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SYMA X11C "AIR-CAM" R/C QUADCOPTER W/ CAMERA & LED LIGHTS

Syma X11C "Air-Cam" R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights $51.99 (www.amazon.com...)
Manufactured by Syma (www.symatoys.com/)
Last updated 07-15-18

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a number of LEDs on its fuselage (this word is definitely *NOT* pronounced "fyoo SELL' uh jee" as Drake Parker from the TV program "Drake and Josh" would pronounce it; the word is pronounced "

, so what the hey

I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago. I was also attracted to something that this drone has that many others don't...

1:It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
2: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a small (micro, actually!), lightweight (35.40g), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) drone. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.

It sports a camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy is remarkably easy to use for a drone...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cats would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).

1: On the remote control, press & release the circular "on/off" button located directly between the two joysticks.

2: Plug the drone's flight battery in and place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the red LEDs and the battery cables) faces you.

Move several feet away from the drone (at least six feet away).

3: The blue light on the remote will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then let it go back. This "arms" the drone. If you did this correctly, that blue light will go from blinking to steady-on and the R/C should emit a series of two tones in rapid succession.

4: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a second time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the drone doesn't just blast away -- it has a good deal of thrust, so the possibility of it getting away in this manner does exist.

5: The Syma X11C "Air-Cam" R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

To take an aerial photograph, push the uppermost button in the button cluster below and slightly to the right of the left-hand joystick and then release it.

To shoot realtime aerial video, push the lowermost button in the button cluster below and slightly to the right of the left-hand joystick and then release it. Press & release it again the same way to neutralise the recording of video.

Unplug the flight battery from the drone & turn off the Power switch on the remote control when finished using them.
Same switch as before -- just press & release it again.

The battery in the Syma X11C "Air-Cam" R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the battery door on the underside of the unit, using a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers worked well here). Set the screw aside.

Slide the battery door off toward the rear of the radio, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry silverfish that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable, so they all pass micturition on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the four used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert four new AA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry silverfish that really need to go poddy now?

To charge the battery in the Syma X11C "Air-Cam" R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights, take the thin cord that's attached to the USB charger dongle, and plug the small end into the cable on the battery itself. Plug the larger end into any USB port on your Mac or pee-cee

When the charge cycle is in progress, the red LED on the charger will be on. When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn off.

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the USB dongle from your computer.

Fully charging the Syma X11C "Air-Cam" R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights' battery should give you approx 6.25 to 7.0 minutes of flying time.

This RC drone is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a large open room indoors), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoņata is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

So this section of the drone's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The range of the radio in the Tx (RC hobby talk for "transmitter") is 30.48 meters (100 feet); frequency is stated as 2.4GHz.

The unit has a 4-channel remote control; this allows for forward / backward / up / down / left / right movement (movement on all three axes -- X, Y, and Z). It also has a fully proportional control system; simply meaning that the motor speeds can be varied depending on how far you move the joysticks -- it isn't simply "full power and no power at all" like some other R/C products.

As a toy grade drone, it flies very well -- a little TOO well actually!
If you give it too much throttle, the gay* tiny little plastic drone blasts away -- seven or eight seconds later, it's just a speck in the sky!!!

On the same note, one thing that it lacks is an altitude hold feature. When the drone is gaining altitude, it will keep going up, up and away unless you pay close attention to it so that you can throttle back on that left stick!!!

This can actually be a good thing; it teaches newer drone pilots the concept of throttle management; a skill that is totally invaluable as pilots gain experience "behind the wheel" so to speak and gives the pilot more confidence when flying this and other non-altitude hold drones & quadcopters.

The camera has a pixel density of 2.0MP -- that's 2,000,000 pixels; I found this to be fairly impressive given the size and low cost of the drone.

Photograph of its remote control.

Photograph of the drone, "illuminurinated" of course.

Photograph of the drone stuck in an overhead wire near our home -- it was briefly stuck before I managed to swat it out of the wire with a conveniently-placed long-handled poal saw.

ALL OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Amazon.com on 01-12-17 (or "2017 12 Jan." or even "January 12, Twenty Stick-Broken-Stick" if you prefer), and was received at 5:45pm PST on 01-20-17.

One thing that I noted immediately is how difficult it is to plug & unplug the battery cable both to the drone and the USB charger cable. "Methinks" that one or both of the wires will detach from the connector in fairly short order.

This is what nocked off one of the radios in its rating.

* Gay = bright & lively, ***NOT*** homosexual!

UPDATE: 01-23-17
I was flying it yesterday, and a gust of wind blew it high into a tree -- even with a long ladder, it was way too high to even try to shake it down.
Therefore, that dreadful, "

" icon must now be added to its listings on this website to denote the fact that it became irretrievably lost in the line of duty.

I really liked the little guy too.

UPDATE: 02-10-17
I received another one yesterday at 9:11am PST, so my flights can now resume!

UPDATE: 02-26-17
I was flying it yesterday, and a gust of wind blew it far beyond the range of its radio -- I even lost visual contact.
As a result, the little plastic drone has become lost in the line of duty and the dreadful, horrible, "

" icon must now be added to its listings on this website.

UPDATE: 07-06-18
I have another one of these little drones on the way; it should be here near 07-11-18.

UPDATE: 07-15-18
My sad little X11C is now without its owner; it flew away on a flight that I made on 07-14-18.
As a result, the always-dreadful, "

" icon will have to be appended to my website at once.

Shame too; I rather liked the little fella.

Syma

Micro-sized R/C quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera

LED

8 (1 blue in radio, 1 red in charger, 1 green & 1 red in camera, 4 blue in drone itself)

N/A

Pushbutton on/off on radio

Plastic

N/A

4x AA cells for radio; 3.70V 250mAh Li:PO battery for drone

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

ĄĄĄUN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTA DE PAPEL USADO PLÃSTICA, NO!!!

USB charging dongle w/ cable, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, 4GB micro SD card, micro-SD card reader, small Phillips screwdriver

152mm square, 37mm T

35.40g (incl. flight battery, memory chip, and prop guards)

China

90 days

Syma X11C "Air-Cam" R/C Quadcopter with Camera & LED Lights * www.amazon.com...

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