Another CALIFORNIA Cruz'n Video "FRESNO that is"!

VERY cool, Teby!! Cool 60's vibe going on with nice editing & transitions!

I bet you guys had fun doing that photo-shoot! Looking forward to your next movie production. 

Jim. 

Thank you very much for the help and especially for the inspiration !!! 

Tebs

Head strap camera?

Teby actually has GoPro HD's behind his eyeballs. 

True story,

Ted

I designed my own GoPro system with a GoPro Tri-pod mount, a baseball cap, a rubber washer, a metal washer, and a small bolt.  Take a baseball cap and drill a hole just big enough to pass the bolt through.  First feed the bolt through the metal washer then the rubber washer.  Feed the bolt through the hole and attach the GoPro tri-pod mount to the bolt.  You'll need to buy the tri-pod mount first so you'll know what size bolt and washers to buy.

I drilled the hole in the center of the cap's stiff bill at a spot just in front of the area where the bill is sewn to the soft material of the cap.  I wear this during shooting competitions and the hat stays on tight and the camera captures everything.  Wherever your eyes go the camera goes.  I can't imagine not wearing a hat while driving under the hot California sun. I'd get a sunburn real quick.

If you go to this page and look at the photo that is fourth from the left you'll see the small attachment piece that has a small disc on the bottom and the attachment arm.  Costs about $10.00 for the mount and a dollar and a half for the bolt and washers.

http://shop.gopro.com/mounts/t...ounts/ABQRT-001.html

I'll post a photo of my hat when I get home.

^ Cool GoPro tip! 

Nice job on the video Teby and Anand.  Hopefully, this spring we can get several of the Fresno cars in some videos.

Robert.

I like that GoPro mount suggestion!  Did I tell you my GoPro and quad-copter story?

I know I did, but I didn't tell everyone else on here.

Long story short.

The aerial video in Jim's 2014 San Luis Obispo video was shot with my second GoPro and quad-copter.  When I was learning to fly the first one, with the GoPro attached, instead of landing, it just keep flying.  The last I saw of both of them they were headed in an easterly direction toward the Sierra Nevadas, never to be seen again.

Here are some photos of my hat:

The hat fits snug and that is important if you're running with the hat on, or driving fast if you're in the Speedster.

Troy;

NSA reports they were shot down over North Korea.

AB

Tebs, love your avatar photo.

Troy, sorry you had that bad luck with your copter. I bought one this year and found them very easy to fly(RC since '86) and I'm sure we'll get some footage this year at Carlisle. I have heard of several flyaways but mine has performed flawlessly so far.

I believe the industry standard is 1/4-20 thread for tripods.

Dan, did you get any good shots from yours last year at Carlisle? Don't remember seeing any video.

~WB

Yes I did, but video making and editing are not my bag, baby!

Danny.

Besides nearly $1,000 worth of quad copter and GoPro, the part that I was most upset about was that in one of the flights before the flyaway, I had actually flown it into a flock of geese and I never got to see that footage.

You're right, they are very easy to fly.  Here is a link to my first flight with the GoPro attached.

Troy, sorry to hear about your fly away...I suppose a kite string would defeat the free wheeling purpose of it all 

Bout a year ago I sat in on a class a guy was giving to some kids in Baltimore. He brought in a guest speaker with some Google gig and another guest couple with some drones. Plus he had a drone just like Danny's. He flew the little quad around the room and said to the Google guy, who had brought a little electronic box and a laptop, "GO."

In about 2 minutes the Google guy took control of the drone from the instructor. 

The RC controllers on these do not use secure frequencies or protocols, it appears.

I don't know, the one I(and Troy) have(DJI) run on 2.4 or 5.8 Ghz, and use code hopping spread spectrum technology. Pretty secure and bulletproof.

I'd need to know a little more about that other setup to judge for sure. Troy didn't lose his to someone else, there must have been a failure of the datalink.

And really, there is no such thing as a secure frequency, it's all out there in the RF spectrum. But you can have a secure RF link, especially if it is spread over many different and simultaneous frequencies.

Don't those drones have a GPS locator? In the event it flies out of range it returns to GPS origin of flight? Just wondering. 

Troy, this just in from the Tokyo bureau. They found your GoPro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0MDY9fl-IA#t=28

Guys, toy drone hacking is not a new thing, and the spread-spectrum frequency-hopping protocol (invented by Hedy Lamar in the '40s) is not the way in. The hack is on the handshake. 

You know how organized house robbers work, right? Nobody sends in a fast-fingered, black turtleneck-wearing old gent to crack the safe with a stethoscope and steal the jewels inside. Instead, four big lunkheads go in with sledgehammers, bash out all the walls until they find the safe, and then take the whole safe back to the hideout so they can work on it with the plasma cutter. 

Spread spectrum is like that safe. It's pretty uncrackable, but the two-by-sixes holding it in the wall are not. 

I remember reading something about Hedy Lamar before, but thanks for the memory jog.

http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp

I doubt if many today's young 'actresses' could ever do something such as this.

JIm.

They have GPS for navigation, but it does not have the ability to report.  They can receive GPS signals but can't report back.  Tracking devices require a way to report back, such as cell phone access to a cell cell tower.

However, I did purchase a small GPS tracking device that I installed on my 2nd drone.

FYI.  The DJI Phantom that Danny and I have, is supposed to be programmed to return to it's take off point if it looses contact with the controller.  I'm not sure why mine didn't, but, as an inexperienced user, it could very well have been that I did not set it up correctly.

I did have my phone number on it in two locations, so I still have a slim hope that someday someone may find it in the foothills and return it, but it's been almost a year now.

So here we are, thread drift all the way from Teby's Fresno video to Hedy Lammar.  You gotta love it!

Another variation of the 60's Italian movie theme...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...amp;feature=youtu.be