[ELECTRON] Drones

Clive Mitchell bigclive1 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 02:22:21 UTC 2012


They've evolved dramatically and the price of the components is also
fairly realistic as well.  This is one of my favourite videos from
that YouTube channel, showing just what sort of load the copter can
carry.  (A decent camera and transmitter.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWhhC8dgY4

On 21 February 2012 10:38, Kieran Wyse <kieranwyse at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is quite a lot of interested in quad copters at goshg.  It would
> certainly make an interesting project.
>
> To be truely useful I would suggest they need to be able to carry quite a
> large payload over a reasonable distance, autonomously. It is my hunch that
> the limiting factor may be the batteries.  That is not to say we shouldn't
> build one anyway.



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