Recent content by Darkside Drone

lol yup - drone stalking :) I'm not sure that the tree canopy impacted it, but here's what happened. I wanted to do the active follow, but the message came up that the drone needed to go much higher than about 10 feet. That would put it in the trees, so nope. I tried doing a manual follow and...

That explains some things! I was trying to follow hubby's '69 Beetle driving down a scenic road that's got this pretty tree canopy overhead. Wondered what on earth was happening because it could NOT fly straight. (No whisky involved)

Poor fella looks like it tried to climb out of the water! I'll be following this. I crash ALL. THE. TIME. (when I try to fly around trees, anyway) and have often wondered if the crash avoidance settings actually caused some of the wrecks. (obviously, pilot error is my biggest problem! but...

THAT is, by far, the best, simplest, (and funniest) explanation I've seen. Thank you!!!

Not a chance! :D My Scots descent won't allow it. Although you're welcome to join for a wee dram. A wee dram drone, I guess!

What settings do you use? I'm finding some make the drone just stop. Some send it high into the air (where it sometimes encounters even more twigs!). And off... well, we've seen what happens then!

It's baffling how hard these twigs are to see! Hubby has warned that an upcoming challenge will be to fly THROUGH a FINISHED Volkswagen. My palms are sweating already. One scratch in the paint would mean dozens of hours of rework for him. I'd better practice on the cores in the boneyard!

That's a good idea! Thanks for noticing the music sync :D

I couldn't hear you screaming because I ALSO was screaming! :D Yes, there's a square or two out there in the boneyard. 400y up and no trees is how I started a few weeks ago. But there's so much more I want to be able to capture that I was up for taking the challenge. Now, if I could just get the...

Pretty much! Definitely going to need a spotter next time - one with quick reflexes and the ability to say "right" or "left" with 100% accuracy!

Thank you, Paul! Cheers!

YES... parts of them will live on, though. You should see the 1967 21-Window bus (Rusty) that we're doing. It was about 70%+ rust. It can be done, just very costly for the metalwork.

Sounds like a hot little car!

That's one tough drone!

Remarkably well, actually! That day, I probably hit 4 trees. The calibration gets a little wonky, and you can see one of the drone legs in the video when that happens. But it's easy enough to pop it back into place.