

...and when I mean much harder to control, I mean fly the thing no more than 2ft off the ground with all sorts of padding on you and everything you deem to be valuable.