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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 12:19:38 GMT
Inside a Mech on a distant world
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2019 22:24:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 17:45:19 GMT
Having way too much fun, making up for lost time, beside myself playing Mechwarrior 5.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2019 1:13:37 GMT
Thought I would show you the latest Mech that I pilot in the Mechwarrior game. My pilot name is Gort. In the game you can select various situations on different planets. Usually the goal is to defend a base or destroy a base, or join with Friendlys to fight opposing forces. If you’re successful, as a mercenary pilot you earn cash dollars which you can use to repair your Mech or even purchase an upgrade. Your reputation as a pilot mercenary is important to get rewarding contracts. When you lose, your reputation value goes down, so it’s important to win. This is my current Mech and so far, we have been successful on most of our missions. Can’t stop playing this game. www.mrgodzilla.com/Mech/Mech4.jpg
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Post by SysConfig on Dec 26, 2019 2:51:55 GMT
Awsome Gort! I'm burning my Drone credit card to the max faster than Sherman went thru Atlanta
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 20:26:08 GMT
This is a short video showing a front yard test of a new quad. The camera is attached to the quad and consequently tends to pick up any of the quad’s jerky movements. Plus, it was windy and the poor little drone has a hard time just trying to stabilize itself let alone stabilize itself for quality video. However, before I take the quad out to an open area, I like to test it beforehand even though it’s just in my front yard. I can get an idea of how it responds to the controls. So, it’s a short video but I haven’t droned much lately. www.mrgodzilla.com/drone/4.wmv
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 1:16:01 GMT
Long story on this video. www.mrgodzilla.com/drone/P2.wmvAlso see the small child, his mother talked to me, before she started another lap,(around the pond) and I hope he might have been inspired. He wanted to fly the drone, I said maybe in a few years, you never know?
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 6, 2020 12:23:31 GMT
Long story on this video. www.mrgodzilla.com/drone/P2.wmvAlso see the small child, his mother talked to me, before she started another lap,(around the pond) and I hope he might have been inspired. He wanted to fly the drone, I said maybe in a few years, you never know? Good morning mrgort,
Nice video from your drone. I like the music you picked. The little guy seemed very interested in your drone.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 21:53:47 GMT
vimeo.com/manage/391350040/generalI have two large hexacopters one is equipped with a gimbal for the camera and the other has a static camera, in other words it’s directly attached to the drone so that whatever the direction of the drone also is the camera view/position. I’ve been working on two smaller quads. One is complete and seems to be functioning pretty good. I used it to make the last video at the pond. And I took it out for a test run today. The other quad has some unique adaptations made by me. So, I’m still working on that one. But I wanted to give the other quad a test to be sure nothing has failed. When I test at home I stay over my road, and my property without trying to stray too much further over other properties. In case a drone fails no one wants to inflict damage. The new drone has some unique adaptations but it’s still in development stage, about 95% complete. The nice thing about a small quad is that it’s easier to handle, weighs less and if the video is as stable as a hexacopter then you just might have a pretty good flying camera. In any case here is the latest test from what I call Quad 1 vimeo.com/manage/391350040/generalwww.mrgodzilla.com/drone/q1.wmv
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 22:26:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 21:56:07 GMT
This is a short video showing a test flight of what I call quad2. Not only did I want to test the flight characteristics of the drone but also a boscam "go pro" type of camera. The camera was solidly affixed to the quad frame without any type of isolation such as rubber grommets etc. When I get an FPV system that will be installed. The video is relatively stable which leads me to believe that a FPV system with isolation should work pretty good.
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Post by plutronus on Feb 22, 2020 6:39:47 GMT
This is a short video showing a test flight of what I call quad2. Not only did I want to test the flight characteristics of the drone but also a boscam "go pro" type of camera. The camera was solidly affixed to the quad frame without any type of isolation such as rubber grommets etc. When I get an FPV system that will be installed. The video is relatively stable which leads me to believe that a FPV system with isolation should work pretty good.
Mr Gort,
I rather enjoyed watching all of your 'copter videos. Heh heh. Looks like lots of fun. I bit the heli addiction back in 1992, kit building Kyosho & Xcel RC choppers. My Kyosho was a 30 and the xCel is a 90. Took me forever to learn to fly them. The Kyosho, every time it crashed, was around $150 repair. I never crashed the the Xcel, but it was that only an accident. The closest I came crashing the big chopper, I was landing it and all of a sudden I heard a loud bizzzzaahhh just past my left ear and then the bird became wildly uncontrollable. I barely got it safely on the ground. One of the pusher props spun off, just missing my face by an inch or so, going about 150 mph! That would have looked good sticking out of my forehead! For every hour of flight time for miniature as well as fullscale choppers, requires 16 hours of maintenance. I must've forgotten to tighten that screw. Although I do have to admit, although I hate those glow-plug engines, I really enjoyed making the birds. The Xcel took me about 8 to 10 hours every day for two weeks to construct the kit. It was involved but well worth it. The drones look really fun.
A good friend of mine and I, were, apparently, the first in the US to put a CCD camera on our RC helicopters. VideoMaker magazine did an article about us and our choppers in 1992. As my RC buddy was a better chopper pilot than me, he'd fly the chopper while I 'flew' the camera. Together we were doing realestate videos in Beverly Hills California, charging way less than the full scale chopper realestate videographers were doing. This went on for about six months when some others with size 90 RC choppers started copying us, only one their choppers dropped down into a swimming pool full of kids, wreaking havoc, and the city council banned RC helis over cities. The jerks always seem to ruin the good times.
I migrated to walking to hexabots...look like spiders. Not very energy efficient but very cool looking. I finally figured out a way to enable mine to walk on slippery slopes, before the battery dies! Unfortunately I have no videos and of the few photos that I do have...I have no idea where they are? On one of those 250 odd or so hard drives in my filing cabinets.
So, are your quadcopters homebrews? Or commercial? Whats the deal? Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks for sharing your videos.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 14:23:12 GMT
I always wanted one of those helicopters. I made a Disney Nautilus submarine which I would run out at a local park and one time someone brought a helicopter and was doing all kinds of maneuvers with it making it fly upside down and around it was quite impressive. He obviously was a good pilot and knew what he was doing. I knew that if I ever built a helicopter it wouldn't be long before I'd crash it and all that money would be lost. In addition that whirling propeller always scared me. I read one time some unfortunate guy performed a self lobotomy and killed himself. So this tempered my enthusiasm for a helicopter. And then one day drones came along and I purchased my first drone which was terrible to fly because it was basically set on manual mode which is very difficult to control. The flight controller on a drone is really the key and when it flies in GPS mode, the controller makes infinite adjustments to keep the drone in one position at one level unless you tell it to do something else. The drones I have I've made from parts. Most of these parts come from China so to avoid long waiting times I have a room with various parts already in stock. It's not uncommon to crash a drone but if you have parts in stock it's relatively simple to rebuild it. The downside to building your own is that there is no manufacturer's warranty and all it takes is one bad part and you can lose your drone. I've got one drone sitting in the bottom of the pond shown in my videos. I think it was a bad speed controller and it just tumbled out of the air into the water. This brings to mind another issue, that of safety. The FAA currently has proposed regulations which if enacted will put a damper on the hobby. I think they are worried about security and their draconian response is basically to eliminate drones. While these regulations may not do this entirely it will simply make it difficult for the hobbyist.
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Post by plutronus on Feb 24, 2020 6:55:19 GMT
Mr Gort,
That is a bummer about that drone in the pond, however, inquiring minds want to know?
How deep is that pond? Too deep for a snorkle? Or how about dragging a GoPro on the end of a pole, to find that drone? If its a fresh water 'pond' (looked like a lake to me, but what do I know?), parts of it'll likely still be usable if it hasn't been down there too long. I saw a video of a guy who regularly dives in man-made fishing lakes, and who has brought up a drone that had been lost in the water for over six months that was flyable after changing the battery!!
A nerdo buddy of mine stuck a camera on the end of a pole inside a double ziplock bag while rowing around a lake, it was amazing what he video'd down there, just 20 feet under his boat. However, that lake you video'd looks like a good size chunk of water, so ya gotta be careful about swimming around with those big catfish...'cause they might eat ya! :))
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 10:22:31 GMT
I’ll make an effort to retrieve the drone. I have a rough idea where it went down. I’m mad at myself for allowing such a stupid mistake. So, in a sense, loss of the drone is a learning experience to make sure that everything is running properly before you venture out over the water. That’s why I like to make these test videos around my neighborhood, to be sure the drone is working correctly and if there is a problem, I’m likely to retrieve it. I probably have the most videoed neighborhood. One time I was sitting in my living room with the FPV goggles on, running the drone. It’s real exciting because you’re like a little pilot in the drone cockpit and it’s the closest I’ll ever come to flying anything. Flying with the goggles takes time to get used to but instead of having eyes on the drone you’re actually in the pilot seat seeing what the drone sees. I could actually land the drone anywhere in my neighborhood with the goggles on and then take off again, but I wouldn’t do that out of respect for my neighbors. This test video shows the hexa copter working perfectly. The camera is affixed directly to the frame of the drone so if the drone pivots, so does the video. However, it is remarkably stable. Which brings me to the landing. In this video notice the landing, only the shadow knows, remember Alec Baldwin is the shadow!
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