Author Topic: my next 10 year hobby (Read 21944 times)

shooter · « **on:** August 11, 2020, 06:11:05 pm »

joined a forum, doing the "reads", even learning
No flying "PT" yet (the drone weighs ~ 4lb:), but it's book-marked

The flight data tickles my geek side, the 4K video, the artist side
following one of the top "data miners" he talks about the math he uses, I looked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion_algebra

I like tube math better

shooter · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2020, 08:59:13 am »

still plowing through hundreds of pages of FAA rules n regs!!
found this clip done of Seneca WV, one of the best east coast rocks I've ever climbed

Seneca Rocks, WV. By drone - YouTube

shooter · « **Reply #2 on:** September 24, 2020, 04:33:14 pm »

picked up a sacrificial hobby drone, since I know nothing of flight

systems seemed good day 1, day 2 it "toilet bowled" smack into the tree you see in foreground 60' up
eye's on 4 days later, chainsaw, broke prop, cals n I'm on flight 10!!!

shooter · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2020, 04:04:17 pm »

when to 400'
and found a nice view of other folks land :)

shooter · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2020, 01:18:40 pm »

pre-flights detected a "gritty" bearing and "frog" has been Yawing some

gutting the frog

shooter · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2020, 02:36:40 pm »

tore down the motor, gave it a bath, lube job, back in service
tested out 550m, up 120m came back under computer control to within a meter of launch! not to shabby for a "toy"

the Frog even got legs!! I ordered yellow from C-com-store, guess red is still a primary color

shooter · « **Reply #6 on:** October 05, 2020, 09:01:16 am »

Took Frog out for my 1st nite flight, will be my last for awhile, just to nerve racking, the imagery isn't very good anyway

Ed_Chambley · « **Reply #7 on:** October 05, 2020, 09:08:38 am »

Quote from: shooter on October 05, 2020, 09:01:16 am

Took Frog out for my 1st nite flight, will be my last for awhile, just to nerve racking, the imagery isn't very good anyway

Very cool photo attachment. Looks like an artist did it.

shooter · « **Reply #8 on:** October 05, 2020, 10:43:49 am »

I did create it in paint, i was so focused on flying, i forgot to take a pic

trust me, they would look the same.

I'll be ready for the next full moon, might even break the AGL IF the "shot" is there

liken this hobby, get to see nature from the Y axis, AGAIN, I can get my geek on, AND practice anti-social behavior, (please stay away, i'm new at this, you might get killed)

shooter · « **Reply #9 on:** October 06, 2020, 07:36:37 pm »

Air Supply Album cover

sluckey · « **Reply #10 on:** October 06, 2020, 08:16:57 pm »

Been watching Bob Ross?

shooter · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2020, 01:22:12 pm »

probably the last color flight, the wind n rain are moving all the colors to my yard

Time to use the lawn mower for my red-neck leaf blower

Ed_Chambley · « **Reply #12 on:** October 16, 2020, 11:07:58 am »

Quit dammit, I said quit. I don't even have time to play with all the toys I already have, run with all the young hippie chics I want to. Man, I miss live shows and strip clubs.

I guess I am destined to become a bigger nerd than I am. With EVH's passing, I am quite sure I listen to more dead people than alive. I give in, gimme one! I can fly it into a tree as good as you can!

Ed_Chambley · « **Reply #13 on:** October 16, 2020, 11:09:17 am »

Quote from: shooter on October 06, 2020, 07:36:37 pm

Air Supply Album cover

I wouldn't reference Air Supply, Just Sayin'

shooter · « **Reply #14 on:** October 16, 2020, 12:05:52 pm »

was a Freudian slip I men't Abba

shooter · « **Reply #15 on:** October 19, 2020, 07:00:59 pm »

hunting up "new" music, found this;

but all I "hear" is;

Quote

Man, I miss live shows and strip clubs.

shooter · « **Reply #16 on:** October 24, 2020, 02:45:29 pm »

It's either 60 and rain or 40 n sun
the sky shot I had to "rock" the AC back to nose up, 1st shot a keeper, 2nd shot almost got me a crash

the frog pond was easy

txtune · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2020, 09:40:46 pm »

I need to get out and fly more often. This was in the Texas Hill Country, I used Litchi software to plot and fly. All on/over privately owned land with permission.

shooter · « **Reply #18 on:** October 29, 2020, 07:30:48 am »

WOW, nice!

I just booked 6 weeks worth of camping in TX (Dec-Jan)!!!
If finances work out I'm hoping to find an acre or so, IN hill country, for a "country boy winter retreat"!!

If not, at least have a hard drive full of flights like that

shooter · « **Reply #19 on:** November 02, 2020, 05:12:45 pm »

Impossible shot with wind conditions but I just had to see daylight savings time from 400'

shooter · « **Reply #20 on:** November 10, 2020, 07:25:39 pm »

I hate book work!!, I hate help files on the web even worse!!
paid the nice kid at Staples to print and 'ol fashion operators manual $45
read book, clicked up the editor and assembled my 1st video!
good a YT channel, Sad to leave the 20th century

YT did it's own degradation of the image quality

I gave myself a D, but it's week 1, you can don only so much with a fixed gimbal

&feature=youtu.be

shooter · « **Reply #21 on:** November 11, 2020, 03:35:10 pm »

4 hours in front of a computer yields a 39 second return on investment

last time I annoy the masses

bmccowan · « **Reply #22 on:** November 11, 2020, 05:27:55 pm »

Shooter - like that Hubert C music. I understand and speak very little French, but have always loved the way French lyrics sound. My wife and I went to Texas Hill Country for a couple of weeks last year. Really loved it. There were a lot of real estate for sale signs, as young folk were moving to Austin. But maybe that has changed now with Covid. Also went down to Terlingua and Big Bend and loved that too. If you think there are a lot of strange people in your neck of the woods; visit Terlingua to establish a new standard!

shooter · « **Reply #23 on:** November 11, 2020, 06:51:44 pm »

I speak 0 French, like his guitar as an audience member

I swapped him out for my stepson's guitar, less liability

shooter · « **Reply #24 on:** November 19, 2020, 04:59:45 pm »

made the leap to the real deal
EVO 2 PRO 6K

took it out today against my better judgement as the winds were sustained at 20, gusting to 40mph

flew like a brick in the wind

need to figure out the complexities, but the simples went just fine!

shooter · « **Reply #25 on:** November 21, 2020, 01:39:49 pm »

callin it BRICK!
I took off the stops and let it fly, north 3600', back 3600', past me south out another 1800' then back. and I still had 78% battery!!!!
nothing dropped out, solid telemetry and video feed. limited speed to GPS mode 22mph!
this ain't like the .049 line controllers I flew as a kid

she's a data hog though, 4 minute video, edited, with music 785MB. trimmed a 20 second clip 78MB

shooter · « **Reply #26 on:** December 20, 2020, 03:26:28 pm »

still learn'n
it takes ~ 1hr to process a 2 minute edited clip, file size .5G!!

couple stills from E Texas, had to knock them down from 2.8meg

zenycho · « **Reply #27 on:** December 25, 2020, 03:22:21 am »

Hey, do you need to have any permissions for flying this stuff? One of my pals once mentioned such a thing but I'm not sure.

shooter · « **Reply #28 on:** December 25, 2020, 08:56:22 am »

Quote

permissions

the FAA
local
State
private land owners
a typical fine starts at $1500 and goes UP from there for EACH infraction
The one that just kills me;
I'm certified "recreational", I can shot all the film I want, but IF i profit from it I loose the drone, my cert., my 401K BUT if I pay Uncle $150 and pass a test, shoot the EXACT shots, I'm golden boy

look up a YT'r that was fined $182,000 for not paying the $150 shake down fee

shooter · « **Reply #29 on:** December 27, 2020, 07:56:03 pm »

getting better at tweakin

shooter · « **Reply #30 on:** January 05, 2021, 09:53:34 pm »

my last flight and friggin 8 hours in edit, but i'm getting close-ish

https://vimeo.com/497488540

shooter · « **Reply #31 on:** June 13, 2021, 07:15:56 am »

Took the red-neck camper for a 3 day cruise
flew 3 hours, 33G of raw footage yields 4 nice videos for 1.2G, rendered a directors cut, 199Meg because of metered WiFi

dave (vimeo.com)

SILVERGUN · « **Reply #32 on:** July 13, 2021, 08:55:18 pm »

Very nice!
Your inner artist is showing.

shooter · « **Reply #33 on:** July 14, 2021, 06:13:41 pm »

As a geek, The "tech" in the EVOII is simply amazing. It's like "that Amp", the one you grab when it's game time!
As an artist, I can just "play".
If you watched the last clip, the last 10 seconds, I was so into the shots, the "song" I didn't check altitude! Thinking it would be like a musician so into the riff, the stage edge isn't a thought

The drone will go into "auto-land" at 10 feet, I was 9.8ft!
thanks to the magic of EDIT, I made it look like I meant to do that

acheld · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2021, 09:58:29 am »

Man, you got artist talent!

shooter · « **Reply #35 on:** July 26, 2021, 07:11:32 pm »

https://vimeo.com/579197500
1 of 3 From my 3 day cruise, �long format�. The original is 600meg, cropped down to 200meg here

shooter · « **Reply #36 on:** August 14, 2021, 12:35:41 pm »

Covered bridge near my house. Built 1887
Jeff, (Tubenit), was nice enough to allow me to use one of his audio clips, CarolinaSuperSonic

https://vimeo.com/user130656672

reidgw · « **Reply #37 on:** August 14, 2021, 05:28:34 pm »

Quote from: shooter on August 14, 2021, 12:35:41 pm

Covered bridge near my house. Built 1887
Jeff, (Tubenit), was nice enough to allow me to use one of his audio clips, CarolinaSuperSonic

https://vimeo.com/user130656672

Abso-freaking-lutely awesome, man.

shooter · « **Reply #38 on:** August 14, 2021, 07:09:26 pm »

Thanks;
wish I had the bandwidth to post the 4k version

PRR · « **Reply #39 on:** August 16, 2021, 11:13:09 pm »

Nature defeats technology:

shooter · « **Reply #40 on:** August 17, 2021, 04:28:10 am »

LOL, some "researcher's" IIRC in EU, decided to train Eagles to take out drones. While somewhat successful, they opted for tech over raptor.

SILVERGUN · « **Reply #41 on:** August 18, 2021, 11:10:13 am »

I prefer the shotgun method

Which is more illegal?:
- You flying that over my pool to look at my daughter
OR
- Me playing drone skeet

shooter · « **Reply #42 on:** August 18, 2021, 11:33:37 am »

Hmm tough call;
me, i'm looking at a misdemeanor at the county/state level
You, looking at 2 federal firearm felonies
I don't make the laws, I just report them

I try REALLY hard to avoid ALL human contact when flying, humans are annoying enough.
the internet already has more porn than I can consume in 27 lifetimes, why would I waste a perfect day trying to re-invent the wheel

shooter · « **Reply #43 on:** October 13, 2021, 04:49:53 pm »

took the drone n redneck camper on a 3 day cruise to Seneca Rocks WV
the video is TOOOO large to post.

couple stills though

acheld · « **Reply #44 on:** October 13, 2021, 08:53:19 pm »

Wow. You are the drone's answer to Bob Ross!

You need to send some of those over the Apple to spice up their screensavers.

shooter · « **Reply #45 on:** October 14, 2021, 02:30:08 am »

I've been rotating my MS background every time I boot up!
the originals are about 4meg files so they work well.

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