This Homemade Light Stick Drone is for Light Painting Images into the Sky
What do you get when you combine a pixelstick with a drone? Makers Ivan Miranda and Tom Stanton recently decided to show all of us by creating a custom light stick drone that can be used to shoot light-painting photos in the sky.
Here’s the 16.5-minute video in which Miranda shows how he built the light stick display:
The light stick essentially displays the vertical lines of images as it travels horizontally. By shooting a long-exposure photo of the light stick, the complete image is captured on camera.
Once the stick was created, Stanton built his own 2-meter-long version using lightweight wood. Here’s Stanton’s 11.5-minute video showing how he flew the light stick drone for a series of light painting photos:
And after wobbly flights over a week in the cold darkness of a field, Stanton managed to create an interesting series of light-painted photos:
You can find more videos by these two tinkerers by subscribing to Ivan Miranda and Tom Stanton on YouTube.
Image credits: Photographs by Tom Stanton and used with permission
