Cheap, tiny camera for RC planes captures video proof when you buy the farm

Radio controlled airplanes aren't quite as exciting as their full-sized counterparts, but they're pretty darned fun just the same. What would be even more fun? Rigging up an RC craft so that you could see as if you were flying inside the thing, and that you can now do for less than you'd spend on a high-end servo. $47 gets you this aptly titled "RC Plane Camera," a VGA quality cam that won't deliver quality high enough to film an RC version of Les Chavaliers Du Ciel, but should be enough to see what your little plane sees. You can rotate the lens in any direction you like (while on the ground) and, since it weighs only 20 grams, it should work just fine even on a kite. What could you do with such a thing? Watch the video after the break and we think you'll get some ideas.

[SlimSpaceman Posted Jun 3rd 2010 3:12PM]

WHY INTERLACED!??!?! WHY!!!!

[GldRush98 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 3:27PM]

I just thought up a several different uses for this nifty little camera that doesn't involve planes

[B1986 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 3:29PM]

Just don't bring it on an airplane since it looks like a bomb detonator/suppository.

[VanNorden Posted Jun 3rd 2010 3:59PM]

too bad you cant stream the video, that would be like a homemade UAV

[zole2112 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 4:10PM]

I wonder how good the video quality is when it's vibrating?

[Thai69 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 4:24PM]

@zole2112 For my plane, there's next to no vibration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQmoLfz8Vk

[iddqdse Posted Jun 3rd 2010 4:26PM]

@zole2112

It has a vibrator too? Amazing!

[Urrl Posted Jun 3rd 2010 5:27PM]

Forget the planes, it would make a serious spy cam.

[truthiness Posted Jun 3rd 2010 7:59PM]

why would you take something up that high with anything other than HD?

GoPro HD FTW!: http://vimeo.com/9757054

[cowbutt Posted Jun 4th 2010 7:11AM]

This plus http://hackaday.com/2010/02/18/sukhoi-su-27-jet-build-throws-down/ = WIN.

[blood69 Posted Jun 4th 2010 10:51AM]

Sweet, now put one of those in a Jet RC plane and with proper Joystick and Throttle controls and it will be the perfect weekend toy to me, apart from my sports car of course.