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felix_casio
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
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Location: www.felixtm.com
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:22 pm
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| fredgoldstein wrote: | | kk5hy wrote: | Hold on cowboy. "Helicam"? Is that radio control?
Sounds cool.
Jake |
Yep, its a $1600 toy that should lift about 2 pounds, we'll see, you'll be the first to know, I'll keep you posted of the progress. Those things fly indoor but are made for outdoor, their power is unbelievable but very hard to fly just straight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8YkCpJ2sM&feature=related
fred |
that makes sence, the blades quickly change pitch. why cant real life choppers do this?
if your getting that for $1600 I'd say go for it. looks like $$ well spent. I would use my gopro on this and get awesome footage. |
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kk5hy
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
Posts: 639
Location: Houston, Texas www.jhdtstockimages.com
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:12 am
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| felix_casio wrote: | | fredgoldstein wrote: | | kk5hy wrote: | Hold on cowboy. "Helicam"? Is that radio control?
Sounds cool.
Jake |
Yep, its a $1600 toy that should lift about 2 pounds, we'll see, you'll be the first to know, I'll keep you posted of the progress. Those things fly indoor but are made for outdoor, their power is unbelievable but very hard to fly just straight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8YkCpJ2sM&feature=related
fred |
that makes sence, the blades quickly change pitch. why cant real life choppers do this?
if your getting that for $1600 I'd say go for it. looks like $$ well spent. I would use my gopro on this and get awesome footage. |
Hey Felix,
He did go for it, the original post was 2 years ago. I was just wondering how he was doing with it since I only see a few aerial videos in his portfolio.
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swollwerth
Joined: 26 Nov 2007
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kk5hy
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
Posts: 639
Location: Houston, Texas www.jhdtstockimages.com
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:35 am
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WOW that's pretty cool!
Which heli do you have?
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fredgoldstein
Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 1347
Location: canada - www.fredgoldstein.com
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 3:24 pm
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Hey Jake,
Long time and not much happening with the trex 500, I am selling it actually. I used it for this clip with the go pro but nothing extraordinary. Go to 2:22 https://vimeo.com/37091823
I give up on heli, its too hard to fly because you need to practice almost every day and too dangerous. The best now are quad copters or exacopter etc.
cheers,
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kk5hy
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
Posts: 639
Location: Houston, Texas www.jhdtstockimages.com
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Rekindle
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Posts: 578
Location: Utah: http://www.rekindlephoto.com
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:45 pm
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That is cool. How much will it carry and how about pricing?
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kk5hy
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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Location: Houston, Texas www.jhdtstockimages.com
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:49 pm
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Not sure with the autopilot option but the basic quadcopter with transmiter is a little over $1000
I'm guessing about $1300 or so with the autopilot.
The 580P+ can carry a couple of pounds. Maybe a small DSLR or a GoPro
Still trying to get that info. |
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felix_casio
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 1774
Location: www.felixtm.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:21 pm
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great, thanks. you all got me into rc hellis. I originally wanted something to mount a gopro on but found it to be to complicated so I just bought a blade 120sr 4ch mini heli. it's awesome. that plus my ipad heli simulator I should be ready to move up to a 400 class in no time. |
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daniel76
Joined: 02 Oct 2005
Posts: 133
Location: Sweden,Philippines
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:38 pm
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all aerial stuff is expansive :(
Here is some new footage from a non expansive Hexacopter with a gopro camera
there is vibrations in low end of motors so there is yellow effect in the footage.
http://youtu.be/k2ZrKwP5Zzg
Looking forward to my Mikrokopter that arriving next week :) |
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nder
Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Posts: 764
Location: www.3dstocktalk.com
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:20 pm
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| daniel76 wrote: |
Looking forward to my Mikrokopter that arriving next week :) |
Can say how much are you paying for the mikrokopter. I was talking to a friend that is customizing a mikrokopter specially for aerial video in mind and he told me it will cost more than 4000 Euro just for the parts. Capable of lifting a heavy DSLR for 20 minutes, equipped with GPS etc. , but still seamed a little bit pricey to me. |
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daniel76
Joined: 02 Oct 2005
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Location: Sweden,Philippines
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:59 am
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mine is roughly around 1000 eruo
running mikrokopter frame and the electrical motors from Mk
but I'm using other electronic then Mikrokopter have, that makes price go down but performance will be more or less the same |
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felix_casio
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
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Location: www.felixtm.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:50 pm
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that is awesome.
I just went out and bought a blade 4503d heli with the training gear. it is pretty dangerous if you dont know what your doing. I'm a pretty fast learner so maybe I could get a decent rig for my gopro that will generate stockworthy footage. my local hobby shop has a gas powered 700 class heli for like $1000...maybe one day. |
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