{"id":8405,"date":"2017-11-27T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2017-11-27T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:09:48","slug":"fun-with-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/fun-with-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/fun-with-drones\/dcim-100media-dji_0013-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3968,2976\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FC1102&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;DCIM\\\/100MEDIA\\\/DJI_0013.JPG&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1511712964&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.49&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DCIM\\\/100MEDIA\\\/DJI_0013.JPG&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-544x408.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-1088x816.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8406 hd-full\" style=\"width: 544px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-544x408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"408\" data-large-rendition=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-1088x816.jpg\" data-full-rendition=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-544x408.jpg 544w, https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DJI_0013-1088x816.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked up a DJI Spark drone during a Black Friday sale. It is a small portable drone with a 2 axis gimbal and 1080p camera. I got the package deal that came with an extra battery and a controller. Each battery gives approximately a 16 minute flight time. It will take practice to master, but is very easy to fly.<\/p>\n<p>For my first flight, I went near the local high school, which is near a wetlands preserve. There was 15pmh wind, but the drone handled very well:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"drone experiments 1\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k03WVvnkMnM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>My second flight was in a wetlands preserve in Griffith, IN. My friend Chris and I got out there as the sun was starting to set, and we got some cool shots. We experimented with some of the automatic features. As Chris ran down the path, I set the drone to automatically follow him. As I got more brave, I got closer and closer to the water. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"drone experiments 2\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ugIrF_XIm4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a DJI Spark drone during a Black Friday sale. It is a small portable drone with a 2 axis gimbal and 1080p camera. I got the package &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/fun-with-drones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[310,309,118,49,281,92],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photos","tag-dji-spark","tag-drone","tag-nature","tag-panorama","tag-photos","tag-video","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pt6Et-2bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8407,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}