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> Nixie is in development. What kind of development? Are you trying to figure out if you can do it? Are you building the first prototype? Do you have a prototype? Are you working towards making it mass-producable? Don't just waffle, actually tell people where you are. Otherwise you run a good risk of being mistaken for snake oil peddlers.
>For now, it's just a delicate prototype that can fly off your wrist and not do much else.
> Nixie is in development. What kind of development? Are you trying to figure out if you can do it? Are you building the first prototype? Do you have a prototype? Are you working towards making it mass-producable? Don't just waffle, actually tell people where you are. Otherwise you run a good risk of being mistaken for snake oil peddlers.
I think the headaches of the FAA in their efforts to define the approved use of drones, has yet to begin.
At least I believe this is the rules for flying model planes in the UK. Other countries might differ.
> Nixie is in development. What kind of development? Are you trying to figure out if you can do it? Are you building the first prototype? Do you have a prototype? Are you working towards making it mass-producable? Don't just waffle, actually tell people where you are. Otherwise you run a good risk of being mistaken for snake oil peddlers.
It's the usual waste-of-space website design. Let's fill the front page with photos and bios of ourselves, while not bothering to include any useful information about the actual product.
But do you need to control it with your phone? It looks awesome if you can just release and that's it, without the need to control the camera.
Most importantly and an issue which seems to have been affecting drones in general is battery life. Even current commercially successful drones only last a matter of minutes before needing to be recharged and they are several times the size of the nixie and dont have cameras to deal with. What happens if you are climbing as in the video and 3 minutes later the battery starts dying while you are stuck on a mountain face?
I've liked the concept ever since I heard about quadcopters though and I think it has a lot of potential. From the video I think they're suggesting that you could have an option which sets the Nixie up so that you basically just throw it in the air and it will track + record you. This is obviously a big software challenge (motion tracking the target) that they will have to face although still arguably easier than battery life or flight stability in bad weather conditions.
If they launch it as a glorified selfie taker though I think it would be a shame as it could do so much more. As shown it could compete with the GoPro - hands free and a much desired camera angle - for filming sports, as well as things like amateur TV/film recording, surveying, mapping, etc. That extra functionality could all be added with software updates, its the hardware and physical design which I'm hoping they have a secret answer to.
But do you need to control it with your phone? It looks awesome if you can just release and that's it, without the need to control the camera.
I think that would defeat the purpose, I'm sure you can set waypoints, like with current off the shelve drones, or have auto target tracking software (already exists in some cameras). The real difficulty as far as I know (for automated drone cameras) is tracking elevation without an operator, for what I know the error via GPS data is really large *like =- 5000 ft, and completely unreliable with real features (like th…
But do you need to control it with your phone? It looks awesome if you can just release and that's it, without the need to control the camera.
I think that would defeat the purpose, I'm sure you can set waypoints, like with current off the shelve drones, or have auto target tracking software (already exists in some cameras). The real difficulty as far as I know (for automated drone cameras) is tracking elevation without an operator, for what I know the error via GPS data is really large *like =- 5000 ft, and completely unreliable with real features (like th…