Fotokite Phi: A Leashed Drone for Easy Aerial Video
The Fotokite Phi is a leashed drone that allows anyone to easily capture HD GoPro video from the air without a remote control.
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Editors’ Picks: 11 of Our Favorite Bike Projects
Here are 11 great bike projects that we’ve featured, chosen by the editors of Make:
Google Sharing Plans for DIY 3D VR Camera Rig
Beginning this summer, Google will launch a new platform called JUMP that should make it easier for people to record, stitch, and publish stereoscopic virtual reality video. Makers will soon be given the specs needed to create their own compatible VR camera rigs.
3D Robotics’ New Solo Quadcopter: Dual Linux Processors, Unprecedented GoPro Control
With the 3D Robotics Solo quadcopter, aerial cinematography is about to get a whole lot prettier, smarter, and more accessible.
The Riveting Results of a GoPro Video Apparatus Workshop
Take a gander at what these industrial design students came up with in this riveting video from a GoPro workshop run by dutch designer Roel Wouter of Moniker at The ECAL University of Art and Design in Switzerland.
How-To: 3 Most Popular DIY GoPro Projects
Check out the three most popular GoPro project tutorials according to DIYGoPro.com. Learn how to make these three rigs with step-by-step video tutorials, instructions, and part lists.
Quadcopter Flying Over a Field of Yellow Mustard
There is a large field of mustard a couple miles from MAKE headquarters, and for a few weeks in spring, all the mustard blooms, and the field turns brilliant yellow. On the way home from work about a month ago, I stopped at the field, with a plan to to take some photos. As I got closer to the ideal photo spot, I came across a gentleman, documentary filmmaker Michael Heumann, flying a quadcopter. We got to chatting, and I ended up snapping some photos. Michael has a DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Quadcopter with a GoPro camera mounted to it, and he showed me how he had installed some Moongel pads on the top and bottom of the camera, to absorb shock to reduce video shakiness.
