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Attaching a GoPro to a quadcopter

Attaching a GoPro to a quadcopter

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Attaching a GoPro to a quadcopter

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Robbie Carman: Okay, Rich, so we talked about the GoPro unit itself. We've talked about the GoPro app. Rich Harrington: Yeah. Robbie Carman: And now here's our copter. This is actually a pretty straightforward quad copter, and what I mean by quad copter obviously is that it has four rotors. Now, I found in my experience that these are the easiest to fly. You can actually find the tradi-. Rich Harrington: Easiest not easy. Robbie Carman: Right. You can actually find helicopters that are going to have a traditional rotor on top and a rotor in the back. I found those actually to be really hard to stabilize and fly when you have a camera. So the quadcopters, not only are they easier to stabilize, they also tend to be able to lift a little bit more than a traditional helicopter. Rich Harrington: And this one has the mount on the bottom with the GoPro mount. It does come with its own frame, but we, let's just be honest, we found that if you crash it, the chance of that frame breaking…

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