Golf instructors lecture in videos shot from either a face-on view, or what they call down the line (DTL) view. After countless hours of watching one or the other, started to crave some eye candy. So, decided to make some.
Brick and mortar still serves up instant gratification. At Best Buy, snagged a 3DR Solo drone and mount for the GoPro (they call it a gimbal). It's awesome bit of kit. Easy to put together, charge up, and fly. Kind of.
First try, the drone launched, flew up to 10m and hovered. Standard take off. Then, when first instructed to move a bit, it tilted sideways then did an Icarus back to earth. No idea why. Props flew off to god knows where. OK. Razor blades (in more ways than one). Order more. Repeat.
Once past the nubie mistakes, things got a bit easier. And more fun. Here's the first bit of footage made looking just at the iPhone live feed and being a bird. 400 feet up, about half mile away, High winds, so a bit wobbly but still, it was neat-o.
Free bird, baby.
Ordered more interesting add-on kit. Pretty sure it'll get difficult again. Stay tuned.
(via Jiro on iPhone)