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So I guess Trappy and the boys went to Italy to shoot footage of the ship wrecked Costa Concordia. They shot it in the morning and were arrested by lunch time. Somehow they saved the footage and got it up on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=ESYr2y-WOeE

This is pretty hilarious. I'm sure that the $1.5k gimbal that this phone is sitting in has nothing to do with the quality of the footage, it's all about Nokia's OIS. :highly_amused...

Hey all, I haven't had my Hexa AP rig out much since last Fall. I spent the winter flying FPV or working on my AP set up. I'm still on old firmware (5.12) and wanted to upgrade to something a little newer, but stable. Any recommendations? I see a lot of people using 5.16 or 5.18. I don't need...

I was at Robot Fest today and ran into an old friend. These guys going to incredible lengths to build these. Now I want to build an FPV R2 unit.

Hey, anyone else have trouble connecting an Alexmos board for the first time? It's flashing error code on the led, but I can't get the laptop to see the board. I tried on the Mac version first, and I just don't think the com port is set right. I then tried the windows 7 version (netbook) and it...

My wife and I attended a fantastic fly-in last weekend in northern Virginia hosted by DC Drone User Group. We were interviewed by PBS newsHour while we were there. It is supposed to air tonight, but I was told that before the Boston bombing. Everything has been a little out of whack since. Keep...

Ok, I need some help on this one. Overall problem: Naza becomes extremely unstable and rocking back and forth from the front left to rear right motors after fast forward flight. Suspected issue: Naza will not get through calibration with throwing an error message. Background:I'm a long...

Wow... if only you could buy this. They only rent them for $250 a day. I only hope GoPro sees this and likes the idea of swappable lenses. http://nofilmschool.com/2013/03/gopro-hero3-interchangeable-lenses-novo-camera/

I was fortunately enough tonight to be able to make it out to a meetup in DC with Dr Vijay Kumar. Most of you probably know of his work from Grasp Labs at the University of Pennsylvania. They are the ones responsable for all the cool swarms of quads you see from time to time doing amazing stuff...

Interesting that only one civilian company made the list, and it was DJI. You can tell Huff Post knows so much about this topic. Check the list at the bottom of the article. DJI is the last one, number 12. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/companies-making-drones_n_2849569.html...

Long time DJI user, but this is my first Naza. I've had a Wookong for ages now, and never had this issue. I just replaced a CC3D board on my FPV quad with a brand new Naza. Everything worked great before the swap and I was doing 40+mph dive bombs and pulling them out within a foot of the...

I went to a fly-in today with folks from DC & Baltimore. It was bitter cold and windy, but we still have a good run of it.

So I'm sure some of you may have seen the Leap Motion gesture based UI. It's some thing along the lines of an XBox connect that lets you control your computer with different gestures. I've been approved to become one of their beta testers and should have a control unit showing up sometime soon...

I'm not sure how many of you have been following all the recent developments with the brushless gimbal controller from Alex Mos. I know that at least one company finally launched their board this week and it starts shipping next Friday. I just came across this video from someone that was...

For Sale, 2 sets (6ea) of custom Carbon Fiber F550 arm extensions. These things are a fantastic way to get Avroto motors with larger props onto your F550. I designed these myself and had them milled from high quality 3mm Carbon Fiber. They are complete overkill at 3mm and ended up being stronger...

For sale, one brand new (never installed) Rage Cams 4mm replacement lens for the GoPro Hero 2 that removes the fisheye. I bought this lens before the GP3 came out, but the website now claims that it will fit either the GP2 or the GP3...

I have a first gen OP CC board that I'm not using, so I'd rather see it go to a good home. I've even got a 3D printed case for it that I'll throw in for free. $80 shipped inside the lower 48. I'll consider selling outside of the US, but i'll have to adjust for shipping. -Terry

I just saw Trappy posting this on Facebook. I think I'm going to pick one of these up. I've wanted to get into a wing for a while, and I like the benefits of having something smaller to start with... the price isn't bad either, they just need to come up with a better name...

This looks pretty steady. I wonder if it can hold an NEX?

I just had a pretty successful first meetup with close to 20 folks. It was mostly meet and greet this time out since it's still so cold and windy, but I feel pretty good that we could have a nice group of people to fly with when warm weather gets here. Some new and some old pros, but that's what...