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Re: DJI FPV

#91

Post by ilyas121 » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

kbos87 wrote: post #59

DJI is such an impressive company. I know comparing anyone to Apple has been done to death, but I'd really be hard pressed to think of another company that comes closer. It also seems like they are following a similar playbook of blending hardware and software to deliver a fantastic, simplified experience - and they always deliver. It's not a wonder why they really don't have a legitimate competitor.

Speaking from the experience of building drones, it's honestly black magic to me how they pull off their controls. I can't imagine kalman filtering yourself into such a great system as theirs. Unworldly.

Re: DJI FPV

#92

Post by rglover » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

"Citizen, get back in your pod. Citizen, get back in your pod. Your face has been recorded in the Problematic Citizens Database. You have one point left on your license."

Re: DJI FPV

#93

Post by djrogers » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

Holy cats - 0-60 in 2seconds! This will be fun - and probably dangerous... sigh.

How soon can I scratch together $1300?

Re: DJI FPV

#94

Post by sangnoir » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

ionwake wrote: post #64

alkz wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in this case the drone is so fragile that the only way to get 10mins of flight from it without breaking it, is to hover

I dont know why this comment was downvoted I found it both funny and informative

It's obviously hyperbole - but the problem is that without the hyperbole, the comment communicates nothing substantive. How was it informative?

Re: DJI FPV

#95

Post by 05 » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #81

For those of you without $1300 to spend on an FPV drone, you can pick up a pretty decent package for about $250ish: https://betafpv.com As a new Mavic Mini owner, the one feature I'm craving for is FPV.

If you add up the costs of Nazgul5 HD (probably the cheapest BNF 5 inch HD kwad worth buying), DJI FPV goggles, a controller that you won’t outgrow in a month (either Radiomaster TX16s or Tango2), a charger, parallel board, lipos, a sim to practice acro, etc. you’ll probably reach something awfully similar to that $1300 price tag.

Re: DJI FPV

#96

Post by dukeofdoom » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:22 PM UTC

This is great. The biggest draw back seems to be the small image sensor on the camera. Not sure if its good enough to compete with gopro typically used in FPV in image quality.

Re: DJI FPV

#97

Post by 05 » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:22 PM UTC

wepple wrote: post #50

I’d love for someone to build an overIP bridge for this, so I can sit on the couch at home and fly through the Grand Canyon. I’d happily pay a reasonable sum for it. I wonder if it could be done using a Stadia controller and chrome cast?

Yeah it’s called a sim.

Re: DJI FPV

#98

Post by josefresco » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

05 wrote: post #95

josefresco wrote: post #81

For those of you without $1300 to spend on an FPV drone, you can pick up a pretty decent package for about $250ish: https://betafpv.com As a new Mavic Mini owner, the one feature I'm craving for is FPV.

If you add up the costs of Nazgul5 HD (probably the cheapest BNF 5 inch HD kwad worth buying), DJI FPV goggles, a controller that you won’t outgrow in a month (either Radiomaster TX16s or Tango2), a charger, parallel board, lipos, a sim to practice acro, etc. you’ll probably reach something awfully similar to that $1300 price tag.

Personally, I would start with something like this ($130): https://betafpv.com/products/fpv-whoop-racing-starter-kit-2

As opposed to replicating the package and capability of what DJI sells.

Re: DJI FPV

#99

Post by eigenvalue » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:29 PM UTC

The first-person view seems like it would be a total blast to try out-- basically every kid's dream toy. I would have given anything for something like that when I was 12 years old. But from a pragmatic standpoint of using the drone to capture video footage, I feel like having robust "self driving" capabilities (in particular, obstacle avoidance and smart target tracking) is more interesting. I was blown away recently watching footage of this new drone from a US based drone company, Skydio:

https://skydio.com/skydio-2

I also like that there finally seems to be a decent alternative to DJI in the market-- it was a bit worrisome how much better DJI has been than everyone else.

Re: DJI FPV

#100

Post by StavrosK » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

05 wrote: post #90

StavrosK wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Head trackers are cool, but DJI stuff is a step in the wrong direction there. Right now everything is open, you can write a small Arduino script to track your head with an accelerometer, send the channels through your radio to the drone, and add two servos there that move according to your head motions. With DJI, all of this is closed. I'd be surprised if you can connect/have access to any of these things.

Well, nobody is stopping the community from making their own open source/open hardware OpenTX based motion flight controller, do they? Just like Naza32 didn’t prevent people from developing Cleanflight/Betaflight

Are you saying that because they aren't actively coming to your house and holding your hands away from the keyboard, the fact that they sell closed source hardware is neutral?