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Quad Copter on Cobert Report

Discussion in 'General Talk Forum' started by rcav8r, Jul 28, 2011.

  1. rcav8r

    rcav8r Moderator Staff Member

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    That show is very funny, but he gets to crude at times for me.
    In my opinion for $5000 that quad looked and acted very cheesy, stability and structure wise as well as the on board video footage.
    Thanks
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Jul 29, 2011
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    $5,0000??? I missed the part where they said how much it costs. Sheesh, at that price we can make almost 25 of them and they will fly as good or better.
     
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    Yes very funny at time, but sometimes a bit crude. My 11 year old son loves the slapstick, but I sensor it on the web and let him watch select bits.

    I'm not sure if the $5K was a joke as the guy was holding up a prop at the time, or if they were serious. When a "professional" was flying it, it appeared rock solid. Not sure why they video from the devices was such poor quality though. Either way I think there was more in that little device than the lady was letting on.
     
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    I agree there must be, especially since the guys at GRASP are making these for about $500-$800 bucks
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBsJwapa ... dded#at=35
    Of course you will need a VICON motion capture system costing tens of thousands of dollars, to compute the copter's position and orientation. :D Also it can never leave that room with the cams if you want to be able to grid its position to fly like this.
     
    kram242, Jul 29, 2011
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