Gogglevision Quadcopter Video

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By Mark Frauenfelder
Posted 2012/02/22 @ 7:30 pm
Category Fun & Games

Steve Lodefink sent me this amazing video of a guy flying his quadcopter around his neighborhood using a goggle vision system. He even flies it through his(?) house. What fun!

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12 Responses to Gogglevision Quadcopter Video

Sam Houston on February 23rd, 2012 at 12:12 am said:

At first I thought it said Googlevision. I was excited and afraid.

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- Mexoplex on February 23rd, 2012 at 3:06 am said:
  
  i think they did that on purpose. Archibald has it right.
  
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- Keith on February 23rd, 2012 at 3:09 am said:
  
  Same here! Very cool vid, next step is having it pick up the phone you left at home and fly it to you.
  
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Archibald Tuttle (@SquittersTweet) on February 23rd, 2012 at 12:46 am said:

It’s called FPV (First Person View).

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ameyring on February 23rd, 2012 at 6:54 am said:

Cool! I would do the same thing using an RC car to explore woodchuck holes.

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Shrike on February 23rd, 2012 at 10:45 am said:

As Archibald above said, it’s called FPV and the gear is surprisingly cheap. If you skip the extremely expensive goggles and go with a cheap 7″ car TV or something similar you can get a 900MHz or 2.4GHz transmitter, receiver and a camera around $75

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Ken on February 23rd, 2012 at 3:06 pm said:

What a FAT house!

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- yachris on February 23rd, 2012 at 3:25 pm said:
  
  If by FAT you mean AWESOME, I couldn’t agree more!
  
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- Michael Knight on February 27th, 2012 at 2:18 pm said:
  
  Actually, that’s “phat” …
  
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Trevor on February 25th, 2012 at 7:53 am said:

Good friend of mine check out some of his other videos
he does some fantastic fpv flying ..
http://www.youtube.com/user/juz70

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Scott Edwards on February 29th, 2012 at 8:13 am said:

Incredibly cool. I frequently have the recurring “flying” dream and now to think I could just get something like this… well, just awesome that dreams do come true! Some how, some way I’m going to do this.

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Mark Lawson on October 22nd, 2012 at 11:19 am said:

OK, OK, I’m sold, where are the plans? I want two for tag!!!!

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