Helicopter Aerial Tour of our 5 acre Llama Ranch

[Rusty Heap]

Syma X1 R/C Quad Copter $40.
808 style key chain Video Camera $20. (480x640 x 30 fps)

oogles of fun.

VERY COOL cheap fun toy to play with over our 5 acre Llama ranch buried deep in the woods a couple hours from Seattle.

Couple of fly over during the morning mist and sunset, with a 150 foot kamikaze free fall dive bomb run at the end.

[Neilk]

Funny ending. I would have freaked out that I killed the copter.

[72doug2,2S]

Amazing for the price. I can see this sort of thing taking off.

[recycled sixtie]

Yes it is amazing for the price. Those lamas don't seem too bothered by the copter.
Yes very cool...thanks.

[1-ev.com]

is it some kind of weed under the tree @ 1:13 ? is this what crashed the copter?

Overall nice vid ...

[Hard-Deck]

Very cool!

[Zeke]

Music by PF, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
I can't seem to find what album that was taken from. I found the live version and didn't like it as much.

[rusnak]

I was going to say what's with the porn music?

[SeanPizzle]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Music by PF, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
I can't seem to find what album that was taken from. I found the live version and didn't like it as much.

Wish you were here--Pink Floyd's 9th album and likely funder of several of Nick Mason's cars

[TimT]

I think that Shine is the studio cut on "Wish you were here"

[Bugsinrugs]

Nice job! I think I am going to get a camera like that. I already have the helicopters. Your place is beautiful, can't see the forest through the trees!

[rattlsnak]

Christmas lights up already? lol..

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

Christmas lights up already? lol..

Combined reasons Christmas light have stayed up all year but only were turned on a couple days ago................After time taking care of a Mother 24/7 the last 13 months who is dieing of brain cancer, I didn't get them taken down last year. meh.

And that on the total estate area of 100 acres that has only 12 homes on it, there have been 3 home/car burglaries in the last 2 weeks............****** meth heads......

So with the nice and bright LED Christmas lights I'm lighting everything up in the yard and am putting in wireless security cameras to cover the whole 5 acres as I live at the end of a dead end road.......

Plus, hey, every day can be Christmas if you think of life that way......

[rattlsnak]

Can you see what your filming when you're doing it or do you have to wait and land and get the film or download it? My brother has something similar that he controls through his iPad that has a live camera on it. really cool.

[stealthn]

I'm interested in this can you post the camera setup specs and show how you mounted it?

Thanks

[Rusty Heap]

Keychain Camera. Yes there are higher resolution models like 720P or 1080i, but then more cost too. Mostly the poor video quality is from helicopter vibration, and it was foggy that morning.

There are cheaper $10 cameras too, but this $20 unit even came with its own a 4 gig micro SD chip and built in Li-ion battery.

Amazon.com: Night Owl Security CS-Key-4GB Video Key Chain Recorder with 4 GB Micro SD Card: Camera & Photo


Quad Copter is only $36.

Amazon.com: Syma X1 4 Channel 2.4G RC Quad Copter - Spacecraft: Electronics



If you want to loft a GoPro, get ready to spend some $$$ coin: but wow, this is GPS route tracking, go to home, and hover at a set altitude compensating for a cross-wind. wow.



Amazon.com: DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Quadcopter for GoPro: Electronics


Still have some money left over? Fly your copter with a FPV, "first person view" with a live streaming video signal from the copter back to goggles you wear.


Amazon.com: Boscam FV01 FPV 2.4G/5.8G All-in-one Head Tracker GOGGLE/Video Glasses & Camera: Electronics



But back to my $60 rig, instead of $1500+ and more.


Note my high tech carbon fiber active closed loop Red Solo Cup NASA spec scotch taped vibration dampened keychain camera mount, and other aerodynamically beneficial Red Solo Cup Rat Rod grill and visual "this side is front" which is very beneficial when the copter is overhead 100+ up.

[Drdogface]

Love those quad copters...never even seen one except in vids..

Why do people raise llamas these days? Any real market for them?
Gorgeous property ! Copters look like fun toys

[vonsmog]

Just ordered all of it off ebay! $35.00 for the copter (free shipping) and $10 (again free shipping) for the camera. Can't wait to try it out!

[Rusty Heap]

Amazon.com: 32GB Latest 808 #26 Mini 1080P Full HD Car Camera Video DVR keychain Looping Driving Recorder H.264 AVI SunPlus SPCA6330A+OV2710: Car Electronics



If you want full 60 fps and HD video, another option, I went the cheap route for a first time experiment.

[1-ev.com]

here is the one you can control with your iPhohe/iPad iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Controlled Rechargeable 3.5CH R/C RC Helicopter Gyro S215 w/ Camera - Newegg.com

and this one $7 plus ship iPhone iPad iPod Controlled Helicopter | eBay