Journal Alioth's Journal: Crash!! 4
In between trying to work on the too-many-projects that I need to get done, I did a little bit of RC flying.
It wasn't successful. After not having any crashes in 25 or so battery packs, I crashed the RC heli three times yesterday. Good job wooden rotor blades are only 2 quid a pair when bought in five packs! The worst thing about it was that each crash was down to stupidity on my part.
For your sense of schadenfraude, the heli was actually carrying a camera for the last one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJx7AKgZjpI
Oh well. Off to get superglue to fix the frame.
Lest the ground come up and smite thee... (Score:2)
Neat video (Score:1)
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I think the video scan frequency on these cameras is quite slow - vibration doesn't cause this kind of artifact with my CCD Sony bullet cam (which appears to have a very high shutter speed - note there's no image wobble in the sidecar videos, which use the Sony). The trouble is the Sony needs a separate recorder, and