{"id":597,"date":"2010-02-03T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:31","slug":"first-person-video-on-a-shoestring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/first-person-video-on-a-shoestring\/","title":{"rendered":"First Person Video on a Shoestring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my friend Cliff showed me his first-person video R\/C airplane:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cliffs-fpv-wild-hawk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This thing has every feature imaginable, which means it packs a lot of wires:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cliffs-fpv-wild-hawk-closeup.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video tour of all its features, which include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Auto fly-home if control is lost (uses GPS)<\/li>\n<li>Heads up video display of altitude, heading, and pitch<\/li>\n<li>RF beacon if the plane is lost<\/li>\n<li>Auto stabilization using FMA co-pilot<\/li>\n<li>Data logger providing an audible report of battery life and other stats<\/li>\n<li>VR goggles for watching the action<\/li>\n<li>Pan and tilt camera, controllable from the radio<\/li>\n<li>High-power transmitter (he&#8217;s flown a mile away on FPV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZuYbWzJIUCc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZuYbWzJIUCc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my friend Cliff showed me his first-person video R\/C airplane: This thing has every feature imaginable, which means it packs a lot of wires: Here&#8217;s a video tour of all its features, which include the following: Auto fly-home if control is lost (uses GPS) Heads up video display of altitude, heading, and pitch RF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}