Originally Posted by CommanderBlaine

the list of parts sounds fantastic! thank you so much!

a gimbal and a camera sounds good to me actually, even though it has significant weight.

honestly it might seem ambitious but all i was really hoping to achieve with this build was to have some rechargable batteriers, a small solar pannel and a camera (and now in this case) a gimbal also

this way i can fly it up into the air, do a bit of aerial survelliance, as its using power it can be charging. the idea was to have it land on ground, but given i live in england and it rains about 99.9% of the year, having it land on water and being water proofed sounds like a good idea all this of course adds weight i would imagine a lot of weight for a very (i am guessing) light weight frame.

this was my plan, my family have a peice of land, things have been stolen from it repeatedly, on several occasions right under our noses, so being able to investigate the local area from the air would be an advantage..... i don't know if its possible but i did have the idea of using an arudrino circuit to have it auotmaitcally charge, cut off the charge should the batterys reach 100% this way they don't over load and at set times fly a planned route around the land, i don't honestly quite know how to do all this, the arudino stuff and soldering i'm 50/50 on, pretty sure i can do it just need the stuff, not sure if the solar pannel would be too heavy for it, as well as the batteries, i guess it would come down to how much lift this thing can take to see how much it could carry.

i feel this might be a bit too ambitious for the frame, however if i could just make it a remote controlled with camera and gimbal, i think that'll be a good start, i'd be happy if i could do that.

what do you think? too ambitious or could it be done?