Recent content by giac

HI all, recently I had a bad crash which ended up with a broken arm (the spark front-right, not mine!), but I'd like confirmation from the experts here on what really happened. [You can skip the part in blue if you want] A bit of context: many months ago I had another hard crash (I know, I...

I flew my Spark a few times in a small apartment no problems... Except for once. That time, the Spark started without being able to get a good fix, as usual, but after 10 seconds in the air or so, it got a (very bad) GPS fix and started drifting badly. I was able to manually control and land it...

Not to spoil the fun (sorry), but have you tried to charge "all 3 of your batteries 5 times over"? I bet it won't work. Reason is simple: the 24000 mAh are at 3.7V, while spark batteries are at 11.4V. A better measure is the energy: your power bank is rated as 88 Wh, a spark battery at about 17...

Sounds like a great proposal, but I think it's easier said than done. Just a few difficulties that come to my mind: - center of mass must not shift too much when replacing parts - correct tuning of control loops greatly depends on mass and its distribution - latching systems are going to add...

New (very positive) report on my Galaxy S7. Flying towards a mountain pass I was able to get 1750m out and about 385 m above takeoff (about 50m above ground at the pass) with basically no video feed issues! That was one impressive flight... I was not using OTG cable (in fact, I flew the...

I've seen a video of a Mavic, also not designed to carry a payload, lifting a 1l water bottle. I also had a couple of occasions in which I was forced to hold the spark with my hands because I wasn't immediately able to make it land or switch it off: trying to escape my hands it would put out...

Finally got around to test 2.0 mod (not lite) as well, on a Galaxy S7 (non edge), for now with no OTG. I live in Europe. Couldn't do a full suit of test because of limited time (and batteries). Baseline: great! He is the detail of what I did (scroll to the bottom for a couple of interesting...

Written communications are notoriously prone to misunderstanding about their tone and conveyed sentiment, but I seem to sense a bit of hostility in your answer. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. If I'm right, I'm also sorry, because it is certainly not the spirit I intended to give to the discussion...

It's not a matter of being "best" or "reliable", it's a matter of me not seeing how it could even work. Do you have an hypothesis on how they can use signal strength alone to obtain a directional information? I don't have a Mavic myself, but I'm assuming it doesn't keep going back and forth...

Where did you get the information about RSSI being used for Follow Me? I'm curious and a bit doubtful (sorry). I can see a number of issues using RSSI to follow the remote, among which (a) it provides direction information only if you move around and check in which direction the signal is...

Sorry, no idea of what is going on for you, but I'm stunned by their answer. I wonder for how long DJI will maintain the technological advantage that is allowing them to treat customers so badly, and still sell drones...

Wich country is your PlayStore? As I said, it works for me (BTW, does the modded app work for you?)

Weird. I have a Verizon s7 (non edge) with the official app installed, and I can see the app in the (US) play store. Didn't try to uninstall and reinstall, but if I access the play store via browser, it tells me that the app is compatible with all my devices. So I see no incompatibility...