Mega Helicopter Flying Camera.

toby_winkler
toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
edited July 2010 in The Crudcatcher
Is it just me or do you wish you had one of these constantly following you around recording all your riding:

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Awesome bit of kit, more info and some videos here.
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  • RupertCommunicator
    RupertCommunicator Posts: 734
    Looks like it's made of Lego Technic...
  • toby_winkler
    toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
    RupertCommunicator wrote:
    Looks like it's made of Lego Technic...

    Which if it is, MAKES IT EVEN COOLER!
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  • RupertCommunicator
    RupertCommunicator Posts: 734
    True. I managed to make a pneumatic truck out of Lego Technic when I was a kid, but never a HELICOPTER MOUNTED CAMERA. That would be rad to the sickness!
  • toby_winkler
    toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
    RupertCommunicator wrote:
    True. I managed to make a pneumatic truck out of Lego Technic when I was a kid, but never a HELICOPTER MOUNTED CAMERA. That would be rad to the sickness!

    Rad to the power of sick indeed.
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    Shame the battery life is utter pants though.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    awesome!
  • toby_winkler
    toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
    chedabob wrote:
    Shame the battery life is utter pants though.

    15 minutes is incredibly poor, a big bulky battery would hamper it an awful lot though.
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  • RupertCommunicator
    RupertCommunicator Posts: 734
    15 minutes is still long enough for a DH run though provided it could keep up.
  • toby_winkler
    toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
    RupertCommunicator wrote:
    15 minutes is still long enough for a DH run though provided it could keep up.

    I doubt it would be able to film the whole run though, through the trees etc. Having to change the battery or charge it up every 15 minutes if you wanted to film more than a few runs would be annoying though.
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  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    15 mins is time enough to fly narcotics and mobile phones over the walls of prisons to supply the inmate--oh sh!t
  • toby_winkler
    toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
    Grondel wrote:
    15 mins is time enough to fly narcotics and mobile phones over the walls of prisons to supply the inmate--oh sh!t

    And you need the camera to film the whole thing so you can show it off to your mates? ;)
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  • RupertCommunicator
    RupertCommunicator Posts: 734
    Toby_Winkler wrote:
    RupertCommunicator wrote:
    15 minutes is still long enough for a DH run though provided it could keep up.

    I doubt it would be able to film the whole run though, through the trees etc. Having to change the battery or charge it up every 15 minutes if you wanted to film more than a few runs would be annoying though.

    It would be fine if Luke Skywalker were piloting it though. You wouldn't be able to do it because the pilot would need to have sight of the helicopter throughout, so you might as well just mount the camera in the vehicle the pilot is in!

    And I doubt it could carry much drugs!
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    Toby_Winkler wrote:
    And you need the camera to film the whole thing so you can show it off to your mates? ;)
    The camera is used for "artistic" matters, in which case only 3 minutes of battery time are required
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Funnily enough, 20 minutes is about the limit of how long you can record video on an EOS 5D, and people are wetting themselves at the excitement of that.

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