July 5th, 2014
Moreno Valley, CA
The story of me and quadcopters begins last Fall. Earlier if you count the year-long effort of Tom Mahood (with an able assist from Jack Freer) to get me involved in drones. I finally broke down and bought a QAV500 with a Naza controller. Some number of crashes later I was highly impressed with the survivability of the QAV500, somewhat less impressed with the Naza. So I made the move to an open-source, open-hardware, flight controller called the APM. Very impressive in functionality and much cheaper than the Naza, though more complex to set up and operate. I already had a couple old GoPro Hero’s (the original HD version), so that was a no-brainer, although many people (including Tom) seem to get excellent results with the Mobius Action Cam, which is 75% cheaper than a new GoPro Hero 3 Black.
