Dummy copter on a stick

The work on determining which speed we should fly at has begun. 

A number of factors must be considered; camera frame-rate, image blurriness. The more images of the same area the better the 3d reconstruction but at the cost of memory and time to compute 3d point cloud. 

Since the copter is waiting replacement parts and some code for the camera we conducted a simple test with the new dummy copter. (Its a smartphone on a stick...)

Plenty of duct tape was used.

By shooting a low res film and walking with the stick raised high to simulate copter flight at approx 3 m over the ground and then checking how the number of feature matches in the images decreased as distance between images increased. 

Since walking with a cameraphone on a stick 3 meters up did not produce as properly oriented and equally spaced pictures as as one would have hoped we should not focus so much attention on the result.

//Alexander.O