I went to watch some drone racing, it was pretty cool!
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Tag: flying
New camera!
Published by Vic Harkness on December 29, 2015Bought myself a Nikon D750 plus a couple of lenses, this is my initial thoughts on them.
Failed waypoints flight test
Published by Vic Harkness on April 16, 2015After the issues with the previous waypoints, I decided to go for a rectangular path: This should hopefully be easier to see. I have added…
Putting cameras on birds
Published by Vic Harkness on April 6, 2015As a side project, the falconers and I wanted to experiment with mounting cameras on birds. I purchased an 808 model key fob camera (left),…
Dissertation meeting
Published by Vic Harkness on February 18, 2015On Saturday I visited the Falconry School and had a chat about my project. They did a few more demonstration flights while I was there.…
While doing my background research, I found a forum containing a discussion on the use of UAVs for falconry (http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=8dfe66d7d5c5df7d09fdef9d68642c31&t=133013). The initial poster, TomOlivia, describes…
A brief look at quadcopters
Published by Vic Harkness on February 2, 2015I’ve had a little look on Thingiverse to see what sort of designs people are using for home-made UAVs. My UAV will be a quadcopter…
Trip to France
Published by Vic Harkness on November 18, 2014I had a few days to spare, so my partner and I did a long weekend in France. We left on Thursday, and returned home…