Hi Charles, I've been observing the hobby but haven't jumped in yet. I flew conventional model airplanes for a short time and soon determined that I didn't like the mess of fuel based engines and also that I didn't like the idea of wrecking a $ 150+ plane. Quadcopters are really cool in that they're sometimes cheaper and are generally electric, which helps solve those problems.
The HAK5 vidcast / podcast has been doing a number of episodes on the topic. You might want to check that out. They call them drones as well as quadcopters. http://hak5.org/category/episodes The control systems on these things are almost totally insecure, and Darrin on the podcast has demonstrated that he can easily drop one of these out of the sky with simple jamming. There has been some discussion of this on the DC404 mailing list. There are also a number of places you cannot fly them. They talk about that on one episode and give some references. But, overall, it sounds like lots of fun. I've been spending my discretionary budget lately on Bluetooth speakers. I hope to do a review of some on my blog. Sincerely, Ron Charles Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: >Bought a Hubsan X4 H107L from Amazon for, like, $40 ( >http://www.hubsan.com/products/HELICOPTER/H107L.htm ) with a "Crash >Kit" >consisting of a whole slew of replacement parts for another $20 or so. > >Flight time is about 10 minutes for a 30 minute charge. I have 2 >batteries. So far I've had about 4 sessions with it. Flying R/C is way >harder than sitting in an aircraft. But the >machine is small and slow enough to fly indoors, and I've had a lot of >fun >running it into walls, floors and furniture. > >Anyone else done anything with R/C flight? > >-- CHS > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >tech-chat mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat -- Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail. Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen. (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to call on the phone or send again. I don't always see new email messages very quickly.) Ron Frazier 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message. linuxdude AT techstarship.com - blog - techstarship.com Blog RSS: techstarship.com/feed/ _______________________________________________ tech-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat
