Holiday and presents

Sometimes I need to remind myself that I am an adult.  I went ahead and made a deal with Mrs. Claus this past Christmas and got a Mavic drone.  It came with a half dozen accessories, a few weren't too obvious about their usage.  A little box labeled "propeller fixed" was a weird one.  I thought it was for propeller repair.  I had to look up images of proper usage, and it turns out that it is for holding the propellers in place when you put it in the travel bag.  A decent use of plastic.  The other piece was unlabeled and looked like the type of plastic that holds something in place during shipping, but came with an adhesive piece of foam to keep it from damaging anything.  Turns out that it is for protecting the remote for the drone when you pack it up.

The whole experience has been a reminder that I didn't do enough research and should have thought a little more about what I was getting.  The drone is great, works better than expected.  But, I had also been putting money aside to buy the racing goggles.  The options looked great and I thought I would need the Ocusync Air system for long distance connectivity, so I bought the system with the goggles.  Turns out, those are for adding a camera that is able to be used with the goggles to another drone.  So, I will be building an arduino drone, maybe with a pi to track people or recognize hazards. 

The real fun part about having the system is that now I have to learn how to use it.  The goggles are actually able to be used for full control.  They are also a bit of a pain in the ass because the entire right hand side is a touch surface that can enter menus and change modes through taps and swipes.  But, I can move the camera gimbal based on head movement now.  I will probably update again in the near future with pictures of the wrecks.