Recent content by CrashSteve

Very funny! After all the effort rebuilding, need to enjoy the fruits of my labor!

That’s just the wine talking. :D

Hello from north-central New Mexico, which is a bit drier than you’re used to up there. :D

What would make this video better is an epic drone CRASH where it then bounces off a cliff and into a fjord! :D

Fight nice, now. ;)

Back in 1999, I helped build carbon fiber composite blades for Aeromag Shark wind turbines. Yes, the blades were light, strong, stiff...and BRITTLE. And while aftermarket carbon fiber composite blades for drones look good, they are inherently unforgiving of impacts. As I don’t see any...

Just don’t try to pull any geoducks out of the sand with that MPP. It ain’t that powerful. :D

It’s about time! Bloody hell, I wouldn’t be able to sleep every night, knowing that an unboxed Mavic Pro (or any other good drone) was desperately calling out to be FREE TO FLY! :D

The drone would be moving exactly as fast as anything else inside the vehicle—including the air mass. That’s why flies or bees, for instance, are able to fly about inside vehicles while they’re moving. If you drop a ball inside a bullet train going 180mph, it will NOT suddenly hurtle toward the...

I had a bad crash last spring which tore off my camera gimbal. I replaced the gimbal and cable but still had no image. All connections and signal strengths were good. So I checked the price of a new CAMERA BOARD (sits horizontally up front, just under the top cover) and as it was around $20, I...

Quoting a verse from The 5th Dimension’s ‘Age Of Aquarius’...that goes back to the age of teletype and punched tape! :D

...if you don’t like flying very far out, that is. ;) This area west-northwest of San Ysidro, New Mexico (taken this past summer) is a great place to find out just how far I can fly my Mavic Pro Platinum and still have at least three bars video signal. I’ve managed to go out over three miles on...

If it were me, I’d pop the top cover off and check the connections for that tiny (thumbnail-sized) module way in the front. This is not to be confused with the GPS module way in the back and be careful: the GPS module connector will slip off the main board when removing the top cover and best be...

At least drones don’t sting, bite, or lay eggs. The cattle don’t think about that, though. :D

One of the practical uses I’m characterizing for my Mavic Pro Platinum is assisting in locating free range cattle during roundups in central New Mexico. When there is up to forty square miles of open rangeland to locate cattle in, it can make for an awfully long day on horseback—unless there’s...