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Title: A dream come true...
Post by: Kirin on September 27, 2006, 06:07:28 AM
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=9091545735215129742&hl=fr
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Post by: Gunthr on September 27, 2006, 08:25:18 AM
wow - those video goggles and the quality of the real time live reception blows me away.  I think we are seeing the future of RC here.
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Post by: moot on September 27, 2006, 09:22:08 AM
All it needs is a gun... :D
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Post by: Ripsnort on September 27, 2006, 09:22:49 AM
Wow! RC taken to a new level! Amazing!
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Post by: Casca on September 27, 2006, 09:45:55 AM
That is just cool.
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Post by: Gunthr on September 27, 2006, 10:04:11 AM
I think you'd want to be sitting down in a lawn chair while flying a system like this, you could really get vertigo with too many aerobatics.   it obviously doesn't matter if the model is flying towards you or away from you - you are in the cockpit -  so it should make RC flying very easy.  Notice the pilots in these videos aren't even looking at the planes when they do slow flybys past themselves ... almost like an out of body experience.
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Post by: Hap on September 27, 2006, 10:09:09 AM
Wow.

hap
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Post by: Hawklore on September 27, 2006, 12:40:38 PM
Hello military contract.
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Post by: Yeager on September 27, 2006, 01:29:03 PM
Ive been thinking for years the only reason to fly RC was if I could actually look out of the RC remotely as I was flying it.  Looks like it may now be attainable by average folks.  Kinda scary too.......you could really pull off some damaging stuff with that.....
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Post by: Eagler on September 27, 2006, 01:34:11 PM
awesome!
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Post by: 1K3 on September 27, 2006, 01:35:16 PM
Looks like there's no need for human pilots anymore.  In the future military planes will be unmanned, massed produced, and can pull more sustained Gs.

Looks like we will see these in thousands in the future, WWII style in terms of numbers.
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Post by: Eagler on September 27, 2006, 01:38:06 PM
on the flip side, the terrorists could wreck havoc with a fleet of these
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Post by: Yeager on September 27, 2006, 01:38:41 PM
hmmm...iamgine arming a few of these things with rapid firing BB guns and doing some RC dogfighting :D
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Post by: GtoRA2 on September 27, 2006, 01:42:52 PM
OMGZOR!!!! FEaR TEH TerORISts WiTh Rc BoMZ!!@!!@@


:rolleyes:
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Post by: Yeager on September 27, 2006, 01:44:00 PM
can you say MiniPredator :cool:
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Post by: BlueJ1 on September 27, 2006, 03:00:44 PM
Isnt it just a smaller, cheaper, less high tech version of a drone?
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Post by: RTR on September 27, 2006, 03:37:25 PM
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Hawklore-
Hello military contract.


Already there hawk, has been for a while now.
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Post by: SMIDSY on September 27, 2006, 04:50:13 PM
well, there goes my one practical argument agaisnt UCAVs (situational awareness).
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Post by: Hawklore on September 27, 2006, 05:57:59 PM
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Originally posted by RTR
Already there hawk, has been for a while now.


They have it in situational awareness etc??

So the drone pilot can move the camera etc just by moving his head?

I dunno, I thought it was all joystick..
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Post by: Gh0stFT on September 27, 2006, 07:12:52 PM
incredible what fun you can have with a fisheye-lens!
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Post by: FUNKED1 on September 27, 2006, 07:15:52 PM
If they can sell this in a ready-to-fly package, with the video system, included and set up, I'll get back into R/C.
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Post by: RTR on September 27, 2006, 07:18:56 PM
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So the drone pilot can move the camera etc just by moving his head?


You know Hawklore, that's a really good question. I hadn't thought about it, and I don't really know the answer to that.

Anybody have an answer?

cheers,
RTR
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Post by: LePaul on September 27, 2006, 07:42:44 PM
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
If they can sell this in a ready-to-fly package, with the video system, included and set up, I'll get back into R/C.


Yeah I was checking out a few of the links at the end of the video.  The video transmitter has a 100 meter range.  Ive since some that are a bit more, for use with rockets with rear facing cameras.  

Neat stuff!
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Post by: cav58d on September 27, 2006, 07:49:15 PM
That is freaking awesome...

I remember watching something in the discovery military channel about the USMC testing a 3-piece fold away UAV, that could be stored in a grunts rucksack, and used for recon instead of actually sending in a manned aircraft or predator...I wanna say it used very similiar SA technology, but then again most civillian technology ends up being spawned from military technology so im not suprised...

awesome though.....does anyone have any more info on the guy or his RC?
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Post by: Swager on September 27, 2006, 08:10:35 PM
Cool!
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Post by: cav58d on September 27, 2006, 08:20:16 PM
So cool!...I keep watching the video over and over...I want one!
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Post by: Casca on September 27, 2006, 11:09:58 PM
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Originally posted by RTR
You know Hawklore, that's a really good question. I hadn't thought about it, and I don't really know the answer to that.

Anybody have an answer?

cheers,
RTR


Tracked down some of the links at the end of the video.  Two-axis gyro on your head feeds two RC channels through the buddy box port on a compatible RC transmitter.  The camera tracks your head movements.
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Post by: BlueJ1 on September 28, 2006, 05:42:21 AM
Why would the military want a view from the pilot seat instead of being able to see the battlefeild below and in all other directions at the same time.
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Post by: Hawklore on September 28, 2006, 06:49:39 AM
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Why would the military want a view from the pilot seat instead of being able to see the battlefeild below and in all other directions at the same time.


To combat other drones and or fighters equipped with the same system.

:aok
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Post by: Charge on September 28, 2006, 07:06:12 AM
Err, guns?

U mean like...this?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1523159543161079323&q=RC+Helicopter+with+Gun

-C+
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Post by: moot on September 28, 2006, 08:13:27 AM
Charge, the cruicial detail is that pan-cam with wings for ACM :)
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Post by: Charge on September 28, 2006, 08:40:12 AM
Yeah, for a long time I have thought of a camera inside my favourite plane's RC model and controlling and watching it fly from the cockpit. And if the view would be movable...whew!

For combat I'd put a laser pointer in the plane pointing forward and a receiver in the back of the cockpit to recognize a hit. Of course it cannot register a proper lead on target and not from every angle but it would be someting to resemble hitting another plane with a a cannon.

The applications are limitless....

-C+
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Post by: moot on September 28, 2006, 08:46:34 AM
Lasers don't require the dweeb with the joystick to account for ballistics.. paintballs, or something that either marks, or disables the targets is more fun.

That'd be really easy to add, I think.  Something someone may have fun bringing to the con, for example...
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Post by: Dago on September 28, 2006, 11:06:00 AM
Hey, is this gonna put eagl out of work?  :D

Just kidding ya eagl.
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Post by: x0847Marine on September 28, 2006, 03:11:43 PM
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Originally posted by Hawklore
Hello military contract.


The Marines have a set up like that that fits in a back pack and launches with a bungi.

I want one, very cool toy.

That song in the viedo almost made me slash my own throat... talk about depressing.
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Post by: LePaul on September 28, 2006, 03:42:19 PM
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Originally posted by x0847Marine

That song in the viedo almost made me slash my own throat... talk about depressing.


Surely ye jest....I've certainly heard worse.
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Post by: g00b on September 28, 2006, 04:00:41 PM
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Originally posted by Casca
Tracked down some of the links at the end of the video.  Two-axis gyro on your head feeds two RC channels through the buddy box port on a compatible RC transmitter.  The camera tracks your head movements.


Linky?

ty
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Post by: Gh0stFT on September 28, 2006, 06:32:04 PM
google video, on the right side, you find many other videos from this guy.
Gyrocontrol test  (http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-7085704511163291427&hl=fr)
Flying over F1 circuit of Montreal (http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=3556794983690699125&hl=fr)
video of planes Crashes (http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=4410783374249173794&hl=fr)
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Post by: shooter1cac on September 28, 2006, 07:04:34 PM
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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
google video, on the right side, you find many other videos from this guy.
Gyrocontrol test  (http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-7085704511163291427&hl=fr)
Flying over F1 circuit of Montreal (http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=3556794983690699125&hl=fr)
video of planes Crashes (http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=4410783374249173794&hl=fr)


LOL that last video looks a lot like my "landings"
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Post by: Casca on September 28, 2006, 10:35:06 PM
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Originally posted by g00b
Linky?

ty


This site (http://www.rc-tech.ch/web/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=18&Itemid=26&lang=en)  has the gyro setup.  Looks like you can buy them integrated into goggles but I think he used the stand alone gyro with another type of goggle.  Prices are given in Swiss Francs.