What are YOU buying YOURSELF for christmas ?
I've been looking at cheap quadcopters for a while. But I want decent camera and I don't want to pay lots of money :-)
So the other day i was disenfecting a clients computer and browsing amazon and youtube while I waited.
And I bought one of these (and six spare batteries).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDonroP4EA
Very cheap. But takes some pretty decent video and seems to fly outdoors quite well. Good enough for me anyway.
Plus i can make spare bits. people keep complaining that the camera points too far down. So I think my first mod will be an adjustable camera cradle (I actually want it pointing further down). I also have a tiny hd camera (weighs about 10 grams) that will be able to point straight down. So I'll make a cradle for that.
Im also going to make some landing gear from the flourescent yellow pla. So that i can tell which direction it's pointing at a distance.
Ok it's not a gps enabled 11mp camera on a motorised gimbal like the DJI phantom. But then I don't have £1000 to spare :-)
£75 for the quad and 6 spare batteries and a 4 at once charger. Will do me :-)
Plus there's some pretty decent video these have taken on youtube.
Certainly good enough for what i want it for. Which is just aerial views of my local environs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUhEXlpvDuY
You'd think the buggers would modify the soundtrack though :-)
So what did you buy youself for christmas ?