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This is the footage of our first quadcopter me and my 8-year-old built together he did most of the work i did the programming and flying. we are continuing Building to try to recreate the mars landing by adding gps, fpv and making it self autonomous.

I have been exploring ways to make my videos smoother using my Gopro. One of the thing that plague fpv flyers is vibration and what we call the “Jello effect” which is really In the correct term it is called Rolling shutter. What is rolling shutter and what causes it? NTSC video is normally 29.97 frame per second our uk and over seas friends use PAL which is 25 frames per second. Each fame that is captured is not capture in one shot.. But captured by scanning very rapidly ether up and down or left to right. ok now remember [...]

The First Paper Quadcopter by Tommy Gunn     I was sitting at my desk and had an urge to make something new something I had never made before I don't know if you ever got a rush of a feeling to be creative and inventive I get that feeling a lot...Sometimes it's just a false alarm and I just have to go to the bathroom. I  was thinking about the flitetest planes, and foam boards and how could I make a quadcopter with foam board I tried a bunch of ideas in my head doing A/style B/style [...]

I don't know about you guys but.. Everything around me can be very messy. But when it comes to my electronic parts I like to keep everything  neat and tidy. Before   After When it comes to servo wires I have tried making labels with tape and tags but they smear/fall off after time. I also have used the hobby king shrink tubing labels but then I have to order them wait two months .. cut it and heat shrink it too much work and time. And if you try and put them on the Plug It is way too [...]

I Spent the last days of summer in the UK Jesse has got much better at flying now and I wanted to capture the nice landscape over there. Even though it was windy we still flew and we were playing with some new setting on our flight controller we did not get it as smooth as we wanted but it is still nice! The video is about 5 mins long yes I could have made it shorter but I like this song it really captures the feeling. Hey just pretend it's a MTV video! What no jokes today! [...]

It all started this last summer... The video The previous post about this.. http://www.tommy-gunn.com/yes-or-no/ Me and my 8 year old son Jesse making the X-1 After watching the mars landing he asked me if we could make something like the "Mars curiosity" also... I thought about it for a second ...Then I said sure why not! Even tho I did not have NASA's billion dollar budget. Who am I to tell an 8 year old you can't do something because it's too hard! I had never build a quadcopter before and this was not a kit. (Everyone said [...]

I wanted to show that he does this all by himself with very little help from me. Some people may think I do all the work and then had it to him and say he did it. I do help some times when he gets stuck. But he does all his own work. It took him about 1 hour to make this led spinner. I was in the background eating a sandwich and watching while he worked.

I was trying to push it little and see how well I could tread this obstacle course. some of it was hard being so close to the ground and the "ground effect up wind" make it a little wobbly. I also had 10.5 inch props I could go thru smaller openings with 8 in props. maybe I will try that if i get enough responses. Over all i did not break any props on this day. please subscribe if you want to see more videos like these or at least like it so i know what you guys want to [...]