=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 468 === Title: LDO 468 - 9 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Recorded: 2024-08-15 Hosts: Stephen "Belrik" Howell, Wayne "CurryKitten" Andrews, Andrew "Frank" Hyams, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant, Koel "Koala" Anderson, Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash Guest(s): (none recorded) Total audience: 1,069 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8jQsQu4i5M); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1898047833-letsdroneout-ldo-468-9-year-anniversary.mp3) ===================================== [0.0] Jack: Hello, and you're listening to Let's Drone Out, a special thank you to our lovely patrons [6.28] Jack: that help donate so that we can pay the editor to remove the swear words and silly things [11.36] Jack: we say. [13.0] Jack: Massive thank you to… [14.48] Jack: Carlos Campos! [16.68] Jack: Art Faulkner. [18.0] Stephen: Sam Dahmer. [19.68] Stephen: On with the show. [20.68] Koel: Hello, I'm a TV cover. [21.68] Koel: Let's Drone Out now. [52.06] Frank: Welcome to Let's Drone Out, it's the ninth year. [55.26] Frank: Hooray! [56.78] Curry: Woo! [57.78] Curry: We're meant to be back. [59.18] Frank: I am your long-running shadowed profit master, Frank. [63.26] Frank: Joining us this week, we also have everyone's favourite, Kerry Kitten. [66.94] Frank: Hello! [68.1] Frank: Man with a moustache, Steven. [69.94] MULTIPLE: Hello, nine more years. [73.86] MULTIPLE: Jack Ruddy Cole. [75.26] MULTIPLE: Howdy. [76.86] MULTIPLE: And Jack himself. [78.78] MULTIPLE: I am. [79.62] MULTIPLE: You made it. [80.86] MULTIPLE: Light gear, hooray. [83.7] Jack: I know. [87.06] Curry: Sorry, if I disappear a lot, you know why. [90.82] Curry: Just imagine Jack is your Wi-Fi display, but he's just got one bar right now. [95.9] Curry: This is what percentage we've got of a Jack, but that's better than no Jack, isn't it? [100.7] Curry: Yeah. [101.7] Curry: Definitely, definitely. [102.7] Frank: So, everyone in the chat, stick in how many years you've been listening. [108.3] Frank: Yeah, yeah. [110.26] Frank: How many of these nine years have you been following along? [114.06] Stephen: When was Andy R.C. last on? [117.97] Frank: That's a good question. [118.97] Stephen: Like, regularly, because I think I was listening, because I got into his channel, and then I [123.65] Stephen: came over to Let's Throw Now, so the answer for me is, like, I had it, like, a couple [129.53] Stephen: of years around Andy R.C., I guess. [132.01] Jack: Yeah, I think E-Manks are still a thing, and was that just all after the Romans killed [139.81] Jack: Jesus? [143.41] Stephen: Who was still using Free Sky, then? [145.73] Stephen: Everyone was using Free Sky. [148.41] Stephen: Another day, another fail-safe. [152.65] Stephen: These days, it's just like, yeah, I'll just go and rip, and like, what's your output power? [156.93] Stephen: Like, 25 milliwatt. [158.37] Stephen: Where are you? [159.37] Stephen: Three fields away behind a brick wall. [160.97] Stephen: Okay, fine. [161.97] Stephen: That works. [162.97] Frank: Don't mind me, I'm just updating all of my receivers. [167.41] Stephen: Yeah. [169.41] Stephen: That slowed down recently, like, that was a pain in my side about a year ago, but it's [174.29] Stephen: been relatively quiet, blissfully quiet, you might say. [179.37] Koel: In a strange roundabout way, I've actually been sort of tuned in since, like, the very [185.13] Koel: beginning, because I actually made the theme song for the show, although I actually wasn't [191.81] Koel: watching it. [192.81] Koel: I don't even think I was flying drones then. [193.81] Stephen: That is a bang out, Cole, I have to say, yes. [197.77] Koel: That's a nine-plus-year-old beat, so hey, if it still holds up today, I guess I did [202.05] Koel: all right. [203.05] Stephen: Yeah, definitely. [204.05] Stephen: It's kicking. [205.05] Stephen: It's the one bad thing about catching on YouTube, is we don't get that banger intro. [209.61] Koel: That's right. [210.61] Koel: Yeah. [211.61] Koel: How long did it tell you to make, Cole? [216.06] Koel: Probably like half an hour. [218.62] Curry: Was this just clips from Gary's band dragged into the timeline and go, there you go, and [222.58] Curry: I'll just put this Let's Drone Out sample in it? [225.42] Koel: So believe it or not, no, it was actually just a random beat that I had made that I [230.18] Koel: think, or it was either K, it was either a random beat that was made, or Jack was like, [235.86] Koel: Cole, I need an intro kind of thing, and I made it in like, you know, half an hour. [241.9] Stephen: I think we even have a remix of that somewhere, don't we, with a couple of sound clips chucked [246.1] Stephen: into it, like Tony saying something. [248.7] Jack: Yeah. [249.7] UNKNOWN: Somewhere. [250.7] Stephen: Wait for the singles to come out with a number of interesting B-sides. [256.46] Jack: Yeah. [257.46] Jack: I'd love for Cole to do a remix and do a sort of like DJ set with his cats and smoke machine. [268.06] Curry: Call out different musical genres and Cole has to do the theme tune in different ways. [273.42] Koel: All right, next year, it'll be the, for the 10 year, I'll have a jazz intro for us. [278.86] Stephen: If anyone's interested, you get a dub plate cut and Cole could like perform at old school [284.78] Stephen: on some decks. [287.78] Stephen: If Cole even has decks, does anyone even have decks anymore? [290.3] Stephen: Or do you just see them in museums, blind glass windows? [292.7] Stephen: I have no idea. [293.7] Koel: I mean, I have a skateboard deck. [295.82] Curry: Yeah, have you got a vinyl record player? [302.22] Stephen: A vinyl record player? [303.42] Curry: Yes. [304.42] Curry: Only because I bought it as a sort of wife's present because we found all our old vinyl [308.5] Curry: in the loft. [309.9] Curry: And so I was like, would you like to play this? [312.1] Curry: But once the novelty of actually getting a record out and like wiping it off carefully [316.58] Curry: and putting it on and not being able to go to the track you want and shout at Spotify [320.74] Curry: to play what you want, it becomes a bit of a pain in the ass. [325.54] Stephen: I have a huge amount of crap here. [328.02] Stephen: I've got a bit of Wildhearts, I've got some Iron Maiden, classic British rock. [335.3] Stephen: I've got Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet. [339.14] Stephen: And I've also got the classic Ghost, seven inches of satanic panic as well. [347.86] Stephen: All good fun. [348.94] Koel: You know what's funny about the pre-internet Spotify days? [353.06] Koel: We actually used to know the names of the songs we listened to. [356.3] Koel: Now it's like, oh, put on a playlist and oh, that's a cool song. [360.5] Koel: Oh, I'll never remember the name of that song, but I liked that one that just played. [365.3] Jack: Have you ever searched the FPV playlists in Spotify? [371.3] Jack: It's quite interesting. [373.14] Jack: Was it just like, it's all like, yeah, there's a lot of dubstep. [378.02] Jack: Kind of where I used to be. [381.06] Jack: I mean, it's not 2014 anymore. [384.02] Stephen: For a lot of FPV as it is still 2014, because unfortunately I think dubstep [389.78] Stephen: syncs up really well to the quite, quite boom style of FPV. [394.42] Stephen: Because that's what you've got really. [395.62] Stephen: It's like, go in here, go in there, swooshy swooshy, not doing much. [399.3] Stephen: Doing a big trick. [400.9] Stephen: Not doing anything, not doing anything. [402.9] Stephen: Doing a big trick. [405.54] Curry: I thought FPV always suited glitch hop in terms of the sort of the movements and the sort of [413.78] Curry: idea of it. [414.42] Curry: Although I have seen some ones, I remember Final Glide Oz going on about his friends [420.26] Curry: did this thing and he's just flying around a tree and he had some really sort of chill [424.26] Curry: almost classical music and that really worked for it. [428.5] Curry: But I was surprised that a lot of people can't fly unless they're listening to music. [433.62] Curry: Which I kind of literally can't take off. [437.3] Curry: I need to listen to my motors just in case the ones are going, [440.9] Curry: or something. [441.94] Curry: I want to hear that noise. [442.98] Curry: But yeah, I couldn't imagine flying to music. [445.38] Curry: I sort of make the music feel it afterwards if I wanted to. [448.66] Curry: But that's where you do loads of cuts and like, that fits now. [451.54] Stephen: I've never understood people who like FPV goggles and assist on having an earpiece. [456.42] Stephen: That's one thing I like, I just didn't get. [459.78] Stephen: They have like a mono earpiece and they don't even buy VTXs that microphones in. [464.1] Stephen: Like, I guess it helps. [467.38] Stephen: Some people can't fly without it. [469.54] Koel: But they want to hear required, right? [471.14] Koel: Yeah. [472.02] Curry: Yeah, but it's not like listening to a quad like you would if it flies by. [477.22] Curry: It's just like, let's put a microphone pretty much next to four massive motors [483.14] Curry: and blow a fan on it. [484.98] Curry: That's the noise you've got. [486.18] Curry: Yeah, it's awful. [487.3] Stephen: It just feels like someone who says, yeah, let's go out to a club. [490.26] Stephen: And they spend their entire night with their heads stuck in the base bin. [493.22] Stephen: It's like missing a point a bit there, surely. [496.58] Koel: If you ever listen back to like your DVR, your analog DVR, it's not a pleasant sound. [502.18] Koel: It's not great. [503.78] Koel: It's good for reference. [504.66] Stephen: It can make sure you're down to 30% and put some music over it. [509.06] Stephen: Yeah. [509.38] Frank: But the thing is, they get a 2.5 millisecond improvement on their response time to something [516.42] Frank: that it does. [519.86] Koel: Auditory stimuli. [523.94] Koel: Yeah, exactly. [524.74] Frank: Like, your brain can process it quicker than visual stimuli. [528.1] Frank: So there's like, there's a quicker response time. [530.34] Stephen: We should be cool about it. [531.46] Stephen: There's a lot of like, there's a fair amount of neurodiverse people in the crowd. [534.98] Stephen: And if they find it helps them, then it helps them. [537.46] Stephen: And that's fine. [538.1] Jack: Exactly. [539.06] Jack: Exactly. [539.62] Jack: The only time I've ever used the microphone thing on a quad was at Hidden Family, where [546.98] Jack: there was two camps. [548.58] Jack: And we flew a drone between the camps and would land. [552.5] Jack: And we could hear them. [554.18] Jack: And then we could respond by pulsing the buzzer. [560.34] Jack: Like, one beats BS, two for now. [564.42] Jack: And then we delivered some biscuits. [565.86] Jack: And that's all I've done. [569.46] Jack: They take some digestive biscuits to the bottom of the quad. [572.74] Jack: And we flew them back. [573.78] Jack: And I can't remember who I was. [575.06] Stephen: I do like, playing little tunes on the throttle. [578.1] Stephen: Does anyone else do this? [579.46] Stephen: Like, do shaving a haircut. [584.82] Stephen: Just like, quickly ratchet the throttle up and down to play tunes. [588.74] Stephen: If you're feeling whims, it won't score about it. [591.54] Frank: Here we go. [592.02] Frank: Here's our 10th anniversary plans, then. [596.58] Frank: We're going to have a band purely formed of drone-based physical synth noises. [605.62] Stephen: If you could get people to coordinate, that would be pretty cool. [608.02] Stephen: Like, because you can, obviously, you can hit notes. [610.26] Stephen: You just have to have a certain throttle value as a certain pitch, isn't it? [615.3] Curry: We could do that on the desk. [616.82] Curry: We just have, like, a bunch of motors and props. [619.46] Curry: Get some Arduino thing to MIDI it all up. [622.42] Curry: And like, every note is, like, a different pitch on the... [625.86] Curry: John's definitely got enough radio for that. [628.82] Stephen: You just need a whole load of bungee cords. [630.9] Stephen: Tie all the drones down. [632.74] Stephen: And then, you know, you just, you know, play the throttles. [637.14] Curry: I've always been interested in doing stupid stuff. [641.78] Curry: And just, instead of multiple radios, I'd always go one radio, multiple quads, [646.5] Curry: and just see what happens. [649.06] Curry: They fly approximately the same. [651.3] Stephen: We can find multiple quads. [653.46] Stephen: You've got to get multiple notes. [654.74] Stephen: You need polyphony, right? [656.26] Stephen: So you'd need, like, multi-quad polyphony to pull off a complex tune, right? [660.66] Stephen: So you'd need... [662.42] Stephen: Unless you're going, like, Nokia old... [664.1] Stephen: You could do, like, Nokia ringtone, but, you know, you've got to push yourself. [668.9] Stephen: One radio in each hand, and maybe one in each toe, [671.38] Stephen: and just try and, like, use four throttles at once. [674.34] Curry: I feel, if we really wanted to go proper old-school, [677.78] Curry: we'd go pre-flight controller and manually fly a quad with no... [683.38] Curry: Nothing, no gyros or that rubbish. [685.54] Curry: We'd just have four controls that you'd somehow use your feet and hands for, [689.62] Curry: and both bury the throttle in each motor and fly that way. [695.46] Stephen: Tony, why is your subscript still le ferret boy? [699.94] Tony: Because I am a little ferret. [702.18] Tony: A little ferret boy? [704.18] Tony: A little ferret boy. [706.18] Curry: Is that what they call him in airsoft? [708.18] Curry: I thought it was Jared. [710.18] Curry: Because he's in people's trousers all the time. [712.18] Curry: Oh, I thought Jack likes to stuff in Danny's trousers, basically. [716.18] Koel: I didn't say that, as well. [718.18] Koel: Yeah, I thought... What happened to Jack Starling Wave? [722.18] Tony: I forgot the show was on, and it's only nine years, so... [727.18] Tony: Oh, dear. [728.18] Tony: Where are you, Jack? [730.18] Tony: I'm not at home. [732.18] Tony: Yeah. [733.18] Stephen: Oh, yeah? [734.18] Stephen: He's in his secondary recording studio. [736.18] Jack: He just flips my thing. [738.18] Jack: Yeah, I'm on my bed. [740.18] Jack: He's grounded. [742.18] Stephen: Luckily not in the tertiary recording studio. [746.18] Tony: He's sitting on his bed. [748.18] Tony: How is everyone? [750.18] Tony: Good. [751.18] Tony: Yeah, thank you. [752.18] Stephen: Yeah, right. [753.18] Tony: All good. [754.18] Stephen: Did we get a vote in the end saying give up and stop doing this? [759.18] Stephen: No, a couple of death threats, but no vote. [762.18] Tony: No, all clear. [765.18] Tony: OK, so we've got to carry on another year, fine. [768.18] Koel: Yeah, I mean, you're so close. [770.18] Koel: If you're at nine years, you've got to do at least... [772.18] Koel: You've got to get to ten. [773.18] Tony: Might as well, I suppose. [776.18] Stephen: Just by pure anger. [778.18] Stephen: Just rage all the way to ten. [781.18] Stephen: Look at Jack's face. [782.18] Stephen: He wants this. [784.18] Curry: Fifty-two more of these. [786.18] Curry: Keep going for twenty-five and get a silver little anniversary. [790.18] Curry: Yeah, wristwatch. [793.18] Koel: Yeah, that is a question. [794.18] Koel: What does happen at the ten year? [796.18] Koel: What do we get? [797.18] Koel: Do we get like a little plaque on the wall? [799.18] Koel: Do we get a... [800.18] Stephen: Well, I believe it's traditional in the corporate world [802.18] Stephen: to get a small piece of plastic with your name etched on it. [806.18] Stephen: We can probably manage that. [808.18] Stephen: Yeah. [809.18] Tony: That's our level. [812.18] Jack: Jack, you've got some hinting skills. [815.18] Jack: If Frank designs it, I don't know. [817.18] Jack: I should probably have a word with Frank. [819.18] Stephen: I'm going to have to do some CNC soon, Frank. [823.18] Stephen: Yeah? [824.18] Stephen: Yeah. [825.18] Stephen: We have a CNC, and I've got it wired up to... [828.18] Stephen: It speaks GRBL. [831.18] Stephen: Do you pronounce that gerbil or gerbil? [833.18] Stephen: Gerbil. [834.18] Stephen: I would. [835.18] Stephen: Okay, that's a little bit more Nazi than I was hoping for, but okay. [841.18] Stephen: Anyway, I've got it rigged up to a raspberry pie, [844.18] Stephen: and this CNC JS thing that's like a web server that can speak gerbil [851.18] Stephen: and takes in all of your model files after they've been converted. [858.18] Stephen: I think you just convert them to gcode and you upload them there. [862.18] Stephen: And yeah, I'm not really sure on the optimal way of doing things. [867.18] Stephen: I'm kind of blundering through a bit. [870.18] Stephen: Wife wants to create some kind of custom shelving things. [874.18] Stephen: She's got a big pegboard next to where she works, [878.18] Stephen: and she wants to make a cup holder that mounts into the pegboard [882.18] Stephen: that is the shape where a couple slot on it and not slide off. [886.18] Stephen: So she wants to do some circular indentations and stuff. [890.18] Stephen: Yeah, and we're trying to source lots of spare bits of work [893.18] Stephen: because I'm pretty sure it's going to take... [895.18] Stephen: She thinks it's going to work right first time. [897.18] Stephen: I've done 3D printing, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need six or seven attempts. [901.18] Stephen: Yeah. [904.18] Frank: You kind of build it up. [906.18] Frank: You don't go straight for the nice material. [909.18] Frank: You get a bit of cardboard, try something on that, [912.18] Frank: and then get a slightly bit of wood and try it on that, [915.18] Frank: and then you get a nice bit of wood. [917.18] Stephen: What's your kind of software stack? [919.18] Stephen: What do you use for your CNC stuff? [923.18] Frank: CNC, there's... [925.18] Frank: I haven't done much in a long while. [927.18] Frank: I think it was called Maker CNC, was what I was using, I think. [932.18] Frank: There was something like that. [934.18] Frank: There was like a bit of software. [936.18] Frank: There was three bits of software that was sort of 2.5D type stuff. [941.18] Frank: All for laser cutting, I used... [946.18] Frank: What is it called? [948.18] Frank: Light. [950.18] Stephen: Because didn't you have a laser cutter that you were like setting up, [954.18] Stephen: or what about? [955.18] Stephen: Or is this big shelved? [957.18] Stephen: Did that make it some new house? [960.18] Frank: So, at the office, there's a big laser cutter [964.18] Frank: that I occasionally play with. [967.18] Frank: What is that? [968.18] Jack: It's probably more familiar with Adobe Illustrator. [974.18] Jack: You can just export as the XF files. [979.18] Stephen: Yeah, yeah. [980.18] Stephen: She found some... [983.18] Stephen: What was it? [984.18] Stephen: There's a 3D modeling thing that was open source [987.18] Stephen: that used to be a Google project. [989.18] Stephen: I'm trying to remember what the hell it was called. [991.18] Stephen: SketchUp. [992.18] Stephen: SketchUp, yeah. [993.18] Stephen: Yeah, you can export from SketchUp and do stuff that way. [998.18] Frank: You might as well use crackier software. [1002.18] Frank: I am not a fan of SketchUp for anything. [1007.18] Frank: But yes, Lightburn is what I use for laser cutting. [1014.18] Stephen: Yes, sir. [1015.18] Stephen: Yeah, I've got a little Sainsmart CNC. [1018.18] Stephen: I chucked a Raspberry Pi on the side of it. [1020.18] Stephen: I ordered one of their own motor controllers, [1022.18] Stephen: and I'm like, oh yeah, this is nice. [1024.18] Stephen: You just put a microSD in, you have model, press go, it's great. [1028.18] Stephen: Then I realized it was interpreting all of the instructions correctly, [1032.18] Stephen: except, and this is one small oversight, [1035.18] Stephen: except for the instruction that stopped the motor. [1040.18] Stephen: When I could literally program a two-line aisle [1044.18] Stephen: with start the motor, stop the motor, [1047.18] Stephen: and it would not do the stop. [1049.18] Stephen: I'm like, okay, I'll put a pause in. [1050.18] Stephen: Maybe it's just too soon. [1051.18] Stephen: No, it didn't work. [1052.18] Stephen: I put the Raspberry Pi on and send the same program to it, [1055.18] Stephen: and lo and behold, it stops the motor. [1058.18] Stephen: That was not a great builder of faith, [1061.18] Stephen: but I think we have a solution now. [1063.18] Stephen: Plus, the Pi has a web interface, which is a bit friendly. [1066.18] Stephen: For a lot of CNC milling, [1068.18] Frank: the actual router bit is generally not controlled by the CNC system. [1077.18] Frank: Oh, it is. [1078.18] Stephen: It absolutely is. [1079.18] Stephen: There's a straight-up GTO command for stopping the motor, [1081.18] Stephen: and it was just bloody ignoring it. [1084.18] Frank: In most home CNC-type things, [1088.18] Frank: you just get a router and you stick it on the gantry [1093.18] Frank: and you set it going, [1094.18] Frank: and then it starts doing its X, Y, Z, [1098.18] Frank: but the actual motor is generally just running all the time [1101.18] Frank: and you don't worry about it. [1103.18] Jack: There, but hold your piece. [1105.18] Jack: Exactly. [1106.18] Jack: I don't know. [1107.18] Jack: There's something about me. [1108.18] Jack: Hold your piece and it fires across the room. [1110.18] Stephen: Yeah. [1112.18] Stephen: If I'm going to leave this running for like 12 hours [1115.18] Stephen: and not be able to stand over it every minute, [1118.18] Stephen: I'd quite like for it to stop spinning the little death blade. [1122.18] Frank: Yeah. [1123.18] Frank: That was the main thing. [1124.18] Frank: I've never used a CNC for that long. [1127.18] Frank: I've never used a CNC machine running overnight. [1132.18] Frank: I don't know. [1134.18] Frank: I wouldn't leave it unattended. [1136.18] Frank: Wood burns a lot. [1139.18] Frank: Yeah. [1140.18] Frank: It's all dust. [1141.18] Frank: It's going to be in shed, but even so here. [1144.18] Frank: Router bits get very hot. [1147.18] Stephen: This is going to be an interesting learning experience. [1150.18] Stephen: Lovely. [1151.18] Stephen: Speaking of getting very hot and burning, [1154.18] Stephen: I recently received an Amazon notification [1157.18] Stephen: that my charger, [1158.18] Stephen: which I've been using for the last five years, [1160.18] Stephen: was a death trap, which is nice. [1166.18] Stephen: I had an HDRC Duo C24C probably reviewed years ago [1170.18] Stephen: by a lot of people here. [1173.18] Stephen: And it's been working fine, [1174.18] Stephen: but I got this Amazon recall notification saying [1177.18] Stephen: that there's been like 32 reports of things catching fire. [1181.18] Stephen: So I'm now the proud owner of something that I completely can't remember. [1187.18] Stephen: It's like a D6 Pro HOTA. [1189.18] Stephen: I think it's a HOTA one. [1190.18] Jack: Yep. [1191.18] Stephen: Yeah. [1192.18] Stephen: So word of warning. [1193.18] Stephen: If anyone has the HDRC C240 Duo, [1196.18] Stephen: apparently people in the US have deemed it a death trap. [1202.18] Stephen: Probably because people plugged in batteries the wrong way, [1205.18] Stephen: because it came with banana plugs, [1207.18] Stephen: like 4mm split plugs instead of an XT60. [1210.18] Stephen: But even so, apparently it's dangerous. [1213.18] Tony: Has anyone seen the new Bard World quad? [1219.58] Tony: Well, I don't think it's Bard World's, [1220.58] Tony: but he done a little video on it. [1223.58] Tony: Is it with the O3? [1226.58] Stephen: Yeah, I saw that last night actually. [1228.58] Stephen: I thought it was quite an interesting take. [1229.58] Stephen: I didn't see it. [1230.58] Stephen: Flywoo. [1231.58] Tony: Yeah. [1232.58] Tony: It looks very nice. [1233.58] Tony: Carbon frame. [1235.58] Stephen: Yeah, instead of plastic frame. [1237.58] Stephen: Oh, a little tiny one. [1238.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1239.58] Stephen: The first one, surprisingly, [1241.58] Stephen: the first one to come out with like a naked O3, [1244.58] Stephen: even though these things are running like 1102 or 1103 motors, [1249.58] Stephen: they're running like fully cased O3 units, [1252.58] Stephen: which is like 25 grams of metal. [1255.58] Stephen: Seems a bit nuts, [1256.58] Stephen: but apparently Flywoo was the first one to sell it decased from the factory. [1262.58] Tony: It looks good. [1263.58] Tony: It looks like something that might get me back into a bit of flying, [1268.58] Tony: but that means buying O3 goggles as well, doesn't it? [1271.58] Stephen: No, you get the V2s, mate. [1273.58] Stephen: I've literally been flying this week with a naked O3 [1277.58] Stephen: on like a little 3.5 inch with V2s. [1281.58] Stephen: And you get the best experience with the V2s. [1283.58] Stephen: They do 120 hertz. [1285.58] Stephen: The fancy OLED ones max out at 100 FPS, [1288.58] Stephen: and then you have to... [1290.58] Stephen: It's this stupid like you have to get this giant chart of frame rates. [1294.58] Stephen: Like MadsTech has an entire grid that says you want to run out [1298.58] Stephen: and you want to record out. [1300.58] Stephen: Basically, if you haven't got the V2s, [1302.58] Stephen: you've got to record at like 2.7K instead of 4K. [1306.58] Stephen: Otherwise, you can't get a high frame rate. [1308.58] Stephen: It's just a pain. [1311.58] Tony: Do you mean high frame rates all the time? [1314.58] Stephen: You might as well capture everything and figure it out later. [1318.58] Stephen: I don't know. [1319.58] Stephen: I mean... [1320.58] Stephen: I only want to record it late. [1322.58] Tony: Well, only if you want to slow stuff down. [1324.58] Tony: Otherwise, cinematic stuff, I would still record at 24. [1328.58] Stephen: So if you record at 24 with the O3, you view at 24. [1333.58] Stephen: That's the problem, right? [1335.58] Tony: Oh, okay. [1336.58] Tony: So you fly and then you only get in 24 frames. [1339.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1340.58] Stephen: And that's why when your goggles screw you around, [1342.58] Stephen: because you can't record a traditional cinema frame rate, [1346.58] Stephen: you've got to record at like a wacky 100 hertz frame rate, [1349.58] Stephen: which no video format really uses, 100 frames a second. [1353.58] Stephen: It's like 30, 60, 120. [1355.58] Tony: Well, a couple of films come out at 120 frames. [1358.58] Tony: They just look stupid. [1359.58] Tony: The Will Smith film, I can't remember. [1361.58] Tony: He's on a train or something. [1362.58] Tony: Shoot you the train, snipe for a video. [1365.58] Tony: I mean, I suppose it's good if you get to a point in a scene [1369.58] Tony: and you want to half it or slow it down or whatever. [1373.58] Tony: I mean, you can still render at 24. [1375.58] Stephen: The simple matter of fact is if you want to get in the game, [1378.58] Stephen: the V2 goggles are going to be a lot cheaper [1380.58] Stephen: than buying the Integra's or the goggles too as well. [1385.58] Koel: That's interesting. [1386.58] Koel: I actually... [1387.58] Koel: You always hear about people saying like, [1388.58] Koel: oh, you know, you can't fly at 30, you can't fly at 24, yada, yada. [1391.58] Koel: But I'm actually curious to see what it is actually like [1394.58] Koel: because everyone says like, oh, you know, the more, the better and whatnot. [1399.58] Koel: But like, I'm sure it can still be done. [1403.58] Stephen: Yeah, of course, you can do it. [1405.58] Stephen: It's just like, I don't know. [1408.58] Stephen: It's not really political to say these days, [1410.58] Stephen: but it does feel like you're slightly pissed, right? [1413.58] Stephen: It's like you're trying to... [1415.58] Stephen: Everyone who's drunk has probably like tried to run up a flight of stairs [1418.58] Stephen: when they were drunk and then thought, well, that was a bit closer [1421.58] Stephen: than I'd like to have been. [1422.58] Stephen: And it's kind of like that when you're flying at 30 frames a second [1426.58] Stephen: or something, when you could be flying at 120. [1429.58] Stephen: You can do it, but you need to give yourself a little bit of a gap [1433.58] Stephen: before you get to something to position yourself. [1438.58] Koel: Yeah. [1439.58] Koel: Hey, Dan, that's a good deal there. [1442.58] Koel: It's a pretty good deal, it sounds like. [1444.58] Koel: Hey, Phil, Soph. [1445.58] Tony: How much is the throne that Barbara was advertising with the O3? [1451.58] Stephen: Oh, $315 with the O3. [1457.58] Stephen: That's not super, I think. [1458.58] Stephen: I think it was the price she had on screen. [1460.58] Koel: Yeah, and then when you convert it to your guys' money... [1463.58] Koel: What is the UK experience? [1465.58] Stephen: We get screwed, right? [1466.58] Stephen: Like, the US pays basically no tax, so you take the price. [1470.58] Stephen: It's about a dollar to a pound. [1472.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1473.58] Stephen: We actually end up paying a bit more than the dollar amount sometimes, [1476.58] Stephen: which is annoying because we pay more tax. [1479.58] Stephen: So even though the currency conversion should peg it at about, you know, [1484.58] Stephen: say 80% of what the dollar value is, we then pay tax on it [1489.58] Stephen: and it kind of pushes it over and... [1491.58] Koel: It just makes it either even or you're paying more, actually. [1494.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1495.58] Stephen: You get import and then value added tax. [1498.58] Frank: At least for consumer tech stuff, if you just take the dollar sign off [1502.58] Frank: that pound sign on, that's about right. [1504.58] Koel: Yeah, yeah. [1505.58] Koel: So what about if you order stuff from China? [1508.58] Koel: Do you still have to... [1510.58] Koel: Yeah. [1511.58] Stephen: It's a lottery. [1512.58] Stephen: Sometimes you don't pay tax and sometimes you do. [1516.58] Curry: I've been getting a lot of stuff recently [1519.58] Curry: where they tend to use some sort of UK shipping office. [1523.58] Curry: So they ship all the stuff from China to this one UK place [1526.58] Curry: and then they go out locally. [1528.58] Curry: So it depends where it comes from. [1530.58] Curry: AliExpress do take a tax payment up front [1535.58] Curry: but then you won't pay anything when it gets here. [1538.58] Stephen: AliExpress has just been exhausting recently. [1541.58] Stephen: Their pricing strategy is insane. [1545.58] Stephen: I'm sometimes looking at an entire page, 20 different pages, [1549.58] Stephen: all selling the exact same model number of something. [1553.58] Stephen: And their prices are all within 10 pence of each other [1556.58] Stephen: and you go to checkout [1558.58] Stephen: and only one of them costs like three pounds more than the other [1562.58] Stephen: when it was 10 pence difference [1564.58] Stephen: because some of them add extra tax and shipping and don't mention it. [1567.58] Stephen: And then you sometimes get automatic discounts [1570.58] Stephen: and they don't... [1571.58] Stephen: Some of them seem to just not charge you tax [1573.58] Stephen: or they charge you tax and then discount you the tax. [1577.58] Stephen: It's absolute chaos. [1579.58] Stephen: It's a bit of a mind. [1580.58] Stephen: Yeah, great price but it's exhausting. [1582.58] Koel: I've only bought a few things off Ali [1584.58] Koel: but it's a very weird website to be honest. [1589.58] Koel: It's a very weird website. [1590.58] Koel: It's like mayhem. [1591.58] Stephen: Absolute mayhem. [1592.58] Stephen: It's the wild west out there. [1594.58] Frank: This episode was recorded in front of a live online audience, [1597.58] Frank: downloaded and edited to make sense when it played audio only, [1600.58] Frank: censored to please the iTunes people, hosted on the internet, [1603.58] Frank: forwarded through to your podcast provider, [1605.58] Frank: downloaded, playing on your device [1607.58] Frank: and is now playing in your ears. [1609.58] Frank: All thanks to our Patreons. [1611.58] Frank: Consider joining them and you'll also get other online benefits. [1614.58] Frank: Find out more at Patreon.com forward slash Let's Drone Out. [1619.58] Curry: Just talking of FPV videos, [1621.58] Curry: I saw Cole's mate, Falconrad, lost one of his drones. [1627.58] MULTIPLE: He did. [1628.58] Curry: In the most amazing way possible [1630.58] Curry: where he's not going to get it back until there's another glaciation [1633.58] Curry: and it comes down that mountain. [1635.58] Curry: Literally at the top of the spikiest spike way up high. [1640.58] Koel: Yeah, he's going in for the dive and it's fine. [1644.58] Koel: And then something comes right by him at the right hand side. [1647.58] Koel: So he pulls to the left, but he overcorrects to the left. [1650.58] Koel: And then it's just like no more video. [1653.58] Curry: Yeah. [1654.58] Curry: No GPS, no nothing. [1655.58] Curry: The OSD, that's the worst thing. [1658.58] Curry: The OSD screen, it's up so, so high, inaccessible. [1663.58] Koel: Well, the funny part too is like, well, [1665.58] Koel: maybe the sad part is like, yeah, he still had the OSD. [1668.58] Koel: So he had to literally just take off the goggles while his quads still running. [1673.58] Koel: And he's like, oh, like that must have felt like. [1678.58] Stephen: Yes, right. [1679.58] Stephen: So he's got the coordinates at least. [1681.58] Koel: Yeah, but there's no getting up there, man. [1683.58] Stephen: We know where it is. [1686.58] Stephen: It's not proper. [1687.58] Curry: He's upside down and he can't get back in the air. [1690.58] Koel: The thing is, you know, very high. [1692.58] Curry: The other one he lost, it was only like a couple of hundred meters in front of him. [1696.58] Curry: But the forest was so thick. [1699.58] Curry: There's just, you couldn't get through it. [1701.58] Curry: There's just no getting it back when it's like. [1703.58] Tony: I lost my five inch for hours, four hours in a tiny patch of forest. [1712.58] Tony: It takes so long. [1715.58] Tony: Even doing like the spiral out water when you start from a point and you just, [1721.58] Tony: it just takes ages, man. [1724.58] Tony: Always called your debut. [1727.58] Koel: Yeah. [1728.58] Stephen: Well, stupid loud beepers. [1730.58] Koel: Yeah. [1731.58] Koel: What the Falcon Rad video, though, is like we were like I saw him in the comments [1736.58] Koel: saying some stuff like he's surprised he still had it. [1739.58] Koel: He's had that rad lie on for like he said like six, [1743.58] Koel: seven years or something like that. [1745.58] Koel: And he's had a lot of close calls. [1747.58] Koel: And that was like his original, original build. [1750.58] Koel: And, you know, this this was this was the time, I guess. [1754.58] Koel: But what he was happy about, actually, he spun it really well. [1759.58] Koel: He was happy because it means that he doesn't have to use his hero 11 mini anymore. [1763.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1764.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1765.58] Stephen: You got the happy memories as well. [1766.58] Stephen: You got a choice for these things. [1767.58] Stephen: You can build them and be like, that's a beautiful build. [1769.58] Stephen: I'm going to put it on the wall and never use it. [1771.58] Stephen: Or you can use it in full knowledge that there's like a five percent chance [1775.58] Stephen: every time you go out and fly it. [1777.58] Stephen: You're going to lose the thing and never see it again. [1779.58] Tony: That's why I never buy a brand new car because I'm literally just sometimes [1783.58] Stephen: you just lose them totally. [1785.58] Tony: Just lay under it and look at how clean it is. [1788.58] Koel: Lose them on the on the glacier of the mountain. [1791.58] Koel: Yeah. [1792.58] Koel: Yeah. [1793.58] Curry: It'd be for future generations to find and figure out what it was. [1797.58] Curry: Yeah. [1798.58] Curry: Yeah. [1799.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1800.58] Stephen: Three thousand feet up on the top of the mountain. [1802.58] Tony: I'm still hoping I'll get a GoPro back. [1805.58] Tony: I lost, I don't know, it must have been hero one or two in the drink in the [1810.58] Tony: river in Guildford years ago. [1812.58] Tony: I'm still waiting for someone to find that and send it to me. [1815.58] Stephen: Maybe future archaeologists will be like, here we are in the early millennial [1821.58] Stephen: era and see a number of GoPros recorded. [1826.58] Tony: Yeah. [1827.58] Tony: Got it. [1828.58] Koel: What is this? [1829.58] Koel: What is this extremely large flash memory that has been it's hard to believe. [1834.58] Koel: This is only 500 gigabytes. [1839.58] Frank: This unusual conglomeration of metal and plastic was believed to have some [1843.58] Frank: religious significance. [1844.58] Stephen: A totem possibly or a fertility symbol. [1848.58] Curry: Has it actually got anything that identifies you like a name address? [1852.58] Curry: Well, no name address. [1853.58] Curry: Well, it just has to figure out from you like who ring your room or something [1856.58] Curry: and capture that. [1857.58] Tony: Yeah. [1858.58] Tony: I don't know. [1859.58] Tony: There's just me and someone on their kayak inside. [1861.58] Tony: I don't know. [1862.58] Stephen: It could just be like Tony Robinson or someone of his ilk like dressed in an [1866.58] Stephen: all foil space outfit thousands of years in the future digging that stuff up. [1873.58] Jack: I always wanted to like secretly write Tony is a wiener in one of his quads [1879.58] Jack: and then put the PCB over the top of it. [1882.58] Jack: You probably had that written on. [1887.58] Tony: Oh, come on. [1888.58] Tony: There's things on the X class inside the polls and things. [1893.58] Tony: Secret school. [1895.58] Koel: Well, the only time that it's going to be looked at is when Jack's working on it. [1901.58] Tony: It just makes him chuckle. [1904.58] Tony: That's one of my stickers. [1907.58] Jack: There was a pilgrimage. [1909.58] Jack: We found it to be religious significance. [1913.58] Jack: It's a shame it's gone. [1914.58] Tony: It drives there and bowed in front of it. [1919.58] Stephen: Curry, speaking of FPV stuff. [1921.58] Stephen: I saw your video on the funky TX16 with the inbuilt video screen. [1928.58] Stephen: This is all new and weird and exciting. [1931.58] Stephen: How's that going? [1932.58] Curry: Well, this comes out tomorrow for normal people. [1934.58] Curry: This is the fat fish F16, which looks a bit like a TX16 or almost exactly like a [1939.58] Curry: TX16 and has this. [1942.58] Curry: It's got a screen on it, but it's also got a module that gets the unusual. [1947.58] Stephen: And it's switchable in Edge TX. [1949.58] Stephen: Like it's actually got the video switcher built into the radio. [1953.58] Curry: They appear to have made a special thing in Edge TX. [1957.58] Stephen: We thought like a global function to switch between FPV or normal touch screen to control the radio. [1964.58] Stephen: Yeah. [1965.58] Frank: So is there analog then? [1968.58] Stephen: Yeah, it's here. [1971.58] Stephen: The VTX is like in a module bay. [1974.58] Stephen: It's the craziest thing. [1976.58] Stephen: I wasn't impressed with it until I saw the video. [1978.58] Stephen: I'm like, they've really gone to town on this. [1980.58] Stephen: They've got a VTX that fits in a JR bay. [1983.58] Curry: It's mad. [1984.58] Curry: Yeah, this is the radio and looks like this, which looks like a bit like a TX16. [1991.86] Curry: And then there's a module in the back, which is... [1994.86] Curry: Oh, God, I've gone all big. [1996.86] Curry: Which is the... [1998.86] Stephen: You think that's like a normal control module? [2001.86] Stephen: That's the VTX? [2002.86] Curry: Weird. [2003.86] Curry: That's the... [2004.86] Curry: Well, the VRX I suppose. [2005.86] Curry: Hang on. [2006.86] Curry: VRX, yeah. [2007.86] Curry: I can do you what it looks like once they take all the stupid antennas out. [2012.86] Stephen: It's quite amusing how little presses he's got. [2015.86] Koel: Video receiver external. [2016.86] Stephen: They've really gone to town. [2018.86] Stephen: Like it's not some cluge like in the TBS stuff. [2023.86] Stephen: They straight up put it in a JR bay module and then integrated a switch in the radio [2028.86] Stephen: so the radio can switch the inbuilt screen that controls the radio [2034.86] Stephen: from being a touchscreen to control the radio to being an FPV monitor. [2038.86] Stephen: So you just have that on a switch. [2040.86] Curry: That's actually a special function. [2042.86] Curry: So that is your regular color screen, which I think is the regular Edge TX touchscreen thing. [2050.86] Curry: You can see the module in the back telling what frequency it's on. [2054.86] Curry: And if I press this switch, it shows static. [2058.86] Curry: Not very exciting. [2060.86] Stephen: The thing is that switch isn't a hard-wired switch. [2063.86] Stephen: That switch is a global function in Edge TX [2065.86] Stephen: just like you'd control the screen brightness or control the volume. [2068.86] Stephen: That's the point that I thought was really quite cool. [2071.86] Curry: It's interesting. [2072.86] Curry: I haven't found what I'd call a really valid function for it [2078.86] Curry: other than to say, look, I can show my screen. [2080.86] Curry: Or my only useful thing was when I throw a plane in the air, [2084.86] Curry: I have to take my glasses off, put them on my mouth, [2087.86] Curry: find my goggles, put my goggles on, [2090.86] Curry: and then wander around in that state back to where I was sitting. [2093.86] Curry: So being able to say, I've launched my plane, there it is. [2097.86] Curry: RTH, I'll just look at that and I'll just wander back. [2100.86] Curry: I don't think you're on your own there. [2101.86] Stephen: I think there's going to be a lot of people who really like that planes. [2105.86] Stephen: If they're flying analog on planes. [2106.86] Stephen: Well, do they even have to? [2108.86] Stephen: Because you could have like an HD0 thing that went in there [2111.86] Stephen: or a walk snail thing that went in there. [2114.86] Stephen: If the interface is open. [2117.86] Curry: What I presume it has is, although there was no instructions on this, [2121.86] Curry: you're supposed to have like, there's a video in here [2124.86] Curry: and I'm assuming what happens when you switch that [2127.86] Curry: is one of these pins is literally a composite video. [2131.86] Curry: CVBS. [2133.86] Curry: So we should just be able to plug something in there [2136.86] Curry: and do something because if I switch it on without the module [2140.86] Curry: and switch it to TV, it goes static. [2143.86] Curry: So it's literally looking for a signal there [2145.86] Curry: and this is just providing the signal. [2147.86] Curry: So, yeah, you could plug in any old stuff there. [2151.86] Stephen: This has a whole bunch of unused pins. [2153.86] Stephen: If you look at the JRB connector, like everything, [2156.86] Stephen: everyone's a bit pissed because everything uses S port, [2160.86] Stephen: which is like half duplex on a single pin, [2163.86] Stephen: but you've got so many pins. [2166.86] Stephen: It's just a stupid old standard where we use pins [2169.86] Stephen: because that's what we were doing 10 years ago. [2172.86] Stephen: So I guess there's a whole bunch of unused pins. [2174.86] Curry: Presumably, though, the hardware in here is slightly different [2177.86] Curry: because I don't think any other radio has something to say. [2180.86] Curry: Take that pin and squidge it into this screen. [2183.86] Curry: That global function is interesting. [2185.86] Curry: That's an interesting thing. [2187.86] Curry: It looks like what they did is they got [2190.86] Curry: HTX to write it into their code [2193.86] Curry: or they did it and put it into the code. [2197.86] Curry: But I'm just wondering if anybody else would like, [2200.86] Curry: oh, that's interesting. [2201.86] Curry: We could do that and it might catch on a little bit. [2203.86] Frank: I'm just waiting for it to have a retro gaming console [2207.86] Frank: glued to the backside of it. [2209.86] Curry: I was going to plug in the Mega Drive to it, [2212.86] Curry: but I can't be honest. [2214.86] Curry: Just so I could do this stupid 30 seconds of me [2217.86] Curry: playing Sonic through the screen, it's like, that's not worth it. [2220.86] Curry: I'm sure. [2221.86] Stephen: You must have somewhere that's like a VTX [2224.86] Stephen: with a component video plug on it [2226.86] Stephen: where you could just jam it into the back of something. [2229.86] Frank: That might be a better idea. [2232.86] Frank: I was thinking of it like some kind of equivalent of a switch, [2236.86] Frank: like portable gaming device, [2237.86] Frank: but it's just like a console with a radio. [2241.86] Stephen: The video in on VTX is just a component video plug, isn't it? [2245.86] Stephen: You just need to attach the ground and video [2248.86] Stephen: into an old RCA jack and chuck it in. [2252.86] Curry: Yeah, it's just composite yet again. [2254.86] Curry: It's a regular composite signal, 645. [2257.86] Curry: It would be easy to do, but I just wanted to get that video out [2260.86] Curry: because loads of other stuff. [2262.86] Curry: That's done. [2263.86] Stephen: Speaking of loads of other stuff, Richard Warwick of The Chat [2268.86] Stephen: has put a link in there. [2270.86] Stephen: He's spotted the thing that everyone else has probably spotted, [2273.86] Stephen: which is that Runcam has stuck their neck out [2278.86] Stephen: in quite a big way here. [2279.86] Stephen: Do you want to talk about that, Currie? [2281.86] Curry: Yeah, so I heard about this about four months ago [2286.86] Curry: that Runcam got interested in Open IPC. [2290.86] Curry: So what they've done, I know they contacted the Open IPC project. [2294.86] Curry: I don't exactly know exactly what they've done to work together on it, [2299.86] Curry: but what they've done is bought out some Open IPC hardware, [2303.86] Curry: and it's this thing here. [2305.86] Curry: It's called the Wi-Fi Link, [2307.86] Curry: and what's interesting about it, I think, is the price. [2311.86] Curry: They've come up with 70 bucks. [2314.86] Curry: There's also this thing called the Wi-Fi Link G. [2317.86] Curry: If you look at that, it seems to have some receiving hardware as well. [2321.86] Curry: So the Wi-Fi Link G has this 8.812 AU module [2328.49] Curry: and some sort of OTG, which I'm guessing that is basically, say, [2333.49] Curry: plug this into your Android tablet and you'll get a picture that way, [2336.49] Curry: which I thought was interesting, [2338.49] Curry: and they also seem to have come up with some sort of app as well [2342.49] Curry: for you to use this. [2345.49] Stephen: The thing I've noticed, those are all conspicuously 3D renders. [2350.49] Curry: It doesn't appear to be like, well, is it a 3D render, [2355.49] Curry: or have they just got a 3D render mask? [2358.49] Stephen: I think that's different. [2360.49] Stephen: Well, I don't know. [2362.49] Stephen: The fact it's perfectly at 45 degrees kind of makes my Spidey sense tingle just a little bit. [2369.49] Frank: Just how many words give these wires? [2371.49] Frank: I don't know. [2373.49] Frank: The wires look good, but I agree. [2377.49] Stephen: The lighting's completely flat, and it's perfectly at 45 degrees. [2381.49] Koel: There is a shine off the cable, though. [2383.49] Koel: If you look at the cable, there's a little hot spot on some of those pairs there. [2386.49] Curry: Are you suggesting Runcan's product people don't know how to take a photo [2390.49] Curry: without casting shadows and things? [2392.49] Stephen: I'm suggesting they're selling something before they've made it [2395.49] Stephen: to try and speculate on it and see how much money they can possibly make. [2398.49] Curry: They are most definitely taking orders, [2401.49] Curry: and Runcan are not new to selling things and saying, [2406.49] Curry: look, buy this, and it'd be really good, [2408.49] Curry: and then we'll bring out a proper one six months later [2410.49] Curry: when we've decided what bugs are. [2413.49] Curry: What's interesting about this is that they're getting it out [2417.49] Curry: at a much cheaper price than Open IPC managed. [2420.49] Curry: I think Open IPC have this thing called the Mario all-in-one board, [2425.49] Curry: which I think they're selling for like $99, [2428.49] Curry: and it goes out of stock instantly. [2430.49] Stephen: The pricing on Open IPC has always been insane. [2433.49] Stephen: People were saying, oh, you can get an entire setup of $50, [2436.49] Stephen: and then whenever anyone went to buy it, they were like, [2438.49] Stephen: oh, yeah, now it's $100. [2441.49] Curry: Well, it was never quite like that. [2443.49] Curry: I think the problem with Open IPC, [2445.49] Curry: it's always been over egged, let us say. [2448.49] Curry: Too much overpromising and undeliverance. [2451.49] Curry: But I think the good thing about this is it should cut out me having to do [2456.49] Curry: a one-hour video on like, hello, welcome to introduction to Linux. [2459.49] Curry: Today, we're going to be hacking a camera. [2461.49] Curry: This week in FTDL. [2463.49] Curry: Yes, that's true. [2466.49] Curry: You won't have to get that. [2467.49] Curry: I won't have to create a special tool [2469.49] Curry: for how I can clamp down on two pins. [2472.49] Curry: Everything you wanted to know, [2474.49] Stephen: but never wanted to learn about you, Luke. [2477.49] Curry: Yeah. [2478.49] Curry: Yeah, if it gets rid of that, it could be interesting. [2481.49] Curry: I think the thing with like, [2484.49] Curry: when we were looking at things like Open HD when it first came along [2487.49] Curry: and then into Open IPC, [2490.49] Curry: it was the case of like, we can do this cheap and easy, [2495.49] Curry: not necessarily easy and not necessarily cheap now. [2498.49] Curry: That's the problem. [2499.49] Curry: I think like Walks now comes along and for like under $100, [2502.49] Curry: you can get a VTX, although the goggles are expensive. [2506.49] Curry: So it's kind of like, it's semi-redundant in terms of like, [2510.49] Curry: yeah, well, we can get HD systems everywhere, [2513.49] Curry: but it is still open source, which people like, [2516.49] Curry: and it's still being actively developed, [2519.49] Curry: and it does open up more choice for people. [2522.49] Curry: And so with these open, [2524.49] Curry: I'm going to say Open HD in the roundabout terms, including everything, [2527.49] Curry: with these Open HD type things, [2530.49] Curry: you've always got the option of like multiple cameras, for example, [2533.49] Curry: mixing up cameras to do thermal imaging and stuff like that if you wanted to. [2537.49] Curry: It's like whatever the software developers want to put in the code. [2540.49] Curry: So at least it's more flexible that way. [2542.49] Curry: So I think more choice. [2543.49] Curry: Hardware diversity. [2544.49] Curry: Is a good thing. [2545.49] Curry: Hardware diversity, always good. [2547.49] Curry: Yeah, so fingers crossed, [2549.49] Curry: I did talk to Runcam and they said they're going to send me one, [2552.49] Curry: but never say never before it actually arrives. [2555.49] Curry: So maybe we'll get one and see what it's like. [2558.49] Stephen: Well, and the software, I think it's been getting better and better, [2561.49] Stephen: but it doesn't feel like the software has really got to that plateau [2565.49] Stephen: where everyone's comfortable about the features of the software. [2568.49] Stephen: And it feels like while people are saying it's open, [2572.49] Stephen: there's still closed source bits of the software that are owned [2575.49] Stephen: by individual contributors to Open IPC, [2578.49] Stephen: like the encoder and the stream abortions. [2581.49] Stephen: So it's not actually open. [2584.49] Stephen: People have voluntarily donated some code, [2587.49] Stephen: but the source code isn't freely available, [2589.49] Stephen: which means they can then exert some kind of influences on it later on. [2594.49] Stephen: It's a bit of a hodgepodge. [2595.49] Curry: It's kind of like we're an open project, [2597.49] Curry: but we've taken bits and pieces from here that have different licensing [2601.49] Curry: and terms and stuff, but it all works kind of together. [2604.49] Curry: But it's an open project in some sense, [2606.49] Stephen: but it's the classic free as in beer type of thing. [2613.49] Stephen: I wouldn't say it's an open project. [2615.49] Stephen: I'd say it's fundamentally a closed source project [2617.49] Stephen: making use of freely available hardware, [2620.49] Stephen: and they let you use it for free, [2622.49] Stephen: but the code isn't actually free as in you can't get all of the code [2626.49] Stephen: and you can't do whatever you want with all of the code. [2629.49] Stephen: Some of that code is closed down. [2633.49] Curry: Yeah, and this is going to happen more as different hardware vendors get involved. [2639.49] Curry: Runcam is going to write some of their own stuff for their app and stuff, [2643.49] Curry: and they're not going to be sharing back what's going on. [2646.49] Curry: So it's now Runcam Wi-Fi link, which is based on Open IPC, [2649.49] Curry: but under the terms and conditions, [2651.49] Curry: they can take it and they can modify it [2653.49] Curry: and they can close source and carry on as they want. [2655.49] Curry: And I do know that they're not the only hardware vendor that's doing something. [2660.49] Curry: There should be at least one other one doing something. [2664.49] Stephen: Yeah, and it feels like you probably want more of a global consortium [2668.49] Stephen: on this as well because it's governed out with Telegram Group, [2671.49] Stephen: which is predominantly Russian, [2673.49] Stephen: and it feels like a lot of the developers in the West [2675.49] Stephen: have kind of shied away from that with some kind of... [2680.49] Stephen: They're a little bit shy of getting too cozy with that. [2684.49] Stephen: It would be nice if it was a bit more open [2687.49] Stephen: and that they were able to use a more open medium [2690.49] Stephen: rather than Telegram, for example. [2694.49] Stephen: Mario FPV is saying that Diveness is open source [2697.49] Stephen: and an alternative to Majestic Streaml, [2699.49] Stephen: which is the closed source blob in there. [2702.49] Curry: That can get more open. Cool. [2704.49] Curry: But I think it's a very interesting idea [2709.49] Curry: and it shows support from a well-known hardware vendor, [2714.49] Curry: so it would be really interesting to see how it performs. [2717.49] Curry: Hopefully, I'll get my hands on that and see if I can do something. [2719.49] Curry: Obviously, my major concern is trying to fit that into something. [2723.49] Curry: It's quite... It's quite junky. [2726.49] Curry: Oh, yeah. That fan, it's mainly the fan. [2729.49] Stephen: What's that, a Delta fan or something? [2731.49] Stephen: That's the type of fan I'm used to seeing in rackmount servers. [2734.49] Stephen: I mean, that thing's probably able to levitate. [2738.49] Curry: That's it. That is the actual quad. [2740.49] Curry: It's just a single motor on that hand, [2742.49] Curry: and you can just take off with it. [2744.49] Stephen: Presumably, if you don't need to push a watt of power, [2747.49] Stephen: you might be able to do that without the fan, right? [2749.49] Stephen: And especially if you're on a wing, [2751.49] Stephen: you might be able to poke that thing out the fuselage [2754.49] Stephen: and get some natural airflow on it without needing a giant fan. [2758.49] Stephen: You never know. [2760.49] Frank: The problem with the wings generally seem to have is the time before launch. [2766.49] Frank: The time between power-up and launch seems to be higher [2770.49] Curry: than a lot of digital BTXs seem to be happy with. [2775.49] Curry: I think there's one good thing about that, [2779.49] Curry: I was actually doing some stuff on OpenHD today [2782.49] Curry: because I'm looking at the Oaken 2 board, [2785.49] Curry: which is the Oaken board is what I have in my wing. [2788.49] Curry: And on a wing that's moving, it's fine just to have heat sink [2794.49] Curry: because that heat sink plus airflow is going to take it away. [2798.49] Curry: As soon as we're on the floor, [2801.49] Curry: because the one I'm working with is going to act as my ground station, [2805.49] Curry: it needs active cooling. [2807.49] Curry: It kind of feels like, okay, well, they cover the base here [2810.49] Curry: because if you're sat on the floor waiting for a GPS or something like that [2814.49] Curry: or faffing around with your goggles and saying, [2817.49] Curry: oh, what's my Android tablet doing? [2819.49] Curry: Because it's slightly complicated on these things. [2821.49] Curry: Then these things will overheat very, very quickly. [2825.49] Curry: I had one of those little Wi-Fi boards that I was doing my Oaken IPC setup with [2832.49] Curry: and that would get roasting. [2835.49] Curry: We have this fan plugged in on top of it, cooling it down. [2840.49] Stephen: Surely, we all know that our phones don't always burn holes in our pockets. [2845.49] Stephen: Surely, you should be able to crank it down to 10 milliwatts [2849.49] Stephen: while it's on the ground two meters away from you. [2852.49] Stephen: Yeah, and it would still go very, very hot. [2855.49] Stephen: So just the encoder is hot. It's not the power amplifier. [2858.49] Stephen: It's the actual video encoder that's causing it. [2860.49] Curry: Well, a phone's got a very complicated operating system behind it [2863.49] Curry: that it knows what it's doing, whereas these things are more sort of [2866.49] Curry: chucked together about, I guess. [2868.49] Stephen: Yeah, and I think a lot of these, they're really ignoring power savings [2871.49] Stephen: on the assumption that they will have airflow [2873.49] Stephen: because phones, they've got this thing where they race to idle, [2876.49] Stephen: like they race to standby and race to idle. [2879.49] Stephen: So unless you're actually touching the screen and moving it, [2882.49] Stephen: the CPU will just downclock and everything effectively goes on suspend, [2886.49] Stephen: whereas it feels like these maybe are using more polling I.O. [2892.49] Stephen: and they're staying on the whole time because it's just way easier [2895.49] Stephen: to program a system like that than to race to idle the whole time, [2899.49] Stephen: like modern phone operating systems do. [2902.49] Stephen: That's okay. Sorry, sidebar. [2904.49] Curry: Moving on. [2906.49] Curry: Moving on. I had another interesting screen to share. [2909.49] Curry: Did anybody notice that this sporting thing I'm called the Olympics [2913.49] Curry: was there last week? [2915.49] Curry: No, what's that about? Well, I was wondering that. [2919.49] Jack: You know, it's heavily copyrighted. [2923.49] Jack: Okay. [2925.49] Stephen: I saw the French metal band Gajira appear. [2927.49] Stephen: I think they had an opportunity that was linked to something like that. [2931.49] Tony: I saw the breakdancing and the weird... [2933.49] Tony: Oh, the breakdancing. [2935.49] Tony: The final breakdancing was really good. [2937.49] Curry: What's the wrong clip? [2938.49] Curry: I was watching something and it was like track and field on. [2941.49] Curry: And then I saw these people playing with cars. [2944.49] Curry: And I was like, what is that? [2948.49] Curry: People are professionally employed [2951.49] Curry: to drive these little cars back and forth [2954.49] Curry: that go and take the discus and the javelins back, [2957.49] Curry: which I thought was utterly fascinating. [2960.49] Curry: They're calling him, like, robotic assistance. [2964.49] Curry: I'm calling it like the... [2966.49] Curry: Robotic assistance? That's a track system. [2968.49] Curry: That's carrying a discus up and down a field. [2970.49] Stephen: That's exactly what it is. [2972.49] Curry: These have been around a while. [2975.49] Curry: London 2012... [2977.49] Stephen: That green guy looks exactly like something you'd see [2980.49] Stephen: at some random video on YouTube for like, [2983.49] Stephen: let's bash this around a skateboard. [2985.49] Curry: And if you looked at the controllers they were using, [2988.49] Curry: absolute bog-standard car controller, [2991.49] Curry: they were having great fun driving up and down. [2993.49] Curry: So that is actually someone's job, [2996.49] Curry: to drive a car back and forth at the Olympics [2999.49] Curry: to collect discus and javelins. [3001.49] Stephen: What were the 100-meter times? [3003.49] Stephen: Clive says that they did a 100-meter race on them. [3006.49] Stephen: Didn't anyone catch that? [3008.49] Stephen: That sounds fun. [3010.49] Tony: Yeah. [3011.49] Tony: I think reverse that one quite fast would be fun. [3015.49] Frank: They've used them in the football as well, right? [3018.49] Frank: Like, in between the Olympics, [3021.49] Frank: various football tournaments have used RC cars [3025.49] Frank: to take the ball out into the field. [3029.49] Stephen: I understand the discus because it more or less stays put, [3032.49] Stephen: but can a bounce of football on top of a car sounds like a... [3035.49] Frank: I think it had like... [3036.49] Stephen: I suggest you give it a hold of some sort. [3039.49] Curry: Think of a free pole, [3041.49] Curry: hot glue to the top of the car or something. [3043.49] Curry: Oh yeah, now we're talking. [3045.49] Curry: Sounds certainly professional. [3047.49] Curry: It seems with a football you just kick it. [3049.49] Curry: That's easier. [3050.49] Curry: I understand why they won't get a javelin [3052.49] Curry: and throw it back to the guy that just threw it. [3054.49] Curry: Yeah, right. [3056.49] Curry: Am I catch? [3059.49] Stephen: Yeah, with a football there are literally people [3061.49] Stephen: who are pretty well paid to do the matter of passing [3065.49] Stephen: the sports ball from one person to another. [3067.49] Stephen: You thought employing an electron contrivance [3070.49] Stephen: instead of using the highly trained athletes [3072.49] Stephen: would be a little bit insulting to everyone involved. [3075.49] Curry: I would like to see these cars used in more sports. [3078.49] Curry: In the Tour de France, or cycling races in general, [3081.49] Curry: I've seen drones being used around certain bits of the time trial. [3085.49] Curry: I'd like to see it on a little car. [3087.49] Curry: Let's chase the bike on the car, round the thing [3090.49] Curry: and see if we can get under his wheels and knock him off. [3093.49] Curry: There you go. [3095.49] Frank: Euros 2020. [3099.49] Frank: Ludicrous. [3101.49] Tony: VW sponsoring that? [3103.49] Stephen: Yeah, that's why I'm thinking. [3105.49] Stephen: It comes down to the money, doesn't it? [3107.49] Stephen: It's always follow the money. [3108.49] Stephen: I wonder what the emissions are like on that. [3111.49] Stephen: Terrible. [3112.49] Stephen: Poison targeting. [3114.49] Koel: Until you looked at it. [3117.49] Koel: You know, it's interesting for the nine year anniversary. [3120.49] Koel: We didn't do any real trips down memory lane though, did we? [3123.49] Koel: No, we're waiting for that for the 10. [3125.49] Koel: Well, we do that every other show. [3127.49] Koel: So I thought maybe we could just shake it up a little bit. [3131.49] Stephen: You know, get back in the bath. [3135.49] Stephen: Wasn't it great when we, it was all fly by wire. [3138.49] Tony: What about control line? [3140.49] Stephen: Who's flown control line recently? [3142.49] Stephen: What about steam powered gliders? [3145.49] Stephen: Fluid cut. [3147.49] Stephen: Interesting ideas. Let me write this down. [3150.49] Tony: I'm hoping that the DJ Neo comes out in five days [3155.49] Curry: because it's rumored to be coming out the 20th. [3158.49] Tony: What are you going to use it for? [3160.49] Tony: Are you going to get one? [3161.49] Tony: I'm going to use it. [3162.49] Tony: You're going to film yourself in the bathroom. [3164.49] Tony: I'm going to use it for filming myself [3166.49] Stephen: when I'm out on my bike, when I'm riding. [3168.49] Stephen: Oh, okay. [3170.49] Tony: Has it got a follow me mode? [3172.49] Tony: Apparently so, yeah, take off from Palm. [3174.49] Tony: I don't know if it's going to work outdoors though. [3176.49] Stephen: I mean, things like today were, well, it was a bit windy today. [3180.49] Tony: That would be the acid tester type of stuff you do. [3182.49] Tony: Yeah, I'd like it to follow me. [3185.49] Tony: Like I'm going to Eastbourne again. [3187.49] Stephen: So we're watching it. [3188.49] Stephen: Yeah. [3189.49] Tony: I'm going to Eastbourne again. [3191.49] Tony: I'm riding my bike from my parents caravan right up over the hills and stuff. [3196.49] Tony: So I'd like it to track me maybe going up past the long man and stuff like that. [3202.49] Tony: That'd be pretty cool news. [3204.49] Tony: Wouldn't it be more interesting, Tony, to ride first third person? [3208.49] Curry: So you put your goggles on, get on your bike, [3212.49] Curry: and then you fly your quad, chase yourself. [3215.49] Curry: And you're like, okay, I see where I'm going. [3217.49] Curry: So you can just work it out. [3219.49] Curry: Like you're playing a video game. Easy. [3221.49] Curry: I'll be fine. [3222.49] Curry: I'll be fine. [3223.49] Curry: I mean, yeah, I'd give it a go. [3227.49] Tony: I won't take the dog though from that one in case, you know, a crash. [3232.49] Tony: That's fair. [3233.49] Tony: Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what it's all about, really. [3237.49] Tony: I'm sure YouTubers have already had it for six weeks. [3243.49] Tony: I'm sure YouTubers have already had it for six weeks, six months. [3248.49] Stephen: It's a DJI band in the US now. [3251.49] Stephen: What's happened with that? [3253.49] Tony: You got banned. [3254.49] Tony: I thought they did. [3255.49] Tony: And then someone said it's not gone. [3258.49] Stephen: So will they, won't they? [3260.49] Tony: But I've seen like a, it's a DJI mate. [3264.49] Tony: It's like literally a complete rip off of the Mavic 3. [3267.49] Tony: I can't remember what it was called. [3269.49] Koel: Oh, the different brand though, right? [3271.49] Koel: Hmm. [3272.49] Koel: But it was exactly the same. [3274.49] Stephen: Yeah, we need some great British entrepreneurs to jump in there with a DJI. [3280.49] Stephen: I think they can really just call it on the market. [3283.49] Curry: Maybe Dyson should take about six grand. [3286.49] Tony: It would suck. [3292.49] Jack: Sorry. [3293.49] Jack: No, we got Dyson. [3296.49] Koel: Yeah, Dyson isn't even Dyson anymore, are they really? [3300.49] Koel: I don't know. [3301.49] Koel: Nothing's really anything anymore. [3303.49] Stephen: Anything that exists for more than like five years [3306.49] Stephen: just sells out and becomes a name and nothing else. [3309.49] MULTIPLE: And that is why we bring you today. [3312.49] MULTIPLE: Let's throw it out. [3314.49] MULTIPLE: Just want to bye. [3319.49] Tony: Sticky Jacks Emporium. [3322.49] Tony: Sticky Jacks Emporium. [3326.49] Stephen: Sticky Jacks Emporium brings you glue for antennas, glue for batteries, [3330.49] Stephen: glue for frames, glue for straps, glue for glue. [3336.49] MULTIPLE: That's not glibricant. [3338.49] Jack: Glibricant. [3340.49] Jack: Sexual glibricant. [3343.49] Stephen: All right, easy. [3344.49] Stephen: Want to get closer with your partner? [3346.49] Stephen: Try Crazy Jacks Glue for Partners. [3352.49] Tony: Where is this going? [3355.49] Koel: Nobody knows, Tony. [3356.49] Koel: Nobody knows. [3357.49] Koel: Four minutes of bullcrap. [3359.49] Koel: Come on. [3360.49] Koel: Oh, you know, something that we were going to mention, [3363.49] Koel: which was related to this t-shirt from two years ago. [3369.49] Stephen: Warzone Coventry. [3372.49] Stephen: On the bank call of the weekend, [3374.49] Stephen: they are doing it again. [3376.49] Stephen: They're making a thing of it. [3378.49] Stephen: It is a recurrence. [3379.49] Stephen: It is an annual event. [3381.49] Stephen: And kudos to them, because we needed it. [3384.49] Stephen: Right? [3385.49] Stephen: So year after year, [3387.49] Stephen: FBV Drone Fest keeps kicking them out of the park. [3390.49] Stephen: And this year, they're going to be at Warzone outside of Coventry. [3395.49] Stephen: On the bank call of the weekend, [3396.49] Stephen: 23rd to 26th. [3398.49] Stephen: Is that nearer? [3399.49] Stephen: That is near to everyone, [3401.49] Stephen: because it's in the middle of the country, [3403.49] Tony: in the Midlands. [3406.49] Tony: All right. [3408.49] Tony: How much is it costing this time? [3411.49] Stephen: A fair and reasonable amount. [3414.49] Stephen: How much does it cost? [3417.49] Stephen: I think it's really great that they're continuing [3419.49] Stephen: and keeping the momentum up, [3421.49] Stephen: because, you know, it's a massive amount of hassle [3423.49] Stephen: to organize something like this. [3425.49] Stephen: So I've got a huge amount of respect for everyone involved [3428.49] Stephen: to keep the momentum going and keep doing it. [3431.49] Stephen: It's wonderful to see. [3433.49] Tony: Do I have to get them on and I can talk about it? [3435.49] Tony: When is it? [3437.49] Tony: 23rd to the 26th of August. [3440.49] Tony: Oh, it's coming up. [3442.49] Stephen: Bank call of the weekend. [3446.49] Stephen: I guess Failsafe isn't here because he hasn't chimed up. [3448.49] Stephen: But, yeah, it looks like a laugh. [3450.49] Stephen: They've got basically a whole bunch of buildings [3452.49] Stephen: that they use for airsoft and paintball and that. [3455.49] Stephen: So there's all these fake buildings you can scream through [3459.49] Stephen: and do stunts through and it's far enough from everywhere [3462.49] Stephen: that it's safe and camp out there [3465.49] Stephen: and they've got, you know, [3467.49] Stephen: playback in the evenings and stuff. [3469.49] Stephen: Chindigs socializing after hours. [3473.49] Stephen: Sounds like a good laugh. [3475.49] Frank: The following weekend, [3477.49] Frank: the 31st of August, 1st of September, [3480.49] Frank: is the wing racing event up at Caroline's Place. [3487.49] Frank: The Wings Over Pontifract event. [3490.49] Frank: Cancelled. [3492.49] Frank: They've probably cancelled unless people sign up to it. [3495.49] Frank: Banker, you signed up. [3498.49] Frank: Because I am going to be not in the country. [3502.49] Frank: Sprank's fault. [3505.49] Frank: That's a shame. [3507.49] Stephen: Yeah. [3509.49] Stephen: We should reach out to the quad racing guys, [3511.49] Stephen: see what they're doing. [3513.49] Frank: They are arguing about who should be [3515.49] Frank: the British champion at the moment. [3518.49] Frank: That's how they're deciding. [3519.49] Frank: They're not racing, they're just arguing. [3521.49] Curry: Slap fight? [3522.49] Curry: Traditionally you'd race for that and who wins is the champion [3525.49] Curry: but I like the idea of arguing for it instead. [3530.49] Stephen: I want to see a third person slap fight [3532.49] Stephen: they conduct through FPV bubbles. [3534.49] Stephen: Everyone like straps the quad to their head [3536.49] Stephen: and just goes and has a big slap fight. [3541.49] Frank: I swear I've seen that at FPV Join Festival. [3546.49] Jack: Well no, that was someone running into a railing [3549.49] Jack: trying to find a chair. [3552.49] Frank: Oh yeah. [3554.49] Stephen: Yeah, I think I did about five yards of that contest [3557.49] Stephen: and then was just like, [3558.49] Stephen: no, Stephen's going to break something. [3560.49] Stephen: I'm going to stop. [3563.49] Jack: One of my favourite moments was turn that big f***ing music off. [3568.49] Jack: I do not like Country in Weston. [3570.49] Stephen: I really do not like Country in Weston. [3573.49] Stephen: The Red Bull team wanting to play Loud Country in Weston [3576.49] Stephen: at 10 in the morning [3577.49] Stephen: when there wasn't even a coffee stand on site really [3580.49] Stephen: did not help my demeanor. [3582.49] Tony: I love it. [3583.49] Stephen: I'm paying for QSM of doing things to livestock. [3586.49] Stephen: To be honest, I'd probably stand by that opinion [3588.49] Stephen: given the nature of the musical choices. [3591.49] Stephen: That's another year down everyone. [3593.49] Stephen: Thank God. [3594.49] Tony: It's like one year left. [3596.49] Tony: Nine more years, nine more years. [3599.49] Tony: Well, a prison sentence, isn't it? [3603.49] Curry: Just one more to go. [3605.49] Curry: No possibility of parole. [3607.49] Frank: No. [3610.49] Frank: Well, you have joined us [3612.49] Frank: for our ninth year anniversary this week of Let's Throw It Out. [3616.49] Frank: I have been Frank. [3617.49] Frank: You have been joined by Curry. [3619.49] Frank: Goodbye. [3621.49] Frank: Stephen. [3622.49] Stephen: Nine more years. [3623.49] Frank: Tony. [3624.49] Stephen: Bonjour. [3626.49] Stephen: Jack. [3627.49] Frank: Thank you. [3628.49] Frank: And Carl. [3629.49] Frank: See you. [3630.49] Frank: All our patrons who have kept us on air [3633.49] Frank: and in the podcast feeds with the theme music [3637.49] Frank: that Cole composed all those years ago. [3640.49] Frank: Thank you. [3641.49] Frank: Thank you, patrons. [3642.49] Frank: Thank you. [3643.49] Frank: See us next week [3646.49] Frank: and next year on Let's Throw It Out. [3649.49] MULTIPLE: Bye. [3650.49] MULTIPLE: Bye. [3651.49] Frank: Bye. [3652.49] MULTIPLE: Bye. [3653.49] MULTIPLE: Telemetry lost.