Give it a try on your workbench, while blowing a cooling fan onto it, just in case, and let us know!
This has capabilities as a surveillance drone that you could park on top of a telephone pole, and then relaunch, after catching the "meet" silently on video! How long can we safely passively record, before we need to rearm the motors and fly back?I had my MA2 running on the desk for about 2h. The battery discharged about 1/2 capacity and the temperature of the cooler on the bottom, which got the hottest part of the drone, was still not too hot, ie. I could hold it with my fingers without feeling getting burned. That's really fine for the electronics inside.Give it a try on your workbench, while blowing a cooling fan onto it, just in case, and let us know!
Your enquiry is a good one. When the aircraft connects to my RC/iphone 11 Pro, with no rotors started, it just appears to operate a static use of the drone battery, at the gimbal/camera. No great issue expected with heat, certainly nothing that cannot be checked easily by touch. I may look at your idea myself, by getting a hex nut from a hardware store that will fit my normal camera tripod thread and a small piece of thin plywood (at least as thick as the nut), in which to drill a hole to take the nut and to glue it in there (using epoxy). Then staple a velcro strap around the plywood base to fit around the drone, front and rear. Job done. Make the plywood the same shape as the underside of the drone; add a glued strip of soft sheet rubber on the ply, to make it even better. I have taken ground video and stills of people with my Air 2, before launching it and after landing. It just adds something extra in the same place as the flight footage, without having to pull out one of my other cameras. Once made, you could probably fit this plate into a DJI Ronin mount, also, for steady shot. Great, too, if you have no other 4K or 12/48MB cameras. Good luck. I think the above is certainly worth trying, since you are interested. Me too! I also use a gorilla segmented leg tripod to anchor my small DSLR cameras around poles, branches, etc. This would work with a drone base plate, too. But I may also remove the rotors, to avoid damaging them. It is nice to see somebody pushing the use of their investment. Nice job! Cheers - ??
Nice job. As they say, use the right tool for the job...you’d be better off with a good DSLR on a tripod to record shots like that in your country. You have so many shots to take from above. Lawyers Canyon, Dumoc, the Hump, down to Slate Creek are some of best topo anywhere.
I'm sorry but I fail to see why you would want to do a time lapse of such a stunning view with the wrong tool. I'm not saying you should go out and buy the correct camera, but using a DSLR such as the Nikon D750 or 800 or 850 would provide you with a spectacular set of RAW images to process into a really great timelapse. Such cameras have a built in INTERVALOMETER which trigger the shutter at your selected interval. For this scene I'd guess about 3-5 seconds. I'd shoot about 350-400 shots. By the way, the iPhone has a great timelapse video feature, as does the Osmo Action camera and the Osmo Pocket video.
Because it was all I had at the moment of filming that. I just spent $1000 on a very nice drone. I don't want to go out and spend more on a DSLR (I can't afford it). I also now have a GoPro hero 5 black with a gimbal so no need for an Osmo. I'm far from a professional and don't need perfect results. Going out fishing or just hanging out with friends and family and being able to put it on a tripod would just be cool.
That was how I read your original enquiry, too, hence the DIY idea of the plywood base, hex nut, velcro straps and maybe some soft rubber sheet padding. You could likely have your solution for under $10. And some satisfaction at doing it yourself, also! Cheers. Good luck.?? (If you make a million bucks selling these, we go partners, okay ......? ?)
If I had a 3d printer I'd figure out a better way but that would work too haha. It's been done before but just not with the MA2.
