Heading to Interdrone tomorrow...

[Bigbit]

I'm heading to the Interdrone show in Vegas tomorrow with a buddy. Bought a pass for the exhibition halls only. $75 vs. $650 to attend the conference sessions. I will try and take pictures and will report back.

 

[Old Bama Dude]

Alrighty then! You'll be hangin' really big dogs. Didn't see DJI or Autel listed.

 

[Bigbit]

Walked the hall for a couple of hours today. Got to see a demo flight of a Yuneec H520 drone with the 4K 39mm camera. The retractable landing gear was cool, clearing the way for the 360 degree camera gimbal. Very quiet drone, very maneuverable. I was impressed!

This show is really geared to the commercial market; not many hobbyists walking the floors.

I took some pictures and video, and will share them once I have WiFi access. I'm going back tomorrow and will take more photos, grab more literature, and write a better report.

I did see the Water Strider in the flesh. It is very light weight but big. I'm sure it affects the aerodynamics of the drone.

I only saw one XSP in the hall in a booth for a distributor primarily focused on selling DJI hardware. Neither DJI nor Autel had a direct booth presence.

 

[Normex]

Hi Bigbit, I hope you visited the 809 booth where the 4hawks are and entered the draw for a Raptor, if you don't want it I have my hand raised at the back.
How was today's visit? Tell us some if you can.

 

[Bigbit]

Hey guys, I’m back from Vegas, but a little under the weather. I’ll post a detailed report sometime soon, but wanted to pass one deal on to you all. Saw a company called Vufine that make an HDMI-driven viewer that mounts on your glasses to give you an FPV while still allowing you to see the world. Vufine | Wearable Displays, Simplified. They’re offering a $30 discount through September by using code drone17 when checking out on their website.

 

[Tufargon]

OMG that's cool!!
Gonna start putting my pennies away. That would solve people wanting to fly VR headsets and not violating FAA rules!

 

[LuvMyTJ]

Did you see us there?

 

[KentA]

Saw a company called Vufine that make an HDMI-driven viewer that mounts on your glasses to give you an FPV while still allowing you to see the world. Vufine | Wearable Displays, Simplified. They’re offering a $30 discount through September by using code drone17 when checking out on their website.

Did you have the opportunity to try them?

I saw them on Amazon a while ago & figured they couldn't work very well or everybody would be using them.

I wonder how compatible they would be with our Autel setups?

 

[Bigbit]

Let me report on an idea I had re: the Vufine glasses, which require an HDMI input. I remembered that I had an HDMI output adapter for my iPhone. It has a male lightning connector on one end and a block with HDMI and lightning female connectors on the other. First, I connected it with an HDMI cable to my HDTV, and was able to view the Starlink display on my HDTV. So far, so good. I then ran the lightning USB cable from the adapter to the R/C and tried to get a live feed from the drone on my phone and HDTV, but the R/C would not connect with my phone through this adapter. So there’s no way that I can see that you could make the Vufine work in the Apple world. You definitely need a tablet like the nVidia that has an HDMI output to have any chance to make this device work with an XSP.

 

[Bigbit]

One vendor at the show was LensPen: Our Products. They make lens cleaning tools with a retractable brush on one end a fibrous cleaner on the other end. Does a real nice job of cleaning camera and eyeglass lenses. The guy was selling them for $10 each but sold me 4 for $20.

 

[Bigbit]

I bought some props for the drone at the show...

 

[Bigbit]

There were a couple of companies that made large capacity LiPo battery-based chargers that allow you to in turn recharge your drone batteries in the field. One was Energen: DroneMax – Energen

 

[Bigbit]

Demo flight of the Yuneec H520 drone at Interdrone:

Here’s a scan of the literature on it in their booth.

 

[Bigbit]

From the DroneRafts Water Strider booth...

 

[Bigbit]

More info on Vufine...

 

[Bigbit]

Information on the Nexus Indemnus parachute deployment system for drones. The device was very large and if deployed, requires the owner to return the device to Nexus for recharging / repacking.

 

[Bigbit]

Fruity Chutes, another manufacturer of drone parachute systems. They claim you can repack a deployed chute yourself. Drone Parachute, Quadcopter Parachute, Multicopter Parachute | Fruity Chutes!

 

[PilotChris]

Thank you for sharing.

 

[Bigbit]

Led lights for your drone: Drone Lights for Drone Aircraft | Welcome to LED Air Lights

 

[Bigbit]

Several providers of drone insurance...