=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 245 === Title: LDO 245 - Flying at the speed of light Recorded: 2020-05-07 Hosts: Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Wayne "CurryKitten" Andrews, Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant Guest(s): Paweł "DzikuVx" Spychalski Total audience: 2,206 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNugUTYav54); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/817406710-letsdroneout-ldo-245-flying-at-the-speed-of-light.mp3) ===================================== Check out our merch or remix your own at our shop! http://www.letsdroneout.com [0.0] Jack: Hello and welcome to Let's Drone Out, the best, well the only UK FPV podcast, [6.8] Jack: sponsored by the lovely people from our Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Let's Drone Out. [12.88] Jack: In particular we'd like to thank these guys, Art Faulkner, Mikey Dredd, Wacky Wes, David Powell. [24.24] Jack: Thank you guys, you're the best, we can edit our podcast, thank you. [59.02] Jack: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Let's Drone Out. Tonight we are joined by [66.14] Jack: I love you dad. Love you dad. Everyone's favourite curry kitten. Love you tanny's dad. [74.7] Jack: Do you want to read out this claim quickly? I've lost it again. We don't need to. [78.78] Curry: And he's going, moi, moi, pavel spichaleski. Oh yeah and our guest. Yes, any music source, [87.74] Curry: any guest on the show, personal may reflect the views of others, whether they be me or cat or person. [93.66] Frank: Andrew slash Frank. Good evening and good luck tony's dad. Thank you. And our very special guest, [101.66] Paweł: Pavel Spichaleski. Close, close, closer. Yeah, yeah, we can live with that. I'm sorry. A few more [112.22] Paweł: years of living in this beautiful country of Poland and you will learn how to spell it or not, [117.74] Jack: it depends. Yeah and I am bright as a fly and get well soon tony's dad. [125.18] Jack: We've got the god of iNav on again. We love him. He came around and hung out last time. [132.06] Jack: Surprisingly he's come back and isn't totally done with us or just me because I'm the worst host in [138.78] Paweł: the world. Not that bad. We can live with that. Yeah. I'm deeply sorry. It's my third time so [148.94] Paweł: you cannot be the worst. Yeah I suppose, yeah. Yeah that there has to be someone worse than you [155.1] Curry: does. There's always someone worse. We haven't found them yet but there's probably someone out [159.66] Jack: there that's really between the lines. Oh I know, hopefully. But yeah you guys were [168.46] Jack: quickly speaking about some sort of lost quad or something shut down. Do you want to [172.86] Frank: carry on that conversation quickly? So this is a news article that popped up and I put [180.94] Frank: it in the audio discord as well. So this is a Latvian sort of research I guess kind of level [192.78] Frank: thing. Big fixed wing. It's got internal combustion engine, batteries, solar panels. [201.02] Frank: It's a motor glider more than kind of it's got really long wings and it can fly for four days [210.14] Frank: and they they took it up and then it disappeared and they lost control of it and yeah yeah and [221.58] Frank: with four days worth of fuel on board they just kind of went oh well we don't know where it is [229.02] Frank: and so they have to shut down a lot of airspace to manned air traffic because they didn't know [233.98] Frank: whether they were just gonna you know have this unmanned aircraft just hurtling at someone. [240.3] Frank: How big is it? I can't remember. I'll take it out. Probably a few meters of the wingspan but [248.62] Paweł: finding that stuff in the air oh come on we are watching too many US Hollywood movies when they [256.06] Paweł: know everything that's fly. No this is absolutely not true. A funny story. I don't think they'll [263.82] Curry: find that. I was just gonna say is it running INEV? Is it Power's fault that it disappeared? [269.02] Paweł: What? The 747 from Malaysia or this one? About this one I have no bloody idea. Could be. Could [276.7] Paweł: be because I know that some companies are trying to run INEV on very very specialistic let's say [285.66] Paweł: pieces of hardware. I have no idea but a funny story. I know someone who won a bet with the [296.14] Paweł: commanding officer of the military base that he can fly over this military base without the [304.3] Paweł: people in the military base sitting behind the riders will know about his presence. He got this [310.22] Paweł: legal. He got the permission from the authorities and he flew over the base and he won. [315.74] Jack: They had no idea the airplane was there. Wow. Wow. That's the last we ever saw of you because [325.18] Jack: letting that information out on this show has probably just killed you. You have no idea which [330.78] Paweł: country. Yeah true. And which base. Or I might be lying. This is also possible. Yeah we don't know. [340.54] Jack: But it's a full story right? It is. We lose Tony all the time. He's quite small. [349.34] Curry: Shut up. They ignore radar hits on small things because they just figure it was birds and stuff [356.62] Curry: or something. That's not a very technical explanation but that's what I heard about [361.1] Paweł: radar at. Yeah the thing is small and there is really no chance to pick it up from the [368.54] Paweł: background noise of anything. So it's there or it's not there. Maybe it's a shredding drone. [373.74] Jack: Maybe it crashed two weeks ago and nobody knows about it. Well if that is the case then there's [381.02] Jack: always a drone there. Yes of course. And there's a possibility that the drone isn't also not there. [386.54] Jack: Of course. We've got an INF traitor in our hands amidst being like he's giving up. He said he's [397.66] Jack: had enough. What have you been up to? Have you managed to get out of lockdown yet or are they [403.02] Paweł: still arresting people for washing their cars? We actually can wash our cars now. So it's like [410.94] Paweł: two weeks. Something like two weeks we are allowed to go outside for the recreational purposes. [419.02] Paweł: Whatever that means. So it's kind of better but that's not really the best topic since [429.9] Paweł: this whole topic is not the most pleasant one right? Let's be not like the mass media and let's [441.34] Paweł: be positive about something. Let's be optimistic. Let's bring Evangelia to the people. There's [448.62] Paweł: good news. I have no idea what the good news is but I'm pretty sure there is a good news. [455.1] SPEAKER_02: Yeah good news is Currie kitten did fly a drone in his garden and I've seen the footage. [460.54] Paweł: Yeah I've seen the footage as well but I'm not sure it's really positive right? [464.78] Curry: Was it flying though? Would anybody else like to see the footage? [469.66] Curry: Yeah me again. Let me just quickly explain the setup here. This was my initial line of sight [479.74] Curry: with the iFlight Green Falcon which is one of these, they call them silly whoops don't they? [486.3] Curry: But they're not really whoops they just happen to have ducted fans. So it in fact sounds like a jet [492.46] Curry: airplane when it takes off. It's the loudest thing I've ever flown but what it didn't do was beep [497.82] Curry: when I armed it. So just check if it was armed. I just moved the throttle up a bit [503.02] Curry: but it was a bit sensitive so when I moved the throttle up a bit to check it was armed [507.42] Paweł: is what happened. Yeah two seconds of flight. That was my main flight. Is it flying if it's [518.7] Curry: under control? No. Yeah I did some more flights on it and it was fine. It's really loud [527.74] Curry: and really quite scary to have around your garden or anything but you know it was all right once [538.06] Curry: I got it like happy. I don't like, I was flying that on angle which I wouldn't normally do. It [544.3] Curry: was just because I was so compressed and of course angle will get your motors moving up more than you [549.26] Curry: want them to anyway but yeah I could fly around some little gaps. I didn't take it in the house [553.74] Curry: because other people are in the house and if I ruined the house I'd have no plausible deniability. [559.66] Curry: I have to do it when people aren't there and then I could just say I don't know Robbers came and [563.02] SPEAKER_02: smashed the house up or something. I now know why everyone was scared when I flew mine around the [568.78] Curry: office. It's terrifying. No those things are extremely loud. It reverbs so all the air pushing [578.14] Curry: downwards onto the deck it was just and I noticed one of the motors was really really hot and the [583.98] Curry: battery lasted barely three minutes just going around the garden so it's a very specific purpose [591.66] Curry: but I can imagine there's interesting places to try out when we're allowed to go. I have something [597.98] Paweł: like that and mine is flying around six minutes on the regular 1.5 amp hour sleepo so maybe there's [604.78] SPEAKER_02: just something wrong with yours. Mine 1600 milliamp 4s flies two and a half minutes. [613.34] Curry: So me and Tony were saying what are you carrying on yours? [617.58] Paweł: GoPro still? Yeah with the GoPro. The GoPro I still have like six minutes of flight. [623.66] Paweł: And three-inch props? Three-inch props? Yeah three-inch props. That's the iFlight [629.02] Paweł: Megabee or something like that. In general almost the same format. [633.1] Paweł: Only mine is full black. I just put regular leapo 1.5 amp hours 4s and regular props and the regular [641.26] Paweł: GoPro. I broke them by the way a few days ago finally and I can send it on the warranty. [648.46] Paweł: And this thing still pulls around six minutes of flight. Without the GoPro closer to seven [653.74] Paweł: of course it all depends on the total management but yeah this is this is how it flies. [660.86] Curry: I can't get six minutes. Three minutes. I mean [667.34] Curry: 1.3 amp 4s not great batteries but it wouldn't be double the difference. [673.26] Curry: And yours is... It's bloody heavy but it flies. Yeah 620 grams that. They don't fly nice either [681.18] Curry: do they? No. Yeah they're for a purpose but that's my god. I did a job. No but [693.66] Paweł: there is a purpose of like being able to fit in those all the tight places. My colleague has [701.26] Paweł: it's not even three inch because it's four inch it's super heavy almost like a five-inch eraser. [706.38] Paweł: It has a GoPro on the on the tilt. So the GoPro gun and it has cameras on both sides so he can [717.74] Paweł: fly forward backward and when he flies backward just the GoPro flips from this tilt to this tilt. [724.3] Paweł: So yeah you can you can and you actually can fly relatively close to people without the people [730.38] Paweł: being scared of being cut by the propellers. Yes still bloody loud still controls altitude like [738.38] Frank: piece of whatever but flies. Fraser had a question for Power. Does iNav do biocopters and does it [747.82] Paweł: do VTOL transitions? Yes it should do biocopters. It even should do single copters and it even should [756.3] Paweł: dual copters whatever copters there are because this is only about setting the mixer. [761.42] Paweł: However it's not doing the VTOL transition. It can almost do VTOL transition. It can swap the [770.94] Paweł: yaw no roll and yaw. One of the two of the axes has swapped but it cannot attenuate pizza [777.58] Paweł: between first and the second so not yet not yet maybe in a few years it will learn to do that. [783.82] Jack: And also i saw that you've done your crawler you uploaded it like a couple of days ago. [788.7] Paweł: Yeah it's almost ready but as much as it will be for for this reason find out. Yeah it drives [797.26] Jack: around the cloud stuff. I got the I got the notification i get in the email and saw that [805.1] Jack: you uploaded it but i haven't watched it yet. Yeah it drives. It's not perfect the biggest [811.26] Paweł: problem is that it just will go home on the return to home on a straight line so if there [816.3] Paweł: is anything on the straight line between the place when you started this and when you [821.66] Paweł: when you started the procedure it will just go directly this thing. [826.46] Curry: Any problem with ground machines is almost in the air. [831.42] SPEAKER_02: Almost ready. I like Dave's stories sorry to interrupt. I like Dave's stories comment. [841.66] Paweł: Read the question. Did they show me the beer cut in the beginning? Yes they did [848.78] Paweł: showed me the stuff. Yes i never i'm not finding this offensive however i do not sound like that. [861.02] Curry: When you tell a Canadian they keep saying a boot instead of a bow and they're like no we don't. [865.34] Curry: What are you talking about? [869.66] Paweł: Well yeah that's that's that's the fact i do have this [873.34] Paweł: on thick eastern european accent. Some people i don't remember who it was [880.3] Paweł: called this a transylvanian accent and i like that. It's a transylvanian accent however i [888.46] Paweł: never been in a transylvania and i have at least few thousand kilometers from where i live to the [893.82] Paweł: transylvania but still i sound like Count Dracula. Can you read this? Of course. [900.3] Paweł: Wait wait wait wait wait actually. Bring it back bring it back Jack. [913.5] Paweł: I have the same. Yes i have the same. Me and Cat's Elderer. Yes it's the best and there's [923.66] Jack: another version of it that smells fruity. I'm trying to find the label for it give me a second. [930.54] Paweł: This is the fact it's extremely hard to buy the proper solder solder. I know the the US guys [939.18] Paweł: pronounce it solder. You are normal or not? We're normal they can't speak. Solder okay so [945.98] Paweł: it's extremely hard. We're much more racist to them than you. Okay [951.9] Paweł: it's extreme i'm not racist i'm not racist i'm only [954.86] Paweł: brave enough to criticize people for them being themselves. Anyhow no it's extremely [962.3] Paweł: fine to find a solder with the lead. I tried finding this for example on the amazon or somewhere [971.18] Paweł: in the western europe extremely hard in Poland no problem you just get yourself the solder by [977.74] Paweł: thinel by the way the best the best manufacturer of the lead at solder and and it's there. However [984.54] Paweł: i'm slowly changing my approach to the solder. At least you say solder and not solder. Yeah but [990.54] Jack: he says lead instead of lead. Lead? Yeah we say lead not lead is like a cable. Okay lead is how [1000.22] SPEAKER_02: i walk my dog. I can say lead. Yes and it's about exactly the same not to confuse people like [1005.74] Paweł: yes. That's english for you. Non-lead solder solder not lead solder. Okay i got me just before [1016.3] Paweł: the lockdown i but i don't have this i got me something also from cinel without lead and [1024.86] Paweł: actually it was pretty awesome i have no idea what they put inside of this maybe a better flux [1030.86] Paweł: uh but that was the first non-lead solder uh that actually worked so maybe yeah because i can't [1039.98] Paweł: read this what's the difference between this um yeah okay okay yeah okay yeah yeah yeah yeah [1050.22] Jack: so that compared to this the old the other one it's the same it's the same [1057.82] SPEAKER_02: one one smells of peach when you burn it. One smells really nice. [1065.26] Paweł: You know they should be exactly the same only the the non-orange is half a millimeter the second [1072.3] Paweł: was 0.7 millimeters maybe there's a different flux inside but but no basically it should be [1077.74] Paweł: the same solder. Yeah i can't see the cores in the other one. That's a bang. This half millimeter [1086.14] Paweł: it's really hard to put like four cores of the flux inside but but probably it's the same. [1092.14] Jack: Definitely definitely still it's definitely got lead in it because obviously it's got pb written [1097.74] Jack: on it but yeah i don't know weird but yeah this is quite good i think that's also yeah yeah okay [1111.82] Paweł: okay yeah yeah and that's pretty good but it is quite thick so it does pasta means something else [1123.1] Paweł: in polish then no it's paste it's based because it's it's soldering paste pasta you mean the [1132.46] Paweł: macaroni yeah yeah it's macaron if if someone in poland says pasta he does not [1141.58] Paweł: mean spaghetti or or other macaroni like that no no no this stuff and especially pasta the [1148.86] Curry: boot of shoe paste. That's interesting because i could just imagine going into a polish restaurant [1155.18] Curry: and trying your best and just like let's just go with pasta that means the same thing yeah [1160.86] Jack: you might try right um so what's the what's the solution for the ground brace rover would it be [1168.54] Jack: like um but like logging and logging the route um one of the developers of INAF had an experimental [1180.46] Paweł: return by your own tracks uh code uh but it's highly outdated i was just afraid to merge it [1188.7] Paweł: it was highly experimental nobody's brave enough to really test it but uh maybe one day someone [1197.58] Paweł: will find some time try to update the code and run it because yeah it's possible it's possible [1203.82] Paweł: just to recreate your own tracks and also if for example the waypoints mission mission waypoints [1213.1] Paweł: mission is used just reverse the way points so the return to home will happen the same the same [1219.9] Paweł: way only reversed but we will see it definitely will not go into INAF 2.5 because because because [1228.46] Paweł: i'm trying to pronounce this word correctly now uh because still working on your name don't worry [1234.06] Paweł: about it probably INAF 2.5 will be billed tomorrow at least this is this is the theory [1243.58] SPEAKER_02: hmm dave story uses ipa for flux so is this what i can use isopropanol turning oh [1254.3] SPEAKER_02: sorry sorry [1257.98] Frank: one day i will educate him in the way you've got your really pure water there like surely you can [1266.54] Frank: use that for cleaning yeah whatever yeah oh yeah i don't i don't know what this comment [1273.74] Curry: means from taus bin asi but it struck me as something interesting so i thought i'd highlight [1279.02] Curry: it my hovercraft is full of eels it sounds like something you might say to a passing secret agent [1286.62] Curry: to make sure you've identified it correctly yeah you have to say someone back actually gonna use [1292.22] SPEAKER_02: that as a little secret you know what it's from there right like no what field is that from [1302.62] Frank: this is multiply so there's a sketch there's some someone has uh maliciously rewritten the [1310.86] Frank: belgian to english dictionary um it's part of the flying circus stuff yeah does the INAF uh [1320.62] Frank: ground rover stuff does that is that any is that specific to particular boards or does anything [1326.06] Paweł: that will work with INAF will work as a ground no this should work with with any board uh with the [1333.02] Paweł: any board you can control you can connect servo because not not to every board you can contact [1337.74] Paweł: connect servo and the motor i'm not sure if this is if this will be supported on the stm f3 boards [1345.26] Paweł: because they have limited everything and it's extremely to put anything on the f3 boards uh [1351.1] Paweł: but yeah it should be working on almost every every every board that you can use on the [1356.62] Paweł: airplanes for example i i my my rover is based on the omnibus omnibus f4 i think yeah omnibus [1364.38] Jack: f4 and works like almost like a charm hmm i remember when f3 first come out and we we were [1372.06] SPEAKER_02: like we never know yeah that's it we don't need it we don't need f7 what's this f7 [1381.66] Paweł: yeah what's after f7 is there anything now we have the h7s coming to coming somehow only [1391.1] Paweł: dominique clifton builds h7s so far i wonder why i have a theory but i will not tell you well i [1400.3] Frank: believe we did an interesting interview on painless's channel uh i think they were talking [1407.02] Frank: about it um and about kind of the amount of work that went into making it work with the h7 [1414.86] Frank: and vice versa um that's right unlikely speaking of painless the problem with h7s is completely [1424.78] Paweł: different the h7s as a as a series are the most powerful microcontrollers from the stm that's [1434.62] Paweł: correct if for example you can get whatever running on the h7 for blah blah blah blah blah [1442.54] Paweł: you have really like more computational power that you will ever need you can play video games on [1448.94] Paweł: this you can decode mpeg you can do my my notes you can do almost everything however there are [1456.06] Paweł: two problems problem number one we do not need all that computational power honestly the f7 is [1463.5] Frank: completely enough in terms of the of the process about the f3 and the f5 as well until it wasn't [1469.9] Paweł: the problem with the f3 is not even the computational power the problem with the f3 [1474.78] Paweł: is the limited memory in flash this is this is what's running out on the f3s not not not the [1480.86] Paweł: cpu itself there's just not enough space to put new code into it uh so and in theory everything [1486.94] Paweł: is should should great however it's too fast you're not really neat right now at least all that power [1492.3] Paweł: the real problem with the boards that dominique cliffton is putting on the market is that they [1498.62] Paweł: are based on the 8750 which is the cheapest 87 still fast but the cheapest and has even less flash [1509.98] Paweł: than f3s so the trick is that for the 8750 you have to put the code either on the sd card and [1518.38] Paweł: load the code from the sd card during boot and move it to the ram memory or have separate chip [1526.38] Paweł: like for the black box dedicated only to store externally the the code of beta flight or in the [1534.94] Paweł: future also also the ina so in theory it's faster but because it's the cheapest the less [1540.94] Paweł: less flash equipped you have to put extra hardware to make distinct running [1546.3] Paweł: you honestly you can also put the same stuff on the f7 to 2 and you will have [1552.62] Paweł: almost the same benefits because the main limitation of the boards currently is the [1557.1] Paweł: format of the boards the area of the boards look at the flight controllers by mattack for the for [1564.22] Paweł: the wings for the for the airplanes they are not 36 by 36 why because you need space to put everything [1574.22] Paweł: you even the most powerful f7 45 from mattack it's even two layers connected by wires because [1582.78] Paweł: there is not enough space on the main board to put all the voltage stabilization so it's on the top [1588.7] Paweł: board connected by the separate wires f7 45 this was the first series of the f7s that we were using [1596.94] Paweł: uh on the on the boards great fantastic enough power enough flash enough memory enough inputs [1605.18] Paweł: and outputs too big to really put on the 36 by 36 millimeter board and still have place to connect [1613.42] Paweł: everything you want so this is a real limitation and now we have a question from zero fpv and the [1620.38] Paweł: question is so why don't we just add additional flash on the board yes they are doing that but [1626.62] Paweł: additional flash means that you have to have space on the board for this flash this is extra cheap [1633.18] Paweł: you have to pay for it you have to manufacture solder this into place it takes space and [1640.3] Paweł: honestly it increases costs if there were really rights now for the software we are using [1647.34] Paweł: and need to have a cpu on the flight controller then yes h7 then yes we would go that way but [1655.74] Paweł: this is not really a limitation the limitation is the size the limitation is the price the [1659.98] Paweł: limitation is for example the RAM memory the limitation is what else i don't know the spi [1668.62] Paweł: the gyros are the limitation everything connected via the i2c bus this is the limitation not more [1674.46] Paweł: megahertz to run the the cores of the of the processor it's a hype it's a slightly a hype [1679.98] Paweł: at least in my understanding but it sells well because command h7s are the fastest right so [1685.42] Paweł: we need your quad will fly better if you will put the faster controller on it not exactly true [1692.3] Paweł: but yeah i can i can see how people that are not really deeply into understanding of this topic [1698.86] Paweł: can can go that route because kind of kind of makes sense after all it's better to have the [1703.5] SPEAKER_02: faster pc than the slower pc right yes generally but if you're playing curry kittens it will be [1712.38] SPEAKER_02: all right on anything what are you doing with your sim at the moment curry kitten up your chase [1716.94] Curry: you're trying to set up a chase we have been well i've been working on the online multiplayer which [1724.94] Curry: up until this evening was causing me problems uh trying to get that smooth because the the network [1733.34] Curry: code to get the position data through was was making these jerky updates and i just tested it [1738.54] Curry: before we came on with frank and i've had a breakthrough and we've got some smooth play on [1743.5] Curry: there finally so i can i can move forward on that one because the rest of it's just about done [1749.74] Curry: there's lobbies and rooms and you can join and games and stuff but it might add some more stuff [1756.7] Curry: wow can we borrow some devs [1758.94] Curry: i don't need none no one gets to touch my coat mind control freak [1769.74] Frank: this episode was recorded in front of a live online audience downloaded and edited to make [1774.3] Frank: sense when it played audio only censored to please the itunes people hosted on the internet [1779.34] Frank: forwarded through to your podcast provider downloaded playing on your device and is now [1783.66] Frank: playing in your ears all thanks to our patreons consider joining them and you'll also get other [1789.18] Frank: online benefits find out more at patreon.com forward slash let's drone out richaborak asks [1796.3] Frank: any updates on mini air show yes uh we're currently waiting for some bits of internet to [1804.54] Frank: update so if you go to mini air show.co.uk right at this moment i don't know what you're going [1809.82] Frank: to get it could be one of many things um but it still won't be the latest website in any [1817.34] Frank: chance at any point to be honest um but by the time the podcast goes out you'll see the latest [1824.06] Frank: nice and shiny website um reasonably similar to the previous website until next week saturday [1831.02] Frank: the 16th of may when it's going to update with a um a video player that we're going to be able to [1839.1] Frank: point at lots of different things um so you can go there and spend the day with that open and it [1847.58] Frank: will take you through all the different uh live streams that are happening throughout the day [1851.9] Frank: and different videos that have been put together painless is going to do a talk on uh how to ask [1859.1] Frank: for help uh jack is uh doing something dandy on troubleshooting hello best friends before [1866.94] SPEAKER_02: we were doing something jack i thought we were doing five minutes of arguing what the hell [1873.9] Frank: if you can do that on the live uh then uh we've got um some competitions being streamed out so [1882.62] Frank: there's going to be an oddball um so if you've been to one of the mini air show events before [1887.26] Frank: you'll have seen the tables of weird stuff that people have brought along and um uh so for that [1896.7] Curry: speak to curry that way if anybody watching has built something interesting or even vaguely [1904.7] Curry: interesting then let me know and i will want to see it and ask you questions and maybe have you [1909.58] Curry: on the show what's up jerry if you win there may or may not be a prize do you want to get involved [1916.22] Paweł: with mini air show maybe do what what the hell is mini air show guys i you know i'm not i'm not [1922.14] Paweł: from this island i'm the one on the on the east you know so mini air show started up in 2015 uh [1929.9] Frank: as part of international drone day um but it's carried on even though international drone day [1934.94] Frank: isn't kind of a thing anymore um but yeah we were down at uh hidden valley which is uh kind of [1941.26] Frank: filled in the middle of nowhere um in this picturesque part of the south of england um [1947.9] Frank: unfortunately local counselor slash dog walker didn't take a liking to drones being in that area [1954.14] Frank: so we got moved on um then we uh for the past two years we've been at uh popum airfield um which is [1963.9] Frank: a light aircraft airfield general aviation airfield um in the kind of still south of england but [1972.22] Frank: it's at least kind of roughly level with london rather than being on the south coast [1977.26] Frank: um and we've been there for the past couple of years and we've had more people getting involved [1982.62] Frank: from all sorts of different corners of of the hobby generally um so we've we've kind of been [1987.9] Frank: trying to keep it as a uh a model model air show but rather than being a lot of scale [1998.06] Frank: balsa models with some drones tacked on the side we're trying to be kind of the latest stuff up [2004.46] Frank: front with other things around the edge um so we've had uh the the um south hampson university's [2014.7] Frank: um big big 3d printed um um unmanned aerial vehicle that's kind of you know got two internal [2025.26] Frank: combustion engines and can go for ages um and for launching things around uh wind turbines and [2033.26] Frank: coral reefs and all sorts of stuff um and we've had uh the x class and we've had uh all sorts of [2041.98] Frank: things that we've we've been having uh obviously this year we can't have an in-person event so [2047.5] Frank: we're dragging everyone together for it's gonna be online yeah a day of uh live online interactive [2055.9] Frank: live streams and videos um that are on loads of different channels all over the internet but we're [2062.46] Frank: pulling them together so that you can see them at mini air show dot code at uk new yeah so there's uh [2070.38] Frank: so it's an online air show yeah that's the idea we'll see how it goes um so as well as the opal [2078.06] Frank: um we'll hopefully have some freestyle um which we've done previously um still working out the [2087.1] Frank: sign up for that but that should be going up soon as well alie barrett in the chat is doing a [2092.78] Frank: velocidrone uh tournament in the evening um and we've also got um and he's he's he's built like [2101.18] Frank: pop him like he has built pop him in velocidrone um it's pretty impressive how quickly he put [2108.62] Frank: something like to that level together um yeah so there should be uh there's some team racing [2115.02] Frank: going on there we've also got uh paul jaggers um potentially doing some tiny loop go racing [2123.5] Frank: um he's doing uh an event right now i believe um so i will catch up with him [2129.9] Frank: and see if we can do something without uh what else we got um [2139.34] Frank: we've got a few other people doing talks and interviews and and things going on as well but [2144.46] Frank: uh schedules reasonably reasonably full uh we're we're adding some things in and tightening things [2153.82] Frank: up but the final website and the final schedule should should be going up shortly um we've also [2160.38] Frank: got uh lurgy um doing a a build along building sort of a paper airplane on steroids i would say [2171.02] Frank: um so it involves uh from memory two sheets of a four a paper straw and some super glue um [2178.06] Frank: and i've seen all that so i'll be there for that yep there you go and rc lobossix uh is putting [2187.5] Frank: together a version two of his black hornet scale micro heli um so there's that going on as well [2196.86] Frank: so all sorts of different things um yeah so keep an eye so you can uh follow all the [2204.7] Frank: latest updates on facebook at facebook.com forward slash mini air show um also putting [2210.94] Frank: stuff out on instagram at mini air show and the website is currently being moved around and all [2216.94] Frank: sorts of things are happening so it might not work right now but eventually shortly at the [2222.38] Paweł: the weekends you should be able to find it at mini air show.co.uk mini air show uk the main page [2230.54] Paweł: and i like it excellent there we go excellent i would i would ask you would you like me to [2238.3] Jack: pass your email on to frank but he doesn't need me to do that frank will find you yeah [2245.42] Jack: yeah whether you like to or not sure well while we're moving internet stuff about i have realized [2255.26] Frank: that the email addresses might be a bit skewed as well so the safest email address if you do want [2261.74] Frank: to drop us an email at the moment the safest one would be mini air show uk at gmail.com that's [2269.34] Frank: going to be the easiest safest email that will definitely get there instead of getting lost in [2273.82] Jack: some domain name service somewhere yeah and also if there's people if you're listening to this and [2279.42] Jack: there's people that you think would be really interesting on there or uh you know uh someone [2286.06] Jack: you might know who does want to get involved also pass them on and then chat and if we can [2292.54] Jack: squeeze them in that'll be good if not next year and sort of you know ideas are welcome next year [2300.3] SPEAKER_02: hopefully we'll be in a field together hugging and drinking beer yeah i'm gonna dig a big hole [2305.98] Frank: fill it with lubricant throw Tony in it'd be wild well depending on how how things turn out maybe we [2318.06] Frank: can still do ldeo no in autumn yeah we'll see autumn sounds horrible but yes have a long way away [2328.06] Frank: it is frank did you start up your sim are we doing this it is it is the uh just oh there yeah [2337.58] Jack: hang on let me do you get on with constantine [2342.78] Jack: what do you mean do i get on with constantine [2346.3] Jack: do you like because he started going after you guys worked together yes yes come on yes [2353.74] Jack: things like you and him this project yeah you and him together on a podcast would be amazing [2360.38] Jack: uh you only have to convince constant here yeah he's been on before [2366.06] Jack: um i like i like him his name's way easier to say yeah his name is easier to say than mine [2375.18] Paweł: and he gave me the last name try his last name oh my god no yeah [2384.22] Jack: i can't even remember his last name [2390.22] SPEAKER_02: yeah frank is the blue one and this is real time now this is we're actually [2397.1] Jack: yeah put put someone put a shoe on their head to prove it's live [2400.38] SPEAKER_02: so if you're watching if you're listening to the podcast um curry kitten sim frank is flying in [2409.9] SPEAKER_02: front of curry kitten and they're chasing each other and this is pretty bloody cool to be fair [2417.1] SPEAKER_02: dive frank dive yay [2421.66] SPEAKER_02: oh this is cool how many players are going to have flying round any one time curry [2427.98] Curry: um we've put a room limit of four at the moment but i haven't actually tested it [2434.54] SPEAKER_02: that's that's the next i've lost frank where'd he go where'd you go frank [2439.1] SPEAKER_02: well this is what happens in real life so this is really spot on [2448.94] Curry: i've put bloody trails on i still can't see him the bridge bridge [2453.9] Jack: oh i mean damn surely he'd sink quicker than that [2460.54] Jack: yeah also sink the sky bridge oh we're gonna see a nice little matty flip oh [2471.98] Paweł: yeah it's interesting i i never really got into the this fpv simulators and every single one i [2479.5] SPEAKER_02: tried it's not even close to the reality do you want to try this one really [2491.42] Curry: don't worry he's a hostile witness i have a hostile witness yeah yeah no i i never enjoyed [2499.98] Curry: the racing ones which is why this is just filled with stupid things to do oh can you make that [2506.46] SPEAKER_02: that tail you're diving there literally can you clear out everything inside so you can dive in it [2514.3] Curry: no but you can go in the building and go to the building [2519.5] SPEAKER_02: that one curry kitten so we can dive down it like a big chimney [2526.14] Paweł: a guy i know um in in my city in poland we have the third tallest chimney in europe or [2535.34] Paweł: in the world it's abandoned factor really like that the thing is is bloody high [2540.22] Paweł: he was thinking about diving this thing which i i have checked some numbers but at least a few [2545.26] Paweł: hundred meters uh he no but he actually went from the bottom to the chimney and all the way up and [2553.66] Paweł: went out of the chimney to the i should find the video how did he maintain signal uh crossfire on [2563.5] Paweł: full power oh fair enough but for the fpv from what i know he had a separate antenna repeater [2571.58] Paweł: inside of the chimney inside but he was transmitting over the uh over so let me [2579.98] Frank: where's frank frank where are you i'm going around the building that i thought you were [2587.26] Curry: having your battery run out yet yeah i found it a good idea not to simulate [2593.18] Frank: batteries because it would just keep stopping interestingly i've had a couple of fail safes [2598.62] Frank: but i think that might be uh my usb bus is not quite handling camera finally [2608.7] SPEAKER_02: transmitter and everything it's good that you've got a trial on there so you can find him [2616.13] Curry: it's like we've tied a ribbon round i've also made the quad four times bigger so i can see him [2621.49] Curry: better you're going in there frank let's test your flying ability oh god oh god it's live on air [2629.01] SPEAKER_02: it's gonna be better make it through the building [2634.53] SPEAKER_02: better than no place your bets no i cannot find this okay [2641.65] Curry: he crashed yep oh they both crashed oh no i reset i pressed the wrong button [2650.53] Curry: uh yeah what was i gonna say oh yeah that's a good idea actually tony the the old uh nuclear [2657.25] Curry: uh whatever it was tower i will go then frank i will stop sharing yeah hold that out and put [2666.45] SPEAKER_02: put something at the bottom so we can escape so we can dive the chimney and [2670.53] Curry: i won't do that but i'll i'll put well i'll get someone to design me a new object [2674.69] Curry: which uh will work as a chimney and then you can dive down and come out the bottom or something [2679.01] Curry: yeah that'd be cool but we're happy frank my long-suffering uh personalized message [2685.97] Curry: twice a day say frank can i borrow you i need you to fly again because i don't know if anybody's [2692.05] Curry: developed an online game recently but when you're trying to do two players at once it's hard [2697.33] Curry: and detecting if it's not working is hard so frank's been my test buddy yes light up that clive [2705.89] Curry: can we do that frank uh carry again what's that can you make tony in x-class to fly on it [2714.45] Curry: yeah that's that's you press the b button it gets four times bigger that's it doesn't it [2719.01] Curry: yeah cool it only it only looks bigger it doesn't do anything different no well that's cool i mean [2726.29] Curry: that means we can see you yeah but there you go don't have it coming out [2730.21] Jack: soonish and if you're smart enough to download it on github you get it for free yes indeed [2738.21] Curry: because it's the only place you can download it because i still haven't done the steam integration [2741.97] Curry: yet one thing at a time people oh my god it's not as if you're doing anything [2748.05] Frank: yeah so uh 2.5 is built being built tomorrow yeah uh hopefully yes hopefully tomorrow there [2759.49] Paweł: should be a rc1 i actually today build the configurator for the 2.1 it's not public yet [2767.57] Paweł: but if you really really really want to download the configurator for 2.5 you can find it [2774.45] Paweł: there's no reason to to do it but you can [2779.73] Paweł: but no honestly um probably tomorrow at least this is what constantine uh set like uh yesterday or [2786.93] Paweł: two days ago because constantine though almost always is the one that builds the field where [2791.57] Paweł: i'm usually they build the configurator for the windows and the linux and alberto builds for the [2798.37] Paweł: uh macOS but because there's very little people using macOS we only leave it for the for the [2803.57] Paweł: final release so hopefully if not tomorrow then let's say next few days and the first release [2809.25] Curry: candidates should be should be out there it even should be off of all people using macOS we feel [2817.01] Curry: very upset we're in third place but if you need any help on linux just ask jack he's an expert [2824.21] Paweł: any question i'm i i i have like internal [2831.49] Paweł: internal problem with the macOS i do use mac because i have to use mac because it's my uh [2841.28] Paweł: my company forces me to to work on macs so i have to do it but oh man there are so many [2846.64] Paweł: wrong things with macOS i really don't get it how people might love this thing i don't get it [2853.6] Jack: i don't get it windows is horrible he's laughing now but when he's forced on to catalina [2861.44] Jack: he will be sorry don't worry we just buy our time and then when they they forced to update [2867.44] Paweł: and none of his programs have to update don't update updates are fine updates are fine [2875.2] Paweł: my biggest problem is that um you are locked really locked with the macOS into your your [2882.08] Paweł: your stuff you cannot do anything outside of this and i i hate how macOS handles window management [2890.96] Paweł: on the multi if you have multiple screens this thing is so counterintuitive it does so many [2896.56] Paweł: things wrong it's like come on no i i'm currently i'm preaching gorgeous i'm preaching for the [2906.08] Curry: microsoft for the windows then it's so much better well under the covers anyway so it's really [2912.16] Curry: linux with nice pretty yes linux with limitations yeah which it goes against everything linux stands [2920.96] Curry: for uh i don't know i could take my source code that i developed on some unique system and just [2927.2] Curry: pile it and make it work seems good to me at least it's not windows oh windows is so much better [2935.12] Curry: so much better jesus so um remove this guy from the core he's talking craziness [2943.12] Frank: virtually uh with with 2.5 what's the kind of headline [2950.72] Frank: sort of uh feature for 2.5 that you've been working on what's the bit you're most happy with [2957.6] Paweł: did you just fill up in my face um i'm happy of the things i've built into 2.5 2.5 or just the 2.5 [2968.56] Paweł: in general in general there's a difference in general um of in general i think it would be [2983.34] Paweł: mine the logic conditions global functions and global variables the possibility to probe [2989.26] Paweł: and from from from from outside i think this is this is the almost the least useful feature [2995.9] Paweł: that i'm really proud of just for the normal people this thing will absolutely really absolutely [3003.58] Paweł: make no sense of the things you can do with it oh besides for but but no it has some nice [3008.78] Paweł: features because for example you can bind the btx channel to a rotary encoder on your radio [3015.18] Paweł: so you can change channel with the rotary encoder doable you can change channels with the flip of [3019.82] Paweł: the switch you can change power with the flip of the switch there are like things you can do [3024.22] Paweł: and hopefully in the next releases of inf i will also make it possible to activate modes and to [3029.26] Paweł: override lc channel so you will be able to really to program some kind of behaviors but for the [3034.46] Paweł: normal user it really makes no sense to use this thing but you can you can if you can like go [3041.26] Paweł: through this and you really feel you want to build something absolutely stupid and not really [3046.7] Paweł: usable in the real life you can yeah so that's that's that's probably what i'm really like [3053.82] Paweł: proud for in the inf 2.5 but but honestly the the 2.5 will be once again a nice [3060.54] Paweł: improvement for the multi rotor users the wide performance should be much better because uh [3066.94] Paweł: we ported a lot of ported implemented added a lot of interesting interesting stuff uh borrowed from [3074.3] Paweł: for example from betta flight or borrowed from emo flight and 2.6 even better because i already [3081.18] Paweł: have a lot of code for the 2.6 and it will be amazing squared phraser asks does the global [3089.5] Frank: variables and all that sort of thing mean you can do maths on inf like you can do with open tf yes [3095.02] Paweł: yes i will say really like honestly this thing was based on the open tx uh possibilities to [3102.7] Paweł: program this thing it's not maybe as evolved as tx version however it can do things that open tx [3113.98] Paweł: cannot do because it can interact with the inf it can get states from the inf it cannot modify too [3121.98] Paweł: much too much of the of the of the stuff outside from the servo output or the vtx channel or [3129.42] Paweł: override throttle so the interaction from the logic conditions to the inf is very limited [3134.54] Paweł: but it can get a lot of information from the from the inf itself if you really want to you can [3139.42] Paweł: implement your own pid controller for something with the with this with this with this functionality [3144.54] Frank: you don't know there's no reason but you can phrase has got a particular example there uh [3151.1] Frank: that he wants to use he wants to have a function of air speed and motor rpm [3158.38] Frank: so then you drive a servo to adjust variable pitch possible yes doable right now no [3168.86] Paweł: no but but honestly this is what it misses for example to do some i i'm still calling [3173.26] Paweł: think like the like the stuff you can you can integrate it with and somehow the rpm from the [3179.34] Paweł: motors was not part of the list of the sensors but if someone and i people are adding actually [3185.5] Paweł: already inputs and outputs to this to this functionality not only me but other people [3190.94] Paweł: also like it and modify the code adding something new it's only about adding the esc temperature [3197.42] Paweł: or for example esc rpm or esc current to the list of inputs and you would be able to override [3204.78] Paweł: throttle or make a math to do something with the variable pitch or anything else [3210.22] Paweł: the input does not exist but it can do it hmm there we go it's it's evolving it's evolving [3218.14] Paweł: it's evolving in the next few years this will be the next programming language of the world [3225.26] Paweł: high enough [3230.62] Frank: well i'm sure there will be many people in the chat who will come up with things for that [3235.5] Frank: i mean maybe maybe someone can come up with something using all this stuff uh for the [3240.7] Frank: oddball maybe that would be an interesting interesting one interesting entry it's it's [3247.02] Paweł: really like the the it's like with every programming language you can use it to build [3256.06] Paweł: whatever you want but you have to know what you want to do with it uh the logic conditions are [3263.74] Paweł: probably touring complete uh who knows what does who's the developer and knows what touring complete [3270.06] Paweł: means nobody okay it's only me then uh it's almost like a programming language [3278.22] Paweł: but you have to know that you want to use the programming language but that's we will see [3284.54] Paweł: if there will be interest in the functionality i hope there there will be and that people will [3289.58] Paweł: want to improve this add new functionalities add new inputs out new outputs because it's relatively [3295.18] Paweł: simple code the the idea and the the wheel is are the more important than the most important [3300.86] Jack: aspects of all of that there we go did anyone see tony's story on instagram [3308.86] Jack: no because he was wandering around the woods and he came across a man wandering completely naked [3314.78] Paweł: in the woods like real and but come on come on being naked in the woods it's it's the thing [3324.06] Curry: weirdly that's happened to me before when i was out of my mountain bike i came across a naked man [3329.18] Curry: it's like why do i make a man here my wife made me call the police and report it and then i had to [3334.86] Curry: try and figure out where i was in the woods i was where were you i was in the woods what woods [3341.02] Jack: gps location use what three words can we have a what can we have a what three words [3347.98] Frank: last year at the mini air show where i had to go over to the trees on the other side of the field [3354.54] Frank: and oh no i feel like somebody this well like he from from the flying side of the field it looked [3365.18] Frank: like this guy had just kind of wandered out of the trees start naked and just like passed out [3372.06] Frank: on the field but i went over there and he was in he was in some shorts but they were [3379.1] Frank: tan colored shorts and he was generally tan colored and he'd had nothing else on him [3385.42] Frank: and he just decided that that was the best place to see these 20 odd kilo or shy just shy of 20 [3393.42] Frank: odd kilo jets flying around he thought that right underneath would be the perfect place to watch [3399.26] Frank: them uh i guess you could move on a bit please um yeah so the woods are literally full of naked [3410.3] Paweł: people is what we've discovered yes and parks don't forget about parks i don't know whether [3417.18] Curry: we have that problem over here i've not seen naked people apart but a deer did wander down [3421.26] Curry: the street my wife told me did it have clothes on no naked deer please remember every exactly [3429.18] Jack: frank everybody's naked under his clothes yeah yeah that's the point um you know sophie can she [3436.06] Jack: name her um channel curry litter as in like a litter of kittens no if she doesn't do youtube [3443.9] Curry: anymore because she's a teenager only tiktok exists you should know this don't need tiktok [3449.58] Paweł: for young people everything else is for old people interestingly my my older daughter is not [3454.94] Paweł: interested in tiktok at all at all zero zero i have no idea her friends are oh i tiktok i will [3464.86] Curry: but she no i tiktok as far as i can figure basically you make a 10 second video of you [3470.54] Curry: lip syncing or staring into the camera and then you get 20 000 views of for some reason [3478.14] Curry: i don't know how it works some reason i just thought show me your video she says my video [3483.58] Curry: is blowing up i'm like show me it what'd she do and she's just staring into the camera with this [3488.06] Curry: like caption saying monday at school and there's the face and that's that's the video apparently [3497.66] Curry: this is what the the people want this is down with the kids what the kids want and i have become my [3505.58] Curry: own parents where you say well this is rubbish i don't understand any of this crap what is this [3511.98] Curry: music you're listening to it's got no tune that sort of thing i know i know that feeling yes [3517.5] Jack: that's definitely oh she listened to nightcore anyway you should have put her up for adoption [3525.98] Frank: nobody will take her wait no it seems like tony has been ejected from the internet so [3533.1] Jack: we're gonna have to sign off without him yeah no worries um can i ask you about your shirt [3539.66] Paweł: yeah yes of course yes you can yes yes you can it's a it's a i think it's b17 right [3550.94] Paweł: and it's an almost pure coincidence i'm wearing this thing uh today very related yes well let [3558.14] Jack: let frank stalk you and get you signed up to minnie air show like the rest of us [3562.94] Jack: and uh hopefully i'll see you there what date frank what time saturday the 16th of may [3569.66] Paweł: 16th of may oh man i'm doing a live stream on the 16th of may [3576.78] Jack: well you're set up and you can so is everybody at mini air show yeah already set up i don't [3586.46] Jack: i do and then when you're done send them back um thank you you've been listening to let's [3591.74] Jack: throw now you've been joined by everyone's favorite curry kitten goodbye uh my little tony [3599.34] Jack: who's not here anymore um i hope you get better tony's dad i hope you feel good um my deepest [3613.26] Jack: sympathies for being tony's father uh andre staff frank who's running mini air show on the 16th [3618.7] Jack: oh i see you then and our guest pavel pakowski [3625.74] Jack: no almost [3629.82] Jack: i know and i am bright fly thank you good night thank you very much telemetry lost