Looking Back on Early DJI

[Seth P]

I was look looking through th forums and saw something about the phantoms an realized that I had never seen the original phantom so I looked it up and I found this picture, I don't know why they waisted so mutch space in the Shell of the P1

 

[brett8883]

I was look looking through th forums and saw something about the phantoms an realized that I had never seen the original phantom so I looked it up and I found this picture, I don't know why they waisted so mutch space in the Shell of the P1View attachment 69145

Gives it a sturdy appearance maybe? What I find interesting is they used an off the shelf Naza controller.

When you connect the mavic to Assistant 2 it seems to think the Mavic is an A3 flight controller. I wonder if there’s a way to unlock the flight controller so it works like a stand alone A3. A stand alone A3 could be used with an onboard SDK for custom firmwares like the Matrice. It could be modified to take a different or multiple cameras, add on obstacle sensors, a third party remote, RTK capabilities etc.

 

[Aerial-Pixel]

It did make it more convenient for all the other crap I had to load into it LOL. Video transmitter, wires to hook up the gimbal, the module wired in to give me readouts for Battery voltage, GPS Location, Altitude, all that stuff that wasn't included on the P1. Had all kinds of goodies in it before I finally moved on to the P3A.

 

[go fast]

Ahh the good ole days...

 

[Aerial-Pixel]

Ahh the good ole days...

LOL Hard to believe that was just 5 years ago, we've come a long way!

 

[DebianDog]

Ha! Young'ins.


My 2006 Rig - yes FM and it had a can of air to pull the legs up so the Sony VX2000 could film in vivid 480

 

[Seth P]

I think the mavic has a proprietary flight controller, but uses the a3 architecture

What's funny is that p1 is still 500 dolllars

 

[charliesRig]

I don't know about you first pioneers with DJI 5 years ago
.
But 30 years ago we had gas rigs and none of
those fancy 3 or 2 axes Gyro thingamajigs
.
.
...cR
.

 

[Aerial-Pixel]

Ha! Young'ins.
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My 2006 Rig - yes FM and it had a can of air to pull the legs up so the Sony VX2000 could film in vivid 480
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My pre-Phantom 1 was a 600mm hex kit, don't miss those days, scared the crap out of me half the time to fly it LOL

 

[grendeljaeger]

Wow, she was a colorful bird. As a newbie I'm starting to see now that you "pioneers" had to have a lot more knowledge of all the components and their functions and the ability to make them work together. I'm also amazed at the speed this technology has progressed in the consumer market. Anyway thanks to all of you for trail blazing!

 

[MROJAS]

I don't know about you first pioneers with DJI 5 years ago
.
But 30 years ago we had gas rigs and none of
those fancy 3 or 2 axes Gyro thingamajigs
.
.
...cR
.

Cricket?

 

[charliesRig]

Yes Sir
Cricket (GPM) kit with 0.50 motor
Fly bar custom made wood rotors
Drum clutch would last rebuilt every 4-5 flight
1985 I paid $1700 for kit and motor
And I crashed/rebuilt it more time then I can remember
Then got into 107'G and later9334
While trying to mount a camera
On the bigger ones.
.......2017
Went to say good by to my brother
He pulls out a P3
......it's all history now
.....and to this day
I'm still flyin/crashin MP1
.
.....cR
.

 

[FASTFJR]

It did make it more convenient for all the other crap I had to load into it LOL. Video transmitter, wires to hook up the gimbal, the module wired in to give me readouts for Battery voltage, GPS Location, Altitude, all that stuff that wasn't included on the P1. Had all kinds of goodies in it before I finally moved on to the P3A.View attachment 69147
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The good old days, no gimble on my first one, wasn't even an option. I got one like yours. Crazy antennas to a display that weighed a ton.

 

[Drone on]

I don't know about you first pioneers with DJI 5 years ago
.
But 30 years ago we had gas rigs and none of
those fancy 3 or 2 axes Gyro thingamajigs
.
.
...cR
.

to me, it's the camera that makes it at all worth investing time and money in

 

[j.coffield]

My second build (Tarot 680) I also built a heavy lift Tarot 960 and a DJI 450