Quadcopters anyone? other RC?

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knave:
I ordered the parts on 7/22 knowing many would take weeks to arrive from china. (downside of being cheap)

Just received my second big batch of parts. I am only waiting on the motors and a few electronic connectors...and the mini quad. (but I ordered that two days later)

dkersten:

--- Quote from: geeteoh on August 04, 2015, 03:13:08 pm ---I have two of the ready to fly ones. The $50 Hubsan x4 with camera. Fun to fly. Takes coordination. Almost lost it one day in the wind while flying over 200 ft high.. Blew through a bunch of blades even with the blade guard. They sell a crash kit for $10 that has just about every replacement part minus the pcb.
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I bought the Hubsan x4 for my daughter.. added 5 extra batteries, a 4 battery charger, and the crash kit and it was all about $75 total. Went through several props but haven't broken a motor or chassis yet. It's fun to play with but after an hour you put it away and don't care about it for a month or two. This is one of those hobbies where you have to REALLY be into either aerial photography or just flying things if you want any kind of return on investment (ie fun for your money). I have a friend who had an extensive airplane setup for doing aerial photo shoots up in Alaska, and he finally transitioned to quads a little over a year ago. That guy is really into it and even makes some money at it, and his quad, while a few grand, is still far cheaper than the plane he had that he would fly via remote video.

It doesn't take much to go from a $50 Amazon toy to spending money on something you will use a dozen times.. wait, this is starting to sound like an arcade cab, lol.

HaRuMaN:
Hadn't heard of banggood before. Just ordered a $20 quadcopter. :cheers:

Vigo:
I love to pull out my little syma copter from time to time, but wont be able to dig any deeper into the hobby until I have recouped a little project time. It is cool to see how many 3d printable quad copters there are, though.

Ond:
I'm getting into these. My son and I have been into helicopters and other flying things for a while, but these take things to a whole new level. The term 'Drones' is increasingly replacing Quadcopters especially in the higher end of the hobby. Here in Australia we have Drone racing clubs where players wear video headsets and fly around indoor circuits. An Aussie guy recently won the international championship in California taking home over $15'000 in prize money.

The serious drone units (over $1000) are actually easier to fly, equipped with GPS and advanced camera gimbals with assisted fly modes. They can still be crashed though if you get too cocky.

The unit I'm looking at is the Yuneec Q500 Typhoon:

The Gimbal camera mount is detachable and can be used as a hand carried kind of Steadycam which is pretty cool.

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