Hello from Overland Park! Look for a $30-$50 micro quad and cut your teeth with learning to fly/crash with one of those. A couple/few months back I built my first DJI F450, after spending the winter crashing a micro quad around the house. The Futaba would be a decent transmitter, though some may...
stumbled across these checking out the website of a semi-local hobby shop:
http://www.giantmodelproducts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=43&products_id=340
anyone have any feedback? how are they compared to popular Fatsharks or AIO's?
+1 for Premiere and After Effects. I strayed away from Adobe on the last PC I built and went with Avid Studio, as it was cheaper NLE software and I already spent enough on the computer build. Avid is, eh, ok'ish. Not as intuitive to pick up, coming from Adobe. This was my transition from MiniDV...
I noticed this thread was cross-pollinated over on RCG as well. many members on here are on RCG also. either way, you should get the advice/help you're looking for. be patient, be safe, fly happy. =)
I just recently got into the multirotors. last I played with R/C stuff was in the 90's racing buggies at a local track. my question is, being new to multirotors... why would you want an RTF package? once you step up from the toy grade multi's, something that comes RTF is going to have a premium...
marshmallows work good, you may have to experiment with the various sizes of marshmallows a bit to find the ones that work best for you application. definitely don't use the dehydrated kind that come in popular children's cereals though.
first time I've been able to make it to a field and fly. strapped the camera on and got some vid. need to work my mount a bit, the cam doesn't like to stay level.
https://vimeo.com/63034899
since MU is now including multirotors as part of their Journalism curriculum... maybe someone could reach out to the university for a scholarly point of view on this. >shrugs< just tossing the idea out there.