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From a hacking perspective, DJI previously seemed to be pretty nice with SDKs etc allowing you to get the video feed, send controls to the drone etc. But from what I can see they stopped supporting this for most (commercial) drones from Mavic 3 and onwards... Anybody know otherwise? What I'd want is to be able to remote control it from any other device, it doesn't really matter if it's an Android/iOS app or running o…
Problem is: the remote disables radios when connected to usb/power.
So rooting the dji android (which the FCC hack does) is a must and then you only need to enable the radios.. only..
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Few deer I saw did not seem to care at all about the drone. Neither have raccoons, beavers, squirrels, chipmunks and birds.
Cool, yeah, just fly your drone next to wildlife and claim they don't mind.
Spy drone or not, why can’t US companies design and manufacture better products to compete with DJI?
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we gutted most of our manufacturing and outsourced it to china decades ago. we Let our entire non military manufacturing industry die on the vine so there isn't much of a culture of supply chain left. blame harvard business school. The cumulative damage of their Alum to the american economy is astronomical
Meh, there's been fears of imports damaging the home country's manufacturing/economy for hundreds of years. It's why tariffs have existed for ages. If the government valued manufacturing at home, they've had the tools for years to make it happen. Of course, are citizens ready to pay more than double in some cases? Not sure.
agreed and thats why I emphasized non military manufacturing.
This and their latest Inspire 3 are truly a feat of engineering
If only such a statement could be made about their horrible mobile apps needed to fly these drones.
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I once did this and it was rather scary. I was sailing in Croatia (on sails) and we’ve spotted some dolphins. So I launched a Mavic Air to observe them from closer. Soon the wind picked up and so did the waves. I piloted the drone back to the boat and planned to catch it in my hand, but I haven’t felt comfortable doing so, since the boat moved like crazy, while the drone was static in the air. Don’t forget to imagine…
How the motors were killed? Were they melted their coils or was anything cracked?
When will these compact drones become less noisy? I know there are new propeller designs being researched to be much less like a swarm of bees is flying around near you, but don't know how far off they are to retail commercialization. It just makes it hard to stomach flying a drone in a pristine environment knowing you are disturbing all human and non-human animals nearby.
The natural extent of this progression is to have one or two very large 2-4 blade rotor (for low disc loading, high endurance, lower rotor speed and noise), with a small auxiliary rotor for yaw control if only using one lift rotor.
Yes, the natural endpoint is in fact just a helicopter. Only reason we don't see more of that (edit: in photo drones specifically) is the mechanical complexity.
When will these compact drones become less noisy? I know there are new propeller designs being researched to be much less like a swarm of bees is flying around near you, but don't know how far off they are to retail commercialization. It just makes it hard to stomach flying a drone in a pristine environment knowing you are disturbing all human and non-human animals nearby.
There's some interesting research around toroidal propellers which move the same amount of air, but create far less turbulence and so make a less annoying noise. However, they're not going to get significantly quieter until the energy density of the batteries gets significantly better (a lot of what you're moving with a drone is your energy storage). There's always a hope that someone might invent a really silent pro…