Recent content by Ken Ramsley

What module are you showing here? I am finding next to nothing in the way of attachable remote ID modules anywhere I look.

I usually power the rotors, look for warning messages, and launch with the 'take-off' button. I then hover briefly at 5-6 feet to make sure the flight is stable, slowly rise another 20 feet letting the downward-facing camera(s) find a solid visual lock -- then it's onto my flight. If a rotor is...

I agree. In fact, after making and uploading the more recent of the two demo videos, I must have left something 'half-demo'd' and -hah- a rotor disappeared on take-off just minutes ago, and the drone flipped onto its back. I was launching from a soft surface, so no harm was done -- but it shows...

To answer your question... No. The rotors are plastic and the motor mount is metallic. So it would be hard to hurt the drone with the wrong rotor (until your drone loses the rotor mid-flight ...then all bets are off). In fact, I'm amazed you managed to jam the wrong rotors in place at all...

I'm a seasonal flyer -- which means that I forget (almost) everything about my EVO once a year and need to relearn basic functions and service the drone almost like a newbie. As an office safety measure during this process, I sometimes pull the rotors. I'm 99% sure I've replaced them correctly...

I respect the artistic choices of every video-maker, and if ND filters let someone reach their artistic goals, I see no reason to quibble. There is no right or wrong here. Speaking as an EVO-1 pilot... In theory, a fairly fast fixed-aperture lens might be an over-exposure candidate (I'm still...

We live in a country where people have been given permission to act like morons to the point of taking this label on as a badge of honor -- and I have no problem with reasonable efforts to rein in bad pilots. Yet under the new FAA rules, flying legally could easily be misinterpreted as nefarious...

In theory, the widdling down of our hobby's flying flexibility is partly due to 'security' fearmongering and partly due to genuinely irresponsible idiots who fly without regard to bad publicity. In theory. Yet when we parse the logic of the new FAA regulations, they turn out to be laughable red...

It is plainly obvious that no matter what signals my Evo-1 does or does not broadcast, I will either break the law by flying according to common sense or draw the unwanted attention of every nearby self-appointed security guard, drone vigilante, and thief by broadcasting my exact base-station...

My Dad was a founding member of the American Optical Society, and I suppose the apple did not roll very far from the tree. Years ago, I built hobby telescopes (up to 12-inches in aperture) including the fabrication and testing of my own telescope mirrors. After that, I designed cameras for...

As long as the cropping process does not downsample (which would add data from several pixels and speed up exposure times), the camera's exposure performance will work the same no matter how it is cropped. In fact, when Autel crops a 6K image sensor frame to 4K, it is simply snipping out the...

I keep thinking about buying a cheaper and smaller 'walk-around' toy-like drone that I can fly without worrying too much about it -- and if someone ever makes a smaller and cheaper drone with a decent 4k 60fps camera, I may actually switch. I treat the Evo like a serious aircraft, not a toy --...

I scaled myself up to the EVO-1 the same way. I wanted a decent 4K drone, but I wasn't ready to fly one. Instead, I bought small drones to fly around inside my office (a tiny Estes, then a slightly bigger Hubsan). The goal was to make sure the basic flight controlling process became a matter of...

It basically comes down to the problem of down-sampling and the computing power to accomplish this. If you have a native 8K camera sensor and down-sample to 4K, it is as simple as grouping a 4-square of pixels and averaging the data. In a native 6K array, you could do the same thing to produce a...

My brother once tried to sell a brand new car he did not like, and the dealer rang him up offering to take it back for the sake of the bad publicity. If you've owned your Evo 2 less than 60 days or so, you might have some luck returning it to where you bought it.