Here we travelled to the most epic italian Mountain peaks - and as soon as the clouds moved aside just a little bit, my drone was up there. Actually the clouds made these flights so much more interesting!
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Monport GA30W Fibre Laser: Speed & POWER… Once You Fix the DRIVERS! (LightBurn Setup Guide)
Key Specs of the MONPORT GA30w:
Powerful 30 watt 1064nm Laser! 💪 Engrave speed: 10.000 mm/s 600.000 mm/min (36kph!) Frequency range: 30~60kHz Working area: 150×150 mm Device dims: 35 x 42 x 62 cm max Z.height (lens to working area): 41 cm max height of object: 18 cm engraver accuracy: 0.01 mm pos accuracy: ±0.1 µm
Sunday, March 16, 2025
FPV Meet 3/25: Fixedwing chases, 2 rescue missions and RC car madness
This was a great FPV meet with my friends at our fav spot. Locals are nice there, space to land plenty, great mountain wall and lots of dive lines, mountain is also kind of accessible - although this doesn't always help - as you see in the 2 rescue missions (hint: if you see me using DVR footy, something went horribly wrong ;)
Monday, March 3, 2025
FPV Meet Shenenigangs, Fixedwing formation, Car bashing in the woods (Jan,Feb 25)
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
LIDAR Scanning, Gaussian splatting, Photogrammetry and the Unreal engine!
LIDAR Basics
LIDAR Scanning - as shown in my review about the 3DMakerPro Eagle Pro - is measuring millions of dots with LASER and creating 3D landscapes with 2cm accuracy. Additional use of cameras can help colorize these scans to make them look even better. Find out if this is something for you!
"Gaussian splatting" takes it to another level and create even more impressive landscapes!
Learned all of this while researching for my review - covered a lot of topics - so the limits of a youtube description box were reached swiftley ;)
LINKS:
JimuMeta (3DMaker): https://scene.jimumeta.com
https://gauss.jimumeta.com Demo scene Lake
(online platform starts March 2025)
3DMakerPro "RAY-Studio" Software: (usage guid and tips below!)
early alpha tool, not very polished
Download my "monument" pointcloud sample data for your own tests!
Cloud Compare (open source! - best pointcloud tool I found during research)
my FINDINGS:
- micro SD slot: Scans are automatically stored there - so you don't have to export using the (slow) USB Stick export method
- Size of internal memory: 32gb
- SD slot should be accesible even if grip-base part ist attached
- Button on grip: used to take Panoramic pics - not used in scan mode
- Calculations in Software (RayStudio 1.01) are slow - they don't use all of your CPU and almost none of your GPU power. My i9-9900K CPU was around 14% - and there was no core at 100% usage (aka singlecore usage).
SCANNING TIPS:
- stay below 20kph
- below 4.5 minutes (to keep the filesize low)
- check exposure for good textures
- move steady and slow and make multiple runs (with different angles)
- "look behind stuff" to fill unknown areas
- Combine multiple scans into one scenery?
yes, but only manually aligning is available (I used Cloud Compare)
TECH SPECS:
SMA connector on top (antenna, GPS?)
Lidar Dome in front
Accuracy 2cm for 10 meters, 3cm for 20 meters, 5cm for 40 meters
Scan radius 40-70 meters (>10% reflectivity or >80% reflectivity)
Scan range 10-140 meters
Scan angle Horizontal 360°, Vertical 59°
Point cloud frequency 200,000 points/second
Laser light source 905 nm
Eye safety level Class 1 (IEC60825-1:2014) Eye Safety
Color texture 48MP 4-camera system, 360° x 300° support 16K panoramic
photo output
4x 48MP cams (180°, F2.0) but pics seem to be 12mp (4000x3000 super wideagle) (Front, 120° left and right, top)
HDR mode Support (3-5 exposure values)
USB C interface x 2
Data: here you PLUGIN your USBc NTFS stick - not a cable to your PC!
Power: for charging or power during use
Built-in battery 12000 mah, supports 1 hour of work, supports external
Network support Wi-Fi 5
Screen size 3.5”
Output format 3D Color Point Cloud PLY
3D Gaussian Splatting PLY
3D Colored Polygonal Model OBJ
3D Panoramic Tour Data (OBJ)
Volume 115mm x 181mm x 107mm
Weight 1.5 kg
Configuration 8 Cores 2.4GHz 32GB
MicroSD Card slot on bottom (card must be NTFS!)
Battery indicator
Competions products:
Leica BLK2GO 30k€?
FJD Trion P1 LiDAR 3D Scanner ~ 10k€
Sunday, January 26, 2025
DJI O4 - Worth the upgrade? How does it look with SCENIC DIVES?

