Xiaomi Yi - A budget GoPro alternative?

[Viking]

[drew]

I'm in the city for some training today but I've got a few minutes before it starts. I figured I had time to share a still image from the onboard video of my CATO. Check this out! I dumped my TeleGPS data last night as well, "apogee" was at ~600 ft agl.

[air.command]

That's an awesome selfie Nicely framed too.

[SpaceManMat]

Man what a shot

[CATO]

Drew, very cool

[Viking]

Wow!

[drew]

As metioned last week I was able to recover footage of the CATO from my camera. Here's a few stills from the video.

As linked above, here's the initial CATO.


And quite a pretty shot from the post CATO descent.


And another.


A shot of the flight line.


And finally a few of the stills in the video caught a couple grains that were spat out of the top of the motor post CATO as can be seen below.




As you can see, while the rocket came down the grains kept going. I can only imagine they went all the way TO THE MOON!!!


I'll get the videos onto Youtube shortly.

[drew]

And here are the videos. One has been rotated (and chopped) whilst the other is unrotated. Best viewed in 1080p60.

Rotated


Unrotated

[Viking]

Cool vids drew, the stills aren't showing tho.

[CATO]

Hey Drew, looks like the forward closure let go or did the case separate, any thoughts as to why the CATO occurred?

[drew]

[ROCKet STAR]

Hi Drew et al,

I was just wondering if anybody had tried the 4k Yi camera, and what they thought of it? I have a 1080p Yi, but am thinking of getting a 4k cam for the quad I’m currently building.

I notice on ebay that there seems to be quite a few cheap 4k cameras on offer.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3082289324

Chris

[drew]

Sadly I can't help you there bud. I still don't have a 4k monitor in the house so not much need for a 4k camera!