Here's Crabfu's latest quick and easy project to add a "dragonfly canopy" to a sub-micro helicopter. I-Wei does complain that the added weight was significant and really changed the flight dynamics.
R/C helicopter dragonfly mod
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Nice little mod. Silly question though. These things need two hands to fly right? What have you go the camera attached to to film it :) Some kind of camera hat?
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I striped all mine down and took the bodies off... so they look like flying circuit boards
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Yeah you need both hands, and camera was just mounted on the bill of my hat :)
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