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A New Hobby

Well, it's time for a blog update so that means generating thoughts, turning them into words and committing the words to a PHP file. It's usually at this point where one's mind goes blank, turns into custard and dribbles out of one's ear to begin its new life wandering the plains.

Which isn't a bad thing. Summer is here and while most of it will be spent working the day job (WISP isn't nearly big enough to buy nibbly bits for the cat,) free time in 2014 will be spent on our new collective hobby.

Multirotors

I don't know how it started, only that James, Nik and I are in possession of a tri, hex and quadcopter respectively. Little flying frames which defy gravity and stick two fingers up at physics by simply not giving a damn. Oh, I guess electric gyros and accelerometers are involved somehow, but that's a little too close to being dark magic.

A magic I will soon have to learn. Currently I'm using a Blade 350QX, but even with a camera gimbal its gyro sensitivity is a little too... well... sensitive. It shakes, like a wet dog in rehab. And, because of proprietary firmware, that can't be adjusted. The major pitfall of buying something off the shelf is that you cannot tinker with its brain parts. Manufacturers rarely like to see their customers poking at brains.

I think it'll soon be time to raid the Flitetest forums and look up a build-log for a hexcopter. Something made of wood, something that doesn't mind being landed upside-down or straight up crashed into the ground like a homesick meteor.

Until then, we're looking at bringing the multirotors to a video near you. Fairly soon, I mean, British weather permitting and all that.

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Neil
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