Knitting and Tricoptery

Combined Hobby Day or High Tech meets Retro

June 13th 2015 was World Wide Knit in Public Day. Virginia asked "Can we go over to the park and set up a photo of me Knitting in Public?"

"Of course" I answered, "I can do an aerial photo by tricopter". I had recently built a David Windestal V3 tricopter and was keen to put it to use.

It was such a lovely calm sunny winter's day here in south eastern Australia so we decided to cycle to the park. The first challenge was working out how to safely transport the tri. My bike has a big crate on the front but the tri would not fit in securely. I decided to strap it to my backpack, could have folded the arms down to make it more compact but it looked cooler opened out, like the bike was tricopter powered.

We found a nice park bench with great views over Eastern Park and Corio Bay. Importantly there were no other people nearby so it was safe for some tricopter aerial photography. 

We settled down with a warm knitted rug over our knees, looking like Oma and Opa in the chilly winter sun.

 The tricopter took off and flew a few circuits around us taking photos with the GoPro on timelapse and Medium Wide, while Virginia clicked away on her carbon fibre circular interchangable knitting needles.

Knitting has gone high tech these days. Karbonz needles are works of art and would not look out of place on any multirotor.

I landed the tri after 8 minutes with 75 photos to sort through, but the day was so nice we stayed a while longer, Virgina laying down a few more rows and me fitting a new battery to record some flying video.

Here is the video of this wonderful day sharing modern and retro hobbies. I highly reccomend finding ways to share your hobby with a loved one, you might just have as much fun as we did.

Specs

Rowan Yarns Kaffe Fassett afghan knitted rug - 6 month long project. No hot glue involved.

Karbonz Nickel tipped CF interchangeable circular knitting needles

AZOR Dutch Oma and Opa bikes

David Windestal V3 tricopter with KK2 flight control board

Sunny Sky 980kV motors with 10x4.5 slow fly props

Turnigy 380MG analogue servo

GoPro 2 and Mobius A lens cameras.