Well, I got a few seconds of cool footage this time!
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Fishy Tree
Yup, I wrecked again...
It's just a LaTrax Alias with a camera that is designed for it. I was actually impressed for a $40 camera. I also don't have it mounted right. I was using rubber bands instead of the set screws that are suppose to hold it.
Also the quad had a faulty motor witch caused it to shake. It's also very touchy as it is. it's not meant for what I was doing. I'll be uploading better videos soon. Movie Maker keeps crashing so it's taking forever to get anything done. (I miss my Linux PC lol)
I love Linux, I literally just got rid of 10 computers two weeks ago, but last week I got 8 more in and some monitors and stuff to join my "army" of machines and they are all gonna run some Linux distro.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwEFxtFiACWxVExXclNqZ2ZoTGVseG80T3AweUFMR0xHNkhj/view
On Linux I use either Openshot or for big projects I use Cinelerra video editor. Or if you use Windows I can suggest AVS video editor, it is free trial but VERY easy to crack.... not that I would condone such terrorist-communist like activities....
Fishy Tree
Yup, I wrecked again...
I love Linux, I literally just got rid of 10 computers two weeks ago, but last week I got 8 more in and some monitors and stuff to join my "army" of machines and they are all gonna run some Linux distro.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwEFxtFiACWxVExXclNqZ2ZoTGVseG80T3AweUFMR0xHNkhj/view
On Linux I use either Openshot or for big projects I use Cinelerra video editor. Or if you use Windows I can suggest AVS video editor, it is free trial but VERY easy to crack.... not that I would condone such terrorist-communist like activities....
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Seeing your profile pic, I would figure you prefer Linux lol. Anyone who sports a Guy Fawkes mask is someone who knows is Linux > Windows.
BTW, do you work with computers? I ask because the only time I have ever had that many of anything was when I used to fix my friends slotcars. (About 10 years ago, 1/24 scale slot cars were huge around my area) After a Saturday night, witch was, and still is as far as I know, race day. I would have anywhere from just one, all the way up to 15 or 20 slot cars that needed anything from a new set of tires to a motor swap. I would charge only $5 - $10 to anyone who needed work and leave them with the owner of the store, who had no problem with it. He would give it to them the next time they were in, or I would give it to them if I knew them.
I miss that hobby, I might dust off the old Group-7 and take her to the track one of these days.... just to see if she still works. I bet the owner would let me film inside with my quad! I knew him quite well and spent a lot of money there.
Sorry for the ramble, I had a small flashback of "the old days" when I saw the pic of stacked computers, really reminded me of the stack of slotcars that used to cover my workbench every weekend.
Haha, yeah, I work on the side as a tech, I have had twice this many, this is just the truck load I got in. Slotcars sounds fun haha, especially filming it with a quad.
Haha, well I use to use it in group chats and some other things, but it just made for a cool picture xD.
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Fishy Tree
Yup, I wrecked again...
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Slotcars actually get quite boring after a while. There is only one, 1/24 scale track in the area witch has 8 lanes. Once you can handle all 8 lanes flawlessly, It gets boring, especially if your racing alone. It's fun when all 8 lanes are full, even only 2 cars on the track can be fun. I spent well over $2000 on that hobby. One of my cars (I mentioned the Group-7) goes around 65-70 mph. These type of cars need a special body called a "wing body" just to keep it from taking flight. NO joke!
This is just like mine, but not mine:
http://theraceway.biz/image/40260674.jpg
I guess I do miss that hobby, I still have all the cars in the toolbox I bought just to store them. They haven't been used in at 5 or more years. I'm 100% sure they'll still work, the tires are dry rotted and the brushes are gone, but that's easy to fix.
I think I'm gonna go reestablish relations with the owner this week or next. I was only like 14-16 at the time, but I spent enough money and time there that he would let me use the track for free all the time. I know he's still open, I drive by everyday on the way to work. I'll ask if I can get some quad footage of cars racing. that would be pretty sweet.
Yeah haha, dry rotted rubber, so it was a little while ago haha. Why knew flying cars were so easy xD
Fishy Tree
Yup, I wrecked again...
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HAHA yeah, if only they could maintain the flight lol. As soon as they get air under them they create lift and flip over; usually happens coming off a corner when you're on the throttle, witch almost always end up in the car hitting the retaining wall and breaking parts :/
I did have a body cut and / or mounted poorly once, it folded up from the friction of the air when I hit the straitaway and sent the car about 3 feet in the air at over 40mph, flying off the track and landing about 10 feet away from the track in the arcade section of the shop. One guy who was a regular that had been into slotcars since the 60s said that he had never seen anyone make a slot car fly like I did that day.
There is a reason it says "Yup, I wrecked again..." under my name lol. I am very good at crashing vehicals of any kind, in ways no one has ever seen
Hahahhaha I also am good at wrecking, but you specialize in "Research and Development", so you develop new ways to wreck xD--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HAHA yeah, if only they could maintain the flight lol. As soon as they get air under them they create lift and flip over; usually happens coming off a corner when you're on the throttle, witch almost always end up in the car hitting the retaining wall and breaking parts :/
I did have a body cut and / or mounted poorly once, it folded up from the friction of the air when I hit the straitaway and sent the car about 3 feet in the air at over 40mph, flying off the track and landing about 10 feet away from the track in the arcade section of the shop. One guy who was a regular that had been into slotcars since the 60s said that he had never seen anyone make a slot car fly like I did that day.
There is a reason it says "Yup, I wrecked again..." under my name lol. I am very good at crashing vehicals of any kind, in ways no one has ever seen
Fishy Tree
Yup, I wrecked again...
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"Research and Development" LOL! I'm gonna use that from now on! I have crashed so many different vehicles of all types. I once hit an ATV head on my Honda CRF100 when I was 11. I bent the entire front of the bike, the rim, the forks, everything was shaped like a taco. I still have the rim as a trophy. My dad has been a motorcycle rider since he was 9 or 10, just like me. He has gone down at over 100mph, as have I. neither of us have messed a bike so bad before or since.
I once put my R6 down on the New York State Parkway doing 120mph at least. I was wearing proper riding gear but still spent 2 days in the hospital. When I got home the first thing I did was try to start my bike, it didn't start right away; but within 6 months I was back on it.
Point of the story is, I was able to do more damage to my dirt bike when I was 11 doing maybe 25 mph if that, then I did to my Yamaha at 120mph.
I also crashed my fathers Impala through the chain-link fence that surrounds my backyard. To this day I have no idea what happened. I was just trying to move a few feet forward to get the lawnmower out of the shed and ended up in my moms garden. I had to help fix the car, but it worked out because I own it now
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"Research and Development" LOL! I'm gonna use that from now on! I have crashed so many different vehicles of all types. I once hit an ATV head on my Honda CRF100 when I was 11. I bent the entire front of the bike, the rim, the forks, everything was shaped like a taco. I still have the rim as a trophy. My dad has been a motorcycle rider since he was 9 or 10, just like me. He has gone down at over 100mph, as have I. neither of us have messed a bike so bad before or since.
I once put my R6 down on the New York State Parkway doing 120mph at least. I was wearing proper riding gear but still spent 2 days in the hospital. When I got home the first thing I did was try to start my bike, it didn't start right away; but within 6 months I was back on it.
Point of the story is, I was able to do more damage to my dirt bike when I was 11 doing maybe 25 mph if that, then I did to my Yamaha at 120mph.
I also crashed my fathers Impala through the chain-link fence that surrounds my backyard. To this day I have no idea what happened. I was just trying to move a few feet forward to get the lawnmower out of the shed and ended up in my moms garden. I had to help fix the car, but it worked out because I own it now
Patton
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lol. When cheap $60 drones make stable, jello free video of good clarity and color....DJI will be out of business
I found that even with the cheepy drones (that have reasonable 2MP cameras at least), I can often freeze frame that shaky video and get some pretty darn good still shots from it.
And yes, Linux rocks. I've financially supported their efforts more than once.
I'm on a Windows 7 machine right now ....and it's having a very hard time booting. May replace this box with a Linux distro. It may not start back up once I turn it off.
I have gone through 4 HDDs this year so far haha. I have used PhotoRec a few times more than I'd like to have. Linux is by far my favourite OS, I like windows 10 from what I've seen, but it is still not Linux under the hood.
Patton
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4 HDDs? MAN...you are rough on harddrives lol
True. The vast majority of people are still scared of Linux distros. Ubuntu seems to have done well.
I'm not a guru but I at least know how to use the terminal, the .sh command, I know what "Home" is etc and get around under the hood fairly well.
I just wish more developers would make their software for Linux.
For example I use DreamWeaver and there's still no way to run that on Linux AFAIK a virtual this or that.
You can run any program for any OS using a virtual machine like VMware, and many (again like VMware) will let you run it in Unity mode (can't even tell it is running on a VM).
Yeah, I am even using WD and Seagate, so it is not like I am using crappy stuff hahaha.
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