Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Splash Drone Lets You Take Underwater Pictures with Ease
BY Mechanicalengineering.blogspot.com
Splash Drone Lets You Take Underwater Pictures with Ease
BY Mechanicalengineering.blogspot.com
If you want to shoot
underwater but can’t cough up enough money to purchase those high end drones,
such as HexH2o, then we suggest you look at Urban Drones’ Splash Drone. This
drone is an economical alternative and although it resembles a quad copter, the
ABS body is fully watertight.
Users can attach a GoPro camera on the underside on a waterproof 2-axis gimbal and then fly it to the area where they want to take pictures underwater. Once the drone is in the area, it simply has to be landed on water where it will float on surface while the camera is submerged. The drone stays there till the time it is commanded to take off
The camera features a built-in transmitter which enables to transmit
live video feed to the user for a range of about 1.6km. The drone can be flown
in real time through a radio remote control unit that comes as part of the
package or it can be piloted via flight plan that can be laid out on the
accompanying app. The app can also have the drone float in Follow Me mode. In
this mode, the drone simply follows the user (following the tracking device
that gets attached to the Smartphone).
