[Hackupy-discuss] Aerial camera platform

[planetary]

We have had great reaults with the LG Optimus V rooted with Superuser. Solid 3G connection in LA and NYC (a Sprint MVNO), it's tiny and light but powerful, easy to root (superuser only gives great results), and best of all it's a $125 over the counter device that can run on Virgin prepaid plans. You don't even have to top up every month to keep svc alive in the limited plans.

Light, performative, easy to use, and supercheap relative to other EVDO devices.

That said we haven't extensively tested USB tethering, just WiFi hotspot comfigured using Quick Settings (not root required).  There is a well reviewed tether app for rooted devices we've been meaning to test.


Does hobbyking do bulk discounts on these parts? Have you discussed minimum volumes?

On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:38 PM, sam reese <skibumperspective at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just keeping everyone posted as to what's going on, because it's been
> a while since I've hit this list with self promotion!
> 
> We did a bench test of frame and motors wednesday evening, and the
> motors spun up, were controllable in a moderately-expected manner by
> both RC and the stabilization system. Woohoo! Our frame is about 4
> hours of milling away from completion, the battery cradel/power
> distribution system has not really begun! I got a source on
> semi-permanent loan on a lipo battery charger!
> 
> All in all, I think we're a solid day or two solid evenings away from
> having a flying (soon to be crashing), drone, which is hugely
> exciting!
> 
> If you'd like some pics, https://twitter.com/#!/occucopter/media/grid
> I just got my ustream thing working, so next time I'm at the shop and
> working on this (tonight? Tomorrow?), I'll get some videos of the
> frame assembled and spin-testing all motors together.
> 
> Things that are not going so hot:
> - Video: I've been putting this one off because a few people say they
> might swoop in and solve this for us. It's moot until first we are
> flying and secondly, we are reliably flying the thing... but it'd be
> cool to have some positive motion on that front. Worst comes to worse,
> I truly hate my current phone (sidekick 4g), and wouldnt mind
> strapping it to the belly, though it is unbelieveably heavy and
> unreliable and slow and terrible in every way.
> - spares: All the motors, ESCs, and batteries are HobbyKing parts,
> and due to hollidays (ie: brokeness), I bought the minimum I needed,
> meaning that when something burns out, we're grounded for 2+ weeks
> waiting for the slow boat from singapore. (Really, in this day and
> age, it takes that long!?!)
> - flight experience: We've got none. Other than Parrot ARs, I don't
> think I know anyone who's flown a quad copter. I've got 4 spare props,
> (as those break on crashing the beast), but we'll soon learn, I guess.
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