Remote control power: 2 x AAA batteries (not included)
Remote: Mode 2 (throttle on left side)
Radio: 4 channel
Frequency: 2.4G
Charging time: 30-40 minutes (actual time more like 15-25 minutes in our experience)
Distance: 15 - 30 meters
Body material: ABS plastic
Dimensions: 1.65 x 1.65 x .79 inches
Video output: 640 x 480, 30fps, MJPEG (no audio)
Condition: New Warranty:90 Day Mediocre Estimated Delivery: 6/2 - 6/4 Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Orange Cheerson CX-10C Mini Quadcopter with camera
1x Black Cheerson CX-10C Mini Quadcopter with camera
2x Remote transmitter
2x USB charging cable
8x Spare blades
2x User Manual
These are absolutely horrible and not even worth $5. In fact, now that I’ve sorted out my credit card issue, I need to get my money back on mine because it just plain wouldn’t fly straight. It’s a terrible product.
@44R0N7 Unfortunately, the buttons used for alignment on the regular (non-camera) copters are converted on these paparazzi-copters to take pics and video.
@Dizavid I bought the non-camera version a while back and it’s awesome. Probably flew it 30+ times before I stopped and can’t find the time anymore. Took tons of crashes and kept going.
@YouMustBeJoking No, but to get a refund, I assume that I have to have a working credit card. There was some sort of issue, and the bank killed my existing credit card and sent me a new one, which I’d promptly misplaced without knowing it. But I just found it.
@Dizavid
1: There are lots of terrible products. No one promised you the equivalent of a $500 quadcopter. Did you get what you ordered? Yes. You shouldn’t get a cent back.
2: Typically when someone actually does credit back an account with a closed card, the old number is linked to your account and the new card would show the credit.
3: #2 is irrelevant in this case because you’d be a dick asking for a refund. http://bfy.tw/5v7n
@Dizavid It works just like all the other CX-10C quadcopters do according to what you’ve said. Pretty lousy… As for my opinion, you’re welcome. So very glad you didn’t have to go out of your way to actually ask for it. Gee, no wonder @jbartus ripped you a new one…
@DeepThots the left and right trim buttons are the photo and video triggers, but you can still do the calibration process described in the manual and if you do it on a level surface you don’t miss the trim buttons.
@Dizavid No, you said “it wouldn’t fly straight.” News flash - None of them fly particularly straight. Doesn’t mean it’s not working properly. Had you said you charged it but the blades won’t spin or it flies but the camera doesn’t work, you’d have a valid argument. As it is, your only complaint is simply that it’s not a great product.
I don’t think everyone on this forum is a snarky asshole. So maybe we can reason the problem isn’t with everyone else…
@Dizavid I have gone out of my way to avoid being a ‘snarky asshole’ to you, taking considerable time out of my day to write thoughtful and carefully written posts that, while apparently @cinoclav feels I was tearing you a new one, were really meant to, hopefully, enlighten you as to the issues with your approach to things so that you can avoid conflict. This was done in an attempt to assist you in fitting in here so that you wouldn’t constantly be a source of conflict and strife. Notably, you’ve not actually bothered to respond to said thoughtfully written posts leading me to the inevitable conclusion that you don’t really care, you just want to make a scene
Given that that’s the apparent case, I’m going to go ahead and give up trying to be polite and just call it like it is. If you’d bother to pull your head out of your ass and look back upon your post history from an objective standpoint I think you’d be shocked to discover just how much of an asshole you’ve been. You’ve acted like a childish, entitled, self-involved twat and demonstrated a remarkable lack of introspection which thereby prevents you from recognizing the flaws in your own behavior that prevent you from getting along with other people.
You overreact to the slightest comment that you disagree with rather than taking the rational, mature, adult approach of stating that you disagree with that person and explaining your reasons for disagreement in a calm and respectful manner. Maybe @cinoclav was out of line when he said you’d be a dick to ask for a refund, personally I think he meant it in the sense of that would be a dick move’ which is fairly innocuous in modern society. Either way he meant it, the fact remains that how you chose to respond was entirely up to you, you chose poorly.
If you don’t want people to state their opinions of what you do, don’t share what you did on a public message board on the internet. It’s not fucking rocket science. When you post here or on any other publicly accessible message board you are opening yourself up to judgement and other people sharing their opinions. If you just want to get a refund and not have anybody judge you for it, email support and don’t mention it to anyone else. If you are going to bother mentioning it, give all of the relevant facts, that way people aren’t going to be able to assume the worst. When you start talking about fixing your credit card and how now you’re gonna get a refund and people are going to assume it’s for a chargeback because you left it hanging without further explanation. When you talk about it flying crooked and then about how you’re going to demand a refund, people are going to think it’s buyer’s remorse because that’s how it sounds, you didn’t mention that it was broken.
Oh, and please get a clue, this is Meh not Amazon, you can’t expect instantaneous next day shipment, they don’t have warehouses all over the country. You shop here because you get good deals, you have to take what comes with that. Sometimes that means you’ll wait a week or two for the product, other times that means the product being sold will be overstock cheapo quadcopters, you need to meter your expectations accordingly.
Sadly, you seem to feel that the world owes you respect (among other things) regardless of your behavior and that’s simply not the case. I’m sad to say that I know what your future looks like, and it’s not pretty, you remind me a lot of my father, he blames everybody else for his problems too. He’s 62 years old, hasn’t held a job in my lifetime because nobody wants to work with him, and has fewer actual friends than can be counted on two hands. He spends most of his time on his computer in the La-Z-Boy in the great room with two laptops editing Wikipedia and working on a Wikibook for a hobbyist simulator that will be out of date by the time he finishes it. If you can’t learn to get along with people and own your problems rather than blaming other people, that future will be yours.
@jbartus Well yes, I was inferring it would be a dick move and therefore he would be said dick. As this little thread moves along I feel it’s quite apparent I was being too gentle.
Just to note, it was a very subtle ripping on your part, but a ripping all the same. A truly wonderful example might I add.
Still waiting for the follow up sale when they give us twenty replacement blades for three bucks or something. These dang things find every long hair in the house, wind em up around the rotors, then crash into every insanely hard surface they can find, throwing broken blades to the wind.
It’s like Gillette. The real profit IS IN THE BLADES!!1!
@44R0N7 I’ve played with those guards, they’re pretty meh. They weigh it down and fall off a lot (they’re held on by friction from underneath).
One thing you could try is learn to quickly cut the throttle to zero just before crashing or if you’ve lost control… let it hit the wall or the floor without spinning propellers… this reduces stress on the motors and props and reduces the hair and crap that it picks up.
@44R0N7 I have used those blade shields on my non camera copters and I really like them, but some people have reported that they don’t fit on the camera models like these, I think.
As a professional test pilot for SpaceX, I know aviation like the back of my hand. When I strap on my Oculus Rift and link it up with my Cheerson CX-10C Video Cam Quadcopter it’s like I’m there flying a full-scale quadcopter across the countryside. One day I got so caught up in flying my Cheerson CX-10C Video Cam Quadcopter that I ended up three counties over before I realized where I was and turned back for home.
Myself and the rest of the SpaceX Test Pilots Corps. are looking to set up a quadcopter racing league, we’re hoping Red Bull will be interested in sponsoring it and making the event part of the next Reno Air Races. If Red Bull doesn’t bite we’re going to approach Battle Bots next, we think quadcopter combat is the wave of the future.
We’re in for three pairs of Cheerson CX-10C Video Cam Quadcopters each, if combat works out we’ll need the spares. Naturally, we all sprung for VMP as well, it’s such a great value I can’t understand why anybody would pass it up.
@SHillman You obviously didn’t watch last week’s BattleBots episode. Someone had a quadcopter as part of their team. It took one hit and more or less exploded into a thousand pieces.
I have actually been waiting for these to be brought back. We will have a full house for my son’s high school graduation and thought these would be fun. After reading the reviews, I guess it’s a Meh instead of a buy.
@cwillbwill5 Go ahead and buy. They’re cheap, give 'em a chance. Learn to calibrate it (it’s easy and 90% of people seem to never do it) – they’re actually one of the easiest quadcopters out there to fly without spending hundreds on a GPS-stabilized monster like a DJI. They’ve also been pretty sturdy for me too – I have yet to more than bend a rotor despite some pretty sick crashes.
I have tons of these, camera and non-. Gave some of my extras to my dad for Xmas and he loves 'em.
There are new toy quads coming out every day, and this one is starting to get a little meh. I saw one this size with a 2MP camera (CX-10C is 0.3MP). Though personally I avoid the camera models since the novelty wears out pretty quickly.
They have a new CX-10D model that has an altimeter/barometer in it and can hold altitude. A freakin’ altimeter in a tiny little toy, people! Technology!
@jmbunkin I learned. After trying to learn to fly these things in 30 second intervals (that is all the charge would last) and realizing “calibration” is just a word that doesn’t apply to these things I gave up and turned them into cat toys which they ignore as well. Save your money.
I bought three of these on a previous listing. The trick is to buy a bag of replacement propellers; they’re inexpensive and you may break one with every hard landing. Note that the propellers come in two different alignments, make sure to replace your broken ones with the correct kind.
I buy them to keep on hand to use as presents for the kiddo’s never-ending birthday party invitations. Huge hit and less cha-ching than I would have otherwise spent on other crap for gifts.
This deal almost makes me want to explore a project where I always have a drone or two following me, with several others on landing pads on my shoulders, each with little induction plates on their feet so that they are constantly charging.
All I need now is an engineering degree and 2000 or so patrons on Kickstarter and I can live the dream.
These copters and the abundance of speakers ,docks ,and head phones is a major reason i gave up on this site for a few months i’m a shopper ,you have to have boring product for me not to buy 90 or so days in a row ,recently its been much better but throwing these up on twofer is disrepespectfull to the masses …
A friend bought me one for when I visited Canada a few weeks back and the win carried mine into the neighbors roof so I lost it. His wasn’t the camera version but now I’ll get back my choppers!
One of my blades broke, so I replaced it.
Simple enough, but now the copter goes in the direction very hard in the direction where the blade was replaced.
Nothing stuck, spins, no hairs under any of the blades.
Bummer as it was fun while it lasted.
@dvsmith Funny you say that.
Right after I typed this message I thought that.
Since the blades were broke off, I didn’t give it much though and just grabbed a spare.
Replaced it with an opposing blade and it was fine.
Thanks for the reply.
Specs
Condition: New
Warranty: 90 Day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery: 6/2 - 6/4
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Orange Cheerson CX-10C Mini Quadcopter with camera
1x Black Cheerson CX-10C Mini Quadcopter with camera
2x Remote transmitter
2x USB charging cable
8x Spare blades
2x User Manual
Pictures
Hands and scale
Black
Black 3/4
Black side view
Orange front
Orange back
Included
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Warranty
90 days
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Flight by night deal or day…cop ( ter) out
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meh…
These are absolutely horrible and not even worth $5. In fact, now that I’ve sorted out my credit card issue, I need to get my money back on mine because it just plain wouldn’t fly straight. It’s a terrible product.
@Dizavid There is a way to calibrate. Give that a try first if you haven’t.
Look for “ACCELERATOR ALIGNMENT” in the manual available at http://www.firstquadcopter.com/downloads/cheerson-cx-10-manual/
@Dizavid what sort of credit card issue?
Please tell me you’re not saying you’re planning to chargeback the quadcopters you bought.
@44R0N7 Unfortunately, the buttons used for alignment on the regular (non-camera) copters are converted on these paparazzi-copters to take pics and video.
@Dizavid I bought the non-camera version a while back and it’s awesome. Probably flew it 30+ times before I stopped and can’t find the time anymore. Took tons of crashes and kept going.
@YouMustBeJoking No, but to get a refund, I assume that I have to have a working credit card. There was some sort of issue, and the bank killed my existing credit card and sent me a new one, which I’d promptly misplaced without knowing it. But I just found it.
@DeepThots Ah, too bad. That seems like a poor design choice then.
@Dizavid
1: There are lots of terrible products. No one promised you the equivalent of a $500 quadcopter. Did you get what you ordered? Yes. You shouldn’t get a cent back.
2: Typically when someone actually does credit back an account with a closed card, the old number is linked to your account and the new card would show the credit.
3: #2 is irrelevant in this case because you’d be a dick asking for a refund. http://bfy.tw/5v7n
@cinoclav It DOESN’T WORK, you bozo. And I didn’t ask for your opinion, anyway.
@Dizavid It works just like all the other CX-10C quadcopters do according to what you’ve said. Pretty lousy… As for my opinion, you’re welcome. So very glad you didn’t have to go out of your way to actually ask for it. Gee, no wonder @jbartus ripped you a new one…
@DeepThots the left and right trim buttons are the photo and video triggers, but you can still do the calibration process described in the manual and if you do it on a level surface you don’t miss the trim buttons.
@cinoclav Learn to read. I said it’s a bad product. I also said mine in particular doesn’t work properly. I didn’t say none of them work.
Why is everyone on this God damn forum such a snarky asshole?
@Dizavid No, you said “it wouldn’t fly straight.” News flash - None of them fly particularly straight. Doesn’t mean it’s not working properly. Had you said you charged it but the blades won’t spin or it flies but the camera doesn’t work, you’d have a valid argument. As it is, your only complaint is simply that it’s not a great product.
I don’t think everyone on this forum is a snarky asshole. So maybe we can reason the problem isn’t with everyone else…
@cinoclav One of the blades actually did stop spinning, so, y’know, shut the fuck up, asshole.
@Dizavid Funny how you hadn’t mentioned that all along. But hey, thanks again for proving where they problem exists big guy.
@Dizavid Did you check for hair/dirt? Mine jams up really quickly.
@Dizavid I have gone out of my way to avoid being a ‘snarky asshole’ to you, taking considerable time out of my day to write thoughtful and carefully written posts that, while apparently @cinoclav feels I was tearing you a new one, were really meant to, hopefully, enlighten you as to the issues with your approach to things so that you can avoid conflict. This was done in an attempt to assist you in fitting in here so that you wouldn’t constantly be a source of conflict and strife. Notably, you’ve not actually bothered to respond to said thoughtfully written posts leading me to the inevitable conclusion that you don’t really care, you just want to make a scene
Given that that’s the apparent case, I’m going to go ahead and give up trying to be polite and just call it like it is. If you’d bother to pull your head out of your ass and look back upon your post history from an objective standpoint I think you’d be shocked to discover just how much of an asshole you’ve been. You’ve acted like a childish, entitled, self-involved twat and demonstrated a remarkable lack of introspection which thereby prevents you from recognizing the flaws in your own behavior that prevent you from getting along with other people.
You overreact to the slightest comment that you disagree with rather than taking the rational, mature, adult approach of stating that you disagree with that person and explaining your reasons for disagreement in a calm and respectful manner. Maybe @cinoclav was out of line when he said you’d be a dick to ask for a refund, personally I think he meant it in the sense of that would be a dick move’ which is fairly innocuous in modern society. Either way he meant it, the fact remains that how you chose to respond was entirely up to you, you chose poorly.
If you don’t want people to state their opinions of what you do, don’t share what you did on a public message board on the internet. It’s not fucking rocket science. When you post here or on any other publicly accessible message board you are opening yourself up to judgement and other people sharing their opinions. If you just want to get a refund and not have anybody judge you for it, email support and don’t mention it to anyone else. If you are going to bother mentioning it, give all of the relevant facts, that way people aren’t going to be able to assume the worst. When you start talking about fixing your credit card and how now you’re gonna get a refund and people are going to assume it’s for a chargeback because you left it hanging without further explanation. When you talk about it flying crooked and then about how you’re going to demand a refund, people are going to think it’s buyer’s remorse because that’s how it sounds, you didn’t mention that it was broken.
Oh, and please get a clue, this is Meh not Amazon, you can’t expect instantaneous next day shipment, they don’t have warehouses all over the country. You shop here because you get good deals, you have to take what comes with that. Sometimes that means you’ll wait a week or two for the product, other times that means the product being sold will be overstock cheapo quadcopters, you need to meter your expectations accordingly.
Sadly, you seem to feel that the world owes you respect (among other things) regardless of your behavior and that’s simply not the case. I’m sad to say that I know what your future looks like, and it’s not pretty, you remind me a lot of my father, he blames everybody else for his problems too. He’s 62 years old, hasn’t held a job in my lifetime because nobody wants to work with him, and has fewer actual friends than can be counted on two hands. He spends most of his time on his computer in the La-Z-Boy in the great room with two laptops editing Wikipedia and working on a Wikibook for a hobbyist simulator that will be out of date by the time he finishes it. If you can’t learn to get along with people and own your problems rather than blaming other people, that future will be yours.
TL;DR summary: @jbartus tells @Dizavid to fucking fuck the fuck off.
Carry on.
@jbartus Well yes, I was inferring it would be a dick move and therefore he would be said dick. As this little thread moves along I feel it’s quite apparent I was being too gentle.
Just to note, it was a very subtle ripping on your part, but a ripping all the same. A truly wonderful example might I add.
@Pavlov I read the TL;DR, but I have all this popcorn to eat so I might as well read the whole thing.
@Dizavid When you are being a dick, expect it to be shoved into your mouth.
Appears to be baby arm incompatible. No deal.
These things are like the cups but with propellers…
The non-camera ones are great. Really, I love them. The camera one is hard to fly and the video is choppy and skips.
Still waiting for the follow up sale when they give us twenty replacement blades for three bucks or something. These dang things find every long hair in the house, wind em up around the rotors, then crash into every insanely hard surface they can find, throwing broken blades to the wind.
It’s like Gillette. The real profit IS IN THE BLADES!!1!
@stinks Yeah the blades would be nice. That’s why I considered buying these. But meh. I’ll pass. Not worth it just for the blades imo.
@44R0N7 Replacement rotors are readily available from Amazon, eBay and the Chinese culprits. Bunches of them for cheap.
@stinks How about 40 for $5?
http://www.banggood.com/10-Sets-Cheerson-CX-10-CX10-CX-10A-CX10A-CX-10C-CX10C-CX-10W-CX10W-FQ777-124-Propeller-Prop-p-1047546.html
@ruouttaurmind and @awk Thanks. And this looks like the smarter deal… if the strength of those covers are decent enough. http://www.banggood.com/Cheerson-CX-10-CX-10A-Quadcopter-Protection-Cover-w-propeller-set-p-970383.html
@44R0N7 I’ve played with those guards, they’re pretty meh. They weigh it down and fall off a lot (they’re held on by friction from underneath).
One thing you could try is learn to quickly cut the throttle to zero just before crashing or if you’ve lost control… let it hit the wall or the floor without spinning propellers… this reduces stress on the motors and props and reduces the hair and crap that it picks up.
@44R0N7 I have used those blade shields on my non camera copters and I really like them, but some people have reported that they don’t fit on the camera models like these, I think.
Do i get a penny or is that not included?
/
As a professional test pilot for SpaceX, I know aviation like the back of my hand. When I strap on my Oculus Rift and link it up with my Cheerson CX-10C Video Cam Quadcopter it’s like I’m there flying a full-scale quadcopter across the countryside. One day I got so caught up in flying my Cheerson CX-10C Video Cam Quadcopter that I ended up three counties over before I realized where I was and turned back for home.
Myself and the rest of the SpaceX Test Pilots Corps. are looking to set up a quadcopter racing league, we’re hoping Red Bull will be interested in sponsoring it and making the event part of the next Reno Air Races. If Red Bull doesn’t bite we’re going to approach Battle Bots next, we think quadcopter combat is the wave of the future.
We’re in for three pairs of Cheerson CX-10C Video Cam Quadcopters each, if combat works out we’ll need the spares. Naturally, we all sprung for VMP as well, it’s such a great value I can’t understand why anybody would pass it up.
@SHillman You obviously didn’t watch last week’s BattleBots episode. Someone had a quadcopter as part of their team. It took one hit and more or less exploded into a thousand pieces.
Why is the 10C model $15?
@mike808 Because it has a camera
@mike808 10C or teensy?
@chacham Both. At the same time, even
I have had a lot of fun with the one I got the last go around, though I haven’t used the camera yet. Very zen
Multirotor Mon… er, wait… Tuesdays?
I have actually been waiting for these to be brought back. We will have a full house for my son’s high school graduation and thought these would be fun. After reading the reviews, I guess it’s a Meh instead of a buy.
@cwillbwill5 Go ahead and buy. They’re cheap, give 'em a chance. Learn to calibrate it (it’s easy and 90% of people seem to never do it) – they’re actually one of the easiest quadcopters out there to fly without spending hundreds on a GPS-stabilized monster like a DJI. They’ve also been pretty sturdy for me too – I have yet to more than bend a rotor despite some pretty sick crashes.
I have tons of these, camera and non-. Gave some of my extras to my dad for Xmas and he loves 'em.
@kensey I bought.
There are new toy quads coming out every day, and this one is starting to get a little meh. I saw one this size with a 2MP camera (CX-10C is 0.3MP). Though personally I avoid the camera models since the novelty wears out pretty quickly.
They have a new CX-10D model that has an altimeter/barometer in it and can hold altitude. A freakin’ altimeter in a tiny little toy, people! Technology!
@awk the CX-10W has wifi!!! Live video from a little quad…
@thismyusername I want to get something like this:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/ultra-micro-fpv-camera-and-video-transmitter-spmva1100
And make something like this:
Proper 5.8GHz FPV!
also vmp…
@cshillaber one star out of five, not your best effort. :frown:
@jbartus and I botch the emote.
@jbartus
Made this pun on the fly. Not much of a fan though.
@gyozilla Was it caught on camera?
Still waiting for the camera-less model. Love them!!! Bring back the camera-less model now!!!
Whoooo !
for drunk purchases…
I crashed the last one once. Never worked again. This meh = bleh.
@gunnzero Did you learn anything,that’s what’s important!
@jmbunkin I learned. After trying to learn to fly these things in 30 second intervals (that is all the charge would last) and realizing “calibration” is just a word that doesn’t apply to these things I gave up and turned them into cat toys which they ignore as well. Save your money.
I bought three of these on a previous listing. The trick is to buy a bag of replacement propellers; they’re inexpensive and you may break one with every hard landing. Note that the propellers come in two different alignments, make sure to replace your broken ones with the correct kind.
I buy them to keep on hand to use as presents for the kiddo’s never-ending birthday party invitations. Huge hit and less cha-ching than I would have otherwise spent on other crap for gifts.
There’s a teardown of the non-camera one at
http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4442067/Teardown–A-tiny-drone-and-its-controller
This deal almost makes me want to explore a project where I always have a drone or two following me, with several others on landing pads on my shoulders, each with little induction plates on their feet so that they are constantly charging.
All I need now is an engineering degree and 2000 or so patrons on Kickstarter and I can live the dream.
These copters and the abundance of speakers ,docks ,and head phones is a major reason i gave up on this site for a few months i’m a shopper ,you have to have boring product for me not to buy 90 or so days in a row ,recently its been much better but throwing these up on twofer is disrepespectfull to the masses …
A friend bought me one for when I visited Canada a few weeks back and the win carried mine into the neighbors roof so I lost it. His wasn’t the camera version but now I’ll get back my choppers!
I’m speechless
BUBBA!!!
and…
!!!
only a little &, mostly !
One of my blades broke, so I replaced it.
Simple enough, but now the copter goes in the direction very hard in the direction where the blade was replaced.
Nothing stuck, spins, no hairs under any of the blades.
Bummer as it was fun while it lasted.
@m3rdpwr the blades are arranged in counter rotating pairs, is it possible that you replaced the broken blade with one angled the opposite way?
@dvsmith Funny you say that.
Right after I typed this message I thought that.
Since the blades were broke off, I didn’t give it much though and just grabbed a spare.
Replaced it with an opposing blade and it was fine.
Thanks for the reply.