Parrot Bebop

[Victorious Secret]

Ouch! I thought the US laws that are starting to become more strict were bad...... Too many grey areas and blanket laws IMO. (the US laws arent much better, just, less of them )

 

 

It's funny, alot of quadcopter/FPV crowd here in the US tends to hate Phantom owners...mostly because they are so powerful and good, but also so well marketed. Kinda like Apple, everyone thinks "that white one with red stripes" whenever you say "drone". So, you end up with folks making the rest of the community look bad, by flying them downtown new york, crashing into cars, hurting people, buzzing homes, etc etc. Oh, and crashing in the white house lawn....

 

Not saying anything against you or what you said, just mentioning the "weather here in the US". Interesting times for RC owners. 

 

Yea, I've gotten that A LOT. I stopped hanging around /r/multirotors specifically because they think anyone touching a DJI product, whenever it be a Phantom or even a A2, is a bumbling idiot. 

 

You're right. DJI is popular and they sell a lot so of course if stupid shit happens, chances are it'll be a DJI product simply by the law of averages. Doesn't make all of us idiots. More like 5% are idiots, just like 5% of all hobbyists have idiots. 

 

Plus, some people get awfully elitist about the hobby. It really has to do with how plug and play even building your own quadcopter has become. No more witchcraft, just follow a spreadsheet and build something that is assured to work. 

[smjpl]

@LinusTech

 

You might find this interesting.

 

A recent video from MrTechnicalDifficult showed his DJI F550 drone going rogue and injuring some lady (luckily not seriously). Something happens and the  "return home" feature fails. From there it goes a little crazy. This could have ended a lot worse.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTkg_78sF0

[d3sl91]

Yea, I've gotten that A LOT. I stopped hanging around /r/multirotors specifically because they think anyone touching a DJI product, whenever it be a Phantom or even a A2, is a bumbling idiot. 

 

You're right. DJI is popular and they sell a lot so of course if stupid shit happens, chances are it'll be a DJI product simply by the law of averages. Doesn't make all of us idiots. More like 5% are idiots, just like 5% of all hobbyists have idiots. 

 

Plus, some people get awfully elitist about the hobby. It really has to do with how plug and play even building your own quadcopter has become. No more witchcraft, just follow a spreadsheet and build something that is assured to work. 

 

I think the fact that the hobby is both so extremely expensive, but also so cheap, you will have the people who built a $2k unit who will look down on the dude who got one for $200 off amazon or someone who bought a prebuilt unit. Plus, it does take some skill to fly alot of these units well. Although that as well is getting easier. I could almost compare to Custom PC builders versus those who buy prebuilt...but...not really?

 

Thankfully I ran across FliteTest when I was first looking at quads (or, in their case, their tri's, and they seem to be very down to earth about their RC stuff and beginner friendly. 

[Victorious Secret]

I think the fact that the hobby is both so extremely expensive, but also so cheap, you will have the people who built a $2k unit who will look down on the dude who got one for $200 off amazon or someone who bought a prebuilt unit. Plus, it does take some skill to fly alot of these units well. Although that as well is getting easier. I could almost compare to Custom PC builders versus those who buy prebuilt...but...not really?

 

Thankfully I ran across FliteTest when I was first looking at quads (or, in their case, their tri's, and they seem to be very down to earth about their RC stuff and beginner friendly. 

 

Yea I enjoy FliteTest, they're harsh but fair on everything they review and their videos are often great to watch. 

[Sokar80]

Mandrewoid

Linus, it looks like you had tons of fun making this video, but perhaps before you make the next drone video, you should make sure you don't break the law (repeatedly)while you do so

 

 

And where you see Linus braking Canadian law ?

 

 

R\C copter and planes has been over 50 years and now everybody make big fuss about it

 

Worlds First RC Helicopter from 1941

 

it like bicycles 95% drive nice and safe but 5% stupid driver and everybody hate bicycles for couple of idiots  :mellow:

[Admiral Fear]

Could TunnelBear be used to circumvent dirty ISPs trying to put some services *cough* Netflix *cough* into a slow lane?

[Mandrewoid]

@Sokar80

He clearly flew the uav in a built up area, as evidenced by the houses. He also flew over a road, I'd be willing to bet, which is also strictly prohibited.

There are also more grey - ish areas such as this was a commercial flight, and I would assume he was flying fpv for the high aerial shots, as it would be impossible to tell the orientation of the drone at that height. Then there's the issue of altitude. Linus says it does go 1500 without even the disclaimer that this is illegal in Canada.

I think it would prudent for Linus to do his homework before playing with his "not a toy" because he has thousands of viewers who will consider this their homework and maybe go out and buy one and have it taken away.

[Meawa]

This drone looks like it could be really fun to use filming people doing competitive of freestyle downhill skiing. Does anyone know what the environmental tolerances on these sorts of devices are? Especially cold. (I imagine that they don't work the best.)

 

Lithium Ion batteries don't perform well in the cold, so I'd imagine they wouldn't do that well

If that's what you will be doing with the bebop drone, I would recommend getting a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ v3 instead, but it does cost a bit more (it is $1,300)

[Douglas Mawson]

"Our SD cards are in HD"
Oh my god. Whoever came up with that needs a "get un-fired free" card. Funniest thing I've seen for weeks!

[NumLock21]

The drawing style of that grizzley bear on that site looks similar to the ones drew by Matthew Inman from the Oatmeal. I wonder if they hired him to do their website.

[popman]

That's to bad, on the other hand ski hills near me are plenty warm right now (grrr Whister :angry:)  so maybe it is the perfect time for this sort of thing!

People have probably done the same thing with other drones before.

 

 

The thing about these $200+ quadcopters is that they start to become a little too expensive for simple toys, but they still make a ton of sense for serious work.

Getting an aerial view of some event, or some patch of land is probably worth the grand you'd spend on it in the first place.

[MuffinTopMike]

I like it, especially the tablet and the controller that is really cool. But I really don't think it is worth $900, it would way better to just build your own quad, it would also give you the option to choose what type of camera you want on it, rather than being stuck with the one pre-installed on the Parrot.

[The Crazed Child]

Get back to work LMG, you are having too much fun.

[jman3350]

Its an incredibly "stupid" platform in the sense that anyone can fly it, its so stabilized. But that also makes a dead end for anything more advanced. The main limitation is going to be range, its usually best to have a 2.4GHz band AND a 5.8GHz to handle control and video respectively, these all in one units combine everything to a single band which diminishes range. 

Its a nice enough drone, but for what they charge you're only a couple hundred off a Phantom 2 Vision which will be much better for you, just my thoughts. 

Alright I will keep that in mind!

[Nup]

iI'd love to see more video with this thing, On channel super fun. even just some fun derping around that the LMG guys think of. 

[sevs]

This would be fantastic for B-roll footage and vlogs. No jerky camera movement when trying to ghetto mod something while also trying to hold a camera.