craigiri
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Another newbie in the world of multirotors, but luckily have a background in technology and am very handy (was a contractor, etc.) so don't mind breaking out the soldering iron!
I am a writer and web developer among other things - and I have recently took over an abandoned blog which was about consumer quadcopter/drones. I am attempting to simplify some of this for the new consumers who are going to enter this hobby/pastime/interest.
The blog is at http://www.droneflyers.com
I also started with an AR Drone, but unfortunately it was the 1.0 which I would not wish on my worst enemy. However, I somewhat tamed that beast and then got rid of it. I had a lot of laughs with it - there is a horse farm next to our place in RI, and on one of it's fly-aways it ended up landing in the corral and 2 horses were in there very curious about it! They walked over to it and their feet were within INCHES. I imagined what that might do if they decided to step on it...but I got it back!
Soon after that, it went about 500 feet high over my street....keeping in mind that it did this on it's own, as the 1.0 AR's are known to do. Amazingly enough, I got it back! I also pulled it out of many a tree and perfected my techniques, so much that I wrote an article on getting your drone out of a tree!
Well, moving on...I got a Hubsan X4 because it is winter and I didn't expect to be flying outside very much. I destroyed that pretty quickly - and rebuilt it once I actually learned how to fly. However, like Icasus I flew too close to the sun and now it lives in the Bay in RI.
Then I got the famed Syma X1, which I think every new flyer should buy! I flew it in the basement and outside when the weather allowed and learned all the basics of control.
I have a growing stable of more mini and micro quads (959, X4, X1)...which I really think are great...but I just got a Dualsky Hornet for some heavier lifting and experimentation.
I am pursuing this as a hobby, labor of love and for stress relief. It also is neat to learn...as much as possible about this quickly expanding field.
As far as a good wise crack for Bart....well, I am from NJ (but southern) and Philly. But I'm just not in the mood yet. Don't worry, though, I will prove worthy.
Oh, the Droneflyers site is going to have a Grand Opening in mid-April with drawings for free quads and other such junk. Keep an eye out!
I am a writer and web developer among other things - and I have recently took over an abandoned blog which was about consumer quadcopter/drones. I am attempting to simplify some of this for the new consumers who are going to enter this hobby/pastime/interest.
The blog is at http://www.droneflyers.com
I also started with an AR Drone, but unfortunately it was the 1.0 which I would not wish on my worst enemy. However, I somewhat tamed that beast and then got rid of it. I had a lot of laughs with it - there is a horse farm next to our place in RI, and on one of it's fly-aways it ended up landing in the corral and 2 horses were in there very curious about it! They walked over to it and their feet were within INCHES. I imagined what that might do if they decided to step on it...but I got it back!
Soon after that, it went about 500 feet high over my street....keeping in mind that it did this on it's own, as the 1.0 AR's are known to do. Amazingly enough, I got it back! I also pulled it out of many a tree and perfected my techniques, so much that I wrote an article on getting your drone out of a tree!
Well, moving on...I got a Hubsan X4 because it is winter and I didn't expect to be flying outside very much. I destroyed that pretty quickly - and rebuilt it once I actually learned how to fly. However, like Icasus I flew too close to the sun and now it lives in the Bay in RI.
Then I got the famed Syma X1, which I think every new flyer should buy! I flew it in the basement and outside when the weather allowed and learned all the basics of control.
I have a growing stable of more mini and micro quads (959, X4, X1)...which I really think are great...but I just got a Dualsky Hornet for some heavier lifting and experimentation.
I am pursuing this as a hobby, labor of love and for stress relief. It also is neat to learn...as much as possible about this quickly expanding field.
As far as a good wise crack for Bart....well, I am from NJ (but southern) and Philly. But I'm just not in the mood yet. Don't worry, though, I will prove worthy.
Oh, the Droneflyers site is going to have a Grand Opening in mid-April with drawings for free quads and other such junk. Keep an eye out!
