Until now, I have been flying Spektre with low-cost motors and a 3-cell lipo. Now I am ready for some serious camera lifting and FPV flying. Spektre has been rebuilt with Cobra 2814/20 850kV motors, Proton 30A ESCs, 11×5 Graupner props and 4S batteries. The...

This is not my octocopter or my video. I saw this post on Engadget and thought it was worth re-posting here. I have been building my heavy lift hexa Leviathan, which I plan to fly a high end video camera on. It won’t be the $43,000 RED Epic but perhaps it’s...

I have been planning and sourcing the parts for a heavy lift hexacopter for some time now. Finally, it is becoming a reality. This hexacopter will be used exclusively for aerial photography and video.

After seeing many others do it, I decided to modify my GoPro HD camera to use a non-wide angle lens. The lens is the Sunex DSL355A-650-F2.8 which costs about $50. Here is a great video I found that walks through how to replace the lens:A friend has made some...