homemade uav

[escort90]

Im quite interested in designing and building my own model plane as a long term project. I would quite like to put a camera on the front of the model so I could steer it whilst in flight. However im sure i've read somewhere that it is illegal to do this due to privacy laws. Does anyone know if this is the case?

[s3fella]

escort90 said:

Im quite interested in designing and building my own model plane as a long term project. I would quite like to put a camera on the front of the model so I could steer it whilst in flight. However im sure i've read somewhere that it is illegal to do this due to privacy laws. Does anyone know if this is the case?

You can get like POV video systems and goggles now that shut out the outside world and give you and rc 1st person view to fly from, along wiht (limited) inflight data like instruments.
Have a look at youtube, it loks like fun if somewhat more tricky to fly.

[Zaxxon]

A stack of info here.

http://www.rcgroups.com/video-piloting-fpv-rpv-469...

And here

http://www.fpvuk.org/forum/index.php

Edited by Zaxxon on Monday 12th December 20:23

[escort90]

Thanks for the info, will have a nosey round. Hopefully be a build thread soon if I do it

[ceebmoj]

have a look at

http://www.openpilot.org/

[Starfighter]

You're not the guy is NZ doing a crusie missile project from eBay are you?

[Globs]

s3fella said:

escort90 said:

Im quite interested in designing and building my own model plane as a long term project. I would quite like to put a camera on the front of the model so I could steer it whilst in flight. However im sure i've read somewhere that it is illegal to do this due to privacy laws. Does anyone know if this is the case?

You can get like POV video systems and goggles now that shut out the outside world and give you and rc 1st person view to fly from, along wiht (limited) inflight data like instruments.
Have a look at youtube, it loks like fun if somewhat more tricky to fly.

LINK

Affordable FirstPersonVideo

Edited to fix PH's sad URL recognition bugs.

Edited by Globs on Monday 19th December 20:01

[escort90]

Starfighter said:

You're not the guy is NZ doing a crusie missile project from eBay are you?

haha nah. you got a link for that?

[Starfighter]

escort90 said:

Starfighter said:

You're not the guy is NZ doing a crusie missile project from eBay are you?

haha nah. you got a link for that?

www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/

[ceebmoj]

The open pilot stuff is every thing I hoped for from the guy in NZ it cost about 50 and is everything you need to guide a UAV

[SystemParanoia]

http://diydrones.com/

they have stsyems for planes and helicopters

you can set it up to work from your mobile phone dad connection ( dont fly too high! ) and using the auto pilot, lag wont be an issue as you're just uploading waypoint information instead of flying it directly.

[anonymous-user]

When I worked for a air spares part company, one of the engineers was helping to develop a secret drone for \BAE systems. the engine was a jet engine out of an rc plane.