AGAIN with the awesome things on kids.woot! You need a new page! I propose Awesome.Woot! for all things awesome. It can have toys and other such awesome things!

Oh! This looks like fun, but unfortunately I spent my weekly 'spending allowance' on woot-opoly! Now I have to decide if I made the right decision or not.

Seem like pretty good reviews on the mother site (assuming these are the same helicopters)
http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Battle-Copters-Electric-2-Pack/dp/B00AHKBSIG

Could I dive bomb my lego clock with one of these?

Sweet, got a nephew whose birthday is approaching; he loves all things remote control, be they on the ground or in the air. In for one.

Jertyrael wrote:AGAIN with the awesome things on kids.woot! You need a new page! I propose Awesome.Woot! for all things awesome. It can have toys and other such awesome things!

Seriously, it's almost like woot is listening to us and going back to bringing us good stuff instead of amazon rejects. How great is this?

an overview (with additional pictures!) over at worldtechtoys.com

http://worldtechtoys.com/product/GYRONemesisBattleCoptersElectricHelicopters.html

Any reviews on this?

ThunderThighs wrote:Independent Subsidiary. They can't just give us things to sell. It doesn't work that way. Get it out of your head.

Haha yes yes I know. The quality does feel better in the last week. Almost makes me wish I followed this last wootoff a little closer. (Although I'm glad i didn't. It's hard to save money when you're wooting)

Anyone know if the parts (blades, shaft, etc) from a Syma S107G will fit these? We have a couple Symas and you WILL break them if you use them, and the Syma parts are cheap on eBay.

If the parts work, I'm really interested. They are a hoot to fly and the laser-tag game would make it that much more fun.

GET TO DA CHOPPA!

Keep in mind you'll need 12 AA batteries to get these up and battlin'. Now don't you regret not buying up those butt ton of batteries offered on tech.woot just a couple days ago?!

This is them. He doesn't really fly them much, but gives a good idea of size and stability (he is clearly a first time flyer).

These are great, one thing to note, is they do operate on infrared so they will washout in sunlight.

Radio frequencies are better suited for flying devices.

AlexWalsh wrote:Seem like pretty good reviews on the mother site (assuming these are the same helicopters)
http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Battle-Copters-Electric-2-Pack/dp/B00AHKBSIG

"Mother site", I just snorted a little coffee out my nose! Thanks!

jdpman wrote:Keep in mind you'll need 12 AA batteries to get these up and battlin'. Now don't you regret not buying up those butt ton of batteries offered on tech.woot just a couple days ago?!

Why do you think we have been buying all the free-after-rewards batteries at Staples? Just for this!

it's nemeses. the plural of nemesis is nemeses

Oh man Rollerball...did Slydon write today's ad copy? I hear he's old.

We have a house full of these infra-rc contra rotating helis, most of them are too beat up to fly well. I guess replacements are in order.

This sale receives my approval. Carry on.

I have one of these the pair is awesome, first hit spins one way, second hit spins the other, third hit sends you down. Easy to handle and also control in the dark.

wizwor wrote:Why do you think we have been buying all the free-after-rewards batteries at Staples? Just for this!

Save the batteries, use the USB charger instead of the built in one...Still need the batteries but this will stretch the life.

EricPost wrote:These are great, one thing to note, is they do operate on infrared so they will washout in sunlight.

Radio frequencies are better suited for flying devices.

As far as I can tell, the control is RF, it's just the "combat system" that is infrared. So you will be able to fly them in the sun, it just might be harder to score a hit.

ndaipori wrote:As far as I can tell, the control is RF, it's just the "combat system" that is infrared. So you will be able to fly them in the sun, it just might be harder to score a hit.

No, these are IR.
For the most part, RF requires more power and equipment (weight) to operate, and the power cell on these things is just a big capacitor.

You know these helicopters have their own theme song, don't you?


Or, if you lose one:


< sigh > I'm never going to figure embedding.

j5 wrote:No, these are IR.
For the most part, RF requires more power and equipment (weight) to operate, and the power cell on these things is just a big capacitor.

Ditto - almost all the 3 or 3.5 channels are IR not RF. It's rarely a problem because you're going to flying indoors anyhow.

anyone know if you can fly like 4 of these at the same time and have a battle royale??

Here I am woot, once again, spending all my hard earned money buying toys from kids woot, for myself- an adult child. What else? I'm female. This is practically going against my gender, but holy jeez, this thing is cool. Not only is it shiny and produces light, but it makes super cool sounds too so I can pretend I really rock at flying the copter as I crash it into ordinary objects lying around my house!

Anyone have suggestions for cameras that may be light enough to be added onto it without any issues?

j5 wrote:and the power cell on these things is just a big capacitor.

I can't vouch for these, but that's not true of the Syma S107G which most of these small copters are modeled after. It has a small LiPo battery inside.

tsfisch wrote:I can't vouch for these, but that's not true of the Syma S107G which most of these small copters are modeled after. It has a small LiPo battery inside.

Allrighty. I stand corrected.
In fact, these look just like those Syma units.

eta: Don't need these now. Grabbing some USB cable chargers from Amazorn! Thanks Woot!

jdpman wrote:Keep in mind you'll need 12 AA batteries to get these up and battlin'. Now don't you regret not buying up those butt ton of batteries offered on tech.woot just a couple days ago?!

Rechargables, baby, rechargables!

It's good to know that they make "ACTUAL sound effects" as opposed to simulated sounds, I guess..?? :-)

budsdre wrote:Save the batteries, use the USB charger instead of the built in one...Still need the batteries but this will stretch the life.

Sorry, but I'm not following the logic. I get that the 'copters have rechargeable batteries that can be charged via USB chargers. But what's this about a built-in charger and its effect on battery life?
Note: my original post was edited in an attempt to add clarity.

iproxii wrote:Here I am woot, once again, spending all my hard earned money buying toys from kids woot, for myself- an adult child. What else? I'm female. This is practically going against my gender, but holy jeez, this thing is cool. Not only is it shiny and produces light, but it makes super cool sounds too so I can pretend I really rock at flying the copter as I crash it into ordinary objects lying around my house!

Anyone have suggestions for cameras that may be light enough to be added onto it without any issues?

You can add a cheap camera onto small copters like this to record and then view later. I'm not positive these copters would have enough power/stability to handle that, but here's a link to one: http://www.amazon.com/Chain-Camera-Video-Recorder-Camcorder/dp/B006WVL7HG

You'd have to take the camera/battery out of the keychain housing and find a way to rig it to your copter. Even if you did all this and got it to fly, you'd have to wait until you landed the copter and downloaded the video to view the footage.

If you're talking First Person View flying systems where you can literally fly the copter based on the video feed from the camera, you're looking at much more complex and expensive systems! Unless you've got some experience building and balancing copters, your best bet may be to buy an off the shelf kit with the camera (FPV or not) already built in.

I'm in the process of building an FPV setup on top of a much larger copter so I can start doing stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dRe-wCO-PQ



Good luck!

NedDawg wrote:Sorry, but I'm not following the logic. I get that the 'copters have rechargeable batteries that can be charged via USB chargers. But what's this about a built-in charger and its effect on battery life?
Note: my original post was edited in an attempt to add clarity.

The controller has a charging cable. Using is sucks batteries to nothing very quickly. The controller itself uses very little power.

whynotus wrote:If you're talking First Person View flying systems where you can literally fly the copter based on the video feed from the camera, you're looking at much more complex and expensive systems! Unless you've got some experience building and balancing copters, your best bet may be to buy an off the shelf kit with the camera (FPV or not) already built in.

I'm in the process of building an FPV setup on top of a much larger copter so I can start doing stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dRe-wCO-PQ

Drones R Us?

j5 wrote:Drones R Us?

Exactly :D

Too bad the state I'm in doesn't allow any kind of RC flying. Will have to drive several hours each way just to get this damn thing in the air legally!

whynotus wrote:Exactly :D

Too bad the state I'm in doesn't allow any kind of RC flying. Will have to drive several hours each way just to get this damn thing in the air legally!

The whole state? Really?

My boys got these as gifts.

They are easy to use and fairly robust in terms of construction. We added some tape to the noses to level out the flight and now my 7 year old can fly them without any trouble at all.

Two things to consider.

1. They are affected by the wind quite easily...almost to the point that they really should be considered indoor toys.

2. The "fighting" feature isn't much fun, nor does it work very well...so if you are buying these to fly around...you'll be happy...if you are focusing on the toy to toy dogfighting feature of the toy, you'll likely be disappointed.