Eric attempts to fly, sort of.

Eric builds a camera and video transmitter into an RC plane.

I recently saw this video of a man who built a video camera into an RC airplane and flew it around while looking at the live feed from his camera, transmitted via wireless. He also installed gyros on his video goggles which control the pan and tilt of the camera. This gives him the ability to "look around" while flying, greatly enhancing the experience. Of course I had to build one for myself. And, I decided to photo-document the process. The video has a reference to Black Widow AV where I purchased a 600mw transmitter, receiver and camera.

The first step was to build a power supply for the camera and transmitter. I used an old brushed motor controller which has a built in BEC (Battery Eliminator Circuit) which is basically a voltage regulator.