Thursday, November 5, 2015

Drone?

I've been working all this evening trying to fix my drone. Shortly before coming up to Canada it was in a way like Humpty Dumpty, except instead of sitting on a wall, it ran into a tall tree. Then it had a great fall, and though there were no kings and horses (and only the battery popped out), it still had problems that I couldn't figure out. The gimbal (the piece that keeps the camera steady) was crooked and I think it might be a bit bent. This causes the camera to not video stable shots, and the camera was crooked.  After a bit of work on it and researching the problem, I gave up for the time being. I didn't want to even imagining replacing the gimbal (if it was really broke) because that piece is at least $600. After coming to Canada, I used the drone for a time or two, but then when I went out one night to let Julia fly it, it would fly. After looking into it and having my mom send up the manual, I found that it was called (in the manual) an "unknown error." That didn't help... at all.  So, once again I put it aside and ignored it because I didn't want to deal with it. Fast forward a handful of weeks to today, and I decided to try working on it again. I realized, through research, that it wouldn't fly because the software or something was out of date, after updating, I found a number of videos and forums of people who have had similar problems as me. Reading through and watching those gave me some ideas, and I think I now have fixed it (at least good enough), just not quite like new.  I don't know for sure if the camera is still crooked when it flies because it's dark now and I can't see the horizon to tell or not.  I'll have to see tomorrow.

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