Hi there,
I don't have much experience with drones. As the title says, I'm "looking for a small drone for indoor use and proper stabilisation even in low light conditions" to be used for a dance performance inside a theatre. The drone is meant to be manually steered.
I bought the DJI neo since it was small (proper size) and advertised (somewhere) as usable for indoors. Later in the manual and elsewhere it states it is designed for outdoors.
The drone works reasonably well, even indoors, provided you have good light conditions and proper structured floor.
However I'm facing serious problems inside theatres.
Ideally I would use something similar to what Marvelminds offers using beacons. My set up would be quite easy since I could easily place the beacons at the stage corners and the space is mostly smaller than 10 x 10m with no meaningful obstacles.
However, most of those drones are quite bigger than the neo and implementation of the system is not very straight forward. I probably would be able to set it up. But I would love to find somewhat more like "working out of the box", since I will also be running lights, sound and interaction and would not be able to pay too much attention to yet another thing.
What I've tried so far.
Just one more thing... I would prefer a drone with propeller guards, since the drone "dances" with a person I don't want to harm and also in case of bumping into something it just would bounce back instead of crashing.
Thank you gals and guys and pilots of any kind ;-)
I don't have much experience with drones. As the title says, I'm "looking for a small drone for indoor use and proper stabilisation even in low light conditions" to be used for a dance performance inside a theatre. The drone is meant to be manually steered.
I bought the DJI neo since it was small (proper size) and advertised (somewhere) as usable for indoors. Later in the manual and elsewhere it states it is designed for outdoors.
The drone works reasonably well, even indoors, provided you have good light conditions and proper structured floor.
However I'm facing serious problems inside theatres.
- Most often I have no satellites on the GPS.
- I would like to have relatively dark scenes
- The dancefloor is homogeneous black (sometimes white or grey).
Ideally I would use something similar to what Marvelminds offers using beacons. My set up would be quite easy since I could easily place the beacons at the stage corners and the space is mostly smaller than 10 x 10m with no meaningful obstacles.
However, most of those drones are quite bigger than the neo and implementation of the system is not very straight forward. I probably would be able to set it up. But I would love to find somewhat more like "working out of the box", since I will also be running lights, sound and interaction and would not be able to pay too much attention to yet another thing.
What I've tried so far.
- White dance floor. Works ok if dirty and well lit. If very clean or poorly lit the neo can't stabilise on its own.
- Black dance floor, works similar to the white one, but requires more light.
- Attach LED light's below the neo. Did not really improve the situation
- Flood the space with IR light. Did not help. I hoped the IR sensors would "see" enough to work properly and I wouldn't need to use visible light. I might need some further testing for this since I might have used too much light, which is the same as being in the dark, No visual cues.
- Place a lit LED stripe in the horizont. Did not help.
Just one more thing... I would prefer a drone with propeller guards, since the drone "dances" with a person I don't want to harm and also in case of bumping into something it just would bounce back instead of crashing.
Thank you gals and guys and pilots of any kind ;-)
