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Pardon my ignorance, but is there any reason why a GoPro (Max) or Insta360 is not sufficient?
Isn't Insta360 Chinese too? GoPro is/was manufactured in China as well.
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>This is an important detail. Your phone location might be helpful when using drones (though GPS should be on the drone, not your phone) I'd imagine it would be important for "come back home" like functionality in case drone loses signal or whatever > but there is absolutely no reason to use it for something like a phone stabilizer, which it absolutely requires and will not let you continue unless you turn it on App…
The "come back home" functionality relies on the GPS on the drone, but the "follow me while filming" needs the phone's. I saw quite a lot of motorcycling vlogs using that feature.
I doubt the phone GPS would be accurate enough to keep you in frame - remember, if you were only using GPS for tracking like that, then you're getting both the error of the phone GPS as well as the error in the drone GPS.
I've only really seen it in action on a DJI mini 3 pro.
I believe you can do follow me from the controller without a phone involved at all.
Buy Skydio drones instead, they are made in USA.
They can only fly in the US. I am in Europe and I can't fly my Skydio - and they didn't mentioned it in clear terms.
I'm uncomfortable with kneecapping every successful Chinese technology company. "US tech good, China tech bad" doesn't make sense to me.
China kneecaps all US companies inside of China. Most US companies are banned outright, and the ones that are allowed to operate inside the country are forced to be majority owned by a Chinese entity.
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I hate this argument because it's fucking stupid. I think we can draw a clear and logical line between "gun" and "doomsday device".
I think it's a lot more stupid to assume that laws put in place to allow for single fire muskets that took significant amounts of time to load and fire should automatically equally apply to machine guns. We should be able to draw a clear and logical line between the kinds of guns the people who wrote the constitution envisioned the American people owning and the kinds of guns we have today, but obviously not everyone…
I'm uncomfortable with kneecapping every successful Chinese technology company. "US tech good, China tech bad" doesn't make sense to me.
Maybe China should stop kneecapping their own tech by injecting backdoors, layering hidden circuitry into motherboards, and harvesting US and EU user data for whateverthefuck their end goal is. I mean, I get it, "poor put-upon China!", but let's be honest here: China needs to stop fucking around, lest they find out.
Now if there were any replacement for DJI I'd be happy... their tech stack is weird AF (e.g. you can only view synchronized flightbooks on your DJI RC controller or on the phone if you're using the sticks-only controller but not on the website or the macOS/Windows companion app, the damn expensive DJI RC controller doesn't do HDMI/DP output, the controllers can't be re-used between drone generations, DJI Fly is only…
“ Seriously the EU and US need to step up and establish or at least fund companies that can compete with DJI and other sanctioned entities.” Establishing legible regulations, yes - but why should taxpayers fund drone companies? What is the public benefit in doing so?
The Ukrainian-Russo war has shown the military the power of offensive drones. You think they are going to allow civilians to own such powerful potential weapons in the future? I think offensive drone warfare is just scratching the surface. I can think of a few modifications to drones, I've yet to see in Ukraine, that could increase their lethality 10x.
Some of the drones used by Ukraine have pretty wild so far, one ive seen rarely mentioned is this unknown larger drone that drops 10 grenades at a time, carpet bombing an area. https://twitter.com/uaweapons/status/1555657070245986309
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“ Seriously the EU and US need to step up and establish or at least fund companies that can compete with DJI and other sanctioned entities.” Establishing legible regulations, yes - but why should taxpayers fund drone companies? What is the public benefit in doing so?
> What is the public benefit in doing so? At the moment, DJI's R&D is likely heavily subsidized by Chinese military funds. The result of that is that DJI can offer its products vastly cheaper than domestic (or allied nations') companies can. Therefore, the public benefit of subsidies, tariffs and sanctions would be: - not assisting China's military development by providing funds (from drone sales) and operational dat…
Haha, no.
Disappointed that grassroots drone companies such as 3DR died as a result of aggressive Chinese companies such as DJI pushing good quality drones for less. Now the US market has lesser alternatives and we’re having to go back to hobby kits to build anything similar to a DJI.