5th Ward Jam by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. Article about it on Chron. It is located at 3705 Lyons Street Houston Texas (and YOU should go see it!). Regardless here is a video from the brave quadracopter “yellow” and a few photos from the not so brave 5D-Mii:

As I type this on the afternoon of December 10th, you have three more chances to see Freneticore Dance’s production of Tenderina. Tonight the 10th, then next weekend the 16th and 17th. Visit the Frenetic Theater calendar for more.

A few shots from Monday’s performance:

It ended in a crashed quadracopter. More on that after the jump, but first a photo and a 5 second video from above the burned out woods near Bastrop Texas.

This still shot? THIS is why I like aerial photography so much. You just can’t get a photo like this on the ground. You have to break free.

And here is a 5 second video from the gopro:

And this is what the quadracopter looked like after the receiver lost contact. Gravity still works y’all.

That squiggly thing on the top right? That would be the receiver with the gyro dangling off of it. The other part of the receiver remained attached to the mounting plate but luckily all cables came out without tearing.

Currently flying again until parts arrive with a replaced arm, one internal ESC that is now taped externally. Luckily I had one spare motor in the bag. No landing gear because I had to use the aluminum plates in the landing gear as braces to hold the duct taped main body together.

All in all, it could have been worse. Now I just need to find out WHY I lost contact with the little guy. I don’t think I was flying THAT high. Maybe my wonderful new aluminum landing gear plates shortened the range of the antennae? That is my best guess at the moment so probably switching back to G-10 for fabricating replacement.

Kudos to the GoPro camera. No damage at all and no loss of images from the SD card. Minor scratches on the case. Held up like a champ as did the clearly over-engineered landing gear. All LEDs still work (in the photo two were pulled out of the power supply connector, but they still work when plugged back in.) Weak link was the carbon fiber main frame which snapped in half.

Will have to purchase new main body parts, but for now I’m airborne again and the gopro is flying in a craft that Han Solo would be proud to fly.

First run with the GoPro camera on a GAUI 500x.

Heather on Flickr