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Want to upgrade your Dromida Vista, Vista FPV, Ominus, or Ominus FPV? Of course you do! That’s why the folks over at RPM have announced Landing Gear for the popular Dromida quads. The RPM landing gear raises your quad higher off the ground, helping to eliminate blade strikes in tall grass and protecting your camera gear from damage. The landing [...]
Now being teased by the crew over at Dromida is their upcoming UAV called the Vista. The Vista comes with four rotors and will be pre-built and ready to fly out of the box. It is rumored to be coming as two different versions, a base model priced below $80 and an FPV version priced under $140. More details are [...]
Surfing the web the other day, and I found the holy grail of custom quads! There have been wild posts the past few months of Star Wars based quadcopters, and I have found the source! Imgur user olivierc600 has posted all his work to date: Minion Bomber, Star Destroyer, and the Millennium Falcon to name a few. Check out the few [...]
This was a big day for DJI indeed, as they announce new Phantom quadcopters utilizing the controllers and software systems of the Inspire. There will be 2 versions: the Phantom 3 Advanced with 1080p video camera/gimbal system installed, and the Phantom 3 Professional featuring a 4K resolution camera/gimbal system. Besides using the DJI Pilot app featuring built in live-streaming capabilities, camera control, and practice simulator, the Phantom 3 series touts some [...]
If you are a hobby shop wanting to pick up the TTRobotix line of Multi-Rotor products, it is now being distributed here in the states by HRP. The folks at HRP Distributing have a dedicated TTRobotix customer service staff on hand and will use their 3 warehouses to ship to over 1000 hobby shops nationwide. The TTRobotix line-up is headlined by [...]
There have been some pretty good (and not so great) Cirque du Soleil productions, but if they could come up with an hour and a half of quadcopter and other RC interactions happening on stage, live, I would be first in line. This sort of test interaction video was called SPARKED. There is a MAKING OF that you can see [...]
While working on upgrading a friend’s Blade 350QX, he asked to get him that ‘new camera mount’ for his GoPro. A few days later, the Yuneec/Blade GB200 Camera Gimbal came in for me to install. Equipped with 2 brushless motors and mounts for the GoPro and CGo1 sport cameras, this gimbal is plug and play with the Blade 350QX and could even be [...]
Need more proof that quadcopters are taking over the world? Check out this new Lexus commercial that is 99% quadcopters, 1% Lexus car headlights. It’s a great little commercial showing some cool swarming stuff. Sure some of it is CGI but it’s still awesome to see.Ohh. and make sure you check out the behind the scenes making of for [...]
With thousands of square feet of hobby vendors, the 2019 Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo had something fun for everyone! Below you will find a large photo gallery that we shot while walking the Denver show last weekend. From the pictures you can see all sorts of different hobbies, as well as a good look at the venue itself. For the rc [...]
The latest video from the Traxxas Underground combines two of our favorite things- paintball and quadcopters! Watch the Paintball vs. Aton Quadcopter video below to see the Underground crew come up with more rc inspired games for the Aton drone, as well as a Slash short course truck. The Traxxas Underground team always has a great time in their videos, [...]
To wrap up our coverage of the 2017 Weak Signals Toledo Show we wanted to post a bunch of pictures to give you at home a look at what the show was like. Have a look at the gallery below to get a feel for what it was like to walk around the show. The Weak Signals show was this year, [...]
Want to make a cool $5,000? If so, the folks at Hobbico have announced the RISE House Racer Challenge! The challenge involves taking one of their House Racer quadcopters, flying it through a course you have created with RISE Race Gates, then submitting the FPV video. A panel of all-star judges will then pick a winner who gets some serious [...]
A few months ago Kyosho announced their revolutionary Drone Racer quadcopters. The Drone Racers are not like a “normal” drone, they are controlled by a pistol type radio and only fly a few feet off the ground. We have been testing the Kyosho Zephyr, one of the two Drone Racers released by Kyosho. How easy is it to fly? Is [...]
With today being January 2, I hope all of you are fully recovered from your raucous New Year’s Eve celebration. Mine was spent with a bunch of kids running around my house, kids that were amped-up on fruit punch and candy bars. Yes, it was wild, but thankfully my house still stands. After talking to a bunch of different people in [...]
Hitec has announced that their popular Energy Propel Motors will soon be available in Combo Packs. These are powerful brushless motors that have a built in programmable ESC and are used to power drones/quadcopters. The Energy Propel combo packs will include two clockwise and two counter clockwise motors, making it easy to power up your favorite quad. The combo packs [...]
