See last drone on website. Tell her ass 3MC said merry xmas and happy new year!
http://m.dji.com/refurbished?www=v1
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See last drone on website. Tell her ass 3MC said merry xmas and happy new year!
http://m.dji.com/refurbished?www=v1
A great look at tech vs money, needs in drone terms. Phantom 3 standard is up there if you not feeling the Mavic or P4
http://www.droneflyers.com/2016/11/...fest-karma-vs-mavic-vs-phantom-3-4-vs-yuneec/
http://www.droneflyers.com/2016/11/...fest-karma-vs-mavic-vs-phantom-3-4-vs-yuneec/
This thing is a legend already
Nah it flies in cold fine. Check web and YouTube, thing is tough too. I clipped trees and scrapped house, no issues. Hit 65 mph in sports mode. Had that lil fucker screaming in the wind
i got a phantom1, i barley use it anymore, paid damn near over $500 back then, now its barley worth $200 on ebay used..
still works fine, 5+ crahes, and aftermarket batteries only $15 on ebay, but only 15-20min runtime,
are those $49 ones in store worth anything for stocking stuffers?
still works fine, 5+ crahes, and aftermarket batteries only $15 on ebay, but only 15-20min runtime,
are those $49 ones in store worth anything for stocking stuffers?
It just takes away from the battery some
I know. I was more concerned about me being cold more so than the mavic.
I have taken it out for about 30 minutes though.I also played around with it in the house.if anyone tries to use it in the house just make sure it's not atti mode. I fucked around it crashed in to a wall because of that. It basically starts to move backwards instead of just hovering in place.
Overall it's user friendly and good for beginners assuming you read the manual first. Some people may feel like buying a cheaper UAV is better but I thinks it's more important that the person behind the UAV doesn't view it as a toy and you'll be fine.
I don't plan on using sport mode until I can move it without thinking about which is the correct direction.second I'm focusing on moving the gamble and trying to learn more about photography.
Google this site below and join. Also peep the vids on YouTube. Sports mode increases the reaction time of the craft and they talk about the cam and gimble. I pointed my gimble all the way down and captures some cool video. For the money, this is the best drone out there period.
MavicPilots is the site
Parrot Bebop2
Not even close
Close to what? A refurb 3?
Hahaha I'd rather have a Brand NEW Bebop 2
Goes Faster, Goes Further, better Accessories (FPV Goggles)
Smaller, Can follow Me and is not a sheep product
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This was the most requested gift in my circle this year for Christmas.
After all the delay they finally sent it.Thought I wasn't getting it until January? Bought it in November (mid)...so it took over a month to get here.
So they said it was coming Thursday on Fedex tracking but instead they alerted me that it was coming Wednesday morning between 8 & 10 AM, except I was all the way outside the city at my Dad's house. By the time I got home, the guy had came and left.
Got another updated alert that since I missed the drop, They'd try again Thursday. Cool, so I left my house for work only to see on the "Ring camera" that they made a second attempt that day and yet again left.
*Get another alert from FedEx, they are going to deliver again between 8am and 10AM, this time I'm off all day, said cool I'll get it in the morning and be flying it by lunchtime? I wait all day, ran no errands...these niggas show up at 8:30 that night....
Finally get with it at work, the next day. attach the phone. Hook it up and take it for a short flight.
Let me say this..IT'S THE TRUTH FELLAS.....small as fuck! Fast as FUCK!
WaaaaaaaAAAAAYYYY quieter than my Phantom 3. These blades damn near whisper compared to my Phantom 3....The controller is the best I've rocked yet. It connects fast as fuck and you are literally able to take off within seconds of connecting.
Is it worth the $999.00? yes...
Can't wait to really get up with it.
Might do a Youtube review for reals....
So they said it was coming Thursday on Fedex tracking but instead they alerted me that it was coming Wednesday morning between 8 & 10 AM, except I was all the way outside the city at my Dad's house. By the time I got home, the guy had came and left.
Got another updated alert that since I missed the drop, They'd try again Thursday. Cool, so I left my house for work only to see on the "Ring camera" that they made a second attempt that day and yet again left.
*Get another alert from FedEx, they are going to deliver again between 8am and 10AM, this time I'm off all day, said cool I'll get it in the morning and be flying it by lunchtime? I wait all day, ran no errands...these niggas show up at 8:30 that night....
Finally get with it at work, the next day. attach the phone. Hook it up and take it for a short flight.
Let me say this..IT'S THE TRUTH FELLAS.....small as fuck! Fast as FUCK!
WaaaaaaaAAAAAYYYY quieter than my Phantom 3. These blades damn near whisper compared to my Phantom 3....The controller is the best I've rocked yet. It connects fast as fuck and you are literally able to take off within seconds of connecting.
Is it worth the $999.00? yes...
Can't wait to really get up with it.
Might do a Youtube review for reals....
I just studied this thread and got the #1 best seller on amazon with a camera.
Price jut damn near doubled a week ago so I lucked out.
I told those kids go with God. I just don't get it. They are expensive get lost and break easily and honestly I don't see the allure.
But those kids been calling me black Santa ever since.
I wouldn't buy an expensive one for people who are not photographers or plan on starting a business using it. For the most part, most people will have it collecting dust after a couple of flights.
That being said they are fun to use.
Make sure you get Dji refresh fam ,it's worth it. If you missed it you have to do a video of your Mavic going through a few tests. I crashed my Mavic at night fucking around but Dji is getting me a new one because of the refresh, probably a month turn around but I hit the Mavic forums and some of those dudes crying. Crashed on their first flight with no insurance and All state will replace it for $60 a year insurance so I guess they good for something after all besides a fucking $5 bonus check
This is my first drone, so I got the refresh when I ordered the Mavic. However, I still need to get some insurance.
I never thought about flying at night,but I've already crashed it in the house. No real damage done.
It is kinda rough out dere in dem drone skreets....
RIP, Lily Drone: $34 Million in Pre-Orders Isn't Enough to Save It
The "drone that flies itself" actually won't be flying at all.
Back in 2015, we reported on an inspired new piece of tech that would pave the way for "follow along" drone production in the years to come. The Lily was one of the first of its kind: an ultra portable drone that follows a tracking device that you wear on your wrist. All you had to do was throw the thing in the air, and voila! It would fly according to whichever flight path you chose.
The Lily featured a camera capable of 12-megapixel stills, 1080p footage at 60 frames per second, and 720p video at 120fps with a 94-degree field of view. For action enthusiasts, its additional waterproof capabilities were just the cherry on top.
The company has stated it will use its remaining assets to get your money back.
It was first thought that Lily would begin shipping in early 2016 for a street price of $1,000. With a nifty little pre-order, however, you could nab the drone for almost half the price, at $499. Perhaps it was this deal that allowed Lily Robotics to rack up $34 million in pre-orders for 60,000 machines. Unfortunately, in a blog post put up earlier today, co-founders Antoine Balaresque and Henry Bradlow explained that it just wasn't enough.
Apparently, Lily Robotics had finally gotten the product ready for release after nearly two years of R&D, a lengthy duration which led many to believe they were getting scammed. During this extensive research and development stage, the company ran out of money; eventually, there wasn't enough left to actually produce drones to fill the pre-order sales.
If you are one of the unlucky few that decided to go in on the pre-order for this drone, take solace in the fact that the company has stated it will use its remaining assets to get your money back. In fact, you won't have to do anything if you still have the card bought it with; if you don't, you'll have to fill out this form.
RIP, Lily.
RIP, Lily Drone: $34 Million in Pre-Orders Isn't Enough to Save It
The "drone that flies itself" actually won't be flying at all.
Back in 2015, we reported on an inspired new piece of tech that would pave the way for "follow along" drone production in the years to come. The Lily was one of the first of its kind: an ultra portable drone that follows a tracking device that you wear on your wrist. All you had to do was throw the thing in the air, and voila! It would fly according to whichever flight path you chose.
The Lily featured a camera capable of 12-megapixel stills, 1080p footage at 60 frames per second, and 720p video at 120fps with a 94-degree field of view. For action enthusiasts, its additional waterproof capabilities were just the cherry on top.
The company has stated it will use its remaining assets to get your money back.
It was first thought that Lily would begin shipping in early 2016 for a street price of $1,000. With a nifty little pre-order, however, you could nab the drone for almost half the price, at $499. Perhaps it was this deal that allowed Lily Robotics to rack up $34 million in pre-orders for 60,000 machines. Unfortunately, in a blog post put up earlier today, co-founders Antoine Balaresque and Henry Bradlow explained that it just wasn't enough.
Apparently, Lily Robotics had finally gotten the product ready for release after nearly two years of R&D, a lengthy duration which led many to believe they were getting scammed. During this extensive research and development stage, the company ran out of money; eventually, there wasn't enough left to actually produce drones to fill the pre-order sales.
If you are one of the unlucky few that decided to go in on the pre-order for this drone, take solace in the fact that the company has stated it will use its remaining assets to get your money back. In fact, you won't have to do anything if you still have the card bought it with; if you don't, you'll have to fill out this form.
RIP, Lily.
Well that was short lived.
https://www.thedigitalcircuit.com/dji-ends-production-of-some-consumer-models-whats-coming-next/
DJI Phantom 4 productions ends – what’s coming next?
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Scott Simmie
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Dated January 18, 2017 881 Views
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The intelligent Phantom 4, with obstacle avoidance, couldn't avoid its own demise
After a year in which DJI launched multiple new products – including the spectacularly popular Mavic Pro – the company has been quietly ending the production and distribution of other models. The latest to be dropped from the line is the Phantom 4, which was released less than a year ago.
In fact, 2016 was a banner year for product announcements, including:
The intelligent Phantom 4, with obstacle avoidance, couldn’t avoid its own demise
As for the P4, the news was revealed in an email to dealers. The part revealing the end of the line for this particular Phantom was short and to the point:
“The Phantom 4 production is terminated. We still have some stock left.” It goes on to say (as had been previously noted by their disappearance from DJI.com), that production of the Phantom 3 Advanced and Professional has also ground to a halt.
That essentially means the entire consumer drone line now consists of the Mavic Pro, the Phantom 4 Pro, and the Phantom 4 Pro Plus (the unit that ships with the super-bright monitor integrated into the remote). There is, at the moment, nothing in the lower end.
Phantom 3 Standard, Advanced and Professional are already gone
Why the culling of the herd? Well, you could make arguments either way. The P3 series, arguably, is outdated technology when compared with the intelligent features of the P4P and Mavic Pro. On the other hand, the Phantom 3 Standard sells for $470 US on Amazon and is currently the #1 Bestseller in its category.
The Phantom 3 remains an inexpensive best-seller, even if it is a bit long in the tooth
Thus far, we have not seen an official news release from DJI announcing the end of the P4, or offering the reasoning behind it.
Some speculate the company, which many have compared to Apple in its product quality and image, is following a pattern successfully implemented by Steve Jobs.
When he returned in 1997 to the company he’d founded some 20 years earlier, it had a sprawling product line that was confusing to some consumers. One of his first tasks, according to a biography and a 2001 article in Entrepreneur, was to review the product line and figure out what was necessary and what wasn’t. At the time, Apple was apparently selling a dozen variations of the Macintosh computer. According to that 2011 article:
“Jobs asked his team of top managers, “Which ones do I tell my friends to buy?” When he didn’t get a simple answer, Jobs got to work reducing the number of Apple products by 70 per cent. Among the casualties was the Newton digital personal assistant.”
Jobs then focussed on just fourproducts. He touched on this point in the biography written by Walter Isaacson. The book quotes Jobs as saying:
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. It’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.”
We don’t know if this has anything at all to do with the decision at DJI, but it’s an interesting tidbit that we bet you’ll remember.
We’ve reached out to DJI for comment; if we hear anything we’ll let you know.
In the meantime, dealers can brace themselves for a potential slow-down of product shipments, particularly the Mavic Pro. The note to dealers points out that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and the company will effectively cease production for two to three weeks.
“At this stage,” says the email, “Please warn your customers that the stock of the Mavic Pro and the Mavic Pro Combo is severely limited, but we hope that by March 2017 DJI (will) get to the point where they have sufficient production.”
Finally, the elimination of the lower price-point models will undoubtedly lead to speculation DJI has something else in the pipeline. It’s hard to imagine the company leaving the considerable sub-$749 drone market completely to competitors.
We have zero news on that. But we’ll be asking.
FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM@THEDIGITALCIRCUITBLOG
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https://www.thedigitalcircuit.com/dji-ends-production-of-some-consumer-models-whats-coming-next/
DJI Phantom 4 productions ends – what’s coming next?
By
Scott Simmie
-
Dated January 18, 2017 881 Views
1
The intelligent Phantom 4, with obstacle avoidance, couldn't avoid its own demise
After a year in which DJI launched multiple new products – including the spectacularly popular Mavic Pro – the company has been quietly ending the production and distribution of other models. The latest to be dropped from the line is the Phantom 4, which was released less than a year ago.
In fact, 2016 was a banner year for product announcements, including:
- Phantom 4: Obstacle avoidance and tracking
- Phantom 4 Pro: Better camera, front/rear avoidance, greater brains
- Phantom 4 Pro Plus: Integrated, daylight-bright monitor
- Osmo Mobile: Gimbal with intelligent software for smartphones
- Mavic Pro: DJI’s first foldable drone – and a massive sales success
- Inspire 2: High end, intelligent drone for cinematography
- X5S, X4S: Cameras for professional work
- Zenmuse Z30: Aerial zoom camera
The intelligent Phantom 4, with obstacle avoidance, couldn’t avoid its own demise
As for the P4, the news was revealed in an email to dealers. The part revealing the end of the line for this particular Phantom was short and to the point:
“The Phantom 4 production is terminated. We still have some stock left.” It goes on to say (as had been previously noted by their disappearance from DJI.com), that production of the Phantom 3 Advanced and Professional has also ground to a halt.
That essentially means the entire consumer drone line now consists of the Mavic Pro, the Phantom 4 Pro, and the Phantom 4 Pro Plus (the unit that ships with the super-bright monitor integrated into the remote). There is, at the moment, nothing in the lower end.
Phantom 3 Standard, Advanced and Professional are already gone
Why the culling of the herd? Well, you could make arguments either way. The P3 series, arguably, is outdated technology when compared with the intelligent features of the P4P and Mavic Pro. On the other hand, the Phantom 3 Standard sells for $470 US on Amazon and is currently the #1 Bestseller in its category.
The Phantom 3 remains an inexpensive best-seller, even if it is a bit long in the tooth
Thus far, we have not seen an official news release from DJI announcing the end of the P4, or offering the reasoning behind it.
Some speculate the company, which many have compared to Apple in its product quality and image, is following a pattern successfully implemented by Steve Jobs.
When he returned in 1997 to the company he’d founded some 20 years earlier, it had a sprawling product line that was confusing to some consumers. One of his first tasks, according to a biography and a 2001 article in Entrepreneur, was to review the product line and figure out what was necessary and what wasn’t. At the time, Apple was apparently selling a dozen variations of the Macintosh computer. According to that 2011 article:
“Jobs asked his team of top managers, “Which ones do I tell my friends to buy?” When he didn’t get a simple answer, Jobs got to work reducing the number of Apple products by 70 per cent. Among the casualties was the Newton digital personal assistant.”
Jobs then focussed on just fourproducts. He touched on this point in the biography written by Walter Isaacson. The book quotes Jobs as saying:
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. It’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.”
We don’t know if this has anything at all to do with the decision at DJI, but it’s an interesting tidbit that we bet you’ll remember.
We’ve reached out to DJI for comment; if we hear anything we’ll let you know.
In the meantime, dealers can brace themselves for a potential slow-down of product shipments, particularly the Mavic Pro. The note to dealers points out that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and the company will effectively cease production for two to three weeks.
“At this stage,” says the email, “Please warn your customers that the stock of the Mavic Pro and the Mavic Pro Combo is severely limited, but we hope that by March 2017 DJI (will) get to the point where they have sufficient production.”
Finally, the elimination of the lower price-point models will undoubtedly lead to speculation DJI has something else in the pipeline. It’s hard to imagine the company leaving the considerable sub-$749 drone market completely to competitors.
We have zero news on that. But we’ll be asking.
FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM@THEDIGITALCIRCUITBLOG
The Digital Circuit brings your the best in the Drone and High Technology Industry.
Contact us: feedback@thedigitalcircuit.com
© 2016 Copyright, The Digital Circuit Media House, LLC.
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doesn't have half the range nor image quality, stabilization of picture is so so....
After all the delay they finally sent it.Thought I wasn't getting it until January? Bought it in November (mid)...so it took over a month to get here.
So they said it was coming Thursday on Fedex tracking but instead they alerted me that it was coming Wednesday morning between 8 & 10 AM, except I was all the way outside the city at my Dad's house. By the time I got home, the guy had came and left.
Got another updated alert that since I missed the drop, They'd try again Thursday. Cool, so I left my house for work only to see on the "Ring camera" that they made a second attempt that day and yet again left.
*Get another alert from FedEx, they are going to deliver again between 8am and 10AM, this time I'm off all day, said cool I'll get it in the morning and be flying it by lunchtime? I wait all day, ran no errands...these niggas show up at 8:30 that night....
Finally get with it at work, the next day. attach the phone. Hook it up and take it for a short flight.
Let me say this..IT'S THE TRUTH FELLAS.....small as fuck! Fast as FUCK!
WaaaaaaaAAAAAYYYY quieter than my Phantom 3. These blades damn near whisper compared to my Phantom 3....The controller is the best I've rocked yet. It connects fast as fuck and you are literally able to take off within seconds of connecting.
Is it worth the $999.00? yes...
Can't wait to really get up with it.
Might do a Youtube review for reals....
What's the update on this, bruh?
I'm about to pull the trigger on a Mavic Pro. I see the orders are still delayed. Currently they are saying the beginning of March for shipments.
I don't know about the delays. I got mine in November so (shrug) I say order it anyway. Chill and wait for the awesome shit.
Go through Newegg or you may never see it. That or Apple Store. I'm about to launch mines and get some night flying.
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'DRONE BEES' ARE COMICALLY INEPT, EXPENSIVE AND DANGEROUS TO REAL BEES
BY DOUGLAS MAIN ON 2/10/17 AT 10:23 AM
Bees are in decline in many areas. That’s a problem for agriculture because bees are vital to the environment and are primarily responsible for pollinating many plants—$15 billion worth of crops in the United States alone, including berries, apples and almonds.
Some researchers have come up with the idea of creating robotic bee-like drones to take over the job of pollination.
The only problem: All of these drones are so far wildly expensive, ineffective and would be dangerous to real bees. Moreover, it’s a mistake to think that technology can solve problems created by extinction and biodiversity loss.
Robot drone pollinating a lily
It was thus concerning to see the latest “drone bee” study get so much wide-eyed press. Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have created a 1.6-inch by 1.6-inch drone with four rotor blades that they say is the first to ever pollinate a flower. Many outlets suggest the drones could help bees, or take the pressure offtheir pollinating duties.
It’s hard to see how these drones would be helpful, though, considering that if deployed in the same place as bees the machine’s blades and loud noise would likely kill and scare away real bees.
These drones cost about $100 each, and so far are controlled manually. As explained in The Conversation, in one of the few skeptical takes on the research:
Writing in a paper in the journal Chem, the team demonstrated their drone on an open bamboo lily (Lilium japonicum) flower. With a bit of practice, the device could pick up 41% of the pollen available within three landings and successfully pollinated the flower in 53 out of 100 attempts. It used a patch of hairs augmented with a non-toxic ionic liquid gel that used static electricity and stickiness to be able to “lift and stick” the pollen. Although the drone was manually operated in this study, the team stated that by adding artificial intelligence and GPS, it could learn to forage for and pollinate plants on its own.
That’s not a great success rate, and lilies are among the easiest plants to pollinate, with large, obvious sex organs. The researchers suggest the drones could be optimized with artificial intelligence and autonomous operation, but when you add up all the costs of materials, and start thinking about how they could be powered and controlled, it quickly becomes obvious how impractical an idea it is.
There are, after all, a LOT of bees. As MIT Technology Review points out, the almond industry in California alone “requires 1.8 million hives—containing around 35 billion bees—to pollinate 900,000 acres of almond trees that sprout three trillion flowers.”
“I don’t see any technology that could replace bees,” California bee specialist Joe Traynor tells the publication.
Moreover, the drones so far are almost comically ineffective. As you can see in the video, the drone slams into the flower, and you can hear the machine hitting the ground shortly thereafter.
There are other groups that have worked on robot bees, including a group at Harvard. Technology guru Nathan Myhrvold also filed a patent application in 2015 for flying pollinators, and Polish researchers are developing similar devices.
All of this work has received a high volume of “science-is-awesome” type of coverage that’s completely misplaced, cynical and even dangerous. Not only does it presuppose a dystopian future in which we don’t have bees—which is a world that almost certainly couldn’t support humans, and one in which no sane person would want to live—it’s a worrisome trend in journalism: aping technological solutions for human-caused ecological problems. The solution isn’t to come up with a technology to prevent the problems, but to avoid the problems in the first place—in this case, the decline of bees and loss of species.
This requires a different, and perhaps more difficult, course of action. It takes engagement with the public, politicians and policy-making. For example, the rusty-patched bumblebee, which has lost 90 percent of its range in the last 20 years, was the first bee to be slated for protection under the Endangered Species Act, in January. But the Trump administration reversed that ruling one day before it went into effect, leaving the bee’s future in question. The solution certainly isn’t to make artificial rusty-patched bumblebees. To act as if an artificial creation could even come close to replacing something like a bumblebee is to act insane.
You know what’s good at pollinating flowers? Bees. Let’s keep them around. As biologist David Goulson from the University of Sussex writes on on his blog:
I would argue that it is exceedingly unlikely that we could ever produce something as cheap or as effective as bees themselves. Bees have been around and pollinating flowers for more than 120 million years; they have evolved to become very good at it. It is remarkable hubris to think that we can improve on that. Consider just the numbers; there are roughly 80 million honeybee hives in the world, each containing perhaps 40,000 bees through the spring and summer. That adds up to 3.2 trillion bees. They feed themselves for free, breed for free, and even give us honey as a bonus. What would the cost be of replacing them with robots?
…[Furthermore,] pollination is not all done by honeybees. Numerous other insects pollinate crops and wildflowers, including butterflies, beetles, moths, flies, wasps and many more. These come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes suited to different flowers. Honeybees contribute at best one-third of crop pollination, averaged across crops. So we wouldn’t just need to replace the 3.2 trillion honeybees. We’d also need to replace countless trillions of other insects.
Indeed. It should also be noted, as others have, that there’s an episode of the TV show Black Mirror where researchers create robot bees. Spoiler alert: The bees kill everybody.
Got my Mavic last week. Didn't really get a chance to take it out until this weekend because of getting home late in the evenings.
High winds on Saturday. Cold on Sunday.
Man this thing is hella fun. Sport Mode is pretty fast. Almost wiped her out in the trees.
Can't wait until the weather is constantly nice. Will be taking it on trips to the Caribbean to get some good beach shots.
High winds on Saturday. Cold on Sunday.
Man this thing is hella fun. Sport Mode is pretty fast. Almost wiped her out in the trees.
Can't wait until the weather is constantly nice. Will be taking it on trips to the Caribbean to get some good beach shots.
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