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Pimp Your Copter !

video Pimp Your Copter !

Turn an inexpensive RC Helicopter into a Flying Spycam! Even "borrow" (cough) some money from your sleeping friends (cough)...

23 comments

Jan 4, 2009. 3:17 PMPyroMonger says:

Althoug this video is FAKE, some good can still come from it. Like the idea for actually doing this. Its a great Idea for an instructable but a terrible and cheap attempt at fooling anyone.

Oct 2, 2008. 6:39 PMShampooRobot says:

lol

Sep 23, 2008. 8:24 AMlooking4ideas says:

IT IS A FAKE

Sep 17, 2008. 8:36 PMravebot says:

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Aug 6, 2008. 8:27 PMlager says:

Lol I got u Look closely at 0.06 at the remote control it has a yellow led that means the controller is on and then look near to the end at 0.53 theres no light in the remote control so its off gotcha lol

Jul 8, 2008. 1:09 PMAngus06 says:

How do you stream a video to a a cell phone?

May 31, 2008. 1:08 PMmacwhiz says:

I have a mini heli from Brookstone and it has infrared transmitters on it but i took it apart and it has an antenna inside and the infrared transmitters were on a circuit board that wasn't connected to anything

Apr 15, 2008. 9:54 PMhernanai says:

Ah ha ha ha ha ha..... Simpsons did it... (both South Park and Simpsons references) this reminds me of the Episode where Homer joins the Army...

Apr 14, 2008. 5:26 PMi make shooting things says:

please post in description that its fake.

Mar 3, 2008. 5:58 PM

bowmaster says:

SOOOOO SWEET!!!!!

Jan 25, 2008. 7:39 PMshamuslauer says:

LOL THE TAPE LOL

Jan 9, 2008. 9:11 PMtnpshow says:

FAKE! How about you post an Instructable on how you converted the 2 channel Infrared helicopter to 3 channel RADIO helicopter?

Dec 22, 2007. 8:26 PMbrainspater says:

that is sooooo cool!!! I like that idea that u can use them helis to carry a cameras.

Dec 18, 2007. 1:04 AM

ac1D says:

i have a camera like this, but it have a 9v battery to run.
impossible for my picooz to lift it. How you did it ? do you have a exact link to your camera ?

WARNING
MY GUESS IS THAT THE VIDEO IS A BIG FAKE.
THE PICOOZ USE A INFRA RED RC COPTER CONTROLLER.!
THE USED CONTROLLER IN THE VIDEO IS THE RADIO CONTROLLER OF A RC PLANE!
also, these camera usually NEED a 9v battery.

Please, could you post more information about your instructable ?
thanks.
ps: a picooz can hardly lift a piece of paper, how do your lift a camera, a battery, some tape, and a bill ?

Dec 18, 2007. 2:28 PMalexsolex says:

Of course it's a fake ! I totally agree

Dec 17, 2007. 1:03 PMalexsolex says:

If I'm not wrong, the heli you are showing in the video is a Silverlit PicooZ. It's weight is less than 10gr... and the remote control use Infra-red to control the heli.

Your video is showing a radio remote control. Why ?

I'm charging my own picooZ heli, just to prove myself I'm wring and that this small 10g heli can carry somehing heavy from it's nose. But I'm pretty sure it can't.
Here is the wikipage for the picooZ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picoo_Z
It shows the heli beeing recharged directly from the 2-channel IR controller...

Dec 17, 2007. 10:05 AMferrix says:

DO WANT.

Dec 16, 2007. 8:41 PMlilpunk1302 says:

Can you give a link as to where you got the camera? or more importantly, where/how you mounted the battery? The cameras get pretty small, but a 9V battery aint exactly small...

Dec 16, 2007. 9:09 PMaKaMaKaVeLy (author) says:

Here's another link to a camera like the one i used, http://www.bizrate.com/robotic_radiocontroltoys/oid609899503.html

the camera i used uses a button cell battery like wrist watches use, my spelling might be a bit off, im sorry about that im not a native :)

Dec 16, 2007. 10:30 PMlilpunk1302 says:

Oh ok, whoops, sorry, read the other post, but thought the link went somewhere else.

So that's the exact camera you used? but how'd you power it, if you go here:
http://www.raidentech.com/mimiwipispyc.html
(the actual product page)

It shows that one of the power attachments is the 9V battery clip, did you just take that and wire a buttoncell to it? a buttoncell can't power that, can it?

Dec 16, 2007. 8:07 PMaKaMaKaVeLy (author) says:

i live in romania and i got a black & white camera really cheap for 20$ used but , the closest i found online was color and costs like 39$ or so, here's a link if anyone need's it, i recomend buy a "used camera b&w" color is really expensive and it dosen't really matter that much....

http://www.bizrate.com/robotic_radiocontroltoys/oid609899502__start--30.html

Thanks for viewing !

Dec 16, 2007. 7:52 PM

frollard says:

definitely a nifty idea. Not original - but great use of the cheaper tech. I've always thought those cheapie helicopters couldn't lift much more weight than their own... cool.