Baked eggplant with cheese for lunch.
Hanging out at the fair. (at Saint Pius X School)
I would be perfectly fine with having this weather year round. (at Big Gunpowder Trail)
This is from a while ago but I never got around to posting it. Got a chance to fly around the back parking lot at work for a bit before it got all windy and cold. Thanks to Dave for taking the ground view video.
During the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, which claimed close to 400 lives and left roughly one million people homeless across five states in the winter of that terrible year, men and women in Louisville, Kentucky, line up seeking food and clothing from a relief station, in front of a billboard proclaiming, “World’s Highest Standard of Living.”
Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White
(Source: TIME)
Got in a few good flights this morning before it got too windy. This is one of the ones after it got too windy. Was flying near Kenwood when it got caught in a gust and started drifting away. Luckily I was able to coax it back without hitting anything.
I also managed to solve the shaking and rolling shutter problem by shooting at 1080p60 and removing the foam padding I was using.
Earlier in the morning I shot some video at CCBC including an altitude test to see how high I felt comfortable letting it go, I might upload some of that once I edit it down.
My first flight with the Discovery Quadcopter with a camera attached. It actually was pretty stable despite how windy it was today. At least until it got caught in a gust, almost hit some powerlines, and then crash landed breaking one of the legs.
Luckily none of the propellers broke this time. But I’m now attempting to superglue the leg back on.
Got my new GoPro Hero3 camera today.
Things I dislike:
- SD card slot is now MicroSD so none of your cards will work.
- Mini-HDMI connector is now a Micro-HDMI port so your current adapter will not work.
- Standard 3.5mm mic plug and 2.5mm AV plug have been replaced with a proprietary connector so you will need new adapters for that too.
- Battery is different as well, so no swapping that between the old one either.
- The cover for the ports is in no way attached to the camera which makes it really easy to lose.
Things I like:
- Built-in mic is 10,000 times better than the old one. It no longer sounds like you’re recording inside a tin can and is about as good as my iPhone mic.
- Settings interface is much easier to navigate.
- Buttons are now much larger and easier to press.
- The LCD BacPac still works though it slightly cuts off the edges of the Hero3’s UI.
- Built-In WiFi control.
Basically they could’ve updated the software, kept the current plugs, and updated the mic and buttons and I would’ve been perfectly happy. It doesn’t really benefit me that they made all my plugs, adapters, cards and batteries obsolete just so they could make it 5mm thinner.
