This seems like a pretty cool product. I'd be interested in one if they deliver on the promise.
Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
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Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
No matter how incredible the software is, I don't see a solution for the core problem that they will need to solve: battery vs weight. It's revealing that there are no prototypes shown at all. Very curious what their weight goal is and how they plan to deal with physics.
Yeah especially as they plan for it to be wearable. It needs to be light enough to comfortably stay on your wrist for a period of time. Taking the climbing example again, having even a few pounds extra weight on your arm makes things a lot more difficult. If they added battery packs which the Nixie could recharge from to compensate then it kind of defeats the point of it being wearable and so portable.
"If they added battery packs which the Nixie could recharge from to compensate then it kind of defeats the point of it being wearable and so portable."
Would depend on how it's done, of course, but just because something is able to use battery packs doesn't force me to carry them with me all the time. Just having some I could keep in a car to replace quickly while 'out' would be sufficient for some (many?) use cases.
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#33Huh. Why make this wearable ? Isn't that kind of an insane design constraint? I mean, what's the battery life on something small enough to wrap around your wrist - five minutes? I mean, you go and do whatever you want. I'm just really enjoying imagining that meeting. Is this something the lead was just passionate about? Are they serious about the "friends walking around in a park who casually want aerial selfies" use…
For climbers and maybe surfers(water proof ?) this might be handy...
Sometimes it's not about planning... When climbing for example it's really hard to take decent pictures, because it's hard to go to the places where the picture would look good.
Their focus should probably be more like sports than "friends in the park"
I also think they will face some serious issues with making this thing work and I don't know how big the market is.
But I would really consider buying one if they made this thing work.
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#34Huh. Why make this wearable ? Isn't that kind of an insane design constraint? I mean, what's the battery life on something small enough to wrap around your wrist - five minutes? I mean, you go and do whatever you want. I'm just really enjoying imagining that meeting. Is this something the lead was just passionate about? Are they serious about the "friends walking around in a park who casually want aerial selfies" use…
It's useful to mention that Nixie was an entry to Intel's "Make it Wearable" competition. Intel is pushing some new processors, in particular focusing on wearables. Nixie won some money from Intel for their proposed design.
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#35It's clever psychology to place the (3D-rendered?) product shot right next to the mountain climber action shot. But it's trickery and leaves a foul taste in my mouth. Failing to include any actual pictures (or in this case, real footage) of a product "in development" always undermines my confidence by giving me the vaporware vibe. I'm a much bigger fan of Oculus' "in development" communications. "Here's what we built…
Frankly, I'd prefer no footage than faked footage (e.g. Myo, which showed videos of people waving their arm around with a plastic prototype while someone used a remote-control for the quadrocopter behind the camera).
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#36It's clever psychology to place the (3D-rendered?) product shot right next to the mountain climber action shot. But it's trickery and leaves a foul taste in my mouth. Failing to include any actual pictures (or in this case, real footage) of a product "in development" always undermines my confidence by giving me the vaporware vibe. I'm a much bigger fan of Oculus' "in development" communications. "Here's what we built…
How does one include real footage when the product does not exist yet?
They have a working development prototype, as seen in the video on this page:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/29/nixie-wearable-drone/
I presume that that's what they're shooting the video from currently...
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#37Hi,
Nixie looks super cool, but without a spec it's really hard to tell how useful it is.
How long does it fly? How to control it (especially during a rock climbing...)? What's it's range? How does it land? How to find it after landing? Which flight controller is used? Does it have GPS?
I am super curious of the answers.
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#38See some huge design issues with this
Drones are not that safe unmanned yet.
Something this small will never deal with wind.
The flexible spars that form the bracelet need to be rigid to reliably transfer force from the rotors to the frame.
Battery life will be terrible
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#39At the end of the promo video the suggestions to watch next are unfortunate.
Re: Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]
#40Wouldn't the battery for that thing be far bigger than your wrist?
We're not talking thifty cpus at idle here, it's four motors at high rpm.
Even LiPo has its limits and I sure wouldn't want a high capacity LiPo on my wrist without a shield.
The protox only has 4 minutes of flight time and it doesn't have a camera or gps. http://www.revell.com/radio-control/estescontrol/4606.html