So I’m kind of stoked. I think I found a new toy and its something I’ve wanted to do for a while.
I bought a camera Drone. A fairly good one.
This last summer, the family and I hit up a bunch of ghost towns. They became a random Saturday adventure, and found some cool stuff. I kept thinking it would be cool to see it from the air, and I bought a cheap camera drone. Like $300 cheap off of Amazon.
It sucked. Maybe I just suck as a pilot, but the damn thing was like learning to play golf. I took it to this big field near my house with plenty of room, and I got to where I could fly it around. Then I got cocky and figured I’d see how high it could go. I got up to where it was probably 200 feet, then a damn gust of wind blew it into a gravel pit next several hundred yards away. It took me 45 minutes to find it, running around an old gravel pit in flip flops, fairly pissed off.
It was $300 dollars worth of experience. Its in my garage, right where I left it 5 months ago. I knew I needed to upgrade.
So I did some research, asked a few questions to people in the know I found the one I wanted. About a thousand bucks later, I think I’m in business. We’ll see.
4k video from my GoPro, and the drone locks into GPS satellites to hold its position. Supposedly, it’ll stay true in a 25 MPH wind. It came today. I’m all sorts of geeked. I measured the dimensions before I bought it, and it’ll fit into my tour Pak.
MrZip66 blog, 2.0.
Hopefully, I can take my time and learn this thing and make some cool videos for the blog. Document a thing. pffft, I Can’t wait.