=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 397 === Title: LDO 397 - Featuring Tonstar MAN Recorded: 2023-04-06 Hosts: Stephen "Belrik" Howell, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant, Wayne "CurryKitten" Andrews, Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Andrew "Frank" Hyams Guest(s): (none recorded) Total audience: 1,364 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvI3fgiYqQ); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1487352946-letsdroneout-ldo-397-featuring-tonstar-man.mp3) ===================================== [0.0] Jack: Hello and you're listening to Let's Drone Out and special thank you to our lovely patrons that help donate so that we can pay the editor to remove the swear words and silly things we say. Massive thank you to. [14.0] Jack: Carlos Campos. [16.0] Jack: Art Faulkner. [18.0] Frank: Sam Dahmer. [19.0] Frank: On with the show. [21.0] Tony: Let's Drone Out now. [23.0] Stephen: Welcome to Let's Drone Out. [54.26] Stephen: Tonight you are joined by Jack, Bright Until I Fly. [58.26] Stephen: Hello. [60.26] Stephen: The Tonestar with his ex-class building exploits. [64.26] Stephen: Man, Tonestar, man. [67.26] Stephen: How are you doing tonight, Mrs Tonestar? Or should that be Ms? [71.26] Stephen: And myself, Stephen, aka Bell Rick. Welcome everyone. [76.26] Jack: Hello, welcome to the show. [80.26] Jack: Let me just get the chat up. Hello. I'm so sorry. I will have to disappear in a sec because my insides are killing. [91.26] Tony: No. [92.26] Tony: Yeah. [93.26] Tony: Jackie Boos. What's up? [94.26] Tony: Why not? [95.26] Tony: You're having a little flare up. [97.26] Jack: Yeah, pretty much. That's the joys of unmanaged. [101.26] Jack: Stress. [102.26] Jack: Crohn's. [103.26] Jack: Yeah. [104.26] Jack: It's a nightmare. [106.26] Jack: Have you been out flying, Stephen? You wore our only hope. [112.26] Jack: I flew. [113.26] Stephen: Let's go live with Tony. [115.26] Stephen: Yeah, I flew. [117.26] Stephen: Were you flying? [118.26] Tony: Yeah, I flew. [120.26] Stephen: Did it catch fire? [121.26] Tony: No. [122.26] Tony: I bought some new 1500 4S because yes, I'm still a 4S freestyle guy. [129.26] Tony: Just for one of them? [131.26] Tony: Six. [133.26] Stephen: Six 4S? [134.26] Tony: Six 4S for 92 pounds, which I thought was pretty good. [138.26] Tony: And they were delivered within two days. China line hobby. [141.26] Tony: Oh, I was implying you might be running two of them and doing 8S. [145.26] Tony: No, that is my, that's the X-class. [148.26] Tony: Okay. [149.26] Tony: And then the new X-class is going to be 12S running to 6S. [155.26] Tony: But yeah, I bought, I got told they're all right. [159.26] Tony: So I just thought, you know, I'll have a go for 92 pounds and get delivered to your door. [166.26] Tony: I think you actually put it in your chat. [168.26] Tony: Yeah, there was a buy one, get one free. [170.26] Stephen: It was chaos though. [171.26] Stephen: I looked on the site and there were some that were like, some sizes were three quid or something. [177.26] Stephen: And then there was only a tiny number of them and others there were buy one, get one free. [181.26] Stephen: And the stock list was just like changing as I was looking at the site. [185.26] Stephen: It was kind of chaos. [187.26] Tony: Well, I normally fly 1600 4S and the 1500s was what I got, which were a little bit lighter. [195.26] Tony: And they're actually quite, quite light. [197.26] Tony: But, you know, when you go out and fly your new batteries, they take a little while to set it in. [202.26] Tony: So I wasn't getting, I was getting three minutes flight time, not the three and a half, nearly four that I normally get. [210.26] Tony: But you need to sort of run them in a little bit, don't you? [213.26] Stephen: You get that like surprise ending, don't you, where it just falls off the cliff. [216.26] Tony: They stay good for ages, like they at the start. [219.26] Tony: And then they run a minute and then they're really good for, I don't know, two years and then they crash. [225.26] Stephen: Yeah. [226.26] Tony: So, but they seemed all right and they look pretty good. [229.26] Tony: So, and for ninety two quid for six, I thought it was pretty good. [235.26] Stephen: Can't go wrong. [236.26] Stephen: Well, you finally, you got the same sort of Quaddas Jack kind of kiss five inch. [240.26] Tony: Yeah, just, do you know what? [242.26] Tony: If someone said, build a quab nowadays and program it, I mean, Jack went on beta flight the other day and we were like, [250.26] Tony: what's, what's these sliding things? [253.26] Tony: What? [254.26] Tony: What? [255.26] Tony: Yeah. [256.26] Tony: Well, if you're not on it 24 seven, you have a month out, two weeks out and you're like, what's happened? [264.26] Tony: So, yeah, I just don't know. [267.26] Stephen: I do find there's a lot of reading involved and I know some folks, you know, not so good with the reading. [272.26] Stephen: I can understand the pain because it's either read some documentation or watch four hours of videos to decipher what's going on. [280.26] Stephen: Ain't nobody got time for that. [282.26] Tony: No. [284.26] Tony: So, yeah, I don't know. [286.26] Tony: I just went and rebooked my flying field, which is basically where I play airsoft and where I also now do Coco's agility. [300.26] Tony: So it's all in the same spot just down the road. [304.26] Tony: And I just went out and flew. [305.26] Tony: I think it was a Monday. [306.26] Tony: It was just a really nice afternoon and there was no sun. [310.26] Tony: And it was just nice to get out and just sorry, there was sun, no clouds or rain is what I meant to say, because we've had a lot of that. [319.26] Tony: So I just went out and just thought, I'm going to go for a fly and sat up there on my own and had a fly. [325.26] Tony: It was nice just to get the goggles down and get me thumbs back on the sticks. [330.26] Tony: Yeah. [331.26] Tony: I really enjoyed it. [332.26] Stephen: I'm glad you managed to get out there in between the rain. [335.26] Stephen: I thought I was going to get kind of a rain free week and I foolishly didn't just run out there instantly. [341.26] Stephen: And it started raining on me. [343.26] Stephen: So I may have missed my window. [346.26] Tony: Yeah. [347.26] Tony: March has been absolutely horrific. [350.57] Stephen: I did a wee bit of building, a massive kind of run of stuff that had been sitting on my bench for ages. [358.57] Stephen: I had this shoulder nerve trapped in my shoulder. [361.57] Stephen: It's been stupid painful with a bunch of referred pain down my arm. [365.57] Stephen: So bits of my random parts of my right arm have just started hurting for no good reason. [370.57] Stephen: And put me in an awful mood and generally made any sort of work that requires using arms or even like sitting pretty uncomfortable. [378.57] Stephen: But that's thanks to lots of physio and stretching and all this good stuff's finally subsiding. [384.57] Stephen: So I decided to pick up some of the stack of stuff I've had here for ages. [389.57] Stephen: And I went on this ESC flashing rampage and tore through like three, four and ones, [394.57] Stephen: did 27 individual solder joints and flashed AM32 onto them. [398.57] Stephen: Because I've been extolling the benefits of this thing for ages and just kind of had my finger up my bum and not actually flashing it. [405.57] Stephen: So that's done. [406.57] Stephen: And then I got an SP racing board from Dom as a sample a while ago. [412.57] Stephen: Yes. [413.57] Stephen: Well, I've got a couple coming apparently. [415.57] Stephen: And I've put it in the most ridiculously small micro possible. [418.57] Stephen: So this is like an H7 in there because it's the only one I had an analog VTX in. [424.57] Stephen: Everything else, anything bigger than this is digital. [427.57] Stephen: And this is like the biggest quad I've got that is analog. [432.57] Stephen: And because of that, it's still got a stack, whereas everything else is AIO. [437.57] Stephen: So I got it in there and I've slowly sort of been going through repinning so many JSTs. [445.57] Stephen: And then then you plug them in and he's got these super wide like 12 pin JSTs. [452.57] Stephen: And so if you get one of them not quite right, you like shove in the JST and the pin pops back. [459.57] Stephen: So after much trial and error, everything is finally connected properly. [463.57] Stephen: And it's starting to bear fruit, which is good. [467.57] Stephen: Yeah, lots of random geekery without that we won't go into. [471.57] Stephen: And then my little four inch jobby. [476.57] Stephen: That's got one that I actually put one of these new season. [479.57] Stephen: And I'm looking forward to getting out with that. [481.57] Stephen: But alas, yeah, I just farted around for too long. [484.57] Stephen: And now it started raining on me, which sucks. [487.57] Tony: That's what happens. [488.57] Tony: This is England. [489.57] Tony: Why do you have February was dry. [492.57] Tony: March has been absolutely just a washout. [496.57] Stephen: It's like underwater. [498.57] Stephen: It's not just raining. [499.57] Stephen: The field where I normally do a little bit of light flying near where I live. [503.57] Stephen: Like they're standing water. [505.57] Stephen: It's slowly turning into a lake. [509.57] Tony: I walk. [512.57] Tony: I will turn it in my walk three and a half miles every day to a ride. [517.57] Tony: So I do a ride, a walk, a ride, a walk. [519.57] Tony: And I've been walking a lot in March because I went out for a ride. [524.57] Tony: And it was just I was just like, this is this is horrendous. [527.57] Tony: It's too muddy. [529.57] Stephen: Yeah, you're having fun. [531.57] Stephen: And then all of a sudden you like pedal and the wheels spin and you're not going forward. [535.57] Stephen: Yeah, this is going to be uncomfortable. [537.57] Tony: I like my local MTB stuff. [539.57] Tony: It's just literally for keeping fit. [542.57] Tony: So it's pretty flat. [543.57] Tony: Well, it's actually mostly uphill, but it's it's just foggy and horrible. [549.57] Tony: So what can you do? [552.57] Tony: You can't control the weather. [554.57] Stephen: Got to make the best of it. [556.57] Stephen: And I've been playing a bunch of trip on this FPV simulator. [560.57] Stephen: Oh, someone. [561.57] Tony: Someone sent me. [564.57] Tony: Who was it? [565.57] Tony: Luke falling with style sent me a [570.57] Tony: a WhatsApp the other day and said, have you played this? [574.57] Stephen: Hello. [575.57] Stephen: My curry kitten. [576.57] Stephen: Hello. [577.57] Tony: Hello. [578.57] Tony: And he was called. [579.57] Tony: It's called. [580.57] Tony: Oh, he's he's spoke to me. [582.57] Stephen: It's the one. [583.57] Stephen: And you've got like a nice outdoor map, like really huge, expansive area. [588.57] Stephen: You can press the M key on your keyboard and it will bring up all these like challenges to follow. [594.57] Stephen: You get racing cars and lots of Sims have racing cars to follow these days. [598.57] Stephen: But they went kind of above and beyond. [600.57] Stephen: And there's all sorts of weird stuff. [601.57] Stephen: So it's not just racing cars. [603.57] Stephen: There's there's motocross bikes. [606.57] Stephen: There's people doing like paragliding. [609.57] Stephen: There's people doing like flying squirrel suit jumps off off cliffs. [614.57] Stephen: So it like spawn you right next to a guy as he jumps off the cliff and you've got to like dive with him down the cliff and then it'll level out and you try and follow him through valleys. [622.57] Tony: Apparently, it's really good graphics and it's running on his old laptop. [626.57] Tony: And he said it's really good. [628.57] Tony: Yeah. [629.57] Stephen: Yeah. [630.57] Stephen: There's snow level recently. [631.57] Stephen: And so you've got your skiers and snowboarders and they've got the big old ski jumps as well. [635.57] Stephen: So you can like bomb down those giant the Olympic, you know, the huge ramps. [641.57] Stephen: They've got big concrete ramps and follow people down those. [645.57] Stephen: That's quite a good laugh. [647.57] Stephen: There was a little bug with controllers as well. [649.57] Stephen: So I actually went on to their their forum and spent a while chatting to the guys. [654.57] Stephen: And they're really nice bunch that got straight hold of the developer. [658.57] Stephen: And he was like, oh, yeah, let's look at the logs. [660.57] Stephen: Let's fix that. [661.57] Stephen: So it was detecting my keyboard and not showing me my radio unless I like unplug the keyboard, [667.57] Stephen: left it disconnected and then unplugged and replugged the radio. [671.57] Stephen: And we fixed that and he's put a new build out. [673.57] Stephen: So, yeah, it seems like a really nice bunch of people. [677.57] Tony: Cool. [678.57] Stephen: Not to belittle Curry kittens. [680.57] Stephen: Amazing work in his sim, of course. [682.57] Stephen: But I understand Curry's been busy doing other things. [685.57] Curry: It runs on potatoes. [687.57] Curry: That's the only thing I could say. [689.57] Curry: Everyone's got to be tonight. [694.39] Curry: He said my nails need to trim. [696.39] Curry: So it could be going a little bit shorter now. [700.39] Tony: I like it. [702.39] Tony: It's a bit more. [704.39] Jack: I shaved mine last week. [706.39] Jack: He was doing my didn't. [708.39] Jack: So dry. [712.39] Tony: I washed mine as well. [714.39] Tony: Well fluffy. [715.39] Stephen: It's definitely itchy face, which is now. [717.39] Stephen: Now I'm worried about shaving because there's that itchy face where it goes from stuff that always drove me crazy. [723.39] Stephen: And I have the patience to go through it again. [726.39] Tony: It was two weeks for me to get through that. [728.39] Tony: It was horrendous. [729.39] Tony: But now it's too long. [731.39] Tony: I actually don't know what I'm doing. [732.39] Tony: My beard. [733.39] Tony: I don't know what I'm going to do. [735.39] Tony: I know where to cut it all off for the summer. [737.39] Tony: Leave it. [738.39] Tony: Trim it. [739.39] Tony: I just don't know. [740.39] Tony: Might go full on. [741.39] Stephen: I'll just do what I did and wait and see what happens. [744.39] Tony: Curry. [746.39] Stephen: Hello. [747.39] Curry: Do you want to give this a go? [749.39] Curry: I could give it a try. [751.39] Curry: I said I'd be willing to try it. [753.39] UNKNOWN: Try it. [754.39] Curry: I think now I've never heard the man speak and I like his his ideas. [760.39] Curry: Are we circulating a sample? [763.39] Tony: Listen to the podcast at working. [765.39] Tony: Probably enjoyed it. [767.39] Jack: Do you want to borrow a whole quad? [769.39] Jack: Save you soldering or do you want to stick it in something? [773.39] Curry: I could borrow a whole quad just of laziness, but not if it's hassled to send around. [779.39] Stephen: It's fine. [782.34] Stephen: All you should do is actually meet up, assuming that the weather is going to, at some point, [786.34] Stephen: trend upwards and not remain so. [789.34] Jack: We should be trending upwards now. [791.34] Jack: We're nearly on 400. [792.34] Stephen: Why don't, yeah, why don't we meet up? [795.34] Tony: What, for an anniversary thing? [797.34] Stephen: Before all of us, yeah. [798.34] Stephen: Well, doesn't Curry let us know a date when he's going to be actually in the country and [802.34] Stephen: not doing his international man of mystery routine? [804.34] Curry: I'm only in Cornwall next week. [806.34] Curry: I know it seems like a different country, but technically a lot of England. [811.34] Curry: It takes a lot longer to get to Cornwall than France, so it might as well be in one country. [819.34] Curry: Can you take me with you? [822.34] Curry: It does feel like the weather's turned this week. [825.34] Curry: It seems Monday was great. [828.34] Curry: Monday was Sunday afternoon. [830.34] Curry: Wednesday wasn't bad. [833.88] Stephen: Yeah, I went out for a walk and sort of stretched my legs, trying to get the shoulders moving. [838.88] Stephen: It was lovely and sunny yesterday, and I tried to do the same today, and it's just soaked [843.88] Stephen: again. [844.88] Stephen: Damn it. [845.88] Stephen: It's a bit breezy today. [846.88] Stephen: Yeah. [847.88] Tony: I didn't see any wind. [849.88] Tony: We've been dodging the wind here, but it was all right this morning. [854.88] Tony: Rain this afternoon. [856.88] Tony: Not too bad, though. [858.88] Tony: Got my walk in. [860.88] Tony: Didn't fly, but did fly last. [864.88] Tony: I think it must have been last Monday off, though. [867.88] Tony: I can't remember. [868.88] Tony: It was probably two weeks ago. [870.88] Curry: It was nice to get out, though. [872.88] Curry: I've seen this Monday and last Monday, two weeks in a row. [876.88] Curry: That is crazy. [878.88] Curry: That's more flying than anybody, and I got a new quad today kindly sent by somebody, [884.88] Curry: which is exciting because it's my first walk snail quad. [888.88] Tony: Oh, yeah, you're going down that avenue. [891.88] Curry: It's cool. [892.88] Curry: We are going down that avenue, and it's tiny. [894.88] Curry: You've got a tiny walk snail quad. [896.88] Curry: How have you, Stephen? [897.88] Tony: That's what he said. [898.88] Tony: Oh, yeah. [899.88] Curry: This is the one from Happy Model. [902.88] Curry: It's this big. [903.88] Tony: Oh, that looks cool. [906.88] Curry: Is that kind of the baseline or whatever they're calling it? [910.88] Curry: What's it called? [912.88] Curry: Yes. [913.88] Curry: The baseline HD, and it's got EIS on it already, so that's good. [918.88] Curry: Cool. [919.88] Curry: I like the idea of digital stuff on very small things. [923.88] Curry: Have the goggles arrived yet? [925.88] Curry: Yes. [926.88] Curry: I've got the goggles. [927.88] Curry: I've got the VTXs. [929.88] Curry: Yeah. [930.88] Curry: But I haven't had time to open them because I'm not here for a week, so. [933.88] Curry: Tragedy. [934.88] Curry: They're still in the shrink wrap sitting over there. [937.88] Curry: Such a strain. [938.88] Curry: Such a strain. [939.88] Curry: I know. [940.88] Tony: It's amazing, isn't it? [941.88] Tony: It's called 2S, 3S. [943.88] Curry: This is 2S. [945.88] Tony: 2S. [946.88] Curry: This one. [947.88] Curry: So it should be flyable indoors, and then I think round the trees in the woods should [953.88] Curry: be quite good. [954.88] Curry: Because I remember, Stephen, you saying about how good it was round trees compared to analogs. [958.88] Curry: Yeah. [959.88] Curry: So I thought that would be a good test. [960.88] Curry: I can take a couple of analog quads with me, take that with me, and have a bit of a comparison, [965.88] Curry: see how things feel. [967.88] Tony: Cool. [968.88] Tony: Well, there's still no leaves on the tree, so you might be all right. [972.88] Stephen: That's true, actually. [974.88] Stephen: Well, you can see a surprising amount with that. [976.88] Stephen: Will I be able to see the gauge branches coming? [979.88] Stephen: Yeah. [980.88] Stephen: Yeah. [981.88] Stephen: You'll be shocked the first time you fly with digital. [983.88] Stephen: Like, oh, my word. [984.88] Stephen: I can actually see these things that were just like tiny speckles in an analog picture. [988.88] Stephen: You can actually see the branch. [990.88] Stephen: It's magic. [991.88] Stephen: We cross fingers. [992.88] Stephen: I'm excited about it. [993.88] Stephen: Let me know how the fit is because we're talking about the fit of those goggles. [997.88] Stephen: And I thought they're kind of OK, but after weighing them a bit more, the pressure isn't [1003.88] Stephen: quite right. [1004.88] Stephen: I've ordered some extra foam. [1005.88] Stephen: But opinion seems to be divided on the fit. [1008.88] Curry: Yeah, I find out. [1010.88] Curry: I mean, it's interesting, isn't it? [1012.88] Curry: It's hard to build a goggle for an average face when an average face is different between [1017.88] Curry: here and Asia and other places. [1019.88] Curry: Yeah. [1020.88] Curry: Or Skyzone gets you two faceplates. [1022.88] Stephen: You get the Asian faceplate and the European faceplate. [1026.88] Stephen: Oh, actual plates rather than just a spongy bit. [1028.88] Stephen: Yeah. [1029.88] Stephen: They're like clip on. [1030.88] Stephen: So the goggles have like a clip on the front and it actually snaps on the faceplate and [1034.88] Stephen: then the foam attaches to the snap on bit. [1037.88] Curry: That's quite cool. [1040.88] Stephen: Stephen. [1042.88] Stephen: I was ferreting around to find things. [1045.88] Stephen: Things I tell you that I've used to do flashing with. [1049.88] Stephen: Bobby Bags asks. [1051.88] Stephen: Bobby Bags asks, I want to know how to flash AM32, Stephen. [1055.88] Stephen: And the answer is, it's not easy, but you will need a firmware programmer for a lot [1060.88] Stephen: of the new ESCs. [1061.88] Stephen: They run artery tech MCUs and you need this, which is an artery tech one. [1065.88] Stephen: It's the easiest way. [1066.88] Stephen: And then you solder two pads that are not going to really show up on here. [1071.88] Stephen: If you've ever done whoop soldering work, you can do it. [1076.88] Stephen: You look on your ESC and there's going to be some pads next to the big square chips in [1081.88] Stephen: the middle of the ESC. [1082.88] Stephen: There's two pads next to each of those. [1084.88] Stephen: Those are the pads that you're going to be soldering to. [1086.88] Stephen: So if you're not comfortable doing some pretty delicate soldering, you know, maybe think [1091.88] Stephen: twice about that. [1092.88] Stephen: A lot of the older ESCs, you can use these ST-Link adapters that are like 4 quid on eBay [1098.88] Stephen: and they're really easy to get hold of. [1100.88] Stephen: And the software is much easier for these. [1102.88] Stephen: But the new ones are using these cheapo clone chips from artery tech and others. [1106.88] Stephen: And I have to say, the software is a little bit harder, a little bit more of a pain to [1110.88] Stephen: flash. [1111.88] Stephen: But it's doable. [1112.88] Stephen: It's just a patience and reading thing. [1115.88] Stephen: The information's out there. [1116.88] Stephen: It's just a small hassle. [1119.88] Curry: So that used to be the way you had to do BL Heli. [1121.88] Curry: Do you think in the future they'll have a pass through from beta flight or wherever [1125.88] Curry: and you could flash them that way? [1128.88] Stephen: Yes, bootloader exactly, as Jack said. [1131.88] Stephen: So the trouble with a lot of the 32-bit ESCs for all of them practically is that they ship [1137.88] Stephen: with BL Heli 32. [1139.88] Stephen: And BL Heli 32 locks down their bootloader so you can't overwrite it with another [1144.88] Stephen: firmware. [1145.88] Stephen: They want you to stay on BL Heli 32. [1147.88] Stephen: So what you do is the first step to move to AM32 is you push in an open source bootloader [1152.88] Stephen: that's basically the same as what you'd have on BL Heli S or BlueJ. [1156.88] Stephen: It's a bootloader that you can write to you from anything, not just from the BL Heli 32 [1161.88] Stephen: client. [1162.88] Stephen: So it moves you off the closed source bootloader onto an open source bootloader. [1165.88] Stephen: And that is where you need to do that, that soldering with the tiny pads. [1168.88] Stephen: And once you've done that, you can just use pass through. [1171.88] Stephen: And you can use ESC configurator, the same as you'd used Flash BlueJ, and it's a piece [1176.88] Stephen: of cake. [1178.88] Jack: But don't you then lose the ability to flash back to BL Heli 32? [1183.88] Jack: Yes, it's a one-way trip. [1186.88] Stephen: One-way trip, yes. [1188.88] Tony: Sometimes they're the best. [1191.88] Stephen: Yes, I mean they actually update it just regularly to add things like they recently [1197.88] Stephen: added some safety tips. [1199.88] Stephen: You know when Jack always has his foot on the quad because he's like, I don't know [1203.88] Stephen: what's going to happen. [1204.88] Stephen: A couple of people got a little finger sliced recently and the guy running AM32 was like, [1210.88] Stephen: okay, well, it was a BL Heli 32 ESC that reported the error, but I'm going to go [1214.88] Stephen: ahead and I'm going to actually inspect what could go wrong here, even though I [1219.88] Stephen: haven't been told that I'm affected. [1221.88] Stephen: And he went in there and he was like, okay, I'm going to have a specific mode for [1225.88] Stephen: quads so you can tell it that I'm always going to be in DSHOT mode and I'll never [1230.88] Stephen: accidentally start up in PWM mode because this is what used to happen. [1234.88] Stephen: Sometimes there would be a timeout between the ESC and the flight controller. [1237.88] Stephen: The ESC would be like, nothing happening, nothing. [1240.88] Stephen: Oh, well, no DSHOT, must be PWM. [1242.88] Stephen: Oh, a high pulse, off I go. [1245.88] Stephen: And you just fly to the moon and chop your hand up or whatever. [1250.88] Stephen: So, yeah, the guy implemented a setting to lock it to DSHOT and he also like increased [1256.88] Stephen: the timeouts and made it safer. [1259.88] Stephen: So he's just more proactive and he's like listening to people and lots of people who want [1264.88] Stephen: to run the ESCs and crawlers, he's put features in for crawlers so it can overcome [1269.88] Stephen: stalls and slowly increase the power until the wheel moves. [1272.88] Stephen: But if you run a quad, you can turn that off and you can have like a stuck motor [1277.88] Stephen: protection. [1278.88] Stephen: So he's got much more aggressive stuck motor protection. [1281.88] Stephen: So if you do go and clip a gate or something, it'll just pull power from the ESC really [1286.88] Stephen: quickly instead of, you know, burning out the fat. [1289.88] Tony: That used to be a massive thing back in the day, didn't it? [1292.88] Tony: Clip a tree, clip a gate, ESC gone. [1297.88] Stephen: I accidentally stuck mine in an oak tree for about 10 minutes and I was trying to like [1302.88] Stephen: turtle mode against oak tree branches to get the thing out and it was all right. [1306.88] Stephen: So yeah, it seems pretty robust. [1309.88] Jack: Tony, you should start a channel. [1312.88] Jack: Crawling in crawly. [1322.88] Tony: I do that anyway without any ESC stuff. [1325.88] Jack: Yeah. [1326.88] Jack: You know, listening to the sound of a cat. [1328.88] Stephen: You could put some dodgy sunglasses on with the beard and you could be creepy crawly crawlers. [1334.88] Stephen: Yes. [1335.88] Tony: Yeah. [1336.88] Stephen: I'm wearing a big trench coat. [1339.88] Tony: Men in black. [1342.88] Jack: And then have holes in your pocket. [1347.88] Jack: Going too far now, Jack. [1350.88] Jack: With your transmitter underneath. [1353.88] Tony: I'm glad you said mitter at the end. [1356.88] Tony: Yeah. [1357.88] Jack: Are you quite funny myself? [1364.88] Jack: I can't believe Curry hasn't cracked open his new walks now. [1373.51] Jack: Yeah. [1374.51] Jack: Yeah. [1375.51] Stephen: I would have just ripped the plastic off of my teeth and been like, I'd just be walking [1377.51] Stephen: around the house at the moment. [1378.51] Curry: I face like, oh, because I know it's it's going to like take my time up and I was like, [1384.51] Curry: oh, I must, I must finish the other review I'm doing and I'm just about to go away and [1390.51] Curry: I don't want to start getting involved in stuff else. [1392.51] Curry: I'm going to be like, oh, I need to get to them and I'll be in the midst of some of [1395.51] Curry: them. [1396.51] Curry: They'll be like debris all over the floor from rebuilding stuff and things like that. [1399.51] Curry: So I'm like, just leave it. [1401.51] Curry: Come back to it. [1402.51] Curry: Still be there. [1403.51] Curry: All nice and shiny in the boxes. [1406.51] Curry: We'll do that. [1408.51] Curry: I can't do that. [1409.51] Tony: If I have something in a box, I'm like, [1414.51] Jack: Will you crack it open and just try the goggles on for us? [1419.51] Tony: Now. [1420.51] Tony: That's exclusive. [1421.51] Jack: He probably wants to do it on his channel. [1423.51] Jack: We just want to want to know how they fit. [1427.51] Jack: Tone. [1428.51] Jack: Do you think it's worth in case Frank says no, but do you fancy bringing your quad stuff? [1434.51] Jack: Maybe we could fly in between family time or down there. [1439.51] Jack: Well, no, just like, yeah, or like, you know, wash your wash your down. [1444.51] Jack: That's the weather's decent. [1446.51] Tony: Yeah. [1447.51] Tony: No. [1448.51] Tony: Well, I can bring. [1452.51] Tony: Yeah. [1453.51] Tony: I'll bring. [1454.51] Tony: I'll bring a couple of my stuff. [1457.51] Tony: Yeah. [1460.51] Tony: Yeah, I'll do that. [1462.51] Stephen: I was quite impressed. [1463.51] Stephen: They put their own patches in the box. [1465.51] Stephen: That was quite a nice ball to move. [1470.82] Stephen: What do you mean? [1474.52] Stephen: Things to work. [1475.52] Stephen: You know, boys, not bobbins. [1477.52] Stephen: I think they're originally shipping like the same omnis on both of these, but then they changed it. [1482.52] Stephen: They're getting excited. [1483.52] Stephen: Quite excited. [1485.52] Jack: Yeah. [1486.52] Jack: Yeah. [1487.52] Jack: Let's see. [1488.52] Jack: This Christmas. [1489.52] Jack: It's curry. [1490.52] Jack: Right. [1491.52] Jack: We're checking the fit. [1492.52] Jack: I've sent them back. [1493.52] Curry: Are they left? [1494.52] Curry: They're totally right. [1495.52] Tony: Everything digital is nowadays, isn't it? [1505.52] Tony: So yeah. [1507.52] Jack: Audio viewers. [1508.52] Jack: That's the sound of curry. [1510.52] Stephen: I think the three is actually a linear antenna on the quad. [1514.52] Stephen: All the goggles are a like CP or is it the other way around? [1519.52] Curry: It feels all right. [1520.52] Curry: You can feel it on the nose. [1521.52] Curry: Certainly. [1522.52] Curry: Yeah. [1523.52] Curry: I've got quite a large nose for balance and goggles on. [1527.52] Tony: We do left and polarized antennas. [1533.52] Stephen: I've gone with our Canadian friends. [1537.52] Curry: Traitor. [1538.52] Curry: I do know that because Rex saw my post about getting them and has sent me a set to try out, which was nice of him. [1548.52] Tony: If you contact me, I can give you 10 cents off. [1556.05] Jack: Yeah. [1557.05] Jack: You gave me a digital set. [1560.05] Jack: I did. [1561.05] Jack: Yeah. [1562.05] Tony: If you follow. [1565.05] Stephen: What's in there? [1567.05] Stephen: Is it patches or just omnis? [1570.05] Stephen: What's going on? [1571.05] Curry: These were the patches. [1573.05] Curry: So what you get in here are two. [1575.05] Curry: I think these are like. [1576.05] Curry: Hang on. [1577.05] Curry: I think they're little Pico patches. [1580.05] Curry: No, I can't remember. [1581.05] Curry: And I can't get the thing. [1582.05] Curry: Okay. [1583.05] Stephen: Okay. [1584.05] Curry: Yeah. [1586.97] Curry: These are the little. [1588.97] Curry: Editor. [1589.97] Curry: Thrasher. [1590.97] Curry: Yeah. [1591.97] Curry: Those are the Thrasher ones for the little stubby. [1592.97] Curry: Oh yeah. [1593.97] Curry: They're little omnis. [1594.97] Jack: Yeah, they're great. [1595.97] Curry: And these have got little extensions on them. [1597.97] Curry: I think. [1598.97] Curry: Oh, here we go. [1599.97] Curry: You better tell me what you wanted. [1603.97] Curry: These are two left hand polarized Pico patches and you've got a little extensions. [1608.97] Curry: So that's pretty cool. [1611.97] Tony: Yeah. [1612.97] Tony: I run them on the bottom of my digital stuff and then I run different ones on the top. [1618.97] Tony: The Pico. [1619.97] Curry: Are they little pagodas? [1620.97] Curry: The. [1621.97] Tony: Pagoda on the top. [1622.97] Tony: Yeah. [1623.97] Curry: Yeah. [1624.97] Curry: So I'll try out the regular antennas and then I'll switch over to these. [1628.97] Curry: I'm interested to see what the difference may or may not be. [1632.97] Curry: But yeah, there you go. [1634.97] Curry: Now I've got them out of the box and I don't go back in the box. [1636.97] Curry: It's going to ruin my video. [1638.97] Curry: So your fault. [1639.97] Curry: They seem to fit okayish. [1641.97] Stephen: You get them back in the box. [1642.97] Stephen: It's not like one of those crazy products where everything explodes. [1647.97] Stephen: Yeah. [1648.97] Stephen: You can also blame us. [1649.97] Stephen: Yeah. [1650.97] Stephen: It's always Jack's fault. [1651.97] Stephen: If in doubt, it's Jack's fault. [1652.97] Stephen: Definitely. [1653.97] Stephen: So people have been posting in the chat links to Newbie Drones April Fools that apparently [1657.97] Tony: isn't an April Fool. [1659.97] Stephen: Have you seen this? [1660.97] Stephen: No. [1661.97] Stephen: No. [1662.97] Stephen: Go for it. [1663.97] Stephen: Newbie Drones have posted pictures of a couple of little whoops because they're whoops manufacturers [1670.97] Stephen: and apparently they're going to be releasing 65 mil quads. [1675.97] Stephen: With built in as in on the board crossfire and ghost. [1683.97] Stephen: No. [1685.97] Stephen: Crossfire and the ghost. [1687.97] Stephen: If if it's was an April Fool, they need to take the page down because they still got [1693.97] Stephen: it up and maybe someone finds it funny. [1696.97] Stephen: But I'm pretty sure that's I think aren't you the full off the 12. [1699.97] Stephen: Yeah, exactly. [1700.97] Stephen: Yeah. [1701.97] Stephen: It's it's it's you. [1702.97] Tony: You're the fool. [1703.97] Stephen: If you don't take it down, I believe it's the standard arrangement. [1706.97] Stephen: I will just share this so we can have a gander. [1709.97] Stephen: Let's have a look. [1710.97] Stephen: What's going on here. [1711.97] Stephen: So here you are. [1712.97] Stephen: Newbie drone. [1713.97] Stephen: There's a couple on offer here. [1716.97] Stephen: There's obviously that the black one in the TVS colors there. [1721.97] Stephen: And then I believe we've got a matching one. [1724.97] Stephen: In immersion. [1725.97] Stephen: I'll see colors here as well. [1728.97] Stephen: There we are. [1730.97] Stephen: And in red and white with with a giant T antenna stuck out the canopy. [1735.97] Stephen: I don't know how they're doing this. [1737.97] Stephen: They must have signed some pretty illicit deals backroom deals with TVS and [1743.97] Stephen: immersion. [1744.97] Stephen: I'll see to do this. [1745.97] Stephen: But I do know for a fact that they were already in the back room. [1749.97] Stephen: TBS and immersion. [1750.97] Stephen: I'll see to do this. [1751.97] Stephen: But I do know for a fact that they were already in that sort of area because [1755.97] Stephen: their OSD doesn't use the Max chip. [1760.97] Stephen: It's all done in secret sauce in their own firmware, which is why if you've got [1764.97] Stephen: one of these whoops as Jack found out, you can't just go upgrading the firmware. [1768.97] Stephen: You've got to wait for newbie drone to release it, which might take a while. [1772.97] Stephen: So you're going to be going through the same process with with this, I guess, [1776.97] Stephen: not that they're bad whoops, but it just might take a while for updates to happen. [1780.97] Tony: Well, I saw this is from Clive FPV in the chat. [1783.97] Tony: I saw the crossfire one on the TVS livestream. [1787.97] Tony: So one hundred and sixty dollars as well. [1790.97] Tony: It must be true. [1792.97] Stephen: That's a lot for a whoop, isn't it? [1794.97] Stephen: A lot for a whoop. [1797.97] Stephen: One hundred and sixty. [1798.97] Stephen: Oh, I think they're happy model ones are normally going for about 70 to 80 [1804.97] Stephen: dollars sterling, which would be about 100 bucks. [1807.97] Stephen: So that's a kind of 50 percent price increase to get this guy. [1814.97] Stephen: But I guess if you want it, you want it and there's nowhere else you can get one. [1819.97] Curry: It seems a little bit unnecessary to have like ghost or crossfire on on a whoop. [1825.97] Curry: I mean, you've got the response flying very far. [1828.97] Curry: You're going to run out of battery before you've gone far enough. [1831.97] Curry: Ghost is a racer again. [1833.97] Stephen: Ghost is a racer protocol. [1835.97] Stephen: So if people are racing five inches and they're not using the LRS, then they're [1839.97] Tony: probably going to be using speed stuff. [1842.97] Stephen: Yeah, but crossfire. [1843.97] Stephen: Yeah, I absolutely don't see the point in crossfire because it's not fast and you [1848.97] Stephen: haven't got the battery to go more than a crossfire faster than S bus. [1854.97] Curry: There's an upgrade from S bus to 150 hertz mode. [1859.97] Stephen: 50 hertz crossfire is. [1862.97] Stephen: Is it that much better than S bus? [1864.97] Stephen: Maybe the latency is better, but the packing. [1866.97] Tony: I don't think any of us old boys could tell the difference anyway. [1870.97] Jack: Wow, look. [1871.97] Jack: Yeah, the immortal antenna. [1874.97] Jack: Mini-mortal antenna. [1876.97] Jack: Yeah, they're gun fun. [1878.97] Jack: Yeah, mini-mortal antenna. [1881.97] Jack: Yeah, because they looked. [1883.97] Jack: That's what I was about to say. [1884.97] Jack: They looked the same size. [1886.97] Jack: And I was like, are you sure you're not? [1888.97] Jack: Yeah, are you sure you're not talking about Tracer? [1892.97] Jack: That's a lot of lift, isn't it? [1894.97] Stephen: It says crossfire nano. [1896.97] Stephen: It specifically says crossfire nano with mini-mortal T. [1899.97] Stephen: I don't understand why you're running crossfire. [1904.97] Tony: I mean, it might just be the ease of use. [1907.97] Tony: Like if I was all my quads are crossfire. [1910.97] Tony: So just ease of use. [1912.97] Tony: Just get that one. [1914.97] Stephen: It's got a max 400 milliwatt VTX, [1918.97] Stephen: but this is the one that auto limits its output power based on heat. [1922.97] Stephen: So it's never going to do 400 milliwatt unless you're flying in the Arctic, [1925.97] Stephen: in which case your batteries are dead. [1927.97] Stephen: It's going to be doing like 200 milliwatt with crossfire and a like 300 milliamp power battery. [1935.97] Stephen: I'd be sweet flying around in either side. [1938.97] Tony: I love flying a little quad that Dan Upton made out here. [1942.97] Tony: It was only on 25 milliwatt, but flying all around the houses and stuff. [1947.97] Tony: It was so tiny. [1948.97] Tony: No one could hear it and I could see it. [1951.97] Tony: That's not a good thing, you weirdo. [1954.97] Stephen: I think if you're in the newbie drone club, this is probably great. [1958.97] Stephen: If you're not, then you might be wondering why am I paying so much for a whoop? [1963.97] Tony: Inflation. [1967.34] Stephen: But you can just go get happy model one for like half the cost of this. [1971.34] Tony: I wouldn't trust anything called happy model. [1974.34] Stephen: I've been flying it for years. [1977.75] Stephen: One of the first models I got was happy model stuff. [1980.75] Stephen: It's either that or beta FPV. [1983.75] Jack: But they make most of the ELRS receivers happy model. [1988.75] Tony: Do they? [1990.75] Jack: I've not done anything with the ELRS. [1993.75] Jack: You haven't lived Tony, you're stuck in the past. [1996.75] Tony: I am stuck in the past. [1999.75] Tony: I know I am. [2001.75] Tony: Like I said, when you were in the toilet, me and Jack, we moved put on beta flight [2009.75] Tony: and we were like, what are these sliding bars? [2013.75] Jack: I was like, kill it with fire. [2016.75] Jack: Tony and me were like with stones and sticks and we're trying to bash the guys. [2023.75] Tony: If you're not flying every single week, every day, the changes so quickly, it's ridiculous. [2031.75] Stephen: I don't know. [2033.75] Stephen: From watching you, Tony, I think you maybe haven't been flying, well, not building for a really long time. [2040.75] Tony: Three years, I think. [2042.75] Curry: Yeah. [2043.75] Curry: Well, we've seen what happens when Tony tries to build stuff. [2045.75] Curry: It's not pretty. [2046.75] Curry: That's why it gets Jack to do it. [2048.75] Tony: I'm actually driving all my ex-class stuff down tomorrow morning to see Jack and dumping it and saying, sort that lie out. [2057.75] Tony: And then giving him a water of cash. [2060.75] Tony: So that's how we roll. [2064.75] Stephen: Watches of cash. [2065.75] Stephen: I mean, I like your watches of cash. [2067.75] Tony: Can you? [2068.75] Tony: Exactly. [2069.75] Tony: Exactly. [2071.75] Tony: I just I've always admitted I can do it. [2075.75] Tony: I just don't enjoy it. [2077.75] Tony: It's just not for me. [2078.75] Tony: I'm a flyer, not a builder. [2080.75] Tony: So, you know. [2082.75] Stephen: So I scratched around on the happy models on our Get FPV and pyro drone. [2087.75] Stephen: And I found that the happy model equivalents are like ninety seven dollars versus one hundred and sixty dollars. [2094.75] Stephen: So you've got to love this stuff. [2097.75] Stephen: Do you get an inbuilt receiver, though, is the question. [2101.75] Curry: Yeah, you get an inbuilt ELS receiver. [2104.75] Curry: Oh, well, that's fair enough, then. [2107.75] Curry: Yeah. [2108.75] Curry: Do they have a proper antenna or they got the little square blocks? [2111.75] Stephen: It doesn't have a proper VTX antenna. [2113.75] Stephen: So, like, good luck worrying about your your control link when your your VTX antenna is like a bit of old wire. [2124.75] Curry: I love the ones that just literally came with bare copper wire sticking out. [2128.75] Curry: This looks like it's class. [2130.75] Stephen: It's just a bit of old motor wire that they had kicking around. [2133.75] Stephen: They sort of strained it out and just tacked it on there. [2135.75] Stephen: Done. [2136.75] Tony: Shifting wire. [2139.75] Stephen: Yes, it's enameled, which is something at least it's not going to short out other stuff. [2143.75] Stephen: But yeah, it's nothing fancy. [2146.75] Stephen: But then these things are nineteen, eighteen grams, you know. [2150.75] Stephen: So difference between that and an Omni is massive. [2154.75] Stephen: Like an Omni could weigh three grams, which is 15 percent of your dry weight. [2163.75] Curry: You know what I want to do with little whoops? [2166.75] Curry: I wanted to go back and fly a couple of my brushed ones. [2171.75] Curry: Do you remember that we had loads of brushed versions of the FPV whoops before we were brushes? [2177.75] Curry: Still gone. [2178.75] Curry: And I remember them being mostly very quiet, [2182.75] Curry: although compared to a five inch, a whoops very quiet. [2187.75] Curry: When they go around the house, they're quite noisy. [2189.75] Curry: And I thought, I must go back and compare. [2191.75] Curry: I want to see if it's the old rose tinted spectacles or they were OK. [2196.75] Curry: They weren't very powerful, but I call them house explorer quads rather than racing through the house quads. [2203.75] Stephen: I know I've got one down there. [2208.75] Stephen: What I remember is that I couldn't fly downstairs because the throttle control, like it was so bad at descending into its own prop wash, [2217.75] Stephen: it would like lose control going down a flight of household stairs. [2221.75] Stephen: That's true. [2222.75] Stephen: They're not shallow stairs. [2223.75] Stephen: They're probably like quite sleepily, right? [2225.75] Stephen: Maybe sort of 40 degrees. [2227.75] Stephen: But going down at any speed, you'd be going descending so fast that it couldn't like smoothly. [2234.75] Stephen: And you just lose control of it because it was switching so much side to side, you'd like hit the wall or the banister on the stairs. [2240.75] Tony: They're just always good going forwards. [2243.75] Tony: And that was it. [2244.75] Tony: Just like, yeah, five forwards turn and then just come back and they were crap at going up, crap at going down. [2253.75] Stephen: I mean, there's a lot of lag. [2254.75] Stephen: You'd be like, hit the throttle, wait, wait. [2258.75] Tony: The 2S stuff is probably all right. [2260.75] Tony: But then it just made it. [2262.75] Tony: It made them too big. [2264.75] Stephen: Then you had to keep changing the motors with brushed. [2266.75] Stephen: Exactly. [2267.75] Tony: Yeah. [2268.75] Stephen: You're like running 2S on it and you land and the motors are like smelling like burnt metal. [2273.75] Tony: They were good fun, but I never I never really got into it. [2280.15] Tony: So I like I had a couple. [2284.15] Tony: Dan Upton's one was the best. [2286.15] Tony: I wouldn't call it a woop because it was open bladed and it was running 2S. [2292.15] Tony: But that thing I used to fly around the neighborhood and it was fine. [2296.15] Tony: But I just never really enjoyed wooping at all. [2303.15] Jack: You're lucky to get that to work. [2305.15] Jack: I just found the receiver complete garbage. [2308.15] Jack: Mine used to just fall out the sky. [2312.15] Tony: The woop. [2315.15] Stephen: They were the phone receivers. [2317.15] Stephen: Right. [2318.15] Stephen: Yeah. [2319.15] Curry: Probably. [2320.15] Curry: Yeah. [2321.15] Curry: Once that would lock up because the CPU would get you down and just like, hang on. [2325.15] Curry: I've just frozen thinking, thinking. [2328.15] Curry: Don't. [2329.15] Tony: Yeah. [2330.15] Tony: Yeah. [2331.15] Tony: I just never enjoyed wooping. [2332.15] Tony: I don't know. [2333.15] Stephen: I think I don't have the power to do proper acro. [2336.15] Stephen: Do you? [2337.15] Tony: That's no. [2338.15] Tony: And I couldn't fly it with not in acro. [2342.15] Stephen: Unless you're like someone who gets the top score on Tetris who's like complete ninja [2347.15] Stephen: and just does moves in point one of a second. [2350.15] Stephen: You can't do acro. [2351.15] Tony: I'm sure they're probably better now. [2354.15] Stephen: Yeah. [2355.15] Stephen: They're a bit better. [2356.15] Stephen: I tried to, someone said, oh, you have to try out this new angle mode. [2359.15] Stephen: It was horizon mode because they made it. [2361.15] Stephen: How can you fly that though if you don't fly? [2365.15] Tony: It was difficult. [2366.15] Stephen: I was just going to say I couldn't fly it because I tried to split S and I ended up in the sink [2371.15] Stephen: in a bowl full of washing up water. [2373.15] Stephen: And I was really lucky that I ran downstairs like almost falling down the stairs and sprinted [2378.47] Stephen: into the kitchen, took it out, shook it and pulled the battery out. [2382.35] Stephen: And it was fine. [2383.35] Stephen: But I absolutely wooped myself. [2387.15] Tony: It's literally like going backwards, isn't it, doing that? [2391.59] Stephen: The batteries as well, like they're just terrible. [2394.67] Stephen: Unless you buy from like one mythical supplier who does these special batteries where they [2400.23] Stephen: roll them up and bless them with holy water or something like all the 1S batteries I've [2404.47] Stephen: ever had. [2405.47] Stephen: And I've got like 40 of them. [2407.19] Stephen: They're all just terrible. [2408.19] Stephen: Like you fly them five times and you might as well like throw them away because they [2411.75] Stephen: just. [2412.75] Tony: To be fair, Clive just reminded me, check out Justice FBV videos of woop flying. [2419.23] Tony: I don't believe he's not on 1S. [2422.83] Tony: He's got to be 2S flying around his house because he, his videos are insane. [2429.47] Tony: Like flying around his house and through under. [2433.39] Tony: If you've not seen it, you need to Google it because it is absolutely phenomenal. [2437.23] Stephen: Well, the same with like Nathan Loops as well. [2439.95] Stephen: Like there's one or two pilots who are, who can freestyle, who can do like split s's down [2445.67] Stephen: their stairs. [2446.67] Stephen: But if you look at the speed of the control inputs, they are absolutely amazing. [2451.35] Tony: I've done it on a woop, but I've done it outside my house and I've gone 300 foot up. [2458.99] Tony: Yeah, but he does it. [2461.59] Tony: He hit Justice FBV is fantastic in his house, doing all that. [2467.11] Tony: But I don't know what he runs, but if it's 1S, it is incredible. [2471.55] Tony: I think that's the other part of your mom. [2473.79] Tony: To get that good on a woop. [2476.99] Stephen: If you're flying a five inch, you'd be like in the top 1% of all five inch quad pilots [2482.75] Stephen: to be that good on a woop. [2483.75] Tony: I think he is that as well, to be fair. [2486.43] Stephen: Because most people can take a five inch and like pump the throttle, flip it upside [2490.91] Stephen: down and do a split s and relatively cleanly on a woop. [2494.39] Tony: Capture that Peter. [2495.39] Tony: But yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. [2497.87] Frank: This episode was recorded in front of a live online audience, downloaded and edited to [2501.99] Frank: make sense when it played audio only, censored to please the iTunes people, hosted on the [2506.83] Frank: internet, forwarded through to your podcast provider, downloaded, playing on your device [2511.03] Frank: and is now playing in your ears. [2512.95] Frank: All thanks to our Patreons. [2515.39] Frank: Thanks for joining them and you'll also get other online benefits. [2518.63] Frank: Find out more at patreon.com forward slash let's drone out. [2523.15] Curry: I kind of like the evolution into the into toothpicks because toothpicks kind of lost [2528.83] Curry: popularity now, but they were when they first came out that the craziness of this little [2533.31] Curry: 3S battery on this little tiny little quad which would shake about and hardly hold together. [2539.07] Curry: I just love the craziness of them. [2540.83] Tony: Yeah, I think it was definitely an outside thing, but yeah. [2545.15] Tony: Well, I enjoyed it much more than the yeah, the tiny work. [2549.91] Curry: Yeah, I think as you guys said, it's the battery thing trying to get a one is battery and being [2555.27] Curry: able to really do stuff with it before it just lags into the nothing is terrible. [2562.15] Curry: I don't know where people are buying these decent batteries to do stuff with. [2565.47] Curry: But all my old batteries now are just like the last about 30 seconds on the whoops. [2570.59] Stephen: Well, people started like soldering X-T30s on those 1S lipos and then they went to like [2575.79] Stephen: BT2 or there's GMB 27 and the ongoing argument about BT2 being lighter but GMB 27 being better [2584.51] Stephen: or just go balls to the wall and put X-T30s on it. [2587.99] Stephen: It's just just fly to us. [2589.99] Stephen: Just get a 2S lipo that comes with an X-T30 and it's all so much simpler. [2594.55] Tony: Yeah, agreed. [2597.31] Tony: It's true. [2598.31] Tony: And they fly much nicer. [2602.07] Stephen: And you can just charge it like easily. [2604.07] Stephen: You plug it into the charger and you can storage charge it. [2606.67] Stephen: Whereas the 1S, your range of charging options are just crazy. [2612.07] Stephen: You have these toy grade chargers and you can storage charge, but you need this crazy [2617.07] Stephen: wiring harness. [2618.23] Stephen: And the next time you go to plug in a proper battery, you've got to remember to unplug the [2621.63] Stephen: wiring harness or you like ground a bunch of connections and smoke comes out. [2625.31] Stephen: And it's just effort. [2628.03] Stephen: It's effort, isn't it? [2630.03] Tony: Yeah, I didn't. [2631.03] Tony: I just really didn't enjoy the woop stuff, but the other bits, the other ones I did, [2638.31] Tony: the tweaks or whatever they're called, they were good. [2641.27] Curry: I like the tweaked ones. [2643.47] Curry: Two fixed tweaks. [2645.47] Tony: They're all good. [2646.47] Tony: Just flying around the 2S. [2648.47] Stephen: So you could just go around a small park and sit on a bench and just... [2651.95] Tony: Yeah, exactly that. [2652.99] Tony: No one here could hear it either. [2656.03] Tony: So you could just like sit there and just have a flight. [2658.35] Stephen: You don't get grief from dog walkers and people just fly. [2662.15] Stephen: The smallest of buildings you can like whip around and do some nice tricks on. [2666.39] Tony: Yeah, good fun. [2668.39] Tony: It's cool. [2669.39] Tony: Hmm. [2670.39] Stephen: You often go into the park, take some little toothpick, little two and a half inch prop [2676.59] Stephen: thing. [2677.59] Stephen: Loads of those. [2680.11] Tony: If I just say Peter, is that all right? [2683.55] Tony: Like if he can just cut that. [2685.99] Jack: Well, it's a bit jarring. [2691.72] Stephen: If you want to take clips of it, I mean, it's a proud tradition. [2695.72] Tony: It's been some fun tonight with the innuendo. [2699.48] Tony: So, you know. [2701.2] Jack: In your endo. [2703.2] Jack: Peter. [2704.2] Jack: Peter. [2705.2] Tony: That's a new thing. [2710.24] Tony: So Peter, after you've heard something innuendo-y. [2714.16] Stephen: Yeah. [2715.16] Stephen: And why don't you mass just bring out a smaller version like Shady says. [2719.84] Stephen: Just put an end to it and bring out an XT10 or something to stop all this quibbling and [2724.0] Stephen: stupidity. [2725.0] Stephen: Enough. [2726.0] Stephen: Good idea. [2727.0] Jack: That would be a good shout. [2732.42] Jack: I don't know. [2733.42] Jack: I think maybe it's the machining for making something like that. [2738.3] Stephen: Just printing nylon, isn't it? [2739.58] Stephen: I mean, how difficult was it? [2741.98] Stephen: They make tiny little, like, JST plugs. [2744.1] Stephen: I'm sure they could do it. [2745.58] Stephen: Just probably not a nightmare. [2747.46] Curry: I'm sure. [2748.46] Curry: I'm sure. [2749.46] Curry: I'm sure. [2750.46] Curry: I'm sure. [2751.46] Curry: B2FPV would probably argue that their BT2.0 is essentially like an XT10. [2755.52] Curry: It's theirs. [2756.86] Curry: So that's a big count. [2757.86] Stephen: Yeah. [2758.86] Stephen: So they've had loads of quality problems, haven't they? [2760.54] Stephen: Because they don't change the molds often enough. [2762.26] Stephen: So you buy one off-wide run. [2763.3] Stephen: What? [2764.3] Stephen: B2FPV? [2765.3] Curry: Quality problems? [2766.3] Curry: What are you talking about, Stephen? [2767.3] Stephen: I'm a B2FPV. [2768.3] Stephen: We've determined that we can reuse this mould for up to four times as long as people would traditionally say you can use a mould. [2776.3] Stephen: So long as you don't mind the battery plug falling out. That's all right, isn't it? [2780.3] Jack: It's self-unplugging. [2782.3] Stephen: It's a safety feature. If you're in danger of doing some aggressive flying, your battery will disconnect for safety. [2788.3] Jack: Sounds good. [2790.3] Jack: I can't happen to have too much fun. [2793.3] Tony: Beta. [2795.3] Stephen: Beta. [2797.3] Stephen: Beta or beta? I don't know. [2800.3] Stephen: I had a beta FPV board recently. I was testing out. [2806.3] Stephen: It looked great until I got to connect the VTX and I realised I'd been so spoiled by all these boards that come with everything on board. [2815.3] Stephen: You've got your receiver, the ESCs and the flight controller and the VTX. [2821.3] Stephen: And you literally plug a camera in, plug motors and you'll go. [2825.3] Stephen: And it was so much easier. [2828.3] Tony: I think that was my last build. My Tomahawk 7-inch was literally, you soldered the motors on and that was it. [2840.3] Tony: It was done. I was like, wow, this is something I could do. [2849.3] Tony: Yeah, going backwards. Not good. [2854.3] Stephen: With whoops especially, you just get off the ground so much quicker. [2858.3] Stephen: Soldering a VTX onto a whoop board. Oh my word. [2862.3] Stephen: It was a level of pain that I'd forgotten, that I had to endure. [2867.3] Stephen: You've got to do like five wires because they decided to make it so you plug the camera into the VTX. [2874.3] Stephen: And then the other end of the VTX, you have your video in, video out, power, ground and a UART. [2881.3] Stephen: So five wires off of this tiny VTX all down into the FC. [2887.3] Stephen: And they're all done in a row because V2FPV's understanding of pad layout is... [2894.3] Stephen: Just shove them all in the corner. It was a nightmare, absolute nightmare. [2901.3] Stephen: I remember from those. [2903.3] Stephen: I need a wee. [2904.3] Stephen: They give you wires, do it. And the wires all black so you've not even got colour coding. [2909.3] Curry: Oh, what? [2911.3] Curry: What I hate about those boards as well is they always put the pads not along the edge but inwards [2917.3] Curry: or next to some sort of tiny electric component. [2922.3] Curry: It's just the tightest little like, oops, my soldering iron slipped. You've taken out like four resistors. [2927.3] Curry: Right. [2928.3] Stephen: I've had one before where I wanted to swap the power lead. [2932.3] Stephen: So I took off because they always ship it with like 26 gauge like bell wire on it. [2938.3] Stephen: And so I take that out. [2940.3] Stephen: I can get by with a PH2, but PH2 with like maybe 20 gauge or 18 gauge, just something. [2947.3] Stephen: So at least once it gets past that PH2, it actually takes the amps to the board and doesn't just heat up my battery lead. [2955.3] Stephen: And I tried to desolder it and getting the ground terminal hot enough. [2960.3] Stephen: I floated off this passive that was like two millimetres next to the ground. [2966.3] Stephen: And it's just horrible. It's horrible. [2970.3] Stephen: I'm sure Jack would have had a whale over time with his precise repair skills, but I just lost my mind. [2977.3] Jack: No, man, even I have my limits. [2980.3] Jack: You know, I'm a little bit scared of, you know, I am a little bit scared of the X-Class, really, [2990.58] Jack: because it's so big and chunky. [2993.58] Jack: I'm I'm worried like, oh, man, I'm going to start soldering this. [2997.58] Jack: And it is, you know, this is going to be cold solder joint from hell. [3002.58] Jack: You know, I wonder if flux. [3005.58] Stephen: Yeah, a hub of flux and just squish the FC down the whole board into flux. [3010.58] Stephen: It all over. [3013.58] Curry: You know, you're going to need a big line of solder and you just be like, OK, we're just melting, melting, melting. [3019.58] Curry: I've run out. Keep me more. Keep going. [3022.58] Jack: Yeah, just welding copper pipes there. [3026.58] Jack: Yeah. [3027.58] Jack: You know, using solid blocks of it. [3030.58] Stephen: I mean, even testing it with the props off must be a little bit unnerving in a small space. [3035.58] Stephen: Right, Jack. [3037.58] Stephen: Oh, mate, I know, isn't it? [3040.58] Stephen: Could burn a hole in the carpet, even with the props off. [3043.58] Jack: Yeah, that was a new tone. [3047.58] Jack: Are you going to go freaking conventional layout? Are you going to do props out because you don't know what that is? [3056.58] Stephen: You better remember which way the props are on tone. [3061.58] Tony: That used to be I used to hate that start of a race, put the props on. [3069.95] Tony: Oh, God, I've done it again. [3071.95] Stephen: I've got no next class cheese, so I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that. [3074.95] Tony: No, I double, triple, quadruple make someone check that before I go out and fly. [3080.95] Tony: Are these on right, please? [3082.95] Stephen: I'd like have a special throttle setting that like lock the throttle two percent so I could just see the props turning. [3090.95] Tony: Yeah. [3091.95] Tony: So many times I've bodged up a race at the start line because I've crashed and replaced a prop. [3099.95] Tony: It's like the dyslexic thing is not just numbers. [3103.95] Tony: It's weird. [3104.95] Tony: It's words and things like that. [3106.95] Tony: Something goes that way and something goes that way. [3108.95] Tony: That one goes that way. [3109.95] Tony: It's Jack. [3110.95] Tony: I tell you, it's really, really hard to get your mind around. [3115.95] Tony: It seems easy for most people. [3117.95] Tony: It's really hard if you're dyslexic. [3119.95] Tony: So many times I've been on the start line and gone. [3123.95] Tony: I always have to double check mine to be there. [3125.95] Tony: I've done it wrong again, but it is what it is. [3129.95] Tony: We're not all perfect. [3131.95] Jack: Far from it. [3135.94] Tony: Nope. [3136.94] Jack: Kerry, I saw that you went out flying and done some return to home and all that. [3143.94] Curry: I did. [3144.94] Curry: It was an answer minute thing. [3145.94] Curry: I was testing out a VTX and I thought, oh, I've put a bit of like four four on it. [3149.94] Curry: I should try the new rescue mode, which lands. [3152.94] Curry: And I didn't really read anything about it. [3154.94] Curry: I just thought I'd just try to see what happens because there's probably not that [3157.94] Curry: much documentation on it. [3158.94] Curry: They just say read the code or something. [3160.94] Curry: So I decided to try it and it was very interesting slash frightening because I [3166.94] Curry: still have took the goggles off so I could try filming with GoPro. [3170.94] Curry: Like I was going to come at me and what happens comes up and it's like, [3175.94] Curry: it doesn't look like it's coming like a missile. [3177.94] Curry: So that's good. [3178.94] Curry: And it sort of came towards me and then break to bed. [3180.94] Curry: And then the weirdest thing, because I thought, oh, well now it's going to land. [3183.94] Curry: But instead, it's sort of circled round. [3185.94] Curry: It's like I'm going to get a run. [3188.94] Curry: Is there a bit of wind? [3190.94] Curry: It was quite windy, but I did it. [3192.94] Curry: I did it twice. [3193.94] Curry: I didn't film the first one and I was I was by Bush and I didn't know it was going to [3197.94] Curry: do the circle thing. [3198.94] Curry: So I was like, it's going to go in the bush because it doesn't necessarily circle. [3202.94] Stephen: But I think what might have happened is it's like blown slightly ahead of where it [3206.94] Curry: thought it was going to be actually came and stopped just beforehand. [3209.94] Curry: I didn't know if it was trying to like it was circling because it's I'm like, [3212.94] Curry: is it trying to work out its direction or something? [3215.94] Curry: But it's like circle, circle, circle, circle, and it's getting low. [3218.94] Curry: And then it just goes dump. [3219.94] Curry: It's like, oh, it's disarmed. [3220.94] Curry: I think that's the landing. [3222.94] Tony: I've seen people land like that, though, to be fair. [3225.94] Tony: What was it? [3226.94] Tony: It's probably a better landing than most pilots. [3229.94] Tony: Yeah, I mean, to be fair, providing my landing. [3232.94] Tony: I come in and I'm like, oh, and I've said, I want to land properly because mostly my [3237.94] Tony: fields are like coming off the ground. [3241.94] Tony: I'm disarmed. [3246.94] Curry: Here's the thing. [3247.94] Curry: It's an interesting test to do. [3249.94] Curry: But the only reason you'd ever do that is like, I've dropped my transmitter on the [3253.94] Curry: floor and it's smashed up and the batteries have fallen out or something like that. [3256.94] Curry: Otherwise, if your VTX light is gone, then you'd bring it back in range and you'd [3261.94] Curry: land it manually if you like smash your antenna off. [3266.94] Curry: Yeah, if that happens on the quad, then you'll get back in range at some point. [3272.94] Curry: Oh, this is me panicking, saying, where is it? [3277.94] Tony: It's still going quite rapid as well. [3282.94] Curry: Yeah. [3283.94] Curry: And it sort of just goes there and it's like, yeah, I think this is about right. [3286.94] Tony: And he just goes, don't. [3287.94] Curry: That's pretty good. [3290.94] Curry: I'll take that. [3292.94] Tony: I mean, DJI would land on that map. [3296.94] Stephen: Yeah, but DJI don't use carbon fiber, do they? [3299.94] Curry: No, I don't. [3300.94] Curry: It was quite handy because it was windy and I was holding GoPro. [3303.94] Curry: And when it came at me, I shouted, but the wind noise blew that away. [3307.94] Curry: So you couldn't hear me. [3309.94] Curry: But I was going to do a video about it. [3311.94] Curry: But I thought, I'll go back and I'll do proper reading and I'll have a look at the [3315.94] Curry: settings and I'll do a few more and decide what. [3320.94] Tony: If you were there and you moved a bit over there and was flying out and you went [3326.94] Tony: long distance, then it come back and it circled and landed there. [3329.94] Tony: You'd be happy about that, wouldn't you? [3331.94] Curry: Yeah, yeah. [3332.94] Curry: I just I think the only thing you need to know is it might not come back in a [3336.94] Curry: straight line and plonk down. [3337.94] Curry: So if you're because sometimes in summer, I'll sit under a tree and stuff [3342.94] Curry: because I'll get some shade. [3343.94] Curry: So if you're doing that and think it might just hit the tree, that would be bad. [3347.94] Curry: As long as you're out sort of in the middle of a place, you're OK. [3350.94] Curry: Yeah. [3353.94] Curry: But I think, you know, I think it's a massive [3357.94] Curry: step forward compared to the, you know, the Exocet missile that was rescue mode [3362.94] Curry: before that was functional enough, because as long as you got the control signal [3366.94] Curry: back or the video, you could just turn it back off. [3368.94] Stephen: I think part of the problem with the landing is that GPS is good, really good [3373.94] Stephen: for speed because you get you measure Doppler shift. [3376.94] Stephen: You get the speed accurate. [3377.94] Stephen: And it's pretty good for 2D for your like your north and your and your east. [3382.94] Stephen: You get that. [3383.94] Stephen: But what it's rubbish for is height. [3385.94] Stephen: It doesn't really doesn't really measure height. [3388.94] Stephen: That's what your barrow saw. [3389.94] Stephen: Yeah, I was going to say. [3390.94] Stephen: Well, you know, and not every board has a barrow and they're not currently using [3394.94] Stephen: barrow. [3395.94] Stephen: And what's happening in the next release is they're going to combine the GPS [3399.94] Stephen: height with the barrow height and then fuse those together to create more [3403.94] Stephen: accurate data source. [3404.94] Stephen: So instead of going, I think I should be on the ground and disarming it, have a [3409.94] Stephen: better idea of where it is. [3411.94] Curry: Well, that's good. [3412.94] Curry: I mean, I've had the barrow goes out on me all the time because there is a barrow [3415.94] Curry: on that one. [3416.94] Curry: And, you know, often I'll be flying along and it says, oh, you're at minus 10 [3420.94] Curry: meters now. [3421.94] Curry: It's like, OK, I think I think you might need to sort of sort yourself out again [3425.94] Curry: here because it's still it's better than GPS. [3429.94] Curry: It's very I like the way Barrow is very reactive. [3432.94] Curry: It gives a very quick update when it thinks the heights change, but it's it's [3436.94] Curry: still not super accurate, but it's GPS can go out like super crazy, can't it? [3441.94] Curry: Because it's trying to get a 3D fix. [3443.94] Stephen: Also, if you've got a barrow and no GPS, then you can at least like you can have [3449.94] Stephen: an auto land function. [3450.94] Stephen: So even if you're not doing a return to home, you can at least have, oh, Christ, [3455.94] Stephen: just land safely. [3456.94] Stephen: Like, don't just disarm and drop. [3458.94] Stephen: Try and please do a safe landing. [3460.94] Stephen: And assuming you're not on the side of a mountain, it's roughly the same height [3463.94] Stephen: where you took off and at least do a controlled descent and not smash it to bits. [3468.94] Curry: Well, given given that they can now sort of come in and land and circle, they should [3472.94] Curry: do a circle mode as well, like the older the INAF one. [3476.94] Curry: It's just like instead of position hold, which is hard, you can just go around in [3481.94] Curry: circles over there somewhere. [3484.94] Tony: Now move out of the way. [3487.94] Stephen: So what you need the compass for is if you're not moving very fast. [3491.94] Stephen: And that's why you need a certain speed when you return to home, because your [3496.94] Stephen: GPS updates aren't happening that often. [3498.94] Stephen: And if you move slowly and you're not doing very regular GPS updates either, [3504.94] Stephen: it kind of can't figure out which direction you're going in. [3507.94] Stephen: But if you go a decent clip, then it knows which way you're facing. [3512.94] Curry: Yeah, I mean, this was always, I remember always having this argument. [3516.94] Curry: I don't know if we we brought out with Mr. [3521.94] Curry: What's his name? [3522.94] Curry: The INAF dude, where we talked about like, [3526.94] Jack: Pavel Spachowski. [3528.94] Curry: Pavel Spachowski. [3530.94] Curry: I don't have much to forget. [3532.94] Curry: But I remember complaining that you needed a compass and a GPS for running INAF. [3540.94] Curry: And I always remember saying like, well, you can you can infer the direction as [3545.94] Curry: long as you move forward. [3546.94] Curry: But that never got in there. [3548.94] Curry: But be the flight that's in there. [3549.94] Curry: Ray. [3550.94] Curry: Well done. [3552.94] Jack: Quickly, because we're desperately running out of time. [3556.94] Jack: How any news on the open HD thing? [3562.94] Jack: Because last we checked in with you. [3565.94] Jack: You had the little camera. [3569.94] Stephen: The danger camera, the biggest nose in the world. [3572.94] Stephen: It's it's done. [3574.94] Curry: It's it's up here on there. [3578.94] Tony: Danger camera. [3582.94] Tony: Oh, it follows me. [3585.94] Tony: Oh, yeah. [3587.94] Curry: Come back. [3588.94] Curry: Come back. [3589.94] Curry: I call it the suicide camera. [3590.94] Tony: It's good. [3591.94] Curry: Oh, look at that. [3592.94] Curry: It sticks out this far. [3594.94] Curry: This is ready to go. [3597.94] Stephen: Show us again. [3598.94] Stephen: I like the Mohawk as well. [3600.94] Curry: This is this is the INAF. [3601.94] Curry: No, this is the open HD quad. [3605.94] Curry: And it is ready to go. [3606.94] Curry: But I did get a absolutely horrendous picture out of this, which is a bit of a worry. [3610.94] Tony: So using a camera that is a one landing camera mount. [3614.94] Curry: That's seven years ago. [3616.94] Curry: No, I do land properly. [3618.94] Curry: It should be fine. [3619.94] Curry: It's what the right way. [3620.94] Curry: I'm a professional. [3621.94] Curry: I printed it out and there's a nice there's a nice ribbon of cable sticking out there. [3626.94] Tony: Why are you using cameras that we use seven years ago? [3630.94] Tony: And is it this isn't this is a digital camera camera. [3633.94] Curry: It's rubbish. [3634.94] Curry: This is a really expensive camera. [3636.94] Curry: So I hope I won't kill everything. [3638.94] Curry: It's not the odd you can one. [3641.94] Curry: Yeah, it's it's the bloody pricey one. [3644.94] Curry: So yeah, I just got ready to fly that quad followed everywhere. [3650.94] Curry: That quad and the wing on the wall up there. [3654.94] Curry: So I literally just want to go out and try and fly both of them and see what happens [3659.94] Tony: to your next video. [3660.94] Tony: Hopefully you can have a windy sunny day. [3665.94] Curry: I've put the antennas on that. [3668.94] Curry: They suggested to get a better picture. [3670.94] Curry: So we'll see what happens. [3671.94] Stephen: You sold at all your USB connections. [3674.94] Curry: USB. [3677.94] Curry: Yes, we fixed that one. [3679.94] Curry: But they probably complain that well, you haven't you haven't covered it properly with [3683.94] Curry: USB type cable or something. [3685.94] Curry: I don't know. [3686.94] Curry: We'll find out. [3687.94] Curry: I've shrunk now. [3689.94] Curry: My camera hasn't followed me down. [3691.94] Tony: I've really shut down here. [3694.94] Curry: I've gone too far. [3695.94] Tony: It's true. [3696.94] Curry: But there we are. [3699.94] Jack: Right. [3700.94] Jack: That is all we have time for. [3703.94] Jack: You've been listening to let your own out. [3707.94] Jack: You've been joined by everyone's favorite cocaine. [3712.94] Jack: Hello and goodbye. [3713.94] Jack: The man with the mustache. [3716.94] Jack: Stephen. [3717.94] Jack: Thanks, everyone. [3718.94] Jack: Thanks for all some Patreons. [3720.94] Jack: Cheers. [3721.94] Jack: My darling pocket sized wife. [3724.94] Jack: Oh, with a bonus nipple rub. [3727.94] Jack: Yeah, bonus nipple rub. [3729.94] Jack: And I'll be bright until I fly. [3732.94] Jack: And this show has been lecturing out. [3734.94] Jack: It's been sponsored by a lovely patrons who are scrolling along. 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