David Jenkins
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| posted on 7/8/11 at 08:35 PM |
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I've got a new toy too!
My son bought me one of these for my birthday...
A Syma S107G - It looks huge, but in real life it's tiny.
So far it's bounced off the ceiling, collided with a lamp and fallen behind the log basket... and it's still in one piece! 
Oh - and I have also managed to fly it sensibly too...
Such a good laugh! 
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jacko
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| posted on 7/8/11 at 08:41 PM |
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Happy Birthday Have a good one
Graham
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 7/8/11 at 08:49 PM |
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The birthday was on the 2nd - and it was a good day - cruising down the River Orwell on this Thames sailing barge, in glorious weather. Which was
nice...
 
Thames barge in Ipswich
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loggyboy
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| posted on 7/8/11 at 09:24 PM |
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Me and my wifes uncle were looking at these at a local gadget shop. They looked pretty funky, much more stable than the little polystyrene silverlit
one I have from a few xmas's ago. They had a large one (about 10-12 inches ish) that was only £40 and looked very cool.
happy Bday btw.
[Edited on 7/8/11 by loggyboy]
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owelly
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| posted on 7/8/11 at 09:41 PM |
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Yay! I bought the very same type yesterday and have been flying round the garden, in through the kitchen window and back out the patio doors! Mucho
funo for £35
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 8/8/11 at 07:27 AM |
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These have got really cheap now - under £20. Look out for cheap & nasty clones though.
It's gyro controlled - apparently you can get cheap semiconductor gyros now - so if you hold the motor revs up it will just hover nicely in
mid-air. The thing I like the most is that spares are very easy to get... every part can be bought (although the ebay sellers are asking between 50%
and 100% more than the regular on-line R/C shops!).
I'm *seriously* thinking about building a tricopter now...  ... it's only the initial outlay on a 6-channel R/C system that's
putting me off (various designs use more or less channels - but there would be little point in buying a system that would restrict me later).
I'd only need 1 servo anyway (yaw control - everything else is done with speed controllers & gyros).
[Edited on 8/8/11 by David Jenkins]
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