Tethering a Quadcopter for Longer Flight Times - EE Times

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Tethering a Quadcopter for Longer Flight Times
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Tara Tiger Brown and Sean Bonner were lucky enough to be the first people in the Sparkfun "Hacker in Residence" program. They had two weeks to have some fun at the Sparkfun headquarters and make something cool.


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[Mike]

This is pretty interesting. These guys tethered an AR Drone to power using speaker wire and a PC power supply. This could definitely be an interesting setup for aerial filming or photography where not much mobility is needed. Then the copter could stay in the air as long as needed without coming down for a battery swap!