{"id":293,"date":"2019-11-19T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilivehere.life\/?p=293"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:14:01","slug":"i-got-a-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/i-got-a-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got a DRONE!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-294\" src=\"http:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snapshot-for-Mailchimp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snapshot-for-Mailchimp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snapshot-for-Mailchimp-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snapshot-for-Mailchimp-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snapshot-for-Mailchimp-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snapshot-for-Mailchimp.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t made a new post in a couple weeks. Not much is going on. The days are noticeably shorter, and a million years of evolution is telling me to eat lots of fat, dig a hole and hibernate until spring thaw. I&#8217;m fighting mother nature to eat healthier, keep moving and don&#8217;t let the many hours of darkness each day get me down. I decided I needed a new hobby, or at least a distraction and I&#8217;ve been comparing drones for months now. I think one will be so useful when I&#8217;m on the road and will allow me to share both videos and photos with people so they can have an idea of where I am and what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Drones range in price from about 20 bucks at the low end (kid&#8217;s toys) to thousands at the high end.\u00a0 After much research, I realized that the ones that had the features I wanted were at the high end and out of my budget. But then DJI released the new Mavic Mini.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very tiny, costs under $400, and does a pretty good job of photography and videography.\u00a0 I got it, and I LOVE it!\u00a0 Unfortunately it was delivered on a day with high winds and I didn&#8217;t dare take it out for a test flight and risk losing it before I even got acquainted with what it can do.\u00a0 The next day was still a bit windy, but calmed down a bit at sunset. I risked it and took it for a trial run in my back yard.<\/p>\n<p>It is so easy to fly and I suspect I will eventually get good at it.\u00a0 I was still a little unsure of how it would react if a gust of wind came along. I was afraid to fly it too high for fear it would blow away, and afraid to fly it too low because I was surrounded by trees and telephone poles.\u00a0 So cautiously, I took it up, moved it slightly forward and then slightly backward.\u00a0 I turned it around to face the opposite direction. I played with raising and lowering the camera angle. I now understand all the controls and I can use any of them one at a time.\u00a0 The trick is going to be to learn to use several of them at once. For instance I can go forward. I can turn. I can go higher.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve not yet mastered the control needed to take off, move forward while turning and ascending.\u00a0 I can walk and chew gum at the same time, so I know in time I&#8217;ll master this.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, every day since has been brutally cold, extremely windy, or raining. Not good weather for a rookie to go out and practice. But today seems not too windy, even though it&#8217;s a bit chilly. I think I&#8217;m going to find a big field, take her out and give her a proper trial.<\/p>\n<p>On those cold, rainy, windy days, I&#8217;ve downloaded new video editing software (Cyberlink Power Director 18) and have spent time learning how to edit the footage I&#8217;ve taken so far. I&#8217;m not proficient yet, but I&#8217;m having a blast.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see my first video, it&#8217;s on YouTube and you can see it by clicking this link:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yXtbgLYrXq8\">My First Drone Flight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a new post in a couple weeks. Not much is going on. The days are noticeably shorter, and a million years of evolution is telling me to eat lots of fat, dig a hole and hibernate until spring thaw. I&#8217;m fighting mother nature to eat healthier, keep moving and don&#8217;t let the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/i-got-a-drone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Got a DRONE!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilivehere.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}