Drones

[BratPAQ]

Anyone has experience on using this? Saw one being sold at Digital Walker at ATC. Will be fun to have but not sure if it has a practical application aside pamboso. Does it hover at one spot? Can it be controlled without maintaining eye contact with it? Just thru the camera?

[Juan Martinez]

interesting. surveillance has two components: technical and physical. sa physical, literally sundan mo yung tao. in technical, yung bugging technical yun or the drones

[machine.pistol]

Anyone has experience on using this? Saw one being sold at Digital Walker at ATC. Will be fun to have but not sure if it has a practical application aside pamboso. Does it hover at one spot? Can it be controlled without maintaining eye contact with it? Just thru the camera?

You can mount a very light camera on the multicopter and use it to take aerial still/video shots of a party/gathering.

You need your eyes to control it with continuous inputs on the gimbals of the radio transmitter from your fingers.

It can hover in one spot still with inputs from your hands. To really make it hover on one spot, you will need a GPS module.

If it has a built in camera that is connected to a receiver in front of you, then it's possible for you to operate it on "first person view" (FPV). It is as if you, the pilot, are on board the drone. But it's hard because you will have limited vision of the horizon, height, etc.

[BratPAQ]

The drone sold at Digital Walker is called parrot rolling spider, worth 5k. The specs is kinda disappointing. At full charge it only work for 8 minutes. It has a camera pointing downward that take still shots. The camera also double as a vision to the ground to determine its height. It has an AI so that it can hover in one place. It can be controlled via android app connected via Bluetooth with max distance of 20 meters.

All in all this is more of a toy to show off, rather than any practical application.

[bloowolf]

I saw one in AAV Cuenca Park. You can attach a GoPro on it & controller has an iPhone dock. It can hover stationary, pivot, descend slow or fast, move sideways.

[badkuk]

i know of at least one property developer using drones to do surveying, though i'm not sure about the service ceiling(tama ba term?), e.g. can it handle high winds at high altitude. Me stabilizer naman yung camera so you don't get the "Blair Witch Project" effect ^_^


imho drones have a lot of potential in: construction, port operations, security, search and rescue. The danger though is that some idiot with a rock can knock it out and steal it.

afaik the US/Japan has used drones to survey the Fukushima nuclear plant, though they really needed to scrub down the drones once it landed.

[foresterx]

we use drones pag nasa race track kami. yon nga lang yung sa kaibigan ko dji phantom which cost around 50k. very different compared to the cheap no brand ones being sold. yung dji phantom uses gps so very easy to fly and can fly for 20 mins. and may auto pilot din set mo lang via gps kung san siya iikot.

[BratPAQ]

we use drones pag nasa race track kami. yon nga lang yung sa kaibigan ko dji phantom which cost around 50k. very different compared to the cheap no brand ones being sold. yung dji phantom uses gps so very easy to fly and can fly for 20 mins. and may auto pilot din set mo lang via gps kung san siya iikot.

Mukhang maganda yan kaso mahal for 50k, gusto ko lang naman bosohan kapitbahay namin. 😄

[testament11]

Meron akong drone na pang beginner lang. Its a Blade Nano QX. Costs 3.5k nung binili ko without a transmitter/remote. Yun remote niya ang mahal, Spektrum Dx7s, which is an intermediate transmitter na pwede ko gamitin sa mga malalaking drone, if ever na bumuo ako ng isa.

Usually sa wedding videos, ito ang "in" ngayon.

[chua_riwap]

Yung gma7 meron yan. They're using it on their news coverage. Nagamit ito nung aerial shot ng mamasapano massacre site at yung sunog sa parola comp.