=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 297 === Title: LDO 297 - Wonky bins and w*nky socks Recorded: 2021-05-06 Hosts: Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Wayne "CurryKitten" Andrews, Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant Guest(s): (none recorded) Total audience: 1,595 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWi-RVbXalE); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1044799903-letsdroneout-ldo-297.mp3) ===================================== [0.0] Curry: Welcome to Let's Drone Out, the original and best drone themed podcast. [5.0] Curry: We record the show live on the Thursday night on youtube.com forward slash Let's Drone Out [10.0] Curry: and our lovely patrons help with the editing costs. [12.0] (Patrons): These are Wacky Wes, Mikey Dread, Art Faulkner, Carlos Campos. [19.0] (Patrons): Thank you. [51.58] Jack: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Let's Drone Out. [56.58] Jack: Tonight we are joined by my little Tony. [60.58] Tony: Au revoir. [62.58] Jack: What? [65.58] Tony: I thought that would mix it up because we've got nothing to talk about. [68.58] Tony: So I'm just starting off and shocking everyone. [71.58] Curry: He's just doubled his knowledge of French like that. [74.58] Jack: Yeah, exactly. [77.58] Jack: Everyone's favorite curry kitten. [79.58] Jack: Hello. [81.58] Jack: And the only reason the show keeps rolling and it's that rank. [87.58] Tony: Hello. [89.58] Tony: Look, Mikey lab saying, bonjour, damn it. [93.58] Tony: He called you all out, didn't I? [95.58] Jack: He called you out. [98.58] Jack: He would particularly like the old French nurse because the old French Canadian nurse. [106.58] Curry: Is that how that works? [107.58] Curry: I don't think everyone in Canada describes himself as French Canadian. [113.58] Jack: Yeah, but I think he can appreciate it. [115.58] Frank: That seems kind of dangerous territory, but that feels like kind of Scottish English potential. [123.58] Frank: You know, you don't want to mix those things up. [126.58] Frank: You could start a war. [128.58] Frank: And we were already close enough. [130.58] Frank: We don't need to start anymore. [131.58] Frank: No, I don't think so. [134.58] Tony: And they're going to be a war. [136.58] Tony: You know, France versus France versus the Channel Islands. [143.58] Jack: What? [145.58] Jack: What's this about? [146.58] Jack: Fishing rights. [148.58] Jack: Oh, no way, really. [151.58] Tony: It's not good. [155.58] Frank: We've got the not the predator or the reaper. [160.58] Frank: Which one is it that they've got flying out over the channel? [164.58] Frank: There's a big fixed wing drone that they've had flying out of the channel for the past couple of years, a year or two. [171.58] Frank: I didn't know we had any drones. [173.58] Tony: Oh, yeah. [174.58] Frank: Yeah. [176.58] Frank: Yeah, we've got a load. [178.58] Frank: Usually they're flying flown out in Wales. [181.58] Frank: There's a specific site out in Wales. [183.58] Curry: If it was a British one, it would be named by the public and be called something like Droney McDroneface or something. [189.58] Curry: That would work better. [192.58] Curry: Yeah, that seems about right. [195.58] Curry: I think Caroline's hit it in one there. [198.58] Curry: Nobody likes the French. [199.58] Curry: Nothing more needs to be added. [202.58] Curry: We've been at war for 100 years. [204.58] Curry: There's no reason to change anything else. [207.58] Curry: I feel like the history here seems to be slightly wrong. [212.58] Curry: We had the 100 year war with French, didn't we? [216.58] Curry: Oh, I see. [218.58] Curry: We have had it at some point. [220.58] Curry: Technically, the war's over, but I don't think it's hearts and minds have not let go. [225.58] Curry: Put it that way. [226.58] Frank: Was the 100 years war actually 100 years long? [229.58] Frank: I feel like that's the sort of thing where they're going to name it one thing and it's not real. [233.58] Curry: Yeah, I don't think so because that would have been pretty, that's pretty handy that it was exactly 100 years, isn't it? [242.05] Curry: It's probably like 20 years or something. [246.05] Frank: Okay, we're showing a deep, deep knowledge of our own history. [252.05] Tony: And you can tell that... [254.05] Curry: A mix between xenophobia and uninformed historical information here. [260.05] Jack: I know. I'm just waiting and dreading the amount of I'm possibly your only French listener and I was offended. [270.05] Jack: Yeah, you take that one. [272.05] Jack: No French. [273.05] Tony: You can take that one, Jack. [275.05] Tony: So, Mr. I's crashed off. What have you been crashing? [280.05] Jack: Oh yeah, I'm not frightened until I fly. [286.05] Jack: Okay, that's the intro. Move it on. [288.05] Tony: Editor, you can literally cut all of that bit out until then. [293.05] Frank: I see this being a five minute long podcast. [297.05] Frank: Can we cut it short? [301.05] Jack: Thank you, guys. You've been listening to Let's Drone Out. [306.05] Curry: Have we ever done that before? [309.36] Frank: Yes, we've definitely had them like 40 something minutes. [313.36] Frank: Can we do it in half hour or one? [316.36] Curry: Despite having like a 20 minute intro, we still haven't got Jack's full attention. He's still fiddling with something that's been using with my hands. [323.36] Tony: What is he doing? [325.36] Jack: I'm a Jack to the class. [328.36] Jack: Well, that does sound more important than our podcast. [333.36] Jack: Ceramic. [335.36] Tony: Oh, you got one. [336.36] Jack: I did. [337.36] Tony: Oh yeah, you visited, didn't you? [339.36] Jack: Yeah. [340.36] Jack: That's not a very good one because it was soldered together without a solder mask. [345.36] Frank: So, having bought a car. [348.36] Frank: Thank you very much, Chaney, for the lift to go buy the car. [351.36] Frank: No problem. [353.36] Frank: I went over to Jack's, said hello, and received one of the little LED PCBs that Jack's been making. [364.36] Jack: There's one here for you, Tony, that's green. [369.36] Tony: Oh, I'm hoping to do a long range flight when this month-long easterly, westerly wind buggers off. [379.36] Tony: It's been here literally a month on and off, that cold wind. [385.36] Tony: When that buggers off, I'm going to go and do a long range flight down the Hidden Valley again. [392.36] Tony: So, I will pop in and see you. [396.36] Tony: And now it's light until what, nine? [399.36] Tony: Still light now. [401.36] Tony: And normally the wind drops in the evenings, summer evenings that is. [405.36] Tony: It's still not really summer yet, is it? [407.36] Tony: It's like on the cusp. [409.36] Tony: But, yeah, I'll pop down and you can either come with me or I'll just come back all in. [421.36] Curry: That's the two options. [424.36] Curry: That's covered well. [426.36] Tony: Basically. [429.36] Tony: Yes. [431.36] Tony: I'm still waiting for my tent. [432.36] Tony: My tent's still not here. [435.36] Tony: Is this the tent that goes on your car? [437.36] Tony: Yeah, well, on the roof rack. [439.36] Curry: I've probably got that ages ago. [441.36] Curry: Or if you've just got the roof thing but you haven't got the tent for it. [444.36] Tony: Well, I've got a roof rack because I need it for work, but I'm just still waiting for it. [449.36] Tony: I think it got stuck on that big boat that got stuck in this sewer canal. [455.36] Frank: Well, there's also the other problem is the problem that is happening with shipping at the moment is that they're still trying to catch up because [463.36] Frank: there's only so many places you can put a ship to unload it. [467.36] Frank: And for however many days they were empty because there were no ships turning up. [472.36] Frank: And then you've got to somehow get all the stuff off the ships. [475.36] Frank: So there's a load of ships kind of waiting for a space to become available. [479.36] Frank: Back up, isn't it? [480.36] Frank: Yeah, exactly. [481.36] Frank: Waiting for that to kind of work its way through. [484.36] Frank: That is why there is a load of delays or that's another reason why there's a load of delays on drone bits and roof tents [492.36] Frank: and whatever else you want to get hold of that isn't made in this country out of entirely stuff out of stuff that's already in the country. [502.36] Curry: It's like every single thing then. [504.36] Tony: Yes, exactly. [505.36] Tony: This is stupid. [506.36] Tony: We should need to take this opportunity to start building back better again. [512.36] Tony: Whatever that is. [513.36] Tony: Jack, can you pay attention to your podcast, please, and stop playing around with your tweezers and whatever between your legs? [527.36] Jack: I was literally reading the bloody chat over there. [533.36] Tony: Have you gone out this week? [534.36] Jack: I've literally messaged in the chat at zero FPV. [538.36] Tony: Did you go out on a fly this week? [541.36] Tony: A crash this week? [542.36] Tony: A fly this week? [543.36] Jack: No, because the weather is actually awful. [546.36] Tony: You didn't go out fail-saving. [549.36] Jack: No. [550.36] Jack: I thought you'd change the antenna stuff. [554.36] Jack: Yeah. [555.36] Jack: I'm back on the old, what's it called, immortal team or whatever. [561.36] Curry: So I think the problem is that the chat didn't see the footage, well, the pictures we saw, like you complained about fail-saving. [569.36] Curry: And then we saw a picture of you flying, which involved you going like this and holding your radio at this specific angle, which is like, I'll teach you. [577.36] Curry: I'll teach you. [579.36] Jack: Yeah, but it's got a lot of the old, yeah, the old set up had a like immortal hell. [588.36] Jack: So I was both, I was both vertically and horizontally polarized. [597.36] Tony: Why don't you buy a diamond antenna for the transmitter? [601.36] Tony: They're about 20 quid. [603.36] Jack: Because all that does is it narrows your height for range. [610.36] Tony: It goes further. [612.36] Tony: I don't think you have to worry about orientation as much. [614.36] Tony: Well, I'll just point in the way it looks like it should go. [619.36] Jack: Well, it's all linear. [621.36] Jack: It's all linear polarized. [623.36] Jack: So still. [626.36] Curry: Here's a question that comes up from that one as we're stuck for topics. [629.36] Curry: Do you know you're holding your radio at this angle? [633.36] Curry: Because often it's a case of we don't know we're doing things. [636.36] Curry: So you see people with patch antennas with their heads down on the floor. [640.36] Tony: That's on the person who does that. [643.36] Curry: When I feel myself flying, because I was just wanting to film, would go around me, I noticed I swayed around a lot without noticing that. [651.36] Curry: Jack turns around sideways. [653.36] Jack: Do I? I don't know my transmitter like that, do I? [657.36] Jack: You do. I've seen you fly like that. [660.36] Frank: When? [662.36] Frank: That was from your birthday a few years ago, two or three years ago. [669.36] Frank: When we dragged you out to the rugby field, I think that was when it was. [675.36] Frank: And yeah, you were having to hold your radio sort of rolled 90 degrees in order to have any signal. [684.36] Jack: It was a bit weird. [686.36] Jack: What was that? [688.36] Frank: Because you had mounted your antenna on your radio horizontally parallel with the handle. [696.36] Frank: But you had mounted the antenna on your quad vertically. [701.36] Tony: Two years old. [703.36] Tony: You're making mistakes. [705.36] Jack: No, I was just too lazy to turn the antenna the right way on the transmitter. [720.36] Curry: I think if we can ever get together again, what we should do is everybody puts goggles on, everybody flies and then we have a race on foot. [729.36] Curry: So it's not just a case of a static image. [730.36] Curry: You have to fly around yourself whilst running along flying. [735.36] Jack: It's so hard to do. [738.36] Curry: Frankly, I've got like footage of myself and it looks ridiculous. [742.36] Curry: So I'm like, I'm in a funny place here. [744.36] Curry: So I hover looking at myself and then I attempt to move and then I realize I'm moving the opposite to what I'm doing in the camera. [751.36] Curry: And it's like, you know, left and right. [753.36] Curry: It's all very weird. [754.36] Curry: And then I almost fall over because there's lumps on the floor and stuff. [758.36] Curry: It's good fun. [759.36] Jack: It is so hard to do. [762.36] Jack: He's like, yeah, I find it very, very like because you're you're walking in third person view, aren't you? [770.36] Curry: Yes, but it's not like everything seems to be reversed as well. [775.36] Curry: Do you remember when we tried like, let's let's FPV land in our own hand with the whoops. [780.36] Curry: That was bizarre because it's just like I'm flying. [783.36] Curry: I put my hand out here, quad just falls down over there somewhere because you don't mind up at all. [787.36] Jack: Yeah, I remember that. [790.36] Jack: Andy hopefully will come back at some point, but he's still you know, he's still basically in recovery, I think is fair to say. [804.36] Tony: I don't miss him. [806.36] Tony: I like the northern chat. [808.36] Tony: You know, I'm talking about northern things. [810.36] Frank: Andy, I see you're not. [812.36] Frank: There's he's been doing some nice videos with the Pantel system on his and the head tracking on his little cubs with him and Phil out flying information using his well-honed formation flying skills from DCS. [832.36] Jack: I know. [834.36] Jack: I remember seeing the video where there was two cows. [841.36] Jack: One was called the little one was called Tony and the big one was called Jack. [846.36] Jack: It was quite good. [849.36] Jack: I know we all we all miss Andy. [852.36] Jack: The trouble is he came back like too early and kind of like it messes up his sleep pattern after the. [859.36] Jack: After the show, unfortunately, because, you know, and he's he's just trying to like get back to like where he was. [869.36] Jack: There's a tremendous amount of pressure from him from like YouTube. [875.36] Jack: I'm sure make me lab knows all about that where you know, it's and you curry where you've got to constantly be producing videos all the time. [885.36] Curry: I've rebelled against that idea at the moment based on the fact that I can't produce anything. [892.36] Tony: Was that because you can't go get out to fly or your knees still in or is it because you're flying fields too far now or my knees still hurts. [901.36] Curry: And thus I get like tired really quickly. [904.36] Curry: Also, because I've been doing reviews lately, it means that people say, well, I'm not sending any stuff to you because you don't do reviews. [910.36] Curry: So it's going to be like not review stuff. [912.36] Curry: It's going to be like project stuff and project stuff. [915.36] Curry: What I notice I sent a message out to all my patron people just tell them about this is like what I've noticed about developing the same is if you spend a great deal of time on one thing, you can really move it along. [926.36] Curry: So what I used to reviews is you have like five or six things on the go and you just do a bit here and a bit there and you get in a flying field and you've got a big bundle of stuff and you take them all out with project stuff. [936.36] Curry: It's like you want to just keep if you just keep working on the same thing, you'll get a lot done, but you won't have lots of videos on it. [943.36] Curry: You'll have like a video every maybe one or two weeks about this is what I did and this is how I did it and that sort of thing. [949.36] Curry: But it's potentially more interesting. [953.36] Frank: But not as good. [955.36] Frank: Can you review an electric wheelchair and use that to go flying? [959.36] Curry: I did suggest using my home built electric skateboard, but I felt this was not so good with the knee because last time I used it, I ended up in hospital because I hurt my knee after I fell off. [973.36] Tony: Any of my friends who own electric skateboards always send me pictures of injuries and then pictures of them from hospital a couple of days later. [982.36] Tony: So I suggest don't ever get one of them. [985.36] Curry: It's great fun showing up in casualty with your daughter and they're like what happened to you and I say I fell off my skateboard. [994.36] Curry: I don't have to say oh I didn't know you're writing that down. [997.36] Curry: Could you just put them like saving orphans from a fire or something? So it's not bad. [1003.36] Curry: I thought it was very amusing. [1009.36] Curry: We'll have to see. [1011.36] Jack: It's funny. I've ordered some new frames so I'm going to try and retire the old aliens. [1020.36] Jack: You didn't really want to retire your aliens, did you? [1024.36] Jack: No, not really. They do their job. They're a bit heavy though. [1032.36] Tony: But that's what makes them nice to fly. [1036.36] Curry: For freestyle quads sometimes weight's good, isn't it? Because it spoons everything out. [1041.36] Jack: The trouble is I've got the weight from the old GoPro because I never subscribed to the whole session size GoPro. [1050.36] Jack: So I've always been carrying that extra load on the front of my quads. [1055.36] Curry: You always get a naked GoPro. [1058.36] Jack: Yeah, I know but how long do they last? [1063.36] Tony: Don't crash them. [1066.36] Frank: What's the pre-built naked one? [1072.36] Tony: B2FTV, yeah. [1079.36] Tony: Are you retiring two aliens and what are you doing? [1084.36] Jack: Well, obviously because I got my spare but the spare didn't really get out so much. [1092.36] Jack: SMO. [1094.36] Jack: What is SMO? [1096.36] Tony: That is the carol. [1100.36] Tony: B2FTV. [1102.36] Curry: Pre-camera things, isn't it? [1106.36] Tony: Which looks alright but it's not brilliant, I don't think. [1112.36] Tony: What are you swapping them for? [1115.36] Jack: Apexes. So I've got loads on order. [1119.36] Tony: Same thing then. So this is going to be just an updated alien basically. [1124.36] Jack: They're a little bit different I suppose but not much. [1128.36] Jack: It's the same with the old, what do you call it, what have you got, the chad's frame, the reverb? [1135.36] Jack: Reverb. [1137.36] Jack: How are you finding that? Because that's just something I was going to phone you up and ask you. [1142.36] Jack: Because you've got like the split deck haven't you with it? [1145.36] Tony: It flies as much the same as the alien to be honest. [1149.36] Tony: But ones kiss V1 and ones kiss V2 and always find V2 a lot better than V1. [1156.36] Tony: But then if you were going Apex you're going to have to use a new 4-in-1 ESC and you're not your old ESCs. [1166.36] Jack: Yeah, some bollocks like that. [1168.36] Tony: Can I buy the kiss V2 ESCs off you then? [1172.36] Curry: Yeah man, if you want. [1174.36] Curry: Question for you guys then. Aside from the build, do you find that much difference in a frame? [1180.36] Curry: Because after you've built it I tend to find that there is a slight difference between where the battery mounts. [1189.36] Curry: Like if it's centrally mounted things fly a little bit better than sort of below or above the frame. [1195.36] Curry: But I have to say I don't find a massive deal of difference between the many frames and how they fly. [1202.36] Curry: It's mostly about what sort of motors and near season tunes on them rather than the frame themselves. [1209.36] Curry: I find the frame just like the convenient box to hold all the bits. [1215.36] Curry: And that's outrageously heavy or light, it's like a bunch of muchness. [1221.36] Jack: For me, the impulse RC stuff, the carbon quality is really good. [1229.36] Jack: And they really supported the legacy stuff really well. [1235.36] Jack: So you can go back to them and still buy a bottom plate. [1239.36] Jack: Trouble is we live in England, so it means just importing that shit. [1244.36] Jack: And then I'll be spending the exact same shipping and maybe some shipping costs or whatever, some import costs on just buying some spare parts. [1259.36] Jack: Where they used to be stocked in the UK, but now the Reverb and the Apex have all got spares in the UK. [1271.36] Jack: So for me it's like running the same frame for the longest amount of time and you get kind of used to it. [1277.36] Jack: And I did notice from going from KISS V1 to V2, on my V1 setup, my roll and pitch speeds are very much similar. [1292.36] Jack: Because they were set the same, but now on my V2 I'm finding that my roll rates faster than my pitch rate, even though they're set to the same thing. [1303.36] Tony: So, yeah. [1305.36] Tony: Your rates are ridiculously far. [1309.36] Tony: I found that in Wales. [1313.36] Jack: How easy is it to use a crossfire in a free Sky X-Lite? [1320.36] Jack: Magical pencils done that, haven't you? [1323.36] Jack: Did you buy a... [1324.36] Curry: Did TBS have that adapter now that you can put into the... [1328.36] Jack: I think so, yeah. [1329.36] Curry: Because the X-Lite uses the smaller backplate, not the normal JR one. [1336.36] Jack: You could also just go straight to the tracer if you haven't bought it, and they've got the smaller modules. [1347.36] Jack: You'll be using 2.4, but you can actually get ones that will actually fit your X-Lite. [1352.36] Frank: Wasn't there something going on about changing the pinouts and things of the little micros so that things wouldn't work with other things? [1365.36] Frank: Wasn't there something going on about that, between FRSky and TBS? [1372.36] Curry: That certainly sounds like a move Free Sky would pull. [1375.36] Curry: They're not known for doing shady things these days, are they? [1379.36] Tony: Not known for doing much at all these days, but... [1382.36] Curry: I'm just saying Andy's posted a new radio, which says it's got some sort of HD capability, but no one's explained it. [1394.36] Frank: Oh, is this the one that Oscar Lang had a little while ago, where it's got an HD screen in it, but it's not actually got anything inside it to actually feed it anything yet? [1407.36] Tony: I think that's it. [1410.36] Jack: Yeah, that's always a great thing to do with Free Sky stuff. The stuff that isn't implemented yet. [1420.36] Jack: You end up living on nightly builds forever. [1424.36] Frank: Yeah, but this isn't even getting the software to work yet. [1429.36] Frank: The hardware isn't in there to do anything with it. It's just a screen. [1434.36] Frank: I think, from what I remember reading, it'd be up to you to get an input from whatever HD system you're using. [1443.86] Frank: Which, as Grumpy FPV asked, how's the open HD going, Gary? [1451.86] Curry: Yeah, it's something I want to get back to. I've got a couple of things to get out. [1457.86] Curry: There are views for 1, 2, 3-ish bits, and then I'm jumping back into open HD. [1464.86] Curry: I had some ideas about, like last time I used it, I had to use the, well, I didn't have to, but I basically used this pie in a touchscreen module. [1475.86] Curry: They didn't have the capability to also output HDMI, and I found the screen really hard to see in bright light, as most people would experience that. [1486.86] Curry: So I thought what I'd do is just take an uncased Pi 4 with me and plug it into the Elgato and capture the output directly into a MacBook and the other side into my goggles so I can have a proper experience. [1501.86] Curry: But yeah, the plan would be to update all the software, drive the Rover again, make sure that's okay, get the 450 flying nicely on iNav, make sure you position hold nicely, return to home. [1513.86] Curry: Then move that to open HD, and if that's going well, then I put in an HD camera and use a CSI to HDMI converter. [1522.86] Curry: So you take the HDMI out from the HD camera into the CSI connector on the Pi, which gives a much nicer picture, but introduces a little bit more lag, which is the reason it's not going in like a fast quad. [1536.86] Curry: So you don't fly 100 mile an hour, a couple of inches off the floor, it's sort of more cruisy around sort of thing. [1541.86] Curry: Yeah, which is why it's like a longer term thing, which is why you might not be seeing very many videos from me. [1547.86] Curry: But when they come, they will be at least average quality. [1553.86] Curry: Meet that milestone. [1555.86] Jack: I'm very excited for that, because as far as I'm concerned, it's like, you know, not only you're going against the grain of DGI, but also, you know, Fat Shark. [1572.86] Curry: I'd like to say I'm fighting the power, but it's mostly a financial consideration as well. [1577.86] Frank: So if you if you were using or if you were wanting to put something on a faster model, would it be a case of using just kind of a Raspberry Pi camera, like one of the cameras that's meant for Raspberry Pi so that it's not having to do any conversion in between? [1596.86] Curry: The delay in the system is mostly the fact that a Pi is like a something that runs an operating system. [1605.86] Curry: So it's not the difference between that and the DGI is the GGI has a specialized chip that will basically it's just there to do conversion and compression to take an image, compress it, send it and the other end decompresses it really quickly. [1622.86] Curry: So you get like between like 20 milliseconds and 40 milliseconds of latency. [1627.86] Curry: What the Pi is doing is running its entire operating system. It's not got specialized hardware to do this conversion. [1633.86] Curry: Thus, the average latency is about 100 to 120 milliseconds. So what you do is get something that can be faster. Like I think the Jets Nano, but you down to like 40, 50 milliseconds, but that's quite an expensive end to end solution. [1650.86] Curry: I think ideally, what they're looking for is some sort of SGPA solution. So basically someone programs a chip just to do this and puts it in some embedded hardware, but that is somewhere down the line because that obviously needs money and investment to produce something, probably some buy in from some manufacturers. [1672.86] Curry: But that would give you potentially an open source HD solution that everybody might be able to use. [1679.86] Frank: And we'd also need a protocol. That's the other thing. You need an actual radio protocol or deal with fast enough throughput and everything, right? [1690.86] Curry: I mean, you usually have that. I mean, at the moment, it's just Wi-Fi is not the killer for it. It's the decompression and compression of MP4 movie stuff that's just coming down. [1708.86] Frank: Is that all the open HD is using and it's just Wi-Fi? [1713.86] Frank: Yeah, I thought it was using some kind of slightly modified protocol. So it's not just Wi-Fi. It's like some kind of other open source project that's like Wi-Fi broadcast or something. [1724.86] Curry: It is. It's Wi-Fi broadcast, but essentially that uses Wi-Fi still. I mean, they're slightly modified types of packets they're using, but it's still essentially, you know, it's still a Wi-Fi adapter just putting out stuff because that's still. [1742.86] Curry: I mean, speed stuff, you can't go faster. It's just about how much bandwidth it's got going through. [1751.86] Curry: Which is something, Caroline's asking, doesn't it send MSP for control? Yeah, it can do. At least everything, sorry. It's UDP. [1762.46] Curry: As a standard UDP, Caroline, do you know? I did read this at some point. They had some, if it's just regular UDP, that's just what everything uses. [1774.46] Curry: UDP is a protocol where you send packets. If the packets don't get through, everyone shucks their shoulders and says whatever. And then the next one gets through and it takes over again, which is much faster than TCP, which is a connection based protocol where it's like, here's some stuff. Did you get that stuff? Yeah, I got it. I've got up to this bit. Great. Let me send you some more. Did you get that? It's like the whole conversation stuff. [1795.46] Tony: It takes longer. That's like me when I'm talking to Jack. [1800.46] Tony: Did you understand that? [1803.46] Curry: Did you hear me, Jack? Did your microphone fall out again? [1808.46] Tony: Have you woke up? It's 8pm. [1812.46] Curry: Unless you have to resend the information. It's a very good TCP analogy talking to Jack. [1817.46] Frank: This episode was recorded in front of a live online audience, downloaded and edited to make sense when it played audio only, censored to please the iTunes people, hosted on the internet, forwarded through to your podcast provider, downloaded, playing on your device and is now playing in your ears. All thanks to our Patreons. [1839.46] Frank: Consider joining them and you'll also get other online benefits. [1842.46] Frank: Find out more at patreon.com forward slash let's drone out. [1846.46] Curry: What about since since Frank Primus, but what about you? Where's the vector based, trusty twin engine plane? [1854.46] Frank: I received a thing from Flying Tech yesterday. I don't know, some point this week recently, a 433 megahertz radio, USB and micro things to go on the actual plane so that I can actually have it plugged in at the same time. [1875.46] Frank: Work out why it complains because I don't understand why it's complaining sometimes. [1881.46] Frank: I mean, does this mean it's based on? Is it based on autopilot? This thing? Yes, it is based on our department. Yes, it's it's a very obscure configuration within even with an autopilot. [1895.46] Curry: It's like a subsection within a subsection. I found with autopilot, even if you use the main build of autopilot, there is still all this crap scrolling on my screen, mostly complaining about the compass being mental and out of control. [1912.46] Curry: And I'm like, what are you talking about? It's so much in there. Yeah. Do you have to tell me all this stuff? [1919.46] Frank: It's a very, very weird kind of learning curve. If you open it up and you go, oh, well, this is this is just like a configurator, like a, you know, clean flight, B to flight, I know, whatever. It's just a configurator. [1933.46] Frank: And then you actually try to make it do something. Ten thousand things you can turn on and off. Yeah. And then trying to just make a combination of things work and then trying to understand what it's telling you when it doesn't work. [1948.46] Frank: It's it all of a sudden you get, oh, this isn't what I'm looking at. It was the same kind of thing. It's kind of. I was going to come up with an analogy, but it's an idea that no one else will get. So it doesn't matter. [1963.46] Curry: But the. It feels somewhere something so off. Using autopilot is a bit like using autopilot. There is no analogy. It's just. [1974.46] Frank: I was going to say, it's like going over to direct modeling CAD after working with parametric modeling CAD, but it's. [1981.46] Tony: I agree. Exactly. Exactly. [1984.46] Curry: But it's like moving from CAD to hitting a rock with a hammer and the design comes up. [1990.46] Frank: But it's. Yes, it is in kind of being brought out of hibernation. It will be flying. I hope this month is my plan. [2006.46] Curry: Well, don't forget to film it because you're a bit rubbish at filming things. Yeah. I'm excited. [2013.46] Tony: So Caroline in the chat, as I said, I haven't seen I haven't seen Jack's icon and have been somewhere. [2024.46] Tony: I think that may be an Easter egg somewhere hidden in a particular game somewhere. So I think someone's found it. [2035.46] Curry: Well, Caroline was the only one that mentioned finding it after I said, did anybody see the Easter egg? She got it. [2043.46] Tony: One person was saying found the Easter egg in it. That means at least one person is playing the game. So yes. [2052.46] Frank: In the game, but also presumably what is the podcast is, would you know it was an Easter egg if you didn't do both? [2061.46] Tony: No, maybe not. Maybe not. The Venn diagram there is currently Caroline. Just one in the middle. [2073.46] Curry: Andy, I see you said there's only one bit outside my house covered in dog piss. Does it still have a sticker on Andy? [2081.46] Frank: Stickers. [2083.46] Tony: Are cheap stickers of last interval? When did we go there? Three? Was it two years or three? [2089.46] Tony: Three years. If it's there, if it's been free, free, free winter, then it's still there. It's worth his weight in golden stickers. [2099.46] Curry: Jack got very upset at me about the modelling of Andy's bin because I centred it on the breeze block because I said people won't know. [2110.46] Curry: That Andy's bin is actually almost like falling off and is all won through there. It's doing it wrong. [2117.46] Jack: That's Dave's little adapter connector thing so that he can extend his antenna further. [2127.46] Frank: So it looks like there's the crossfire and a load of wires that have been hacked together and resoldered in a different way. [2135.46] Frank: A plug that's then plugging into the back of the X-line. So I'm assuming that, yes, they did change the pin out and so you've had to kind of swap over some wires. [2149.46] Frank: I don't think so then. [2151.46] Tony: What's the worth of that? You just put that bit on your lap and then sit with that bit. I mean, I don't see the point of that. [2160.46] Jack: It allows him... I don't think they've changed the pin out on the mini ones, but it's so he can get out of the... Wasn't it for a horizontal field or whatever? [2178.46] Jack: Fresnel zone? [2180.46] Jack: Yeah, the ground effect from their signals. [2183.46] Curry: So Grumpy's saying, doesn't the nano crossfire module just plug in now? Is there a nano module that can fit on these module bays now? [2194.46] Tony: I can have the crossfire module up high and sit down. [2198.46] Tony: Okay, so you can sit in a car and basically put that outside or something like that. Okay. [2205.46] Tony: Sounds like a plan. [2207.46] Tony: Okay, I quite like it. [2209.46] UNKNOWN: Yeah. [2210.46] Frank: Along with the, you know, video receiver and feed that back into your goggles on the inside. [2219.46] Tony: Yes. [2221.46] Tony: That'd be good. [2222.46] Tony: You could wear a worker's helmet, strap the antenna to the back, getting more right. [2232.46] Tony: Why not put a free sky bus receiver on the crossfire and use it as a relay? [2241.46] Tony: Well, that's getting too complicated for me. [2244.46] Frank: Wow. [2246.46] Frank: Well, I mean, I could see that working. I mean, that's kind of what they do with a lot of the, well, not a lot, some of the long range flyers, right? [2254.46] Frank: Have a 1.3 video receiver and then have that rebroadcast in 5.8. [2262.46] Frank: So you can still use a 5.8 couple module rather than having like a 1.3 antenna sat on your face, which would be a problem. [2271.46] Curry: As shown here in pictures that they do do, as Grumpy suggested, the crossfire nano TX, which will cut out the middle band. [2280.46] Curry: And they allow you to just plug your module straight in, which they do on the trace as well as jack. [2285.46] Tony: So there's a nano one now. [2287.46] Curry: There is a nano one, so you can just plug in directly. [2291.46] Curry: But if you've already got your JR module, of course, and make up an adapter and you'll be good. [2297.29] Frank: Then, yeah. [2300.29] Frank: So, yeah, so Carol is suggesting then you could kind of do the reverse of the 1.3 to 5.8 by having your FLSky just doing an access or whatever to an FLSky receiver that you've plugged into a crossfire module that's then doing the crossfire out to that. [2320.57] Frank: So you've got your little base station that's receiving 1.4 and sending out crossfire to your model, but receiving FLSky and sending 5.8 back to you. [2332.57] Frank: I kind of like the idea. [2334.57] Jack: So we're a bit all over the place, but this is my upset with the modeling of the bin, because as you can see, the concrete there is offset to the bin. [2350.57] Jack: The bins more over as you're looking in it to the left. [2355.57] Jack: Oh, hang on. [2357.57] Jack: And see. [2359.57] Jack: See? [2361.57] Jack: Offset from the concrete slab. [2364.57] Tony: Yeah, but Kerri Kim can model that in real life because it'll freak him out. [2371.57] Curry: People would not believe that. [2374.57] Curry: They're just people that didn't know it was Andy or she's been would just say, why can't he put the thing straight on the concrete bit so I can't have that. [2383.57] Jack: Even the stickers are offset, so everyone knows what that bin looked like. [2390.57] Jack: I had that bin perfectly 3D modeled. [2398.57] Jack: I wish you could have brought some of your gear out, Frank, where you could have 3D modeled and we could have had like 3D prints off the dog bin. [2409.57] Frank: Yeah, I don't think I would have ever been able to move 10 grand plus worth of scanning equipment. [2419.57] Tony: Yeah. [2424.57] Jack: The leading tower of bin. [2427.57] Curry: Alternatively, you could just model one box on another box and then poke it over the end. [2432.57] Curry: But then you'd have to bring all these supports for it and break them off afterwards. [2436.57] Jack: No, he hasn't. [2438.57] Frank: I didn't deal with supports. [2440.57] Frank: We just used powder. [2442.57] Curry: It just grew out of it. [2444.57] Jack: I'm going to start selling the poos as non fungible tokens. [2453.57] Jack: Oh my God. [2455.57] Jack: Do you reckon I could make quite a bit of killing off an FT of the dog bin? [2461.57] Curry: Why not try? [2463.57] Jack: What are you going to lose? [2465.57] Curry: Just make sure you don't have to buy a hundred stickers like last time. [2472.57] Jack: I've still got the lock sock design. [2476.57] Jack: If you guys... [2478.57] Jack: This might be the defining moment. Hang on. [2484.57] Jack: Let me just get my email up. [2487.57] Tony: Can we get stickers done of this ready for wings and wheels? [2490.57] Tony: Yeah. [2491.57] Frank: Jack's betting his entire life savings on sock stickers. [2495.57] Jack: It's okay. [2496.57] Jack: You added 18 pounds to the fund of stickers, maybe. [2501.57] Curry: Surely the sock design was to produce a sock, not a sticker. [2505.57] Curry: But I feel that's not functional. [2508.57] Tony: Maybe you get a sticker after the said sock design. [2516.57] Curry: Well, every time you crack one out, you put a little sticker on. [2518.57] Curry: Like you've run over a hedgehog on a... [2522.57] Tony: I would have said hedgehog. I would have said German fighters or something. [2529.57] Jack: Hang on. I've got... [2532.57] Tony: Guys, how much? [2535.57] Tony: You can tell we're low on stuff. [2538.57] Jack: I know. [2540.57] Curry: It's like... [2542.57] Jack: The sock sticker design. [2544.57] Jack: So if you guys want the sock sticker to be a thing, let me know. [2550.57] Jack: I need pre-orders. [2553.57] Frank: I'm guessing that's a previous editor judging by the art style. [2560.57] Jack: No. [2563.57] Jack: The only one that was previous editor was the tin-4 hat one, which I've got a million of. [2570.57] Jack: There's a hot sale of... [2573.57] Tony: It needs a sticker on there somewhere. [2576.57] Curry: I feel there's a design flaw in this sock. [2579.57] Curry: And it's possibly the holes in it. [2584.74] Jack: Well... [2586.74] Jack: No. Do I need a Cothorn Bull sticker? [2589.74] Jack: I didn't think that was a big thing, because that was part of NJ's... [2596.74] Jack: NJ's Discord. [2599.74] Curry: When's NJ coming back? [2602.74] Jack: He's trying to buy a house, I think. [2605.74] Frank: Blue Owl and Andy, I reckon. [2610.34] Frank: Yeah, where is Blue Owl, anyway? [2614.69] Tony: In Poland, still. [2617.69] Tony: In on a sort of break, and she's got bad internet, and... [2622.69] Tony: Her little dog's sick, so I hope your dog gets well soon. [2628.69] Tony: Hopefully she'll be back when she goes back to work. [2633.69] Tony: Is that all right? I don't know. [2636.69] Jack: Tony, I've got a joke for you. [2639.69] Jack: Uh-oh. Where's the new button? [2642.69] Jack: I've got a dirty joke. [2644.69] Jack: Tony, why did the sperm cross the road? [2647.69] Tony: Oh, dear. [2650.69] Jack: Because I accidentally wore the one... sock. [2659.69] Tony: Cut. [2660.69] Tony: Thanks for joining us. [2662.69] Tony: We'll be back next week. [2665.69] Tony: And if the creeks don't rise, we'll see you this time next week. Bye! [2672.69] Frank: We do have a plan for next week. [2676.69] Tony: Well, hopefully, yeah. [2678.69] Tony: A plan. [2679.69] Frank: Yeah, I told you about it. [2682.69] Frank: Jack's very excited about next week. [2685.69] Curry: Oh, is that next week? You didn't tell me when we had potential said guest. [2691.69] Jack: Yeah. [2692.69] Jack: So, we're going to be covering the right to repair. We'll have a special guest. [2696.69] Curry: I was kind of worried he might have just agreed to it without doing a bit of due diligence about us and finding out. [2704.69] Curry: Have we locked him in yet? [2706.69] Tony: When is our 300th show, actually? [2708.69] Tony: Witcher Warwick saying the only thing special for our 300th. What are we on today? [2713.69] Tony: 297 today. [2715.69] Tony: Oh, we'll have to do something for that then, won't we? [2718.69] Jack: Yeah, I don't know. Can we put our heads together because of Think Tank? [2725.69] Frank: Anyone listening has any suggestions for what we could do for our 300th show on the 27th of May? [2736.69] Tony: That was well funny. Maybe we could do that again. [2740.69] Frank: Maybe we could see what the weather forecast is like. [2744.69] Tony: What a live show outside in a field somewhere. What always goes wrong, doesn't it? We could do that. [2753.69] Frank: At least now in Noah's field, where I can test the Wi-Fi beforehand. [2759.69] Frank: You can be pretty confident that there's going to be some good Wi-Fi. [2765.38] Tony: Whenever I've done it, even 4G on my phone, it still looks poo-poo. [2770.38] Jack: Well, you mean all travel to where you are. Yeah, that might be the thing to do. [2780.38] Frank: The kind of field. We could go there. [2783.38] Tony: Look, Johnny B's in the chat. [2785.38] Tony: Johnny Banton. [2787.38] Tony: Whilst from the past. [2789.38] Jack: I know. [2791.38] Jack: It's so good to see you. [2794.38] Tony: We're still here. We're just talking about our 300th episode. [2798.38] Tony: Which is what, five years? Something ridiculous. [2804.63] Jack: Yeah, when do we get to our six year anniversary? [2808.63] Jack: August. [2810.63] Tony: Wow. [2812.63] Tony: What we've been doing is six years this August coming. [2815.63] Tony: I think we need to quit. [2820.63] Jack: Man, if we can survive just me and you talking to each other for a couple of months, like a pandemic and weather. [2828.63] Jack: There's going to be nothing. [2832.63] Jack: Johnny Banton. [2834.63] Jack: I miss you, man. [2836.63] Tony: You're so enthusiastic. [2838.63] Tony: Do you remember Johnny Banton used to always be running and crash a quarter and then run to it and pick it up and start again. [2845.63] Tony: Run and then just be there at 5am. [2847.63] Jack: It's quite just planes. [2849.63] Jack: Yeah, there he is. [2852.63] Jack: I want to live in legend himself. [2854.63] Jack: I remember phoning you once and being like, oh man, how's it going? [2858.63] Jack: I'm absolutely hating him because he got a plane stuck in a tree with the low voltage alarm just constantly going off. [2868.63] Jack: It's not, man, I wish it was big Clive. [2872.63] Jack: It'd be amazing if it was big Clive. [2874.63] Tony: I'll see. [2876.63] Tony: Labeltics says, why don't we do a live race? [2879.63] Tony: Let's find out who is the quickest. [2882.63] Jack: Could be good. [2884.63] Tony: My upset the Wi-Fi. [2888.63] Tony: I haven't raced in two years. [2891.63] Tony: Well, five inches. [2893.63] Tony: How long are they capable of I got? [2896.63] Jack: Yeah, well, you need a long one to do something very neatly, apparently. [2902.63] Frank: That's what she said. [2904.63] Jack: Your rig at home. [2906.63] Jack: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [2908.63] Jack: You got permission. [2909.63] Frank: I can't remember who's got the huge ethernet cable that we had for Mini Air Show that ran all the way from the trailer to. [2924.63] Frank: Yeah, I imagine it's probably Fraser. [2928.63] Jack: Could we hire him? [2930.63] Jack: Could we hire him for that episode? [2935.63] Jack: Is there any money in the key? [2938.63] Frank: Well, I'll maybe ask around and see what I can do. [2942.63] Frank: Now that I have a car, I could even drive over and maybe pick up a cable. [2947.63] Frank: You're so enthusiastic about driving. [2950.63] Tony: It's just because you took public transport for so long. [2954.63] Tony: Ten years of public transport. [2956.63] Frank: Drive me. [2958.63] Frank: It has to be like a complete change in kind of state of mind. [2964.63] Frank: I keep doing things already this week. [2967.63] Frank: I've been like, ah, with work. [2970.63] Frank: I can't go to here because it will take too long. [2973.63] Frank: But you have a car and I'm like, oh, yeah, I have a car now. [2976.63] Frank: I can just do that. [2978.63] Frank: It takes me five minutes instead of two hours. [2980.63] Frank: Oh, my God. [2982.63] Jack: Yeah, that's the point. [2984.63] Jack: Do you keep finding yourself like checking bus timetables and train times and then going, oh, yeah, hang on. [2990.63] Jack: I've got a car. [2992.63] Frank: It's like, how long is it going to take me to get a train up there? [2996.63] Frank: Wait, what am I doing? [2999.63] Frank: Exactly. [3001.63] Frank: I've got a numb skull. [3003.63] Frank: I've got a 2008 Honda Civic. [3007.63] Frank: That's what I have. [3009.63] Jack: I remember when I first got my car and I was at the local Tesco's and I parked up and obviously went in, got some stuff, come out and started walking home. [3019.63] Jack: I was like, hang on a minute. [3022.63] Jack: Brought back to the car being like, oh, God, like 15 minutes only based on like, you know, can you imagine that? [3031.63] Jack: Obviously, someone stole my car. [3033.63] Jack: Did you drive it somewhere and then forget that you drove? [3036.63] Jack: Yeah. [3038.63] Tony: What about FPV football? [3042.63] Jack: That only works in SIM, really. [3045.63] Jack: Yeah. [3047.63] Tony: We tried at the first of the LDO drone games. [3051.63] Tony: We play football, we put goggles on and have a football match, but use a Canberra that someone flies a drone round and round. [3060.63] Curry: I fly the drone round and round. [3062.63] Tony: We actually play football and have to get... [3065.63] Curry: Everybody has to fly their own drones round and round. [3070.63] Frank: Combining the two, your suggestion earlier, Kerry, plus the football suggestion. [3075.63] Curry: It's up the ante a little bit. [3077.63] Curry: Now we have to kick a football around as well. [3081.63] Frank: I might need to buy another first aid kit. [3084.63] Curry: You're not allowed to crash your quad into other people in order to gain an advantage. [3089.63] Tony: I have to buy a log. [3094.63] Jack: I've done that at college. [3096.63] Jack: Bus home and then reported it stolen. [3099.63] Jack: They're remote around and they don't drive into college. [3102.63] Jack: Well done, Grumpy. [3104.63] Jack: Classic move. [3106.63] Jack: That is funny. [3109.94] Jack: Right, should we call it there, guys? [3111.94] Tony: Yeah, we're running a little bit early. [3114.94] Frank: Do you want to just give us a brief summary for next week what the right to repair means, [3121.94] Frank: just so that we're not all going in completely cold and without any idea what you're talking about? [3128.94] Tony: Could I have a week off next week? [3130.94] Tony: Yes, Tony. [3132.94] Jack: If they show up, that's fine. [3136.94] Jack: The right to repair movement is so that you're able to buy and obtain things to repair your own property. [3152.94] Jack: A lot of the time now we're getting locked out and we don't have access to tools or parts to repair something. [3159.94] Jack: The classic thing at the moment is Tesla. [3163.94] Jack: Tesla's, you've got people like Rich Rebuilds on YouTube where you're forced into a corner [3174.94] Jack: where they want only their techs to repair your car and you can't really go anywhere else [3181.94] Jack: and you're having to drive long distances. [3184.94] Jack: We kind of have that sort of thing here for our cars and stuff. [3189.94] Jack: You don't have to use OEM parts and it doesn't void your warranty. [3197.94] Jack: But we're fighting a battle with stuff like Apple and that where basically they're gluing your phone shut. [3209.94] Jack: If they find out you've opened it, then they won't repair it or it voids your warranty. [3221.94] Jack: You've kind of got extortionate prices where you're kind of almost encouraged to buy a new phone [3230.94] Jack: because the cost of the screen is almost the price of a new phone. [3235.94] Tony: One day we'll all wake up and recycle more. [3240.94] Jack: Or access to drawings or blocked from buying chips or parts. [3244.94] Jack: Yep, definitely Robin. It's how Apple makes smart batteries. [3248.94] Jack: You can't change them without using them to repair it because they've got ID chips in them. [3257.94] Jack: Yeah, I void warranties. [3261.94] Frank: So we have on, at least penciled in, we have a very big guest to talk about that next week. [3271.94] Tony: And we will talk, we will do something for our 300th, something good. [3276.94] Tony: Something. [3278.94] Tony: Probably get drunk or something. [3281.94] Tony: We'll enjoy it. [3283.94] Jack: I mean, DJI's stuff's a bit sort of questionable because you've got to register your warranty within two weeks. [3294.94] Jack: If you forget to do it, then you're not covered and then you... [3300.94] Curry: You have to activate your goggles for some reason. [3304.94] Jack: Yeah, you can't just use them. You've got to activate them. [3308.94] Jack: And then also their care plan for the FPV only covers you for two crashes. Is that right? [3318.94] Tony: Well, on that new, I don't know. [3321.94] Tony: Yeah. [3323.94] Jack: Yeah, so we're going to try and if you want to learn more about it, definitely give it a quick Google Wikipedia. [3332.94] Jack: And there's a person called Lewis Rossman who... [3338.94] Jack: Yeah, maybe we could contact iFixit for sponsorship. [3342.94] Jack: But, yeah, Lewis Rossman, two S's, two N's. [3347.94] Jack: And, yeah, he's lobbying against it and trying to get that sorted. [3352.94] Jack: But we've had some right to repair stuff go through from Europe, but then we decided to leave Europe. [3359.94] Jack: I'm sorry. [3361.94] Jack: We're probably going to be bashing rocks together. [3365.94] Tony: I'm glad we did leave. [3367.94] Jack: No, we... It was in our favour, Tony. [3373.22] Tony: Well, I know it was, but I'm just saying, I'm still glad we left. [3376.22] Tony: Look at the situation there in compared to us with the older... [3381.22] Tony: Jabbies, jabbies. [3383.22] Curry: Yeah. [3385.22] Curry: Well, I've got to go. [3387.22] Tony: Well, I've got to go. [3389.22] Tony: I've been told by a nurse I shouldn't have one because of my anaphylactic shock, so... [3394.22] Curry: Which nurse tells you that? Give me her name. I'll give her a call. [3399.22] Tony: Matron and Amos. [3401.22] Tony: Oh, Matron. [3403.22] Jack: All right. Thank you, guys. You've been listening to Let's Drone Out. [3406.22] Jack: You've been joined by my little Tony. [3408.22] Tony: Very, very sorry. [3410.22] Jack: No, Jabb. No, Chip. [3413.22] Jack: Mr. Tony. [3414.22] Jack: Tony. [3416.22] Jack: No, Bill Gates. [3418.22] Jack: You know, [3420.22] Jack: Tracking You and Tinvall Hat, Nanu Nano. [3424.22] Jack: Yeah, exactly. [3426.22] Tony: I'm not getting it. [3428.22] Jack: Everyone's favourite, Curry Kitten, who is vaccinated. [3432.22] Curry: Have you had your second one yet? [3434.22] Curry: Second on Saturday. [3436.22] Jack: Congratulations. [3438.22] Jack: He's too young to even need a jab. [3441.22] Jack: Andy slash Frank. [3442.22] Frank: Bye. [3444.22] Jack: And the Tories hope that I die. [3448.22] Curry: I'll be right until I fly. [3452.22] Curry: Telemetry lost.