Was after a a quad copter for my gopro was wondering if anyone has any experience with this? was hoping < $200 for something trustworthy enough? should i bother risking it for one this cheap?
Cheap quadcopter for my GoPro?
mitcheo on 30/03/2015 - 21:04
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Thanks for sharing your experience!
Btw, have you heard of the DJI Phantom? - I hear great things about it.
ditto, seems to be the go for entry level stuff. found it at digidirect for $800, just thinking about it somemore and holding out for one of their 10% off errthang sale
The Phantom was very highly regarded when I was researching. Have you looked at Hobby King pricing?
@Yadekul: $580 usd w/o shipping, so ~$757 aud. digi will be cheaper during the 10%, and moreso if you're planning on going o/s
I followed this setup for a 450 quad copter and it works perfect www.notsealed.com/quad_australia.html
Cost me under $200 as I already had a controller. Enough power for 10min and lift a gopro no problems.
I wanted to do similar to you about 18 months ago and did a fair bit of research. I wanted to get into the quad game as cheaply as I could. I went with an Ideafly I-fly4, which seemed to be the cheapest ready-to-fly option that could easily carry a camera.
In the end the costs were:
Ifly4 - $312
Lipo battery - $29
Transmitter and Receiver - $88
Battery charger/balancer - $35
Camera gimbal - $53
After all that, the thing was almost impossible to control, so I purchased a new flight controller plus a GPS module to make it more stable so that I could actually take some decent footage. This came to about $140.
So, as you can see, I spent well over $600. I lost interest in it after that, so I guess in the last 12 months things may have changed and there's probably cheaper options out there.
Anyway, I thought I'd share my experience to warn you that there are other costs that creep in as you start to really get into it.
Good luck.