=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 400 === Title: LDO 400th Episode Special Recorded: 2023-04-27 Hosts: Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant, Stephen "Belrik" Howell, Wayne "CurryKitten" Andrews, Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Koel "Koala" Anderson Guest(s): Dom "D2" "Voice of Doom" Robinson, Dominic "Mr Cleanflight" Clifton, Greg "Menace" Spencer, Lee "Painless360" Schofield Total audience: 1,485 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cB6IkUFAQc); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1502692216-letsdroneout-ldo-400th-episode-special.mp3) ===================================== [0.0] Jack: Hello, and you're listening to what 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 call us campus are folk now some dharma on with the show. [20.58] Jack: Hello, I'm bright until I fly and we have made it to episode 400 and I present to you the celebration of a lifetime. Let's drone out. Tonight we are joined by of course everyone's favorite co kitten. [69.01] Jack: Hello, the man with the must ask Stephen. All right, everyone. Good evening. My buddy, Carl. Howdy. The reason why ldo still has some back end organization, the Lord and master we are still commanded by him, even if it is by a non physical presence, but that is so mighty. Our Lord and Master Frank. [94.09] Frank: Happy Thursday. [95.17] Jack: My darling wife, Tony, the reason why we don't fly base. Mr. Clean flight evening. The only reason that we could program our x nine d Taranis because not everyone's a programmer. Lee painless 360. Happy 400 the reason why we can see our video feed and not have to rely on the aerial systems antennas. [125.65] Jack: Gregory Spencer menace. Good evening, everyone. [130.53] Jack: Maybe we never tear a load off our antennas ever again. And the reason why this podcast exists. Don Robinson. [144.85] Dom: Listeners, Dom, you want audio as well? Yeah, it's a podcast. I could just put a sort of avatar of me up and do this. [155.17] Jack: How is everyone? [162.53] Jack: Fantastic. Yes. I never thought I'd see the day 400 episodes of the world's flat. What's this connector? What's that glue for the antenna? [178.37] Jack: Yeah, you know, I mean, when we saw when we thought, why would we ever need any more flash memory? F3 is all you need. [193.89] Jack: Man, are we having a journey back in time? We are. Some of you may have received an email. [201.65] Jack: Mr. Lee painless 360 was the first person I made the call to being like, hey, it's a celebration. [210.37] Jack: Let's let's have a chat. We're going to invite people who have helped make LDO what it is today. [218.21] Jack: And painless wanted to talk about one of Frank's topics of what was the best thing in FPV. [226.29] Jack: What made all the difference? And me, Tony and Frank kind of had a little chat about it to begin with. [237.41] Jack: At one point, you know, mine was definitely the BL Heli suite and the clean flight pass through. [245.25] Jack: If some of you remember BL Heli was the best. Oh, my word. Just not having to deal with it. [253.81] Dominic: Oh, my word. Got my stash of them yesterday. There probably was something there. Loads of them. [262.77] Jack: USB, VCP. Yeah, you used to have to stick. There's like little breakout pads on there and you'd have [269.41] Jack: to solder to the tiny little pads and then connect it. And then if you didn't like the bootloader, [275.81] Jack: yeah, he had a paperweight, a mini paperweight for a mouse. Yeah. That was Simon K firmware. [283.57] Lee: Do you remember that? Simon K. We all thought that was the bees knees for about six months. [289.81] Jack: Yeah, no such thing as active breaking. No, I know. You still have to. Did you have to calibrate? [300.29] Stephen: Yeah, you did back then. Because I just remember looking at my secrets and thinking that was no [305.41] Jack: they're not ready yet. Was it true that the one shot code was something to do with your [314.05] Jack: failed LED signal thing that you made? The one shot code is something to do with an LED signal, [321.73] Stephen: but I know the shot is loosely based around the WS2812 code, right? Well, sort of and sort of not. [330.37] Dominic: The encoding is sort of an old standard, basically. So it's used on quite a few things. [337.09] Dominic: It's a GCR encoding, I think, if I remember rightly, which is it predates the LEDs by a long time. [344.29] Lee: Well, let's face it, the only reason we have addressable LEDs is because of Dominic, [347.97] Lee: because it was his wacky idea to stick them on a quad. And then everyone jumped on that bandwagon [352.37] Lee: and started making them. And before he got the code, nobody thought of doing it. We all used to [357.09] Dominic: solder regular LEDs onto stuff. See, I know I found my PWM LED controller in my box of old stuff [366.53] Dominic: the other day. So yeah, I'm like, Oh, yeah, I remember all these things. Wasn't that your [371.49] Jack: first project, though, where you made like an LED snowboard? Is that right? Yeah, yeah. So [380.05] Dominic: my first flight controller was not meant for flying a quad. It was for putting on a snowboard, [387.01] Dominic: because it had a gyro on it and it had a processor on it. And then snowboarding season finished, [391.17] Dominic: and I had a spare one lying about. So I'm like, Okay, maybe I should stick it in a quad now. [395.09] Dominic: So I did. And it was terrible. So and then I bought a nays. And then here we are today. [400.21] Dominic: What was that first one? It was it was a multi we won. [404.61] Dominic: Oh, what the boy we flip or something? Oh, it was just some really old multi we won. It's some [410.77] Dominic: China green PCB don't remember it. What were you pro? It was an unbranded one or something like [418.05] Dominic: that. But the point was that it had an app mail processor on it that you can run the Arduino [424.05] Dominic: libraries and stuff against. And it had the appropriate sensors on it, which I needed. So [429.01] Jack: that's what I used. Nice. And the rest, as they say, is history. Yeah, like this show. [439.89] Jack: Remember, good thing or a bad thing? I don't know, man, it was. [446.53] Jack: Yeah, so for any of you who are like, new, like, listen to ldo, and wasn't wasn't there at the [454.45] Jack: beginning, there was the if you go to my I should have set this up a bit better. But yeah, if you go, [465.65] Jack: if you go to my channel, you can go to the about. And then in the links, there's the ldo legacy [477.17] Jack: episodes. First school. Yep. So like, just just to give you a sort of a sort of how we're talking [491.06] Frank: about, we talked about when we recorded it on Google Hangouts, or when we recorded it, just [495.94] Frank: like through audio over like Skype or something, I think. Yeah, it was I think through Dom's first [502.42] Tony: day night show first. Yeah, exactly. That's how far back it goes. So Jack was sat there with like [508.66] Frank: Skype, I think, and then pushing it through the bit of software for Dom's radio channel. [517.46] Jack: Yeah. Yeah. So these are the first 30 episodes. mixed cloud. Let's underscore drone underscore [525.38] Jack: app. Like, what a link. Our first episode, episode two. And then then it's Tony's 42nd birthday. [542.42] Jack: Then there was the indoor FPV Lee. What was the event down a bit, Jack? [549.22] Jack: Hang on, hang on, hang on. I've got a. Oh, God. Yep. We are. [557.86] Jack: Oh, do you remember this? [564.26] Jack: I'm holding up a old year sheen 180. How soon is that carbon? [571.22] Jack: Mate, this impulse RC business card is thicker. [592.26] Stephen: That's not gonna go well, is it? [594.34] Jack: So you've got a little pick that up very carefully. [598.02] Jack: After that, and we can we want to say again, what was the the event? [607.06] Jack: Do you remember, Dom, one of your thing where I where I commented, [613.06] Jack: someone told me the price of a DJI thing. And I said, that's a lot of [618.02] Jack: vaginal activity in anyone's money. How we got away with that? I don't know. [622.5] Jack: I don't know. It took to episode 10, by the way, Tony always says Bonjour. [632.66] Tony: So seven years, that's pretty good. And then [637.54] Jack: episode 11, seven years ago, we finally got out of the one kilohertz mode. [646.74] Jack: Flying for the artistic value. [648.26] Stephen: All about faster clock speed. How much faster are we talking? [651.62] Stephen: Is that going from Arduino up to something else? [654.34] Stephen: One to three. [656.9] Tony: It was one to three, I think, wasn't it? [660.18] Stephen: Then again, eight years ago, wasn't it? Wasn't it like sub four before that? [663.86] Stephen: Somewhat. [664.58] Stephen: I guess f3s were considered faster than like 70 megahertz. [669.94] Dominic: No, it was like, [670.98] Dominic: So in Arduino, they're like 16 megahertz, I think, [674.26] Dominic: it's like one millisecond, like, I think it's like two and a half millisecond or something. [679.86] Dominic: Wasn't it like the really original one? All right, multi-wave stuff. [685.22] Dominic: And now we're many orders of magnitude quicker than that. [692.42] Tony: Yeah, f7. [694.5] Stephen: Now we're at the point like the motors just aren't changing speed fast enough. [697.54] Stephen: Let's not worry about it. [698.5] Jack: That's the first ever UK drone show. [700.74] Jack: So was that a painless because it was took North and we got to see him. [708.5] Jack: And that the hair was very salt and peppery back then. [712.26] Jack: He was a younger, faster model, very sexually attractive, even more so than [719.78] Jack: the silver sort of a fox that he is. [723.46] Jack: Um, no, no, no, they got, they got still a thing. [730.98] Stephen: Are they still doing that? [732.18] Tony: Yeah, that's not five years ago. [734.5] Tony: I think they've done three. [735.86] Tony: Yeah. [736.42] Stephen: That was the 2015 boom when everyone was really excited for a couple of years. [740.1] Tony: Yeah, I think we got then try better at you to the pervert list. [747.46] Jack: So it took 16 episodes. [750.66] Jack: Yeah. [751.96] Dominic: Then it was the amount of times people have come up to me and going, oh, well, [757.08] Dominic: these drones are like, obviously you're flying this high and far away. [760.36] Dominic: You can't see anything, but you're fine. [762.76] Dominic: It's crazy. [764.12] Stephen: You do realize everyone's walking around with a like professional camera in their [767.8] Stephen: pocket with zoom functionality built in. [771.24] Jack: Well, Dom, Mr. [775.0] Jack: Clean fly still falling out the sky. [777.96] Jack: That was me in your auto tune that didn't work. [781.24] Jack: Oh, yeah. [784.2] Curry: Sorry to keep you talking about that the other day. [787.72] Stephen: It's doing something fun that's been comprehensively not snow seven years later. [795.88] Stephen: When was the last time anyone used auto tune successfully? [799.4] Stephen: Not press the button that claimed to do auto tune and then lost a quad. [802.52] Stephen: But when was the last time anyone used auto tune and it work? [805.88] Dominic: I technically, technically the software I'm currently running auto tunes on the fly as you [812.68] Dominic: fly around. [813.48] Dominic: So I do lies. [817.88] Stephen: Okay. [818.92] Stephen: Someone's someone's seen the marketing slogans and it's now incorporating machine [823.64] Stephen: learning into their quads. [824.6] Jack: It's thrown out with road riot. [826.36] Jack: So we first got to talk to road riot. [830.44] Jack: Yeah. [831.0] Jack: Yeah. [831.32] Jack: That's before they were established. [833.64] Tony: That was their first gig though, as well. [835.8] Tony: Wasn't it a first interview for the old school. [845.8] Tony: Tommy steel chair. [847.24] Tony: I actually had it. [847.96] Tony: And, um, Mr. [851.0] Koel: Steel, I don't think it was a job. [853.08] Tony: It was a mustache guy. [855.08] Tony: Mustache guy. [856.36] Tony: No, um, no, it wasn't sure. [859.0] Stephen: He said X off, right? [860.6] Koel: You know, I actually had a question, Jack, uh, or maybe everybody can sort of chime in [865.64] Koel: on this one is let's turn out one of the, like first drone podcast, like FPV drone podcast. [873.24] Koel: Is it the first or were there some before or it was the, it's the first and the only [878.68] Tony: one running steel. [880.36] Tony: If you can call, if you can call a strong podcast, sometimes we go off topic quite a [886.6] Tony: lot. [886.92] Curry: Sometimes we're on topic would be a better way of expressing that. [889.96] Curry: Do you think it's still the fourth most popular in the UK, even though we're the [892.92] Curry: only one left? [895.56] Curry: If you bought a podcast tomorrow, you would be the fifth most popular one or potentially [899.64] Curry: knock us off the fourth spot. [901.48] Frank: I think there may, uh, there may be, um, like a sort of more commercial, um, and area vehicle [907.48] Frank: type, uh, podcast that's been going on a bit longer, but I don't think they have ever published [915.48] Frank: an audio feed, uh, sort of subscribe of all RSS feeds. [919.4] Frank: So in my mind, it's not a podcast. [921.32] Frank: It's just a regular video meet, but that's, that's why I would agree. [929.4] Jack: Do you reckon that's why you still has, you know, like the RC powers podcast, [937.32] Jack: old school thing. [938.2] Jack: And I'm not listed to let stroke down or like plays old episodes. [942.68] Jack: Oh, we've got this thing called, called S pass. [945.72] Jack: It's amazing. [952.2] Jack: That person's probably painless. [954.28] Jack: So I don't blame him. [956.2] Lee: Now I've never done a podcast. [957.4] Lee: I used to listen to quite a few in the car back in the day when he used to do lots of [960.36] Lee: driving for business. [962.2] Lee: And, but there were mostly podcasts that had been around for ages and there were a very [966.76] Lee: broad church. [967.48] Lee: So there weren't specifically about drones and stuff. [970.28] Lee: In fact, I remember listening to a guy called Lucy and Miller, who was on one of [974.44] Lee: them regularly. [975.08] Lee: He was a distributor in the USA for scorpion motors. [979.4] Lee: I think it was. [980.84] Lee: And there were loads of great questions that everyone would have. [984.36] Lee: This is back in the day, you know, before we just have regular motor sizes and things, [987.96] Lee: because we're all using plane motors. [990.36] Lee: They'd be asking him what, what motor and prop should I use for this size quads. [994.68] Lee: And it was all very bleeding edge in kind of guesswork. [998.84] Lee: But pretty much all of those I used to listen to aren't around. [1002.36] Lee: This just are the ones I used to listen to. [1004.84] Lee: This is the last one. [1007.32] Lee: So thank you. [1008.28] Lee: At least you give me something to listen to the car. [1010.36] Curry: We're like a stick animal that can't be put down. [1015.0] Tony: She reached. [1016.36] Tony: She would just quit now. [1017.72] Lee: What, why are you ahead? [1019.32] Tony: I think I say this every year when we get to another stage. [1024.68] Tony: I think I said it four or five years, six, seven. [1028.84] Tony: Now, right. [1030.92] Tony: Let's make it to 10. [1033.4] Jack: Legal notice. [1034.44] Jack: Any views or any get by any guests to show personal affective may not reflect the views of others. [1041.64] Jack: Dom, who were the podcasts that you listened to who made you set up the International Drone Day [1051.72] Jack: that kind of. [1052.44] Tony: Got us all into it. [1055.32] Jack: Yeah. [1056.12] Jack: Got us all kind of. [1058.76] Jack: Because were they. [1062.28] Jack: Yeah, I don't know. [1063.56] Dom: It was. [1065.88] Dom: They may be. [1068.36] Dom: Hold on. [1068.68] Dom: Let me just go on mute while I curse a bit. [1070.36] Dom: Oh, yeah. [1071.16] Dom: I don't remember you talking about this. [1072.92] Dom: David. [1073.8] Dom: David. [1074.92] Dom: I met him in Vegas bizarrely. [1077.16] Dom: I went and actually found the geezer. [1078.76] Dom: Was his. [1079.08] Jack: Were they swingers? [1080.6] Jack: Or did he get into financial difficulty? [1083.72] Jack: What happened? [1084.6] Jack: I can't remember. [1086.84] Dom: They split though. [1087.96] Dom: She came back to Crawley and they split up. [1091.96] Tony: She's in my neck of the woods. [1094.28] Dom: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [1095.0] Dom: You could go and adopt a half. [1100.44] Dom: What was he called? [1101.16] Dom: David. [1101.96] Dom: I'm going to curse. [1103.24] Jack: Whilst he does that. [1108.12] Jack: Hang on. [1109.08] Jack: No, we've got. [1109.88] Jack: We've got one. [1110.76] Tony: Let's play some tunes. [1114.04] Dom: Let's play the venture. [1117.4] Dom: Frank had it. [1118.04] Dom: Frank had it. [1118.6] Dom: It's David O'Neill. [1120.2] Dom: Let's play the venture. [1121.24] Dom: You won't believe Jack does a radio show. [1122.84] Stephen: This kind of dead air, please. [1124.12] Stephen: Right. [1124.36] Stephen: Are we ready? [1125.0] Stephen: Okay. [1125.4] Stephen: Search your emails. [1128.28] Jack: Seven years. [1129.24] Jack: Right. [1129.72] Jack: And we're still trying to figure out. [1132.36] Jack: How to tune out here. [1135.4] Jack: Yeah, there you go. [1137.0] Jack: Yeah, I know. [1141.72] Stephen: Yeah. [1141.96] Stephen: He makes a video every six months about how to tune PIDS. [1144.52] Stephen: It's amazing. [1144.92] Jack: After hours podcast back when flight test may or may not talk to us. [1149.8] Jack: And then after that, we got kicked off the Thursday night show for being. [1157.48] Jack: And the general annoyance. [1161.64] Dom: And then. [1167.54] Dom: No, you bought a huge audience. [1170.1] Dom: And then off immediately afterwards. [1175.62] Dom: We just had about 400 people in and they're now back to 70. [1178.74] Dom: Where are they all gone? [1179.78] Dom: And a few of you kind souls played about because you like jungle, [1182.66] Dom: but the rest of them went off to go and talk geek elsewhere. [1185.38] Dom: So it was like, I think we need to just move you on. [1189.06] Jack: I'll always remember. [1190.74] Jack: I always remember someone writing in the chat. [1194.18] Jack: Jungle is adequately sized. [1200.1] Jack: I had the amazing shirt. [1202.74] Jack: Jungle is adequately sized. [1207.14] Stephen: One of one of my friends is a Greenpeace supporter and he's got a jungle is not massive. [1212.42] Jack: Oh, yeah. [1214.74] Jack: Jungle is increasingly small. [1219.46] Jack: Yeah. [1219.94] Jack: We got Steve. [1221.7] Jack: Then we moved over to my YouTube and we were on Google Hangouts. [1227.54] Jack: So we've got Steve Gadlin. [1230.18] Jack: Then we chat to Mr. Steel. [1232.5] Jack: Look how young Frank looks in that picture. [1236.58] Jack: Look how young Mr. Steel. [1238.02] Jack: Yeah, right. [1238.74] Stephen: Mr. Steel still growing his mustache. [1240.98] Stephen: That's how young me. [1241.86] Stephen: Wait for it. [1242.58] Jack: Wait for it. [1243.7] Jack: There's the Stingy with no beard. [1246.42] Tony: Stingy. [1246.98] Tony: Oh, yeah. [1247.94] Dominic: Look at that. [1248.98] Dominic: That's what I remember him always used to look like every time I see him now. [1253.3] Tony: Look at Greg. [1254.18] Jack: Greg looks 12. [1256.42] Tony: Reminds me of the guy out of it. [1260.02] Tony: Oh, Gregy Pugs. [1261.38] Tony: Look at Greg. [1262.42] Tony: I made team. [1263.38] Dom: I made team now. [1265.38] Jack: Yeah. [1265.62] Jack: HPI guy until he got absolutely ripped. [1268.58] Jack: Honest to God, he's got like a washboard abs. [1272.34] Tony: I don't think he flies anymore. [1275.94] Jack: Look at this. [1277.94] Jack: Race shop. [1278.98] Jack: The scumbag. [1279.78] Tony: Oh, God. [1280.58] Tony: The scubber. [1283.78] Jack: Bardwell. [1286.58] Jack: Oh, wow. [1287.94] Jack: Bardwell. [1288.42] Jack: Yeah. [1288.9] Jack: With that alert. [1290.18] Jack: Painless with a kavat on. [1293.3] Lee: Must have been winter. [1294.5] Jack: I've got a scar. [1296.9] Jack: There's Don Robinson. [1299.78] Jack: The legend. [1302.82] Jack: Well, that's a smush run cam. [1305.46] Jack: I've never known anyone to kill run cams as efficiently and as swift as he is. [1312.9] Tony: I know exactly that spot. [1315.3] Tony: He's definitely hidden valley. [1317.54] Jack: And that look at that. [1319.46] Jack: That is me with David Winstall. [1325.14] Tony: Jack was slim back in the day. [1327.22] Tony: Yeah, I know. [1328.58] Tony: I know. [1330.18] Jack: And there's Greg in France. [1332.34] Jack: There's Andy. [1333.06] Jack: I see who remembers him. [1335.78] Lee: Yes, he's in the chat. [1338.26] Lee: He's he's in the chat. [1340.82] Stephen: He's around. [1342.42] Stephen: He's had a long day. [1343.46] Stephen: So he's having a bit of a rest and it's naturally away in the chat. [1347.22] Dom: I've just found all the original flyers and posters for the first miniature show and mini show too. [1355.46] Dom: You want to say hello. [1358.02] Tony: We never had Tom Smith. [1359.38] Tony: He promised a couple of times, but yeah, he never he was too. [1364.42] Tony: He was good in front of his GoPro, but he was too. [1367.46] Tony: He didn't want to do anything live. [1370.1] Tony: So we did try Tom Smith a few times, but. [1373.22] Jack: I would have loved for him to call me loud just once. [1377.46] Dom: There's the original. [1381.06] Stephen: Frank described before it was banned. [1383.62] Stephen: Rotting Dean miniature air show. [1386.18] Stephen: We had Mr B playing off the website as well, which is good. [1390.34] Dom: Twenty. [1392.66] Dom: Fifteen. [1394.18] Dom: I think it was March 20, 2014. [1400.02] Dom: If not, I'm pretty sure it's 2014. [1402.58] Dom: Because I think many air show too. [1403.78] Tony: 42 days to go. [1405.46] Jack: First person view doesn't exist anymore. [1408.34] Jack: Who's the first person view.co.uk would exist would be outlived by this show. [1420.9] Dom: The guy had the opportunity to cash in on Let's Try Now. [1426.98] Dom: Buy a small plane and bugger off adventuring of it. [1429.3] Dom: You'd have done it, Jack. [1430.18] Dom: So some other photos I found a lot while I was looking. [1436.5] Tony: Gary, man. [1439.94] Tony: Gary can't. [1441.06] Stephen: My God, this is when we were when we had all that vertical posture. [1446.9] Stephen: Spot some pics of NJ as well. [1449.7] Stephen: Is NJ around tonight? [1451.06] Tony: No, I'm sure he hasn't been in the chat. [1453.54] Dom: I can remember that indoor session. [1455.62] Dom: Brad was flying around in the roof girders of that sport. [1459.62] Dom: I'll do a video of that. [1460.66] Dom: Yeah, he's all right. [1462.02] Dom: Is he around? [1464.42] Dom: Is he around? [1466.42] Dom: Check out the front shot. [1469.3] Dom: And then go, that's that's that was a mini air show too, which is a really big one. [1472.9] Dom: I think this is the one that I went to. [1474.98] Dom: I didn't go to the. [1475.86] Dom: Awesome camping night and everyone got together. [1478.34] Tony: And yeah, we had a big fire and everything. [1480.5] Tony: It was cool. [1481.22] Tony: Yeah, that was really cool. [1482.66] Dom: And there was like a promotion for it. [1484.9] Dom: I found. [1486.1] Stephen: Yeah, I think I missed mini air show. [1487.62] Stephen: I just heard Frank talk about like the trauma that this set up involved. [1491.54] Dom: I like the fact this quality of video makes it look like it was in the 60s. [1499.54] Tony: Oh, look fossil stuff. [1501.22] Jack: Different times. [1502.02] Tony: We know Johnny Benton. [1503.54] Tony: He hasn't played radio slag. [1506.98] Jack: I mean, see. [1511.14] Dom: Look at the quality. [1512.18] Stephen: It's just spectacular. [1513.94] Stephen: Wow. [1514.58] Stephen: It's amazing. [1515.22] Stephen: People used to fly through that. [1518.34] Stephen: Before the invented color. [1520.02] Stephen: Yeah. [1522.42] Stephen: Right. [1523.7] Jack: He used to fly by a sense of smell. [1526.1] Jack: Where are they going? [1529.7] Tony: They were great days though. [1531.14] Tony: Because it was it was also new and fresh and exciting. [1534.66] Tony: And Sky News came down. [1536.74] Tony: I remember. [1538.02] Tony: It was great. [1538.82] Jack: I don't look like a dream fighter. [1541.06] Jack: I can tell you that now. [1545.14] Dom: Tony, I think you're flying in this report in this sky. [1548.66] Dom: It was you and Brad is flying. [1553.06] Stephen: Actually got on the news. [1555.3] Stephen: That's incredible. [1558.14] Dom: That was when we got in the news. [1559.18] Stephen: Yeah, but get the full stop at the end of this conversation, really. [1562.86] Dom: That was the whole David O'Neill thing, wasn't it? [1564.54] Dom: Drones are good. [1566.22] Stephen: After that, it was more like who needs innovation in the UK. [1568.7] Jack: Yeah, that is rare footage of Johnny Benton. [1572.3] Tony: Oh, yeah, I am in the background. [1574.46] Tony: I've seen my booty yet. [1576.78] Tony: They were cold eyes because it was all fresh. [1578.94] Tony: There you go. [1581.58] Dom: Here, I'll stop you, but I'll keep digging while we're on it. [1584.54] Dom: I'll see what else I can find. [1585.9] Jack: Back when that was happening, Painless was returning to home with multi-way. [1591.82] Jack: Somehow. [1592.54] Jack: It's the only person ever to achieve that, but you know. [1596.46] Lee: It worked really well. [1597.74] Lee: It's just base flight broke it. [1601.74] Jack: That's it. [1603.1] Jack: Amazing. [1603.9] Jack: I can't believe we've done that. [1604.86] Jack: I remember watching that series being like he's actually a wizard. [1608.78] Jack: I was convinced. [1613.35] Curry: So what was Lee's item of this is made FPV great item as Jack had [1622.63] Curry: what, clean flight pass-through so you could flash ESCs. [1626.63] Curry: What's Lee's? [1628.87] Lee: So the question was slightly slightly different in the email. [1633.03] Lee: So Jack said, what is the most game-changing thing you personally found in the hobby [1637.91] Lee: that made such a difference? [1639.75] Lee: My answer, my number one answer, I've got about eight things [1642.39] Lee: because I didn't know which order we'd go around. [1644.39] Lee: And I was guaranteed that other people would nick the same stuff. [1647.67] Lee: But for me, the number one thing we've already talked about is digital protocols. [1651.59] Lee: Moving from PWM to PPM to S bus. [1655.67] Lee: S bus. [1656.31] Lee: You didn't have to, it just worked. [1657.59] Lee: And then also moving away from PWM control to one shot and multi-shot on digital signals [1663.75] Lee: to the ESCs, which were faster and you didn't have to calibrate. [1667.03] Lee: The number of calls and help that I had to give people [1670.63] Lee: kind of dropped by half overnight when people used S bus and one shot [1675.11] Lee: because it just made everything so much easier. [1679.35] Curry: That's a good one. [1681.27] Curry: I'll tell you mine, because I only thought of one. [1684.31] Curry: And then if someone else mentioned it'd be no good, it's the Taranis and OpenTX on the Taranis. [1690.71] Curry: Because previous to that, all you had was these radios. [1693.91] Curry: And if you remember it, you could set up a glider or a plane or a helicopter [1698.79] Curry: and all your switches had specific things that you could do. [1702.23] Curry: And the fact you could say, I want this switch to do what I wanted to do. [1706.31] Curry: And I want to do things with expo and dual rates on the right switches I want [1711.11] Curry: was absolutely fantastic. [1713.03] Curry: And of course, the Taranis came out and it was so much cheaper [1716.23] Curry: than these Futaba radios and things that other people have been using. [1719.59] Curry: And hand in hand, although Free Sky is not in a good books at the moment with many people, [1725.83] Curry: the little tiny... [1727.99] Curry: God, I can't even remember the call now. [1729.27] Curry: The X... [1730.71] Curry: X-Life. [1731.75] Curry: X-Life, thank you. [1733.51] Curry: Was it the X-Life? [1734.23] Curry: No, I'm talking about the little receivers. [1735.67] Curry: The XM Plus. [1736.95] Jack: Oh, the XM Plus. [1738.63] Curry: XM Plus. [1739.75] Curry: Yeah, the XM Pluses were just like fantastic range. [1743.43] Curry: You get telemetry and they're fairly cheap. [1746.23] Curry: Fantastic. [1747.67] Stephen: So long as you didn't try and go closer than about three meters [1750.63] Stephen: because then it like blew out and would fail safe right next year. [1753.99] Curry: Yeah, that's right. [1754.63] Curry: Because that was the first one. [1755.91] Curry: It's like it was small. [1757.27] Curry: It could do PDBM and this new doohickey thing called S-Bus [1761.43] Curry: before it went to the actual XM Pluses. [1764.95] Curry: Yeah, nice. [1765.51] Jack: XS, oh. [1766.55] Jack: Oh, oh, God, that was... [1770.31] Frank: This episode was recorded in front of a live online audience, [1773.51] Frank: downloaded and edited to make sense when it played audio only, [1777.11] Frank: censored to please the iTunes people, [1778.95] Frank: hosted on the internet, [1779.99] Frank: forwarded through to your podcast provider, [1781.83] Frank: downloaded, playing on your device, [1783.67] Frank: and is now playing in your ears. [1785.51] Frank: All thanks to our Patreons. [1787.67] Frank: Consider joining them and you'll also get other online benefits. [1791.03] Frank: Find out more at patreon.com forward slash let's drone out. [1795.83] Jack: What protocol added the telemetry and signal together? [1805.75] Jack: What was it called? [1807.59] Jack: That was being like F4. [1809.67] Jack: Yeah, that was possibly one of my biggest disappointments [1813.35] Jack: because that went nowhere and was... [1815.91] Stephen: And it was the start of the crazy protocols from FR Sky [1819.43] Stephen: where they just released constant iterations [1822.23] Stephen: and nothing worked with anything else. [1824.23] Stephen: It started that kind of... [1825.03] Curry: Just for throwing lots of stuff and see what stuck [1827.35] Curry: and nothing stuck. [1828.23] Curry: It just all fell down. [1830.39] Curry: Yeah. [1831.59] Jack: So, I've got a bit of a treat for you, right? [1835.51] Jack: So, these are the popular videos. [1838.23] Jack: So, this is Boris B and Painless 360. [1841.43] Jack: So, this was a podcast like LDO [1844.55] Jack: except someone was asking intelligent questions [1847.83] Jack: and then Painless had to go [1849.83] Jack: and then the part two turned into the B as a wasp [1854.47] Jack: and then that started an argument. [1856.63] Jack: So, it was great and then it just derailed heavily. [1862.63] Jack: To the point where you got 4.8 [1866.23] Jack: and then only 4.3 people could stick it. [1869.59] Jack: Then you've got D shot. [1871.51] Jack: Remember that? [1872.15] Jack: That's a... [1873.03] Jack: That image I think is a photo of Dom's thing. [1877.35] Jack: You've got Chad Capper with the DR1, [1881.83] Jack: the film that he made with the Tri-Copter. [1885.35] Jack: Those support braces on the arms of that Tri-Copter [1889.59] Jack: are windshield wipers by the way. [1893.19] Tony: Don't give away secrets. [1896.07] Jack: The Acro DIY DJI Mavic Sleeper [1899.83] Jack: that was famously edited by Curry Kitten themselves. [1903.27] Jack: Thank you. [1904.87] Tony: Nice. [1906.25] Jack: Then, here's a treat for you. [1911.13] Jack: This is when I bought a Cockrol for Tony. [1915.77] Jack: I bought the Mini Tony and Tony when H... [1925.29] Jack: Look. [1926.09] Jack: So, there's a rare insulator. [1928.09] Jack: It's your long drop base. [1928.89] Jack: Yup. [1929.93] Jack: Yup. [1930.81] Jack: And here we have... [1931.69] Jack: We've got the Rotoraya dog sh... dive. [1934.41] Jack: So, we went and visited Andy off. [1936.09] Tony: Oh yeah, that was great. [1937.61] Jack: Great days, great times. [1940.17] Jack: Look, there's me. [1941.93] Jack: Dive in, fly in the dog sh... bin. [1944.49] Jack: Look at it, in all its glory. [1945.61] Jack: That is literally famous. [1947.37] Jack: I can't tell whether that's mud surrounding that bin [1950.65] Jack: or dog sh... or a sort of like super the both. [1953.61] Jack: A bit of both. [1954.49] Jack: I don't know. [1956.17] Jack: And there was the FPV League that Tony came first in. [1959.93] Jack: Where I sat on fire. [1962.09] Jack: That was second. [1964.09] Jack: Frank shouted at me for being outside. [1967.13] Jack: I didn't realise the race was going to start. [1969.61] Jack: Couldn't tell whether I was just being a prick [1971.77] Jack: or just an idiot. [1973.93] Jack: He then suffered seven years of finding out. [1977.53] Jack: Oh, you caught fire, didn't you? [1978.09] Jack: That was a kiss. [1979.29] Tony: Kiss, kiss. [1979.77] Tony: And there was the smoke. [1980.49] Tony: Oh, yeah. [1980.97] Jack: And it sank like hell. [1982.57] Tony: I'm second, not first on that, haven't I? [1984.89] Jack: Oh, I reckon. [1986.65] Stephen: What board is Dom waving around at? [1989.21] Stephen: Mr Clean Flight. [1990.41] Dominic: You see this one? [1993.21] Dominic: That is my primary naze 32 development board [1997.77] Dominic: that I did most of the claims like early development work on. [2001.37] Jack: Is that like some sort of weird JTAG? [2003.45] Jack: JTAG? [2007.47] Dominic: Yeah, it's the SWD... [2008.99] Dominic: The funny, faint flight controllers [2011.87] Tony: with other bits that's needed. [2016.35] Dominic: Yeah. [2018.27] Tony: That coming. [2020.03] Dominic: But yeah, that's the... [2021.23] Jack: I'd just like to point out, [2022.83] Jack: this man promised not to fight with our guests. [2025.95] Jack: What? [2027.23] Jack: I'm not fighting. [2027.79] Jack: A toon has been good arsehole. [2032.67] Dominic: Oh, look what I found! [2034.27] Dominic: This is a metal case naze. [2037.23] Dominic: Look at that size. [2039.39] Stephen: That's rather big, isn't it? [2041.15] Tony: That's what she said. [2042.27] Stephen: Why else is in there? [2043.79] Stephen: Were they hoping to make it more reliable [2045.71] Dominic: by putting it in a metal box? [2047.87] Dominic: Yeah. [2049.55] Dominic: I'm not opening it. [2050.43] Dominic: I've got a guest screwdriver for that. [2052.67] Dominic: But yeah, it had some errors on the circle. [2056.67] Dominic: Oh, with a flip. [2058.19] Dominic: Flip 32. [2059.87] Jack: So this is the voice of doom. [2065.23] Jack: This is the first episode... [2066.75] Tony: Is that the very first ever one when you were on your own? [2072.19] Jack: So yeah, if I share a screen, [2075.07] Jack: if you go to my links and you go to the birth of Letch-Drow now, [2080.75] Jack: that is the voice of doom who sent me the link. [2086.03] Dom: That's me being midwife and delivering the very first... [2090.43] Jack: So that is essentially the pilot episode. [2096.27] Jack: That's crazy. [2096.91] Jack: So I'll face that in the chat. [2098.43] Tony: How many years ago is that to the day? [2101.87] Tony: Well, it says seven, but... [2104.11] Curry: Well, it says listeners too. [2105.55] Curry: Is that how many people... [2106.35] Dom: It's got the dates on it. [2108.03] Dom: Yeah. [2110.83] Dom: If you zoom into the flyer, it's got May 2013, is it? [2116.27] Dom: 2015? [2116.83] Dom: 2015, 2018. [2118.19] Dom: My eyes are too bright. [2119.23] Jack: There you go. [2121.55] Jack: Look at that. [2122.67] Jack: 69. [2124.27] Jack: Listen, by the way. [2125.39] Jack: What's the best number? [2130.11] Tony: That's about right. [2132.19] Tony: Letch-Drow now. [2133.63] Tony: He rolled into one. [2134.51] Dom: I had to share something else actually, Jack. [2135.95] Dom: I found my first... [2136.67] Dom: Oh, look. [2137.63] Dom: Oh, look. [2138.11] Jack: Home Star FPV, Jack. [2144.03] Tony: That was my name until Facebook made it tell me my real name. [2149.23] Tony: Oh, my word. [2151.47] Curry: CC3D. [2153.47] Curry: What happened, did it? [2155.39] Tony: Have you got any of these with the gel around the chip? [2161.55] Tony: Do you remember that? [2163.23] Jack: The cuckoo tape. [2165.07] Tony: Yeah, it was like... [2166.67] Jack: They were a couple of ways, weren't they? [2168.91] Dominic: I don't think I do have one of those, no. [2172.67] Dominic: All right, guys. [2173.15] Dominic: Trying to find earlier. [2174.27] Dominic: Here we go. [2176.83] Dominic: Yeah. [2177.71] Dominic: I was lying earlier. [2178.67] Dominic: My other thing that I thought was my stash of nays 32s wasn't. [2182.19] Tony: I'll never say any green one. [2183.23] Tony: Green one. [2184.51] Tony: I had a red one. [2186.27] Dominic: Red one. [2187.47] Tony: Never had an orange one. [2189.47] Dominic: Orange one. [2190.51] Dominic: I had a blue one. [2192.11] Tony: Never say any green one. [2192.91] Dominic: Blue one. [2195.15] Dominic: Yeah, and the white one. [2196.35] Dominic: The white one was in the bag I found earlier. [2198.75] Tony: Yeah, that's the... [2199.23] Tony: I definitely remember the gel around the chip one. [2203.71] Tony: Well, I don't know who made that, whatever. [2205.47] Tony: Yeah. [2206.59] Jack: Greg, you've been quiet. [2210.43] Jack: When did you get into quads exactly? [2213.39] Jack: Yeah, because we found, whilst digging around, [2216.75] Jack: Frank, I don't know whether you can find the link. [2218.91] Jack: Oh, no. [2219.47] Jack: The Menace Tilting Arm Kickstarter. [2224.91] Greg: What year was that? [2225.87] Greg: 2015? [2226.59] Greg: Yeah. [2229.61] Greg: Maybe. [2231.29] Greg: But, yeah, I suppose when you sort of looking at the thing that moved the hobby on the most, [2243.63] Greg: I really believe it was diversity receivers. [2248.35] Greg: Like the old FR632 was one of the first diversity receivers. [2254.19] Greg: And it was around that time I was playing around with antennas and patch antennas. [2258.75] Greg: And I was doing the invader. [2260.91] Greg: So, for me, that is when it all just, well, it kind of blew up at that point. [2266.75] Greg: The diversity was there. [2268.51] Greg: Our antenna was out. [2269.79] Greg: It was, yeah, it was a great time. [2272.99] Tony: Invader's still probably the best patch out there. [2277.31] Greg: It's in the top five sellers of Menace today. [2280.03] Tony: Well, I think it's a great patch. [2282.11] Greg: And we got 47 products. [2283.79] Greg: So, that's pretty good, isn't it? [2285.23] Greg: That is good. [2286.11] Greg: That is good. [2287.71] Curry: Yeah, prior to that, if you remember anybody trying to do even vaguely long range, you had [2292.99] Curry: a helical sticking out your single, and you have to keep your head really still. [2299.55] Curry: And just like, there it is. [2300.51] Curry: Don't nobody move me. [2301.63] Curry: And you just end up with like really bad neck at the end of the flight. [2304.35] Curry: But, yeah, diversity works. [2307.63] Tony: The patch in the sky about that big, moving head. [2311.87] Curry: It's always fun to see these people wearing those and then fly like this. [2315.31] Curry: Just into the ground. [2320.83] Dominic: What was the other frequency that everyone used to fly in as well with the massive antennas? [2324.59] Stephen: Well, 1.2. [2326.35] Stephen: 1.3. [2328.19] Dominic: 1.3? [2328.67] Dominic: Yeah. [2329.23] Dominic: It was like something or other, wasn't it? [2332.75] Dominic: Yeah. [2333.71] Dominic: Yeah, around then. [2334.83] Dominic: Because I remember building my own antennas out of [2338.51] Dominic: motor enamel wire and stuff for them to try and get better range from what I was currently getting. [2343.55] Dominic: But they were ginormous, those things were. [2346.27] Dominic: Ginormous. [2348.75] Greg: Yeah. [2351.71] Greg: I also remember the day that we didn't have to use a screwdriver to tune the drone. [2359.79] Greg: Can you remember that? [2360.59] Greg: The old KKV 5.5 boards. [2365.8] Greg: Yeah, that was fun. [2367.48] Greg: That's going back a while. [2368.52] Greg: I think it was three little pots, wasn't it? [2372.04] Greg: It was useless, but it was fun. [2375.16] Curry: And it would just turn again. [2376.6] Curry: It was not really about a PID loop. [2378.6] Curry: It was like, do you want more roll or more tight a roll? [2383.56] Curry: It's like it wobbles. [2384.44] Curry: Try turning it and see what happens. [2385.72] Curry: It wobbles less. [2386.6] Curry: Yes, you've tuned it. [2388.36] Curry: That's it. [2390.36] Jack: Did you ever do a tutorial on that painless? [2394.52] Lee: I did some KK 2.0 setups, but I waited until there was a screen [2399.32] Lee: because it was genuinely a bit of the black art. [2402.44] Lee: You had to sacrifice an animal and leave the entrails. [2407.88] Lee: And as Currie says, I'm not convinced some of those pots were connected to anything. [2411.96] Lee: I think they were just there to make you feel better. [2415.56] Lee: What is done for that? [2416.68] Lee: Immersion RC? [2417.64] Tony: It's graded motherboard. [2421.16] Jack: That's the motherboard for a vortex. [2425.48] Curry: Was that the first vortex with the folding arm thing? [2428.6] Curry: Yeah. [2428.92] Curry: Was that the vortex or was that the other thing? [2431.16] Curry: Yeah. [2433.0] Dominic: Yes, that's right. [2433.64] Dominic: Yeah, no, it was that one. [2435.64] Dominic: And it was the first one that had an OSD that wasn't the MAX 7456 chip on it. [2441.72] Dominic: But Immersion RC never really did anything with their OSD. [2446.04] Dominic: They didn't really open to the rest of the world how you can do anything with it. [2452.44] Curry: That was a shame that was because I still want the Mojo 230. [2455.88] Curry: And the stuff they did in that was really quite impressive. [2458.92] Curry: They tried to integrate everything together and made it really quite friendly for people. [2463.64] Curry: But no one sort of jumped onto that and did anything with it. [2467.8] Tony: Yeah, but a few damage. [2468.84] Curry: You needed a skip. [2470.92] Tony: And it was like game over, wasn't it? [2473.32] Lee: I was going to say, it's like the old argument when we were all building quads in the early days [2477.32] Lee: and the all-in-one ESCs first started to come out. [2480.36] Lee: And there was one big tramp of you put an ESC on each arm. [2483.8] Lee: And then the other camp was, no, we used an all-in-one meter. [2487.0] Lee: And they were literally throwing rocks at each other. [2491.32] Stephen: And then there was the camp who were like, [2492.68] Stephen: why don't we just put everything on one giant PCB [2495.16] Stephen: that covers the whole length of the quad? [2496.6] Stephen: So if there's a tiny crack anywhere in the board. [2498.52] Lee: Yeah, I think there weren't pretty ones at then. [2502.2] Jack: Well, that was only, what was that in EMAX? [2507.96] Jack: That was their solution. [2511.72] Stephen: I mean, there's like the cinema where you've got that. [2515.24] Stephen: Well, the PCB that covers everything. [2518.92] Lee: There was one frame, was that the ZMR where there were traces actually in the frame itself? [2523.96] Stephen: Yeah, that's the one that Jack built as their retro board. [2527.8] Curry: TBS did it with their Discovery frame to replace your old NASA 450 as well. [2532.84] Curry: That was all on the PCB, wasn't it? [2535.32] Stephen: On the face of it, it looks usable because there's no messy wires. [2538.12] Stephen: But then you just think about how much PCB is going to flex versus a bit of silicon wire. [2543.0] Tony: I hated the TBS stack. [2544.68] Tony: I never used it, it just looked ridiculous. [2546.92] Tony: I think claims like, yeah, I think, yeah, you just pull one out. [2550.84] Tony: Yeah, that's why I just cut it away. [2553.16] Tony: Like a sandwich. [2554.68] Stephen: Yeah, power cube. [2557.64] Stephen: I think they're still selling those old F3 power cubes. [2561.0] Stephen: I saw them on the TBS store. [2563.72] Stephen: I don't know why they're still flogging them. [2568.22] Dominic: Yeah, because they used it in carbon drone, didn't they? [2571.58] Dominic: That's what they made it for. [2572.7] Curry: Oh, what was that called? [2573.66] Dominic: I don't remember the name of that, though. [2575.02] Curry: TBS released a lot that just sort of went and went away again. [2579.42] Curry: They also had that little hex thing as well. [2581.74] Tony: Oh yeah, the hex copter thing. [2583.26] Curry: Vendetta, that's it, yeah. [2586.54] Curry: What was that little hex they released as well? [2589.02] Tony: Yeah, it was a cool little drone though. [2590.54] Tony: Vendetta, yeah, that's it. [2592.38] Tony: And you were like, yay, man, look at me. [2594.3] Tony: I haven't got to say the vortex, wasn't it? [2597.58] Jack: What I really liked was back to the vortex. [2601.82] Jack: They had that thing where you could set the propeller rotation by spinning the motor. [2612.06] Tony: You're looking like you manually did that. [2614.38] Tony: Was it, you manually span it and then, or was it all? [2617.74] Dominic: You span it, and no, that's for... [2621.18] Dominic: Was it, yeah, it was for reversing props, wasn't it? [2623.66] Dominic: You could just spin it away and it's supposed to go. [2626.7] Dominic: And then it looked at the back EMF, I guess, [2629.66] Dominic: and then worked out which way round it was going. [2631.82] Curry: It also had a motor diagnosis tool, so you could spin the motors up [2636.94] Curry: and shit, they're all running at the same RPM. [2638.78] Curry: And so if you've got a problem, the Gemini is the thing I'd forgotten. [2642.94] Tony: Gemini, yeah. [2644.22] Curry: The little hex thing, which that didn't catch on either. [2647.66] Jack: Lee, did you have one of those, Geminis? [2650.46] Lee: No, I didn't. [2651.26] Lee: I'm just looking at the TBS Vendetta thing because I had one of those [2654.38] Lee: and they were amazingly engineered things, but it was all laid in carbon fiber. [2659.74] Lee: So if you broke anything... [2661.66] Lee: It was going to get expensive, yeah. [2664.46] Lee: But they were really smart because the arms snapped into the bottom [2669.26] Lee: with special connectors, so you just replaced an arm if you broke one. [2672.86] Lee: But if you broke the body, you were absolutely snookered. [2675.66] Lee: But all the electronics came out on a tray. [2678.3] Lee: You pulled the whole of the electronics out the front. [2680.38] Lee: It was actually really clever. [2682.3] Lee: Yeah, it was really smart. [2683.9] Lee: But it just didn't fly it. [2685.98] Dominic: It was quite nicely designed. [2688.06] Dominic: I remember seeing one. [2689.42] Lee: I think I flew mine about four times and nearly crashed it. [2692.06] Lee: And then I was like, okay, it's a wall hanger, that one. [2696.3] Lee: It looks great. [2696.86] Lee: But if I smash it up, then it's a bin job. [2700.62] Dominic: Yeah, if there was frames and something like that, [2704.78] Dominic: that you were actually going to keep for a long period of time, [2706.94] Dominic: that would be one that you'd want to keep. [2708.78] Dominic: I think you're right there. [2710.46] Tony: Definitely. [2711.66] Tony: Have we all got wall hangers? [2713.1] Tony: Have we all got stuff from 2014 and 15? [2717.5] Tony: Oh, I have. [2720.06] Frank: You mean we've definitely got some hanger queens. [2723.82] Frank: Yeah, it's like stuff that is not going to fly, even though it could. [2729.02] Frank: Yeah, definitely. [2731.74] Dominic: I have. [2732.22] Tony: It'd be nice to take to an event in another five years. [2736.46] Tony: Say like that sort of thing. [2737.98] Tony: I know Currykin's got shit like that. [2740.7] Tony: This bad boy. [2742.38] Curry: What frames that, Doth? [2745.34] Curry: Looks homemade. [2746.54] Tony: Does it fly? [2748.3] Dominic: It looks like it does fly. [2750.06] Dominic: Yeah. [2750.62] Lee: Oh, a gimbal with a GoPro on it. [2753.02] Curry: That's not a quantum frame, is it? [2759.1] Koel: Is that a Lex mass? [2761.74] Tony: When did the hero three come out? [2765.18] Tony: A long time ago. [2766.14] Tony: That's when that quad came out. [2767.98] Dominic: This has got some properly old school stuff on there. [2770.86] Dominic: You're probably getting better footage off your BV feet than that hero. [2773.82] Koel: Is that the Lex mass board? [2776.06] Dominic: With a gimbal. [2777.98] Dominic: I do not know what frame it is. [2779.74] Jack: Dom probably wrote the code himself. [2783.82] Dominic: I think it was something like a good luck buy, I think it was. [2787.66] Jack: Is that a D4R2 on there as well? [2791.5] Tony: I definitely don't know what time it is. [2793.26] Stephen: D4R2 is from good luck buy with the popular cross-finger arm quad range. [2798.94] Stephen: It's a bit dusty. [2799.58] Dominic: Come on, it's dusters on this. [2805.5] Stephen: Some chunky motors. [2807.74] Stephen: Give it a year or two. [2810.94] Dominic: I don't want to touch it. [2813.34] Tony: Oh, I love the old stuff. [2815.9] Tony: I think we should meet up one day, all of us. [2818.62] Tony: Do it like bring your old stuff and try to fly it. [2823.74] Dominic: And you know what? [2824.3] Dominic: I was flashing, I actually flashed clean fly on a board the other day. [2827.9] Dominic: It was great. [2828.62] Dominic: About two days ago. [2829.98] Tony: There you go. [2830.38] Tony: It is carrying it. [2831.42] Tony: Is it, Dom? [2832.86] Curry: Something like this. [2835.34] Curry: It's a great mind speaking alike here. [2837.98] Curry: I have the same thing. [2840.3] Curry: I took this with me on a backpack and it weighs about two and a half kilograms or... [2845.74] Dominic: Yeah, it's the same one, isn't it? [2846.86] Curry: Yeah. [2849.34] Dominic: Yeah, I remember breaking the white plastic top plate [2854.86] Dominic: and then making a new one out of a bit of clear plastic or something. [2861.26] Stephen: How long were the flight times that you're getting? [2863.82] Stephen: It's very heavy. [2864.62] Dominic: I was finding a 4,000 milliamp power battery in that thing. [2868.06] Dominic: What, the 3S? [2870.38] Dominic: Yeah, it was... [2872.38] Dominic: No, it was 4S on that. [2873.26] Curry: Oh, it was 4S? [2874.86] Dominic: Yeah, it was 4S on that. [2876.3] Curry: I think I was using a 5,200 4S, so about 10 minutes. [2880.62] Dominic: Yeah, I think it was about 10 minutes or so as well. [2883.1] Dominic: Yes, that's crazy. [2884.54] Dominic: That's what I flashed clean fly on the other day. [2886.22] Tony: Why did we go 4S and then back to 3S for drone racing, I mean? [2893.21] Stephen: Because people wanted to artificially limit the top speed. [2896.49] Stephen: Because it was getting to the point where 30 only like the top 1% of pilots were using full throttle. [2901.37] Stephen: So don't... [2901.85] Tony: Oh, this is the old... [2902.97] Tony: This is very... [2903.77] Tony: Look at those. [2904.25] Tony: This is the first ever... [2905.61] Tony: I've never seen a first ever one. [2908.41] Tony: That's it. [2910.41] Dominic: Oh, yeah. [2910.97] Tony: Don't check this stuff. [2912.41] Tony: Turn it off. [2913.61] Tony: Will it turn off? [2914.33] Tony: Will it turn off now? [2915.05] Tony: Will it turn off now? [2916.33] Tony: Yay. [2918.57] Tony: All right. [2919.29] Tony: It's... [2920.81] Tony: I can't really... [2920.97] Jack: Failed. [2922.73] Jack: Failed is... [2924.73] Tony: Check test. [2926.65] Jack: Yeah. [2926.97] Jack: Is... [2928.33] Jack: Fail safe. [2928.81] Jack: Fail safe. [2929.29] Dominic: I thought they were doing fail safe tests, weren't they? [2930.89] Dominic: Yeah. [2932.17] Tony: I forgot everyone's name, you know? [2934.01] Jack: No way. [2934.89] Jack: I recognise that LED board. [2938.41] Stephen: You should have seen the expressions when I turned up to FPV Drone Fest and they were like, [2942.17] Stephen: oh, yeah, we've got a fail safe check. [2943.69] Stephen: And I'm like, okay, all of them. [2945.21] Stephen: And they're like, what? [2946.17] Stephen: How many have you got? [2946.89] Stephen: Oh, wow. [2947.69] Stephen: I recognise that. [2950.33] Dom: Here's Jack. [2950.81] Dom: Yeah, I think so. [2951.61] Dom: That's an alien right there. [2953.53] Jack: Yeah. [2954.83] Dom: It's like the first year team sighting. [2959.79] Jack: What are you all... [2960.27] Jack: Look at that. [2961.63] Jack: That's Don Robinson. [2964.43] Jack: They look at it like they're wild animals. [2970.03] Koel: Jack, that's you on the left, isn't it? [2971.47] Koel: With the DC shoes. [2972.35] Jack: Yeah, right there. [2973.07] Jack: Yeah. [2973.55] Jack: Yeah. [2974.27] Jack: White car mods. [2975.15] Jack: Yep. [2976.11] Jack: Yeah, that's definitely Jack. [2977.95] Jack: It's a tranis. [2978.59] Jack: That's when I first... [2980.51] Jack: Team poop. [2981.15] Frank: You can spot my quad with the enormous antenna tubes. [2986.51] Jack: Look there. [2989.55] Jack: Have you been? [2990.19] Jack: Yeah. [2991.95] Jack: Gravity. [2993.79] Jack: Wow. [2994.27] Dom: That's a big. [2997.31] Dom: This is all from Mini Airshow 3. [3001.55] Dom: Wow. [3002.03] Stephen: Yeah. [3002.19] Dom: This is all from... [3003.15] Stephen: So that's just on gravity. [3004.99] Stephen: All those frames, they were new, [3006.83] Stephen: because that stuff was old when I was getting into it, really. [3010.75] Stephen: I've been watching RC groups threads for ages [3013.15] Stephen: and decided it all looked a bit messy and chaotic. [3015.87] Stephen: And then I got into it when stuff started to get it more integrated. [3020.75] Tony: Look at that old fossil frame. [3021.71] Tony: What camera is that on the top? [3023.71] Tony: What was that pink camera on the top? [3025.31] Tony: It was a fossil frame. [3026.35] Tony: That was a 280 gravity. [3029.31] Tony: Look at these old faces, man. [3033.18] Tony: Richard. [3034.54] Tony: That's all I remember him as. [3040.62] Tony: The guy in the red cap now, he's a marathon runner and really thin. [3046.78] Tony: I can't remember his name. [3047.82] Tony: I think he's from Poland. [3048.94] Dom: There's Ed. [3051.74] Tony: Ed's been on the podcast a few times. [3055.9] Tony: Look at Ed. [3057.5] Tony: Oh, I'm going to send him this link. [3060.14] Tony: What time are we on? [3061.1] Dominic: And I can see it. [3065.42] Tony: Yeah, he was a team peep, wasn't he? [3069.58] Tony: That is my quad. [3072.14] Jack: Oh my God. [3072.7] Jack: He looks like Fisher Price. [3074.3] Tony: Yes, my quad. [3075.18] Tony: He is a gravity. [3076.3] Jack: It looks like a twallard there. [3077.34] Jack: It is wide. [3078.22] Tony: That's a gravity 180. [3081.1] Stephen: Gold nose props. [3081.9] Tony: With the battery thing at the bottom. [3083.42] Tony: I remember. [3085.02] Stephen: Thing is, that was all the red for a while. [3086.7] Tony: That is, what's his name? [3089.5] Tony: Ali G. [3090.3] Tony: Guy. [3090.78] Tony: Yeah. [3092.7] Tony: Carlos. [3093.34] Tony: That's it. [3093.58] Tony: Very nice. [3095.9] Greg: Carlos. [3096.38] Tony: He's really young, isn't he? [3099.82] Tony: Look, there's a shape in the field like we're flying around a shape. [3103.98] Jack: Hey, did you see that motor twitch for no reason when Tony plugged in? [3115.1] Jack: That's one shot, one, two, five. [3117.82] Jack: Yeah, that's not good. [3121.66] Jack: Oops, I didn't build it. [3123.58] Tony: No, that's probably bad. [3127.02] Tony: That's definitely my bit. [3128.14] Tony: I want to remember it. [3129.42] Tony: Oh, JB, I'm plugging it back in. [3133.02] Tony: That's better work now. [3135.74] Curry: This is high tech part. [3137.02] Curry: High tech launching tiles. [3139.74] Curry: Yes. [3140.22] Jack: This is past. [3146.22] Tony: That was nearly a thing. [3156.46] Tony: That's definitely. [3159.02] Tony: Yeah. [3159.18] Tony: Hi, Brad. [3163.82] Jack: Can only turn. [3165.42] Tony: Yeah, I was glad that day was a left and right. [3171.74] Tony: Oh, my God. [3173.74] Tony: I've still got them jeans. [3174.94] Tony: Can't fit into them anymore, but I still got panic, panic repairs quick before we got a take off again. [3187.65] Tony: Mushroom antennas before Greg was around. [3190.21] Frank: Yeah, this is a massive, massively fun element of this relay race. [3196.13] Dom: Oh, yeah, it was a relay. [3197.25] Dom: It was a great race. [3198.21] Dom: It was a great race there. [3201.81] Jack: So much in the way of this wiring. [3204.13] Jack: Stevie Wonder. [3206.21] Tony: We're all Stevie back in the day, to be fair. [3210.21] Koel: No antenna? [3211.09] Curry: Yeah, this is the old antenna on a tripod. [3215.33] Curry: Yeah, better signal. [3217.89] Tony: Who is the girl? [3218.69] Tony: Did we have scouts there or something? [3220.61] Dom: Yeah, can't be scared to do flagging. [3224.61] Greg: That's James Page, isn't it, that chap? [3227.89] Tony: Is it James Page? [3229.17] Greg: That's right, yeah. [3232.13] Stephen: Use the bell. [3233.41] Stephen: I think that's an external ground station. [3235.81] Stephen: That's not just the area. [3236.93] Tony: We caught a lot of us here. [3238.21] Frank: The FR632, I think, the rate of racing brought along to have one per team. [3244.29] Frank: Because basically, the intermodulation just to auction on the rejection on the standard [3252.21] Frank: goggle modules back then was so poor, just like there was no chance of flying with that [3256.13] Frank: many people in the air. [3256.93] Frank: But those VRXs, those external VRXs that had nice big heatsicks and everything, [3263.81] Frank: they had good rejection of the off-channel frequencies. [3268.21] Frank: So you actually had a chance to fly with other people in the air [3271.41] Frank: and still only see your own image. [3274.29] Tony: Yeah, you're right. [3275.41] Tony: He was the guy who's now done drone racing in the UK Army, [3279.89] Tony: but I don't know his name. [3282.61] Tony: That's a quite a lot. [3283.41] Tony: Yeah, he came up. [3284.61] Dom: Yeah, Carl. [3285.33] Dom: No, Carl, Carl, he'd originally flown big drones and then got into racing. [3290.93] Tony: He was in the Army, wasn't he, or something like that one? [3293.81] Dom: Yeah, I think now races, Lockheed drones, wasn't it crazy? [3298.69] Dom: This was all... [3299.33] Dom: Oops, it's all diversity, isn't it? [3303.33] Dom: It's bigger than one of these. [3307.65] Tony: This chick, though, he was one of our lads [3313.54] Tony: on the first lot of LDI. [3319.52] Dom: Who's that in the background? [3321.28] Tony: He was a fossil stuff pilot and Martinez. [3326.08] Dom: Martinez, that's it. [3332.22] Tony: Look at the box goals on that. [3335.02] Jack: Did you see that square flat board cam? [3337.74] Tony: Let's turn it on. [3338.62] Tony: Oh, by the way, I'm powering on everyone. [3341.26] UNKNOWN: No, he's not. [3341.34] Tony: I've got to take a look. [3342.22] Koel: That's my DJI. [3344.22] Dominic: He's a video receiver. [3348.46] Dominic: That's amazing. [3349.5] Dominic: Sticking Australian goggles. [3350.94] Stephen: It's like a car radio strapped on the top of his head. [3354.54] Stephen: It's like a golf cart. [3355.5] Stephen: Isn't it? [3355.98] Tony: No, this is the Kent Club. [3359.02] Stephen: Walking with the tripods. [3360.46] Tony: That was the Kent Club. [3362.46] Jack: We're on the seventh hole. [3365.34] Jack: One under par. [3366.62] Stephen: Yeah, people are not just rocking up with their radios and goggles. [3369.42] Stephen: They go in the whole hole with deck chairs, [3371.1] Stephen: pecking tables, extendable radio masts. [3374.14] Tony: We've got three boxes. [3376.14] Stephen: There's Mobius action camera. [3378.22] Tony: Mobius for the win. [3380.3] Stephen: Big fat bullnose props again. [3382.38] Dominic: Is that Mobius or is that one of the run cams? [3385.66] Tony: No, we're in people. [3386.7] Stephen: What are some of those? [3387.74] Stephen: Mobius. [3388.22] Tony: We're all watching. [3390.94] Tony: Hey, Stevie. [3392.46] Stephen: I think it's the run cam. [3393.74] Stephen: They were already, they did a couple of those rectangular ones [3396.78] Stephen: before they moved to the. [3397.82] Tony: This was really so exciting, wasn't it? [3402.3] Tony: It was so good. [3405.82] Dominic: There was nothing else like it at the time. [3407.74] Stephen: Yeah, but you say cyborg. [3409.42] Stephen: That's like 1987 version of cyborg, [3412.78] Stephen: which is just a lot of polystyrene, a few wires and a metal shell. [3417.5] Tony: These were the days I love these days. [3419.74] Curry: It's like budget board. [3420.94] Curry: This is can you make it around the course? [3422.7] Tony: If so, you might win. [3426.22] Frank: That guy's got a course of even bigger. [3428.54] Frank: I remember those gates. [3430.7] Frank: This neck must be explicit. [3431.66] Frank: After that, in the strong winds we had on the third mini air show, [3435.98] Frank: they did not look that good. [3438.3] Tony: No, definitely ripped us red. [3441.42] Frank: Those are the fossil gates, right? [3443.82] Dom: No, this is this is this is Matt Alston. [3446.06] Dom: This was before, wasn't it? [3449.98] Dom: I think this was. [3450.94] Tony: I do remember it being on the hill, all a bit of a slant. [3453.98] Dom: I think we cut it down and did it with Rotorite, [3456.14] Dom: just to make it simple that year, [3457.66] Dom: because we were we were already getting heaped head and belly. [3460.38] Tony: That looked like a fossil stuff crashing. [3463.66] Jack: Yeah, that was Niko. [3466.94] Tony: That was someone fast. [3468.3] Tony: It was on for us and we were all on three. [3471.18] Dominic: It's nice to know that pretty much everybody there was flying some of my code. [3474.78] Dominic: Recognize these things flying around and. [3476.86] Dominic: Definitely. [3477.34] Dominic: It's pretty cool. [3478.7] Dominic: Most people will probably own your stuff then. [3483.42] Dominic: It is pretty cool. [3487.58] Dom: I've got a little bit of video, [3489.18] Dom: which looks more or less the same from from the year before as well. [3493.02] Dom: When Skye were there with just a couple of shots of people. [3496.38] Dom: He sent you over to me. [3497.58] Jack: I'll play it. [3499.18] Jack: There's me. [3500.06] Jack: That's me. [3500.54] Tony: That's me. [3503.02] Tony: You can literally see the Yeti from a mile off. [3506.22] Jack: If I didn't wear a wristwatch, man, people would be terrified. [3510.62] Jack: Arts and feet. [3511.9] Jack: Some pervert or jerk off to that later. [3513.98] Tony: Oh my God, the legend. [3522.78] Tony: Oh, he looks big for his mouth. [3526.06] Tony: What? [3526.46] Tony: Look at that. [3526.94] Tony: We used to fly through that. [3528.78] Tony: That was good video back then. [3532.78] Tony: We were like, Oh, I can see. [3535.1] Dom: I loved that video. [3536.46] Dom: Well, that was the best thing about that show is that big video wall. [3540.38] Koel: That is rough. [3541.5] Dom: I wanted to steal that video. [3543.58] Jack: Still barely better than your video feed today. [3549.58] Jack: I go. [3551.42] Koel: Yeah, that was that was rough today. [3553.42] Koel: Yeah. [3553.9] Jack: Your shoes, man. [3555.42] Jack: If anyone gets a chance, check out Cole's story on this. [3558.46] Jack: Well, Cole's been experimenting what it's like to fly around. [3561.58] Stephen: There's nothing currently not good. [3565.58] Tony: Yeah, that was a nice floor. [3571.34] Koel: Yeah. [3571.42] Koel: Yeah. [3571.9] Koel: I should have looked behind me before I armed and tried to get away from myself. [3578.46] Koel: It was bad. [3579.1] Koel: I had to basically disarm from like 100 feet up. [3581.26] Koel: It was luckily it was a muddy grass, muddy hill. [3584.22] Koel: So it was fine. [3585.74] Jack: I might have to teach you. [3586.94] Jack: Everything is fine. [3587.58] Jack: How do you use a spectrum analyzer? [3590.22] Stephen: Do you remember this geezer or eyes? [3592.3] Stephen: In fact, if you're standing next to a massive cell phone. [3594.46] Stephen: Remember that guy? [3595.18] Stephen: I remember. [3595.82] Tony: I remember him in the day, but I haven't seen him seen. [3599.18] Dom: He turned up down at Hidden Valley with an RV that I think he'd hide for the weekend. [3603.82] Dom: That was like about 4,000 foot long. [3606.46] Dom: And all the boy racers are sort of getting their little sports cars and stuck on all the [3611.1] Dom: rocks down at Hidden Valley. [3612.22] Dom: And then this guy's again down with this RV, which sunk into Hidden Valley. [3616.46] Dom: Cool DAA or ROC tried to tow it out. [3619.18] Dom: The tow truck was stuck. [3620.62] Dom: No, I don't remember that. [3621.66] Dom: I don't remember that. [3623.66] Dom: Pull it all apart and get them out. [3626.06] Dom: All flying through the. [3628.22] Dom: This is the year before. [3629.98] Dom: This is the very first Hidden Valley. [3631.58] Dom: I think I was here. [3633.26] Koel: Oh, this is awesome. [3635.34] Dom: This is a mini air show too. [3637.26] Dom: Right around in the sheep place, did they? [3639.5] Dom: I think this is my. [3640.38] Dom: It was a dead sheep. [3641.34] Dom: That was the funniest bit about the whole day was we turned up to clear the place [3645.1] Dom: and there was half a dead sheep rotting in one of the broken down barns. [3648.46] Dom: And there's someone who just never, I don't think you've ever seen grass before other [3651.74] Dom: than smoking it. [3652.62] Dom: And he was standing there going, oh my God, there's dead animal there. [3655.82] Dom: It's so cool to get hazmat suits and just panic, panic. [3660.38] Dom: And the farmer just came up and went that picked up, put it in a bin line on a pole [3666.14] Dom: with all the other ones. [3670.54] Koel: This is so cool to see because I've I've flown there and I've only been in the hobby. [3674.54] Tony: Like, you know, just barely a couple of years, but this Gabrielle look. [3679.26] Jack: Yeah, he's got a full on beard now. [3681.5] Tony: Yeah, I know. [3686.3] Tony: Jeez. [3688.06] Curry: Well, these were original dominators. [3690.94] Tony: There's Johnny again. [3692.22] Tony: Johnny Van and not running. [3693.74] Tony: What the hell is going on? [3695.1] Tony: That was me in the blue top flying. [3696.78] Dom: So what is very notable about this bit of video is in the background while they were [3701.26] Dom: filming me and Jack were talking about doing podcasts. [3705.34] Jack: Wow. [3705.82] Dom: Basically the idea of LDO in the background of that that day. [3711.1] Jack: Hang on. [3711.5] Jack: Let me just play. [3714.38] Jack: That is crazy. [3715.18] Jack: Like this is before he made his millions and bought a yacht and seven kilos of cocaine. [3724.86] Dom: Follow it with cools will cost 50 quid a minute. [3729.84] Tony: Could be coming for years now. [3732.88] Tony: There's people making money out of somebody. [3735.84] Tony: That's crazy. [3738.8] Dom: Folks, I've got to go. [3739.84] Dom: I've got to go. [3740.8] Dom: We're over time. [3741.92] Jack: Let's just say goodbye and then and then we're done. [3745.92] Jack: Thank you for everyone who tuned in. [3747.92] Jack: I'll be bright till I fly. [3750.24] Jack: We have been joined by and you have been listening to Let's Drone Out. [3756.96] Jack: Everyone's favorite curry kitten. [3759.12] Jack: Goodbye. [3760.96] Jack: Voice of doom. [3764.32] Jack: Who's muted themselves. [3767.6] Lee: I'm a radio professional. [3769.2] Jack: See everybody. [3771.2] Jack: Painless 360. [3773.84] Lee: Thank you very much. [3774.56] Lee: Happy birthday LDO. [3776.24] Jack: Andrew slash Frank. [3777.76] Jack: Bye. [3779.44] Jack: Greg from Menace RC. [3782.08] Greg: Thank you. [3782.56] Greg: Goodbye and happy birthday LDO. [3785.68] Jack: My buddy Cole. [3787.92] Jack: See you. [3789.2] Jack: The man with the Mustard Steven. [3791.12] Stephen: Good night. [3791.68] Stephen: Happy 400. [3792.96] Jack: And my darling wife. [3796.88] Jack: Thank you. [3797.68] Jack: This show has been supported by our lovely Patreons. [3800.64] Jack: Thank you for helping us get to 400. [3803.76] Jack: Thank you to everyone in the chat. [3805.76] Jack: Thank you for the best mods. [3807.2] Jack: Zero FPV. [3808.8] Jack: Thank you. [3809.28] Jack: Tailspin. [3810.0] Jack: Ed. [3810.4] Jack: Pradders. [3810.96] Jack: Your C word. [3811.92] Jack: Andy RC. [3812.64] Jack: We love you. [3815.36] Tony: Let's drone out. [3816.32] Tony: Let's drone out. [3817.44] Tony: Thank you guys. [3818.24] Tony: Effects mode. [3819.28] Jack: Anyone I have missed. [3821.76] Jack: Thank you. [3822.32] Jack: Good night. [3823.12] Jack: See you. [3824.72] Jack: Good night. [3825.28] Dom: Bye bye. [3827.68] Jack: Where's what? [3828.72] UNKNOWN: Telemetry loss.