ORIGINAL: J-MICHAEL
That's awesome you have the Flycamone. I've always liked to try and fiddle with some aerial photography and video. So cool...!
I have used my older Kodak camera before, but its quality is poor and weighs about 247 grams. I just recently got a Sony HD webbie cam, and its much smaller and thinner and only weighs a bit over 100 grams. I've tried using it with my Spektrum stuff (2.4 GHZ) and I get a ''wave'' of interference when I go back to watch the video. Eh...! With my Futaba 72mhz TX for my RC cars, there is no interference. So I don't know... Lol... I've tried it on the Logo 10 only so far. The Trex 500 I can try, but I'am sure its the same.... Maybe I'll construct a fiberglass mount that extends outwards towards the front of the heli, away from all components and have it stretch WAY out there. Thin, flat, and strong, or something to try... Its all fun either way messing around. I'am starting to think I enjoy that more than flying sometimes.
For your first trial run with your cam set-up, you should still post the video, I'd still like to see... Its all just a learning experience...
I love your LED stuff BTW... I've always loved LED set-ups on the heli's and planes. I've always liked the lights from the place called LiGLOW I think its called... But they were a Paypal only so I didn't go there. Its hard to find a good pure, bright, crisp, LED set-up it seems for me. I'am just to picky on how they look and perform is all. Lol... And the strobes, I like but I like them to look realistic and snapping quick on and off I guess you could say. Hard to explain I suppose...
I've had your website bookmarked now, and check it as you add stuff, but for the LED section that you just put out, my laptop pops up a small window saying it can't open it or something like that. I'll figure it out here shortly when I have more time, its probably some settings somewhere, or I need to update Internet Explorer or something. Dunno.. Computers aren't by strong point. Crashing is..........
Cheers,
~ Jeff
I'll try and post some goofy video madness up there tomorrow. I hear you on the interference, I purchased a wireless camera that (stupid me) was running on... wait for it.... 2.4Ghz... No interference to the flying, but my god the video was worthless. The Flycamone hasn't had any issue with it thus far, as it records to itself instead of transmitting. I will try the wireless camera on one of the 72 mhz birds at some point and try again.
Let me know if you still have issues with the LED page, I did find an obscure issue with some Internet Explorer versions relating to Javascript modifying a parent element from a child. Not a security risk, just more of a difference in how IE loads the HTML document in memory, parses, and displays. Other browsers don't have the issue. Ironically enough, four days later we tried putting something out on the company web site at work and the same issue hit. Talk about odd timing. If you still get that error, I would so *greatly* appreciate a screen shot so I can attempt to figure it out. I thought I had it nailed but I'll try and reproduce it again in case I missed it.
I'm working on some new LED setups as I learn more about electronics and microcontrollers (basically I thought it would be educational to understand and attempt to build my own lipo-monitor LED kit though learning and experimentation).
I posted the link to my LED blades on another RC site and one reply wasn't harsh, but more of a 'oh my god you're using lipos for that you'll kill someone' note. Although yes, I'm using lipos, I'm securing them with tape and shrink wrap, and although a hefty crash could cause some interesting lipo madness, any battery could be used, really, and I'm comfortable with these things as prototypes for my own personal enjoyment
The person that posted also referenced a method to not attaching batteries to the blades at all, and running the positive lead through the main shaft, with a brush/ring setup for the negative. I see where that's going, allowing me to just have the LEDs on the blade and tap into the balancing lead or receiver for power... But he never responded with any more detail. The negative collector / conductive ring has me a bit puzzled, I really don't know how I would do that. If anyone has any ideas or knows of some small conductive ring setup I could reproduce, let me know.
Seeing some crash reports as I catch up on these threads, I hope all repairs and/or replacements go smoothly. May your blades balance and your servos...serve. (It's late).
Quick edit and update... Well, seems the script issue was still rearing it's ugly head on content pages... Stupid 'Share This' button. I've removed it for now until I can get it working again at a later time, so it should be working.
By the way, if anyone out there ever does website maintenance or web development, I HIGHLY recommend browsershots.org. A nifty technical marvel that takes a snapshot of any URL and displays how it looks in over 90 browser/hardware/software configurations. VERY Helpful, I should have used it on the article page earlier, but it definitely helped me find the error.