Stedidrone Mavrik X4 Fully Autonomous Mapping Platform.
By Charles Hidalgo on Sep 15, 2017
This is a Stedidrone Mavrik X4 . It is a workhorse and I've used it for mapping for well over a year. It will fly camera combos up to 900 grams which is a huge choice of cameras/lenses. It also has a sliding rail system for quick and easy balancing for different camera and battery combos. The gimbal shoots straight up or down 90 degrees with no props in the way. It's running full pixhawk 3dr and has a dragonlink rx installed for long range control though most missions are flown autonomously controlled with a laptop PC running Mission Planner software. The gimbal has a separate power switch underneath to power it on/off independently.
This is foldable and breaks down and sets up in a minute or two and is also a very stable platform for video and amazing 24MP stills with the Sony a6000.
Ive been using iDroneLink "Fighting Walrus" which allows 915MZHz communication with an ipad that was previously only compatible with android tablet or a Windows PC.
Some brief video of a few control features.:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=je2_a9JhpK4&feature=youtu.be
iDroneLink module telemetry for ipad
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Nice build. How much flight minutes do u get?
It depends on what batteries and what task exactly is being preformed but a solid 15-18 minutes usually.