DJI Spark - Affordable Premium Drone

A couple of days ago, on May 24, DJI officially announced the Spark at the New York event. The new drone is very portable and compact, the footprint of the main body is smaller than most smartphones these days and it is about the size of an adult's palm. However, the DJI Spark has fixed propeller arms and cannot retract, which is a great feature in DJI Mavic Pro. To make up that drawback, a headphone-size carrying case will be provided.

With the price tag of $499, the tiny drone is packed with DJI's signature features such as TapFly, ActiveTrack, Mechanical Gimbal for the camera and 3D sensing system. But the coolest one, in my opinion, is the hand gesture controls. With only your hands, gesture controls the machine through the air from take-off to landing; you have the power to snap photos or control its position. with a basic gesture.

Hand gestures include:

• Wave to send drone out approximately 10 feet
• Create a box with your fingers to snap a photo
• Two handed wave and hold out your hand to trigger landing 
• And much more...

(For more information on gesture control, check out this video by ijustine)

Camera modes:

With DJI GO 4 app, newly introduced Quickshot features include several flying modes.

Rocket - camera faces downward and the drone rockets straight up.

Dronie - camera faces the subject and flies slowly upward and backs away.

Circle - camera keeps a focus on the subject and flies around it in a circle.

Helix - camera keeps a focus on the subject and both flies outward, upward and circles around.

Looking at the specifications, the DJI Spark has a camera sensor of 1/2.3-inch and shoots in 1080P. DJI says the Spark will go up to 31MPG in Sport Mode and a maximum flight time of 16 minutes in regular mode. 

Lastly, the DJI Spark starts at $499 and there is a bundle version available for $699. You can choose from five different colors, white, blue, green, yellow and red. 

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For more information, check out DJI Spark's web page: http://www.dji.com/spark

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Tools to Build a Custom PC!

Building a PC is not as hard as you might think. I have built a few PC in the past, in fact my first PC was built when I was 15 years old.

In this video, he shows various tools that is needed for building a PC, more of them are useless for first time builders. The only tool that is required is a screw driver, other tools are for convenience.

I will talk about why building your own custom PC is better than buying a pre-built system in one of the future posts.

Forza Horizon 3 Trailer and Pre-Load

Forza Horizon 3 might be the best racing game ever created!

They just released the full trailer on YouTube recently, featuring top exotic and off-road beasts.

It's better to show you than describing.

If you are really interested like I am, you can check out the full car list over here:

GoPro Releases Karma Drone

GoPro just released it's Karma drone a few days ago. I think it is a great competitor against DJI Phantom series. However it doesn't have fancy software and hardware comparing to DJI, such as auto tracking a person. In contrast, Karma makes ups the downsides by its compact body design, the four propeller arms can all fold up, so you can put it in any ordinary bag, which is basically impossible for DJI Phantoms. And the camera is located at the front, so the legs are shorter.

But after watching some videos shot from the Karma, I notice the camera is really stable and the quality isn't as good as DJI's. Karma is only $799, and Phantom 4 costs $1,400. Despite Karma's downsides, I think this drone is a great competitor for DJI. I am big fan of DJI, but I am kind of glad GoPro released this, because Phantom drones haven't changed too much through out the years.

Here is a early look video by Casey Neistat featuring GoPro's Karma
Note, Casey has crashed 7 Phantoms.

Here is a nice video reviewing Android Nougat

Marques Brownlee, aka "MKBHD" on YouTube posted a in depth review on Android Nougat. He touched on and demonstrated many cool new features about the new operating software update on Android with his Nexus 6P. For more detailed information on this topic you can check out an article by Android Authority here: http://www.androidauthority.com/android-7-0-features-673002/