captain3d's Blog

I was getting a bit fed up with my some what complicated back pack Ground Station so came up with a bare bones option...

I started a build log over at RCGroups for my current folding quad and thought some of you would be interested...http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1819095  cheers...phil

Its all in the videocheers...phil

I have been experimenting with various vibration dampening ideas to eliminate the GoPro rolling shutter jello effect seen on many Quad copter videos. I have seen this piano wire style mount on a few other peoples projects and finally got to try it. Looks like a winner for my purposes.The GoPro Hero 2 is fitted with a Sunnex DSL945D-650=F2.5 non fish eye l...

My main interesting in flying Quads is to fly with stereoscopic vision (3D). It is especially powerful for flying around tight spaces as it give a natural depth perception. Motion parallax with a mono camera is obviously very good for depth perception as demonstrated on lots of the videos in the forums but 3D is still better if you can get it set up.Break...

Working on a folding quad with vibration isolators and 10" props. I have a ton of gear on it thanks to shooting stereoscopic Gopro video so I end up around 2.2KG with this size.

I am into scratch building and experimenting with frames. Here are some of the ideas I have had over the last year...

I wanted to get a quad so I could fly stereoscopic FPV. This was the start - Dec 2011