The remote Wi-Fi-hacking flying drone we covered the other day? Creepy. The concept of setting up a similar drone to follow you around on your mountain biking holiday? Excellent.
Basque MTB reports on the adventures of Alistair Roberts, a keen mountain biker holidaying in the Basque. So what, you might think, but Alistair thought to pack an FPV plane with mounted GoPro camera on board, allowing him to record his mountain biking adventures. I’ll tell you what — in terms of holiday memories, it certainly puts my shoebox full of peeling polaroids under my bed to shame. [Basque MTB via Engadget]
Scruffy
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:50 AMExcellent idea. Love the flybyglasses idea, though if he could slow the plane to match the cyclist, you’d get some more impact on the footage.
Jester
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:57 PMSweet! Now strap on a nerf gun :P Or a hellfire missile, either way…
Jester
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:58 PMActually, in all seriousness, augmented reality would work pretty well here for a dog fight!
ozoneocean
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:40 PMThe first sentence of this article made me think of something so very much cooler then this really pretty pedestrian usage…
-If you really COULD have a drone that would follow you about everywhere instead of a remote controlled aeroplane with a camera, now that would be cool and so useful! If it could flay all day autonomously, keeping near you at all times, you could use it to scout your surroundings, use it as a relay aerial to increase the range for your mobile devices… It’d be an excellent emergency device- programmed to got to a certain location and let off a beckon or emergency message for you if needed etc.
You could charge it up via solar a bike generator, or something like that.
A personal drone really would be a good idea.
Sciby
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 5:01 PMI agree with Ozone – the first sentence had me thinking “how’s that work? radio tracker? gps waypoints along the path?” … it’s still neat though.
… except for that really godawful music they put in the video.
Derrick Guy
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:50 AMWOW this looks like so much fun! I wanna try! hahaha I already got the bike http://www.2wheelbikes.com/sx40-mountain-bike.html
Stan
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10:00 AMWhat it needs is to have the camera follow your head movements..turn your head to the left with the FPV glasses on and the camera turns left, also a bit of HUD data in the glasses view..weight in the drone may start to be a problem though..
Chris
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 4:05 PMI wouldn’t mind doing that they have some nice trails near Big Bear, I recently purchased a bike from http://www.bikesxpress.com/Front-Suspension-Mountain-Bikes_c_24.html they have the perfect bikes for the great outdoors.