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| Howard_Casto:
For whatever reason, mom got me a pretty nifty quad copter for Xmas. Sky King I've been having fun with it. The thing is darn near indestructible and surprisingly easy to get to hover stable. It comes with a camera, but it's kind of crappy... only 640x480. But anyway, you know me, I can't leave well enough alone so I'm wondering about mods. The thing really needs a better battery... this 8 minutes stuff is for the birds. This company called WLToys also makes an accessory kit .... a water gun, a nerf dart gun and a wench, but they aren't all that impressive and seem to run on a 5 wire setup (mine is 3 wire). I've got to think two of those wires are power and the other is some sort of simple data trigger. Also a first person view kit would be nice. At the same time I don't want to put much money into it. At the current price point I wouldn't feel too terrible if I ruined the thing, but at $200+ things would get iffy. So is anyone else playing with this stuff? Opinions? |
| Slippyblade:
Comes with a wench, huh? Niiiice. I'd really wonder about the water gun add on. I can't imagine the sloshing of a half-empty tank would do good things for stability. |
| Howard_Casto:
It's not that impressive anyway.... only enough for about one good squirt. It does make me think that making custom accessories would be fairly simple though.... if they can sell a kit will all three (sometimes a spare camera is even included) for a mere 30 bucks I don't see how there would be anything on them in terms of electronics. I saw those 2 dollar Bluetooth trackers on eBay the other day.... I'm wondering how much they weigh, because I've nearly lost the thing once already. |
| Wired203:
3 wire sounds like a standard servo connection, PWM for the output 1500 is center if I recall. Lookup Arduino servo controllers to get started with hacking. |
| pbj:
Any hot neighbors with large windows? $5 cash in hand. |
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