$8000?? i could build something like that for less than 300 assuming the software is free because i don't think betaflight would work for tethered quads
I lived in Zurich for 7 years so when he nonchalantly states $8k price I didnt start choking on my sandwich. The Swiss are better at making and keeping money than anyone, so I can tell you at least right now - this price is correct i.e. they dont have any competition that meets operating parameters and important commercial certifications.
+Anthony Smith Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional (we sneak in as drone folks under the guise of being media -- don't tell anybody). No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
Anthony Smith imagine what a TV crew could do at events with this thing. I read that the Secret service is using a tethered drone for fast sustained infrared aerial recon.
Roswell Flight Test Crew jib arm will carry a proper camera, not your action cams. No professional would look twice at this when a small helium balloon with a gimble would do the job, without batteries or mains power.
+TheRattleSnake3145 As I wrote to Anthony, above: Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional. No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
....one could buy a drone from a different source, ditch the battery, buy some cheap switch mode power supplies off e-bay, and run with it... (or you could even plan and build one, its not exactly rocket science)
FotoKite ground station could be plugged into a Portable Inverter Generator like Generac iQ2000, this way it could be possible to fly it off grid in remote locations!
Jon Netbotic I'm curious to know how they do it too. One work around would be to run AC at a higher voltage up the tether, but then you'd need a power supply on board.
+wordupmag You're right that it's far to expensive for a drone with those capabilities (apart from infinite flying time, of course). However, the don't intend to compete with other drones, but instead with the jib arm -- which is a large, expensive and difficult-to-maneuver piece of video production equipment. Up against that, it may well be price competitive. We'll only know when they bring it to market.
Should add some wire protector to the first 1m below the drone to prevent prop strike on decent. Iv cut to many ropes and wires when tethering my quad to the ground to fly a rope over a tree
Hi, I am from a computer science background and I don't have much knowledge on electrical and electronic things. I have drone which was built by assembling all the drone essential requirements. I have a battery which is 5200 mah, 11.1v 35C. I think I can continuously fly the drone for 10-15 minutes. Now I am thinking of another power source , which is tethered drone. I don’t mind drone tethering I have an idea in my mind to build the tethered drone. I am not sure whether it will work for me or not. Please help me on that. On the Ground I use AC power supply which is 230 volts and use some 14 - 22 gauge wire for 100 feet and at the drone end convert AC 230 volt to DC 12.5 volt. I mean some kind of adapter(AC to DC , 230 volts to 12 volts 1 amps) I will use. Now I am worried about is the amps which is required by the drone motor. I have a 180000uF 50V Electrolytic Capacitor which weighs about 700 grams. So when the capacitor gets charged from the source side and discharges at the other end. Will the discharge side able to run the drone motors? Please help me on this. And I also have some super capacitors, Can I use those capacitors. I am providing you some link on the capacitors which I have already purchased. @t @t
I was thinking about doing something like that, just not sure about all the cable hanging off the bottom. Much like the old school fake remote control cars.
+IMRROcom I think their perspective on this is probably a little different from drone folks, like us... They don't see it as a drone -- they see it as a replacement for a jib arm, in terms of getting aerial shots. A jib arm is large, expensive and difficult to maneuver -- at least compared to this thing. So, if that's your reference point, this probably makes a lot of sense. However, if a drone is your reference point, this seems absurdly expensive. We'll see what happens when they bring it to market.
I could wire up a drone with a long power cable connecting to a voltage regulator and power it up from a wall outlet. That won't cost me more than $50USD + cost for a regular drone.
You could pay 8k for that piece of hot garbage OR just rig up a power adapter for an inspire 1 with 100 feet of wire for 50 bucks. Let's do some math here...
Remember for each foot of cable adds additional weight that the quad has to be able to lift and maintain height with. If you noticed the one on display didn't have that much cable on the reel.
Great ideal, could be implemented better and more cheaply. My uncle and I actually were discussing the tethering idea before I saw this. To get the power up a thin and light cable you would have to massively increase the voltage and reduce the amps to get the same power to the craft - that is how power lines are run to reduce the cable thickness and electrical loss through heat and degradation over a long distance. They could potentially use the tether to send video and control data down the same line, but then to save cost and weight I guess wireless cameras and transmitters are not so bad. He also said the ground station could be powered by a drill battery ??? surely they do not hold much power at all, and as they have about 8x 18650 batteries I do not imagine you can draw much power from them for long - plus if you pull the battery out does the quad drop from the sky ? The fold out drone arms for me was the most innovative part. Costs were huge though for a standard gopro up there, it is kinda cringy and makes me feel sorry for any client who would actually buy their product thinking that it was good. The ideal product would be; Fold out, propeller protected and covered drone which was waterproof to fly in all conditions. Tethered by a very long cable - 50+meters, then using the 'unlimited power' they can get from a tether you could have a really good camera, temperature sensing cameras - FLIR and a hugely powerful led on the bottom.. If you had a disaster zone you could put that thing up, light the entire area and survey it with the camera and at distance use the FLIR to maybe try and find a lost person.
hey if anyone can help me am new to drones i would like to get a drone so i can take films of scotland where i live and was wondering can you buy drones that last in the air for more than 15 mins or what ever it is a drone that lasts for a few hours if thats possible what is the point in having a drone if it only has a short life span thanks all :)
+Team Icarus RC As I wrote to Anthony, above: Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional. No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
I know that you won’t understand this, but a business will look at multiple factors, and comparisons. If this tech will replace one person on a truck, then $8k is nothing. Especially when this is a capital spend rather than an ongoing revenue spend. So say that you can use this to train a single person to deploy it and then take ground level photos while it’s working. Two POVs for the price of one person (an ongoing cost) and a one time fee of $8k! It could go like hot cakes. Get an understanding of ROI before you quit your Walmart job.
+Larry Lund I don't think "the public" is the target audience that they have in mind for this product... It's the broadcast professional and, in their defense, they are promoting this product at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show -- not the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The jib arm, which this system is designed to replace is large, expensive and awkward to work with, so compared with that, this does make sense. We'll see what happens when they bring it to market.
+sjeses My guess would be the ability to maneuver the drone laterally and full or faster control over the movement. Plus with a balloon there's the risk of busting and damaging expensive camera equipment. These drones could have a small on-board battery (doesn't need more than 5-10 mins flight time) in case of power failures with auto-landing.
A balloon can be positioned by changing the length of the cables with a motorized spool. It wouldn't take power to keep it in the air, and the camera can be stabilized and rotated as needed with a brushless gimbal
8k...hahaha hahahah your kidding me right? what practical application can you use to justify 8k? it's not the 24hrs constant monitoring, is it? because who's going to sit and look at that screen for that long? maybe if the camera had a zoom, or, FLIR... but that's pretty much a wrote as drone guys. ... good luck on investors getting their money back
+joshua Chastain You got that right!, but the one in the can 349? I hope it was 349usd. now that would be ok but I would like to modify it but I love the frame! put a pixhawk on it with a real tx but it is prob 3,490usd
+joshua Chastain As I wrote to Anthony, above: Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional. No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
It can used by First Responders that need to set up temporary Wi-Fi and other communications needed during a disaster like an earthquake or weather related damage. The applications are endless.
Could a cargo drone carrying 8to10 Kg travel without recharge for 100kms? I'm planning bicycle across China to Russia, with a drone carring supplies. Who would be an expert to talk about this?
beamin Well Noted & intelligent reply 😅 Idea was to test full potential over long haul flights and battery life. Plus the photography part would be superbly dynamic. Thankyou for the inputs
I can't tell if your having a dig or not. But I'm not sure how you expect a quad/ hexa/whatever to achieve a 100klm flight at all. Assuming you intend for it to be battery powered, the energy density just doesn't exist with current(haha) technology. I doubt a quad type vehicle could achieve such a flight just carrying the batteries required let alone supplies and a camera. You'd have to develop a small liquid fueled combustion quad and accompanying drivetrain, which would be fuckin sick but quite large or poor a few million into rnd to bring those h2 cell powered quads up to scale and bring them to market. You obviously have done no research at all if you asking these kind of questions.
He blatantly said $8,000!!!!!!!! It's just a hovering security camera on a leash! People trying to be innovative with stupid ideas. Anyone can make something waaaaayyyy cheaper: 1) telescoping pole with a tripod base you can stake into the ground 2) a GoPro Hero 6 or similar quality camera 3) a mini HDMI cable from the camera to a display at the base, or just use 5.8Ghz VTX and receiver 4) rig the camera so that you can provide constant power to it from the ground
Its borderline plausible, but its pretty useless to do so, it would be something like this (in terms of size, agility & fragility): ruclips.net/video/emK-qIbuJ-k/видео.html
You have got to be kidding ! Anyone with any DIY could make their own with any decent priced quadcopter that has strong brushless motors on it. What a joke.. lol I wonder how many people bought one of these and did they feel their change hit them in the back of the head as they walked off. lol
Where would Americans be without their one-size-fits-all adjective "cool"??? it's got so they only ever seem to use that and, needless to say (and to my knowledge I never have myself used it) "awesome"... which latter sticks in my ears like a barb every time I hear it..... Here are some suggestions, to indicate positivity - Please Please try them out, you might even find you like them? Excellent Superlative Wonderful Terrific Marvellous And there's a plethora of other alternatives, all capable of wowing your friends and neighbours whose vocabulary might be even narrower than yours, guys. "Cool" ONLY means - of moderate to low temperatures - it does not mean "agreeable" or "fashionable" or ANY of the other 101 uses to which it's put these days. Water can be cool, so can the air. (But if you're cool it might infer undiagnosed death - not a completely unlikely possibility, so brain-dead are so many inhabitants of the USA these days...) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
My goodness the price is laughable, 1080p, I wonder how many they have sold, lol zero I am willing to bet. 8K dollars that insults my intelligence. WTF
It's as useless as an iPhone... It can stay charged too if connected to the wall charger... Same price and both are useless at the field. Sorry I'll pass on this one...
So why not just attach power cables to any old drone and do away with the battery. The higher you go, the heavier the cable. So this thing is utter crap unless you launch from right where the action is... plus no GPS, which means in anything other than a dead calm day, this thing will be buffeted around like a swing ball. No... No, absolutely not.
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my fridge also runs 24/7 when connected to the wall
XD
And your fridge can fly too?
Can the drone cool beer?
yes it can, throw it out the window and it flies
Paul DTOM
Bllaaaaaahhhhhhh
This is actually a really good idea. no flyaways great footage wrong price
$8000?? i could build something like that for less than 300 assuming the software is free because i don't think betaflight would work for tethered quads
its a camera on a stick....
Watch till the end..he said it costs 349 dollars only....you dumb fucks
that's for the consumer version you dumb fuck
I lived in Zurich for 7 years so when he nonchalantly states $8k price I didnt start choking on my sandwich. The Swiss are better at making and keeping money than anyone, so I can tell you at least right now - this price is correct i.e. they dont have any competition that meets operating parameters and important commercial certifications.
Any idea of at what lenght the weight of the cable starts limiting the elevation the "drone" can sit at?
8K for 1080p and it's on a cable, WHAT THE, they have made a big developmental mistake.
+Anthony Smith Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional (we sneak in as drone folks under the guise of being media -- don't tell anybody). No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
Anthony Smith imagine what a TV crew could do at events with this thing. I read that the Secret service is using a tethered drone for fast sustained infrared aerial recon.
Placing it on the long stick would save you 7900$ on these chinese props!
Anthony Smith that cable was the only thing they developed. Drone was from chinese toy store!🤣
Roswell Flight Test Crew jib arm will carry a proper camera, not your action cams. No professional would look twice at this when a small helium balloon with a gimble would do the job, without batteries or mains power.
The tehtered one looks interesting, but what is the flight altitude?
Did it have a video output for video mixer ?
8k. that bloke has gotta be joking.
+TheRattleSnake3145 That'll pay for itself in a two or three gigs if you have the right sort of clients.
+Steven Brown Why would you pay 8k when similar for under 2k?
+TheRattleSnake3145 Where are they selling tethered drone systems for under 2k?
+Steven Brown I didn't say they were, I'm talking about the ACTUAL value of the components.
+TheRattleSnake3145 As I wrote to Anthony, above: Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional. No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
Is that GUY STONED?? 8000$$ ? LMFAOOO DUDE THAT PROB COSTED 50$ to manufacture in china or someshit this guy is absolutely stoned on good marijuana
....one could buy a drone from a different source, ditch the battery, buy some cheap switch mode power supplies off e-bay, and run with it... (or you could even plan and build one, its not exactly rocket science)
What's the maximum powered teather length?
+Green Silver Great question -- and one that I clearly left out of the video. It's 20 meters -- 67 feet.
+Roswell Flight Test Crew What? It should be 30 m. "The package includes both the Extended Smart Leash (100ft/30m)"
FotoKite ground station could be plugged into a Portable Inverter Generator like Generac iQ2000, this way it could be possible to fly it off grid in remote locations!
How do you swap batteries out in the field without dropping the drone?
Where can I place an order for 10 units?
Wait what? Then what about the esc and motor overheating?
S same problem? Did you find out the answer for overheating?
How is that 30 meter tether passing that many amps? Doesn't add up. Otherwise, very cool.
Jon Netbotic I'm curious to know how they do it too. One work around would be to run AC at a higher voltage up the tether, but then you'd need a power supply on board.
@@EngDrewman duhhhh..... 60v 16g wire 100f to 18v, then DC to DC tranformer 18v to 12v etc.
You lost me at 1:42 At that price I see failure in your future.
+wordupmag You're right that it's far to expensive for a drone with those capabilities (apart from infinite flying time, of course). However, the don't intend to compete with other drones, but instead with the jib arm -- which is a large, expensive and difficult-to-maneuver piece of video production equipment. Up against that, it may well be price competitive. We'll only know when they bring it to market.
Mate. Get a balloon & a go pro for $ 250.00
Balloon pops
use multiple
Why wouldn't you use a Helium balloon and stabilizing fans?
Should add some wire protector to the first 1m below the drone to prevent prop strike on decent.
Iv cut to many ropes and wires when tethering my quad to the ground to fly a rope over a tree
From were I can buy
1month stay drone how to buy
Congratulations!
So what’s the point? It’s plugged by cable
Hi,
I am from a computer science background and I don't have much knowledge on electrical and electronic things.
I have drone which was built by assembling all the drone essential requirements.
I have a battery which is 5200 mah, 11.1v 35C. I think I can continuously fly the drone for 10-15 minutes.
Now I am thinking of another power source , which is tethered drone. I don’t mind drone tethering
I have an idea in my mind to build the tethered drone. I am not sure whether it will work for me or not. Please help me on that.
On the Ground I use AC power supply which is 230 volts and use some 14 - 22 gauge wire for 100 feet and at the drone end convert AC 230 volt to DC 12.5 volt. I mean some kind of adapter(AC to DC , 230 volts to 12 volts 1 amps) I will use. Now I am worried about is the amps which is required by the drone motor. I have a 180000uF 50V Electrolytic Capacitor which weighs about 700 grams. So when the capacitor gets charged from the source side and discharges at the other end.
Will the discharge side able to run the drone motors? Please help me on this.
And I also have some super capacitors, Can I use those capacitors.
I am providing you some link on the capacitors which I have already purchased.
@t
@t
With 8k i could buy a drone that is 1000x better
Cost???
Excellent idea for crowd monitoring at music festivals for safety and security or deploying resources to a medical emergency.
I was thinking about doing something like that, just not sure about all the cable hanging off the bottom. Much like the old school fake remote control cars.
+IMRROcom I think their perspective on this is probably a little different from drone folks, like us... They don't see it as a drone -- they see it as a replacement for a jib arm, in terms of getting aerial shots. A jib arm is large, expensive and difficult to maneuver -- at least compared to this thing. So, if that's your reference point, this probably makes a lot of sense. However, if a drone is your reference point, this seems absurdly expensive. We'll see what happens when they bring it to market.
bridge inspectors have used this tech for awhile now.
I could wire up a drone with a long power cable connecting to a voltage regulator and power it up from a wall outlet. That won't cost me more than $50USD + cost for a regular drone.
You could pay 8k for that piece of hot garbage OR just rig up a power adapter for an inspire 1 with 100 feet of wire for 50 bucks. Let's do some math here...
Don't confuse them. lol
Wow...
For that price & no need to worry about power... it needs to have like a Sony Super 35 camera on it.
Would be cool to bring an FPV receiver up high. Just need a super long cable
Remember for each foot of cable adds additional weight that the quad has to be able to lift and maintain height with. If you noticed the one on display didn't have that much cable on the reel.
Boeing and Airbus are looking for the blueprints of this...
Hello I haven't seen Tech n Stine. Hopefully all is well.
a laser beam is the best tether, and you've already put a its markup.
Interesting concept. Like it :)
Great ideal, could be implemented better and more cheaply.
My uncle and I actually were discussing the tethering idea before I saw this. To get the power up a thin and light cable you would have to massively increase the voltage and reduce the amps to get the same power to the craft - that is how power lines are run to reduce the cable thickness and electrical loss through heat and degradation over a long distance.
They could potentially use the tether to send video and control data down the same line, but then to save cost and weight I guess wireless cameras and transmitters are not so bad.
He also said the ground station could be powered by a drill battery ??? surely they do not hold much power at all, and as they have about 8x 18650 batteries I do not imagine you can draw much power from them for long - plus if you pull the battery out does the quad drop from the sky ?
The fold out drone arms for me was the most innovative part. Costs were huge though for a standard gopro up there, it is kinda cringy and makes me feel sorry for any client who would actually buy their product thinking that it was good.
The ideal product would be;
Fold out, propeller protected and covered drone which was waterproof to fly in all conditions. Tethered by a very long cable - 50+meters, then using the 'unlimited power' they can get from a tether you could have a really good camera, temperature sensing cameras - FLIR and a hugely powerful led on the bottom.. If you had a disaster zone you could put that thing up, light the entire area and survey it with the camera and at distance use the FLIR to maybe try and find a lost person.
Ivan G-S and remember that you have to factor in the weight of the cable into the lift capacity!
The cable they used looks like just regular clear extension zip cord. Something they just tossed together
How about a balloon... since it needs to be held thr whole time anyway
hey if anyone can help me am new to drones i would like to get a drone so i can take films of scotland where i live and was wondering can you buy drones that last in the air for more than 15 mins or what ever it is a drone that lasts for a few hours if thats possible what is the point in having a drone if it only has a short life span thanks all :)
attach the drone to a mini blimp
$8,000? You've got at max $1K in that rig, most likely significantly less... What?!
+Team Icarus RC
$8,000 for something like this , is a common joke
+Team Icarus RC As I wrote to Anthony, above: Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional. No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
targeting it to a professional consumer doesn't justify ripping them off
Fortunately us grown ups can make that decision. That's how adulting works.
I know that you won’t understand this, but a business will look at multiple factors, and comparisons. If this tech will replace one person on a truck, then $8k is nothing. Especially when this is a capital spend rather than an ongoing revenue spend. So say that you can use this to train a single person to deploy it and then take ground level photos while it’s working. Two POVs for the price of one person (an ongoing cost) and a one time fee of $8k! It could go like hot cakes. Get an understanding of ROI before you quit your Walmart job.
It's a glorified kite
Now these guys are on to something!
You can buy a lot of batteries for your Phantom 4 for 8k!
You could buy a lot of Phatom 4's for 8K.. lol
Will TV news get job like Drones Cam?
get a really long selfie stick and it will do the same lol
Great idea!
actually(not sarcastic though), i thought it would be flying with batteries.
24hrs with a cable... 24hrs with no cable !
Ill build it one day !
Wireless transmission! Also without batteries.
At 8000, u can keep it. What a job. The public is not that stupid.
+Larry Lund I don't think "the public" is the target audience that they have in mind for this product... It's the broadcast professional and, in their defense, they are promoting this product at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show -- not the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The jib arm, which this system is designed to replace is large, expensive and awkward to work with, so compared with that, this does make sense. We'll see what happens when they bring it to market.
just because the people who buy it have that kind of money does not mean that it is worth that much it cant be worth more than $700
I want the one in a can so I can send it up over my house to see what the heck the dogs are barking at every night.
@LeEpicPlayz Bacon Well I got plenty of Mesquite beans, so that 'spains it!
That's not a drone, that's a kit!
Why can't it fly forever? Why only 24 hrs?
Drone kite is a really fun idea.
Now we just need hobbyking to make a xt60 ground station tether so people can use there own multiroters in this manner LoL
8k for 1080P? PPPAAASSSSSS!!!
Just get the P4.
$8k??? For only a little bit more you can get an Inspire 2 with a tether, and you could live stream in exponentially better quality than that thing.
this is very much applicable
How much plz????
Why are you dressed like your going on a safari when you interview? And...what is the patch on your left arm?
what would be the benefit of this over, let's say, a helium balloon on three cables in a triangle and a gimbal?
+sjeses My guess would be the ability to maneuver the drone laterally and full or faster control over the movement. Plus with a balloon there's the risk of busting and damaging expensive camera equipment. These drones could have a small on-board battery (doesn't need more than 5-10 mins flight time) in case of power failures with auto-landing.
A balloon can be positioned by changing the length of the cables with a motorized spool.
It wouldn't take power to keep it in the air, and the camera can be stabilized and rotated as needed with a brushless gimbal
+sjeses balloons are too big. They were being used in realestete to take aerial photos of houses for sale before quadcopter drones came along.
8k...hahaha hahahah your kidding me right?
what practical application can you use to justify 8k?
it's not the 24hrs constant monitoring, is it? because who's going to sit and look at that screen for that long? maybe if the camera had a zoom, or, FLIR... but that's pretty much a wrote as drone guys. ... good luck on investors getting their money back
+joshua Chastain You got that right!, but the one in the can 349? I hope it was 349usd. now that would be ok but I would like to modify it but I love the frame! put a pixhawk on it with a real tx but it is prob 3,490usd
+joshua Chastain As I wrote to Anthony, above: Clearly, at that price, it's meant for the professional user -- and notice that they had it on display at NAB, not CES -- which is specifically aimed at the broadcast professional. No doubt it has an enormous advantage over a conventional jib-arm in pretty much every conceivable way, but only the market will determine if folks will separate themselves from $8,000 US for the privilege of owning one.
It can used by First Responders that need to set up temporary Wi-Fi and other communications needed during a disaster like an earthquake or weather related damage. The applications are endless.
guard drone for emergent, shtf, fema camps...equipped with taser or guns.
FLIR cost over 50000
Could a cargo drone carrying 8to10 Kg travel without recharge for 100kms?
I'm planning bicycle across China to Russia, with a drone carring supplies.
Who would be an expert to talk about this?
It'd be much easier to just carry those 8kg of supplies on your bike. And much cheaper, and physically possible.
beamin
Well Noted & intelligent reply 😅
Idea was to test full potential over long haul flights and battery life.
Plus the photography part would be superbly dynamic.
Thankyou for the inputs
I can't tell if your having a dig or not. But I'm not sure how you expect a quad/ hexa/whatever to achieve a 100klm flight at all. Assuming you intend for it to be battery powered, the energy density just doesn't exist with current(haha) technology. I doubt a quad type vehicle could achieve such a flight just carrying the batteries required let alone supplies and a camera. You'd have to develop a small liquid fueled combustion quad and accompanying drivetrain, which would be fuckin sick but quite large or poor a few million into rnd to bring those h2 cell powered quads up to scale and bring them to market. You obviously have done no research at all if you asking these kind of questions.
And how long would it be before they locked you up in China as being a spy as you try to explain a drone following you.
a rod or a relatively large balloon can do the trick
outstanding
now produce a tesla drone as long as i get a janitor job for you stealing my patent id be cool with it
GREAT. 💯
BETTER than using awful batteries.
Powerloops are hell...
He blatantly said $8,000!!!!!!!! It's just a hovering security camera on a leash! People trying to be innovative with stupid ideas. Anyone can make something waaaaayyyy cheaper:
1) telescoping pole with a tripod base you can stake into the ground
2) a GoPro Hero 6 or similar quality camera
3) a mini HDMI cable from the camera to a display at the base, or just use 5.8Ghz VTX and receiver
4) rig the camera so that you can provide constant power to it from the ground
Whats really so insulting about this is they probably build this POS for 500 bucks.
What $349??
8 grand?? Dream the eff on. The consumer unit is little more than a toy.
3d Robotics had the same idea.
that interviewer is hilarious 🙈 ✌🏻
we need a solar drone ... this drone is like a kite lol
Can u build a drone powered by solar energy cool drone by the way....
Its borderline plausible, but its pretty useless to do so, it would be something like this (in terms of size, agility & fragility):
ruclips.net/video/emK-qIbuJ-k/видео.html
Who would ever think about plugging something in! :/
yep, $8K for this, insane!
Isn't this $8K?
I from Brazil
Placing it on a long stick would save you 7900$ on these chinese props!
You have got to be kidding ! Anyone with any DIY could make their own with any decent priced quadcopter that has strong brushless motors on it. What a joke.. lol I wonder how many people bought one of these and did they feel their change hit them in the back of the head as they walked off. lol
Now someone gonna strip over drone
Nice
Oof, not going to take off anytime soon with a price like that.
Can't you just see a television news crew doing a live broadcast using one of these as a semi truck blows by snagging the cable.
I can see horror movies playing up the drama of an accident like that, kinda like in Final Destination.
Never trust anyone whos teeth show while they are talking.
Where would Americans be without their one-size-fits-all adjective "cool"??? it's got so they only ever seem to use that and, needless to say (and to my knowledge I never have myself used it) "awesome"... which latter sticks in my ears like a barb every time I hear it.....
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And there's a plethora of other alternatives, all capable of wowing your friends and neighbours whose vocabulary might be even narrower than yours, guys. "Cool" ONLY means - of moderate to low temperatures - it does not mean "agreeable" or "fashionable" or ANY of the other 101 uses to which it's put these days. Water can be cool, so can the air. (But if you're cool it might infer undiagnosed death - not a completely unlikely possibility, so brain-dead are so many inhabitants of the USA these days...)
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The title of this video is misleading.
I'll build IT for around 300€ /~300dollar no kiddin
Crap in a tube. You can't polish a turd!
I would rather fly a kite
My goodness the price is laughable, 1080p, I wonder how many they have sold, lol zero I am willing to bet. 8K dollars that insults my intelligence. WTF
It's as useless as an iPhone... It can stay charged too if connected to the wall charger... Same price and both are useless at the field. Sorry I'll pass on this one...
8000?😂😂but I can buy 100 spare batteries or 10 more drones or make same system just for a couple hundred bucks
I'd pay €50
My drone can fyl only 10 minute😅..uuurrggghh
So why not just attach power cables to any old drone and do away with the battery. The higher you go, the heavier the cable. So this thing is utter crap unless you launch from right where the action is... plus no GPS, which means in anything other than a dead calm day, this thing will be buffeted around like a swing ball. No... No, absolutely not.
better this thing was wirelessly powered.not bad.
Tethered?? Erm very very single use application.
awesome idea but pricy
666 likes lol
Just buy a kite then....