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Welcome back to chaos on TV from Hala,
the next stock will be a treat by Nook's
Nic. Welcome to SPV
and just a quick
content warning.
We will do a little demo
flight at the end and that'll contain
flashing lights and like seasickness,
risks, I guess
from time to time on social media, you'll
see a drone. VIDEO That's not your
typical wide panoramic shot.
Chances are, if it's fast flying
in tight spaces that this is SPV
flying.
The pilots combine electronics, tinkering
with lots of open source software
and nooks. Nick will give us an
introduction on how you can be as
cool as him.
Go ahead!
OK. Welcome to 5G.
I don't know if I'm that cool, but I
appreciate it.
The awesome introduction.
OK.
I am very excited to be here and to be
talking to you about a topic I
am very passionate about.
This is an introduction level
presentation with a whole
slew of information.
So but
let's get started. But before then,
here's a quick word from our
sponsor.
My name is Seth Fleming,
also known by my online pseudonym
Nook's Nick. You can see it in the IPA
transcription there on the right.
I am a freelance software developer
and a private consultant.
Here are some of the things I do in my
free time, I like to reverse engineer
hardware.
I am, I do electronics,
repair woodworking.
I like to build furniture.
I play music, anything from country to
death metal.
And I'm an amateur radio operator.
I also have my own little corner of the
interwebs at next Nikam,
where I write about various things that
interests me or projects I'm working on
as far as contacting me.
The best way is through good old
fashioned email at next week.
Well, next Nick at next Nikam.
OK. There's a disclaimer before
I get started, although
I do consider myself fairly knowledgeable
on the subject.
I am making no assumptions to know
everything about the multi rotors.
Some of the information will be I will
be presenting is solely based on my
personal opinion and personal
experience. So seriously, don't tase
me, bro. If I say something
that you don't agree with.
The point of this talk, as I said, is to
introduce you to the fast paced world of
multi copters and give you a brief
view into the hardware and software that
goes into building, configuring and
flying SPV drones.
OK, now with all that out of
the way, let's talk some drones.
So some of you may have the question,
what the hell is F-5?
Well, F5 is an acronym,
which means first person view.
It refers to the technology not so
much the method used in piloting
remote controlled vehicles.
In a nutshell, an SPV controlled vehicle
has a camera mounted on it.
This camera is wired wirelessly
transmits a video signal,
which is received by the pilot and
viewed in a remote monitor.
The pilot controls the vehicle with a
wireless transmitter and can steer the
craft based on real time information
of the video signal.
It's not a line of sight.
OK. This technology
can be used and piloting
any variety of vehicles, for example,
airplanes, cars, boats and even
submarines.
Any kind of vehicle you can think of as
long as you can put a camera on it.
However, one of the most common
implementations is in conjunction with
drones.
In more recent years, the term P.V.
refers specifically more and more to
quadcopters.
In other words, it is more commonly
understood that when someone refers to
SPV, they are referring to FP
v drones.
But that said, when I use
the term SPV in the presentation, I will
be referring to SPV drones, specifically
their components and the discipline
of piloting them.
So in general, the technologies
and disciplines that go into SPV as a
as a whole are immersive and
multifaceted, and we'll get into that.
Here are I will be
showing an incomplete list of some
of the different skills, technologies and
disciplines of SPV, and I'm sure
this audience will at least have one or
two things that they can definitely
that they have experience in.
So one is general electronics.
In the context of SPV, you will be
soldering a lot when building your own
quads.
You will be soldering components, wires
and modules together
as a caveat.
Well, it's not really a caveat.
You don't have to have an electrical
engineering degree in order to have fun
and SPV only a very basic
understanding is required.
The amount of immersion in electronics
really depends on your interest.
So in other words, you can delve as
deep as you want into the electronic
aspects of SPV and stay
inside your comfort zone.
Another aspect you can delve
into is radio and wireless technologies,
this is something that interests me as a
ham radio or amateur radio operator.
AP Drones are controlled wires
wirelessly, which means you
can delve into the world of radio
propagation if that floats your boat.
You can get into DIY
antennas, receivers,
transmitters.
There are a lot of people in the
community who make their own antennas,
and as you see here in this video, I
believe it's Joshua Bardwell.
He is analyzing a
5.8 megahertz video
signal and a spectrum analyzer.
Also, you can get into
software.
There's and there's lots of software to
be had in the brains
of these drones are controlled by
software, and I got good news
this software is open source.
This means you can freely download,
modify and prove and share
the source code used in your very own
quads. You can compile your own source
code and flash them to your
drones.
And here, I believe, yes, that
is a video clip where I
am messing with the beta flight
source code.
I was changing some of the strings to say
funny things like Ninja Flip and
things like that.
So and one another discipline is
3D printing, having a 3D printer
is invaluable as an 5-year.
You will find yourself designing various
mounts, skids, camera holders,
antenna mounts, protective shields,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera.
As we all know, the internet is full of
objects freely available and ready to
print.
So what is required in
effigy? As I mentioned before,
you don't have to have a degree in
aerospace engineering in order to build
and fly off the quads.
All you need is a willingness and a
willingness to learn and later
down the road.
The only required skill is to be able to
solder, especially if you plan on
building your own. Quite so, it's
a learned skill.
It comes pretty quickly, actually.
All the same. Having a deep understanding
of electronics, radio, propagation
software and 3-D printing are not
required, but it plus.
So I can tell you my personal opinion,
what I get out of FBD personally, I
enjoy it because I can build electronic
projects, projects that deal with
wireless technologies go
out and actually fly them.
It's very practical.
I'm not worried when I crash or break
something because I look forward to
fixing what was broken and sometimes
doing upgrades when the parts have
finally bit the dust
and the end.
50 percent of the enjoyment I get of
get out of SPV is, I guess the best
way to say is in German does Bastien
bastion is kind of like creating
something, something with your hands or
tinkering.
So that's 50 percent of the fun for me,
and the other 50 percent is the
flying aspect.
Flying is a hell of a lot of fun.
So and for you,
you can have your own personal taste.
Some people care more about the flying.
Some people like more of the technical
stuff. So the sky's
the limit.
So what is in that TV
drum, so we've talked about what is SPV,
but what is an SPV drone?
What is it components to better
understand the hardware that goes into
making a drone?
Think of it the same way as the hardware
of a computer, just as a parallel.
The standard components of a computer are
a motherboard, a hard drive,
RAM, CPU, PSU,
etc.
These components, when connected
together, form the computer as a single
unit.
The components of a computer communicate
with standardized protocols.
These same concepts apply to the world of
drone hardware, albeit the
components of a drone are not
the same as those of a computer.
To further further illustrate this point,
when you know how the individual parts of
a computer work hard drive, RAM, CPU, et
cetera, you know how to build the perfect
computer, which best fulfills your
needs.
This same concept applies to selecting
the hardware components of a drone
in order to design your perfect drone.
You will need to understand its
components. So in order to
understand the components, we're going to
talk about flight controllers, motors,
X receivers, MPV cameras,
vortexes, et cetera.
Though the terms might sound a little
foreign, but hopefully at the end of this
presentation, you'll have a good idea on
how they function.
OK, let's get to the first component,
which is the flight controller or,
in short, the AFC.
It is the brain of the drone.
It is outfitted with various sensors and
communication ports.
Some of the sensors include gyroscopes,
accelerometers, volt meters, etc.
These sensors help the drones sensors
position and adjust its flight
characteristics.
As already mentioned, the flight
controller offers communication ports,
and these ports can be connected to
external modules and sensors.
The details of how a flight controller
work are kind of beyond the scope of this
presentation.
So in summary, just try to take with you.
The flight controller is where everything
happens.
If something goes wrong here, then the
system will crash
and your drone will definitely crash.
OK, let's talk about electronic
speed controllers,
otherwise known as an.
I'll get into a technical version of how
they work and then try to put it in
layman's version.
They convert a P.W.
pulse width modulation signal
from the flight controller into a three
phase AC current,
which used is used to drive the
motors.
The frequency of this current depends
determines the speed and force at which
the motors are driven. So in the end, a
lower amplitude or a smaller
signal from the flight controller drives
the four motors of the drone and
the SC translate those signals into
a different three phase
electronic current, which drives the
motors in the end.
There are some flight controllers known
as air crew or all in one boards,
which have built an X.
So as pictured here, this
is a single SC.
A lot of these components can be built
onto one.
One Flight Controller Board.
OK, motors.
Of course, we have to have motors or the
thing won't fly. So motors
are the engine that keeps it quiet flying
and modern quadcopters.
Brushless electro electromagnetic
motors are most commonly used.
These motors are driven by a three phase
alternating current, as we discussed,
which is provided by the chassis.
And here's a quick note for the
presentation aimed specifically
specifically referring to quadcopters,
which have four motors.
However, five drones are not limited to
four motors.
Sometimes you can find configurations in
three, six, eight and even
more.
The more motors, the more weight you
can carry. So there's different
characteristics depending on what you
want to build.
OK.
And in order to receive the
signals from the pilots, the
drone needs to know what to do.
And in order to receive those signals,
you need a receiver.
And that's exactly what a receiver does
receive signals and
communicates the desired flight direction
to the flight controller.
The flight controller, in turn, takes
these signals, does some calculations and
sends a signal to the ISS, as we
talked about. So the receiver can
be a separate module, as shown here.
This is a TBS
team, black sheep nano receiver.
It's very, very small.
You can see one point eight
millimeters or when I can't
see it from here doesn't matter.
It's small. It's about this big,
OK. It can be built into the flight
controller also.
OK, and the camera, which pretty
much defines the term.
This camera sends a video signal to the
flight controller and
the flight controller takes the signal
and will process it a bit and add an
on screen display.
So it just
films what is in front of it.
It'll process the signal through the
flight controller and the flight
controller will overlay and OSD,
which is called an on screen display.
We'll see that in the demo later when we
fly around the studio here.
And yeah, and that signal
can or this onscreen display can
show your battery level, your speed, your
altitude.
If you have a GPS module, it can show you
the GPS coordinates, flight
time, etc.
and then the signal gets pooped out
to the vortex.
So what the hell is the vortex?
I'll tell you what it is.
The vortex receives the video signal from
the flight controller.
It modulates, amplifies and transmits
a video signal so that the pilot can view
it in his F5.
His or her have Peavey goggles.
OK, now the vortex can also
be built in in an all in one flight
controller.
And we'll get to the antennas, a
modern Quad will usually have two
antennas, one for receiving
control signals from the pilot.
You'll see that one on the left hand
side. That is an immortal Ti
antenna from Team Black Sheep
and.
One for
sorry. In order to steal, steer the craft
and another for transmitting the video
signal, which is on the right hand side.
This is a triumph, I think Tbis triumph.
I have one here on the table somewhere.
For example, the
signals from the pilot can be transmitted
on two point four gigahertz or eight
hundred sixty eight gigahertz.
And the intended to the left to receive
those signals, and the band
for video signals is typically
five point eight gigahertz.
So it's a little higher.
Now we'll talk about the frame,
one component that binds all these
components into one unit and gives us
his form is the frame.
This is commonly made of robust materials
such as carbon fiber or hard plastic.
Frames come in many shapes and sizes,
many of which depend on the flight
characteristics desired by the pilots.
The frame shown here is
a get our CE mark for.
I'm rather fond of that one, so I
figured I'd show it.
I actually have one here on the table,
but I'll show you that later.
OK?
Propellers, they come in many different
sizes and shapes.
As with other components, selecting the
correct propeller depends on the flight
requirements, air density, temperature
motors and
the criteria. Teria for selecting the
best propellers can be very complex
and really go beyond the scope of
this presentation, so you just need to
know these things have propellers in
there, a core component.
So we'll just
tie it all together with an overview.
As previously discussed, the components
in every drone vary and are largely
dependent on the flight requirements
or the preferences of the person building
the drone.
So now that we have a general
understanding and not a very deep one,
but a general understanding of the
standard components that make up a modern
quad, let's look at some of the software.
So we get hardware and now we'll move
to software.
OK, we have learned that the flight
controller is the brain of the drone, but
that is pretty much a half truth.
The real brain of the drone lies in
its software
due to the limited time of this
presentation to only focus on one
software project, namely the beta flight
project. Here I'm a better flight fanboy.
I even wrote put
on my hoodie.
Beta flight is a free and open source
software suite for flashing and
configuring flight controllers.
It is its two main components.
It's well, there's more components, but
the two main components have been beta
flight are the flight controller software
and the beta flight configure
configurator.
Let's look at the software first
for the flight controller.
The flight controller software does
just that before when I showed you
that clip of the software, that
was actually the beta flight software
itself is the
software, and it is the software
that operates and keeps the drone in the
air. It communicates with the external
modules, reads from the
sensors and inputs, and
interprets pilot data.
It is responsible for controlling the
motors and overlaying the OSD or
onscreen display, as we talked about
before.
At its core is a real workhorse of
any drone. Listed underneath is the
GitHub page.
You can download the software for
yourself, poke around, have fun
and try it out yourself.
OK, and now we have the beta flight
configurator, and it pretty
much offers an intuitive and intuitive
UI, which we can use to
easily configure the drone.
So let's delve deeper and look
at how it actually works life.
I think the best way to see how it works
is to see it live in action.
So I have your
my freestyle quad, my five
inch freestyle quad lets connected
and look around at some of the things we
can configure.
So on the side, there is a small USB
port. I'll turn around here
and I'll switch over to
better fight.
There we are.
Hopefully, you can see it.
Could you make it a little larger in the
monitor for the front, please?
OK, I'll plug it in.
If I can figure out where it is.
OK, now we are
OK and here there's a
little delay there, so
I'll just.
OK, we're going to hit Connect.
I would hit Connect.
Live demos are always a lot of fun.
Always bound to happen.
I can't see it in the monitor that, as I
say, ACM zero something at the end
of that block device.
Dev ACM zero.
This seems.
Interesting.
Not working
well, that figures.
Well, I guess I might have to just
give you the lowdown on how it works
without showing you, since I can't seem
to get it to work here
with the beta flight configurator.
You can look through
and see more easily, I
guess.
Here I'll turn this so you can see it a
little better.
Here's the USB port on the side.
The specific components
that you want to configure.
For example, I can configure my
transmitter.
I configured these the switches of
a for my transmitter.
I can configure each switch to do a
specific thing for the drone to Ahmed.
If I flip over, I can go into turtle mode
and make it flip over.
And there are many things I can change
in that software.
Also, I can change the video
signal.
I can change the different new
art pads on the flight controller
to do different things.
For example, if I had a GPS module
to the flight controller
and I can change the AC and as I said,
the OSD, and we'll see that later in the
live demo. Hopefully the next live demo
will work in the OSD
onscreen display.
We'll see some things,
for example, how long the flight was,
the name of the craft and
many things like that.
So
that's pretty much what beta flight
does. Beta Flight Configurator.
So let's move on.
I'll unplug this one here.
One thing you never want to do is plug in
a quad with a full battery indoors with
these props because this thing is a
flying chainsaw.
Never do that.
Well, what I did.
You don't want to plug in a battery.
That's bad news.
So we'll keep talking about open source
software. And the next thing I want to
talk about is,
uh, sorry.
Yeah, there I am.
And the next thing I want to talk about
is open. T.X Open
is a hardware independent, open
source firmware that can be flashed onto
your transmitter. This here is a
transmitter.
I have some gimbal guards here,
and it gives you the ability to save
different drone profiles on
your transmitter and enables
communication with external modules.
These are external modules in the back
that can be extended and they can extend
your transmitter.
Very interesting devices.
I have a few here and we'll go more into
detail on those
later in the presentation.
Just one thing you need to take away with
you is that open text is
the software used
to do that.
OK. Let me move down here
to the presentation.
Can you switch over back to the
presentation? I believe.
OK, there we are.
Overview
So we have seen there are many other
choices when it comes to the hardware,
which runs on most drones.
So so far I
only have scratched the surface.
There are many, many more open source
projects, specifically in the flight
control area.
So do your due diligence, look
it up and they're pretty
easy to find online.
Oh, OK, yeah, that's right.
I think I need to do that, right?
There we are.
All right.
Yeah, baby, it's working.
OK?
Let's move to the next one.
OK, we just talked about that.
Yes. So do your due diligence.
Look up your different open source
software projects.
There's I nav, there's kids.
There's many others. So
that is up to you.
So hopefully I have sparked your interest
in getting started in SPV.
And with so many options and
possibilities, what should we buy?
We always want to buy something so good
quality equipment can be expensive.
I don't advocate buying expensive
equipment until you're sure SPV is
something you want to invest.
Your time and money into.
This hobby can get quite expensive.
See here on the table.
With that in mind, I put together a
quick guide to buying SPV
gear.
It is split into different phases one,
two and three, and in each of these
phases, you will be acquiring equipment
that builds on the equipment that came
before it.
In other words, you will buy the least
amount of equipment required,
and in each phase, the new equipment
builds on the equipment you bought
before. This way, you won't have to
go all in and decide later that SPV
isn't your thing and be stuck with a
bunch of paperweights sitting in the
corner. So.
And another disclaimer going forward, I
will be expressing my own personal
opinions regarding SPV equipment.
There are some people with very strong
opinions about what you should buy
and what you shouldn't buy.
We all have our own tastes and
preferences, so just don't blindly
take my word for it and say, Oh, he said,
you should buy that, so I'm going to buy
it now. Look it up yourself.
Unfortunately, there's no one size fits
all solution to getting equipment,
so you have to find the equipment that's
right for you.
OK, so I've set up a shopping cart for
you, and this is phase one.
No.
So you've listened to the talk and it
sparked your interest and you say to
yourself, Yeah, that sounds like
something I want to get into the
school.
So phase one is the least expensive
step you will be getting into.
You only be getting your feet wet and
have minimal investment in money and
time. Therefore, the only two things
you'll need to buy for phase one are
a TV simulator and
a transmitter.
So let's look into the simulators first.
OK. And to be honest,
all I'll refer you to the
drone.
And it really, to be honest, this is the
only simulator I've used.
It's graphics are simple.
I can play it on my laptop.
The quiet tuning process is
straightforward and intuitive.
Quite tuning was something I wanted to
show you in better flight, but
unfortunately we can get to that and it's
a complex subject and you'll hear it
quite a bit so quite to me.
Tuning Save That for later
is compatible with Linux, Mac and
Windows, and the time of this
presentation that costs about Â£16
999, which is about 20 euros.
So it's not a big investment,
so let's move to the transmitter, we know
we want to get an SPV simulator.
There are more simulators out there.
So look those up, there's liftoff,
there's rotor rush, there's a bunch of
them. Look them up.
Since I don't want to make too many
equipment recommendations, I will show
you only the transmitter transmitters.
I have to give you an idea of what
is out there and the transmitter.
All these transmitters, as I mentioned
before, they all run open source
software, namely open T.X,
which we briefly discussed.
So the first I've shown you this already
is my free Sky Q
X seven. It's my daily driver
as far as transmitters go.
Many people would probably say this
transmitter is outdated.
They're right.
It can be extended with external modules.
As I showed before, it
has built in free sky protocols.
I prefer for using this transmitter
when I'm flying a quad with at least
a three propeller, three inch propeller
diameter.
So quite this large
and larger, and I do
that because the stick resolution is
higher on this.
So the points from here
to here are much larger
and I get a better resolution.
So I like this bigger one for that.
Like I said, there's newer, better and
more modern options, so you might want to
look those up.
And next is a pretty good starter,
controller or transmitter.
It is the jumper t light.
It's an inexpensive transmitter that runs
on open to.
It can be extended with external modules
and comes shipped with multi protocol
functionality.
You can use this single controller
for buying and flight quads.
A bonafide Quad is if you buy
a Quad, it comes prebuilt and you
can just bind your controller to it.
At the time of this presentation, that
costs about 90 euros and it's small
fits in your hands kind of like a Xbox
controller style feels
like an Xbox controller.
And the last video I'll be showing you is
the beta of Peavey
Light Radio three.
It costs around 60 euros.
This is actually not the three.
This is the two. You don't want to buy
this one.
It's not fully featured.
The other one has the three.
It's a decent transmitter for its price.
Has a small form factor, but however,
no screen.
And as I said, I have the older version.
So if you want to spend a little less
money, you can probably get the
the light radio to or
at least look into it.
So let's go to phase three or
sorry, phase two, phase three, we're not
there yet.
And we're going to add to our shopping
cart a tiny woop
woop is a drone like this
and we will be adding P.V.
goggles. This where it gets exciting.
So we've been practicing in the
simulator. We can keep our card in the
air and our crashing is often flying
these things is not easy.
It takes a lot of practice.
Let's expand our equipment and get two
more items. So in my own personal
experience, it's better to start with
a small, small quad with like a tiny
woop because you will crash and crash
and crash and crash and crash and crash
and crash and crashing is part a
big part of F5.
That's why starting out in a simulator
will save you a lot of money.
Do you practice in the simulator?
It doesn't cost anything to crash when
you crash in the real world.
It costs money.
So for safety and financial
reasons, I recommend starting with a tiny
group. If you run into someone's face
with a tiny hoop, you will not mangle
their face.
If you run into someone's face.
With this, you will mangle their
face. So don't do that
and don't fly those indoors.
Tiny loops are small and light.
They're normally flown indoors, which we
will do later.
They are called tiny loops because of the
prop guards. These are called woops
little prop guards. If you run into
somebody, you know, the worst thing you
can do is get stuck in someone's hair.
And that's a bummer.
I've had that happen a couple of times,
so well, not for me, but
for the person who I ran into.
So as stated before they are, this is my
personal opinion regarding what quite to
buy. So take it with a grain of salt.
Do your own research.
So let's look at a couple tiny loops in
my collection.
You see the video here on the left
is from a
video I filmed with an SPV
tiny loop, namely this
modular light six HD.
It has a high definition camera installed
on it. I even used this.
Yeah, I used this little drone to film
some of the scenes you saw there.
It's very, very small and can get in
very, very tight places.
And it has an excellent camera and it's
up to 10 deep, you
know, small little drone.
Very nice single shot
for the folks out there in internet land.
Very nice camera.
Next, we have the modular light or
sorry, the modular six.
The mobile six is a little
well, it's exactly the same as the HD,
except it doesn't have an HD camera.
So it's where the regular camera that
can't take cool video
footage.
By the way, in this HD camera, there
is a mini SD card.
I'll show it here.
There's a mini SD card that
saves your video footage, so
you're seeing an MPV feed in your
goggles. And this thing will save your
high definition video footage
in here.
And then the last one, which we will fly
around today around the studio is this
little mop light six.
It is very light.
Flies for a long time.
It's really fast, and it's a lot
of fun to fly.
You can do some pretty cool acrobatic
stuff with it, and you can get
on people's nerves, which I do all the
time. So, OK,
let's get into the exciting stuff.
FP Goggles.
This is where the fun starts.
It is also possible to buy goggles and
practice in a simulator, since a
decent set of goggles will have an
HDMI input.
So you can actually use these to
hook to your computer and use it as a
spare monitor. I do this when I'm riding
in a train and I don't want people to see
what I'm doing in my computer.
I just put on goggles and shut
the the the
flap. What do you call that thing?
The thing in the front? Anyway, I close
my my laptop
and I see my screen and people look at me
like, I'm a freak, but you know, who
cares?
That you kind of look like you're in
Toronto, so, you know, if I can.
So before discussing the virtues of
goggles, trying them on and posing for
the cover of Daft Punk magazine,
a magazine I do want to pose for
at some point in my life, we will first
need to discuss the two video signal
types of F5.
And these are namely analog and digital.
OK. Depending on what type of
requirements you have,
these video signal types can influence
the goggles you buy.
So pay attention here, and this will
be a money issue for some of you.
Here's some some DVR
footage from a flight I did,
and this is analog VIDEO And
it is exactly that analog.
So for those of you as old as me,
you will remember
back in the good old days, the old analog
TV transmissions of the last century.
It looks like that.
And that's pretty much the same
technology.
There are advantages and disadvantages to
analog video system.
The advantages are equipment
compatibility, so equipment for analog
systems is open and Inter
compatible Inter compatible.
It's not locked to any specific vendor.
This means that the video transmitters
and receivers are not limited by
proprietary protocols, which is
a definite plus.
It has low latency.
Latency means that the
time it takes to get from the camera,
your feed to your goggles is very
low and latency.
So the transmission is
faster, which means you can react
more quickly. For some people, this kind
of subjective.
Some people say there's a big difference
between digital and analog.
It depends who you're talking to.
It is low cost analog equipment
is much more inexpensive than digital.
It uses low bandwidth and the
radio spectrum, which means
you can fly with more people so you can
fly with your friends so they can use
their analog equipment and you're not
going to blast the whole bandwidth and
screw everyone over.
So something to
think about.
OK, so let's talk about the
disadvantages and really the
biggest disadvantage, as you saw, is
the video clarity. It's low.
Some people would say the security is an
issue because it
is not encrypted, and anyone can
view that.
I don't really see that as an issue,
especially if you're flying with the
Quad.
I suppose you could probably run it
through some kind of encryption
algorithm. I don't know.
Maybe look into that for fun.
OK, so
the the good thing is this analog
signal you're seeing looks like crap and
you think, like, how do I make a nice
video out of it? Well, you strap
on an HD camera to the top of the other
drone, so you'll see here's my F5
camera here. This little guy, and here
is my HD camera, and this
is going to take the good stuff and this
is going to be just for flying.
So the camera here,
it's got a little cap on it, you
know, very small.
OK. That's how we get the cool
video footage.
So let's get to digital,
so some of the advantages to digital,
unlike analog, these systems transmit and
receive digital signals.
So as you can see the video, clear
clarity is clearly the biggest advantage
of digital signals and of course, the
biggest selling point.
For example, when flying among trees and
small branches, the details make a
huge difference and can mean the
difference between whether you crash or
not. Something I don't do is fly around
in the woods like this with an analog
system, it's very hard to see those
little small branches and they will take
you down quick. It's called straggle,
so digital
SPV disadvantages higher latency,
which means the signal you
were talking scatter.
The signal transmission rate,
I guess, is
slower, which means you will not be
able to react as quickly.
I don't see this as a big problem.
Some people do.
The cost is higher.
Digital systems are more expensive than
analog and the equipment compatibility.
This is the big one for me, which really
makes me a big turnoff is
digital systems.
There is the problem of vendor lock.
So if you're going to get locked into a
digital system, you are only going to be
using DJI, which I
don't know that kind of kind of sucks.
So.
So which goggles do you
want to buy? That's up to you.
I'm a fan of the analog system,
which I think is pretty obvious.
However, I do own a shark bite system.
This is an analog system,
or, I'm sorry, a digital system.
I may have to be happy with the fact that
it is compatible with analog
goggles, so it's kind of
a hybrid. It's kind of it is a digital
system, but it is.
It can be used with analog hardware,
which is pretty nice.
So I'm just going to show you a couple of
things about some of these goggles.
This is an east sheen.
Even, I think even 300 zero
or something like that.
It is run by a US battery on the side.
It has here.
I have a patch antenna and a
omnidirectional antenna on the top.
So this one is when I
place it in the direction of where I am
flying. I can get a clear signal.
It has a higher decibel
TBI
on the top. There's a fan to keep it from
fogging up.
It has high definition, as I said,
HDMI input.
I can hook this up to my computer uses as
an external monitor, I said.
As I said, another use which I think is
kind of cool and I do it sometimes is to
use it as a soldering monitor.
You can hook it up to an USB microscope
and get in real close.
You kind of look like Doc Brown with
these things on, you know, they're just
cool
electron, doc brown, Daft Punk,
you know the cool stuff.
Here are my fat shark
photos.
They're a little older.
They do have the same features as
this set of goggles.
I made some external mods, a lot of 3D
printing you can see here.
Here's a power switch I have, which
has a nice little
beeps too, which is kind of cool.
The as I said, this module,
this digital module on the front can be
removed.
Overall, it's a very nice system.
I'm very happy with it.
So if you want to look into good goggles,
kind of like the cream and de la creme
of goggles is, I would say, the
fat shark.
They're also pretty
established and well known in the FPP
world.
You look in the goggles, you'll be seeing
the name Fat Shark quite a bit.
OK, so let's go to phase three.
We're going to go back to our shopping
cart. So far, we have developed some good
piloting skills and our simulator.
We've translated those skills into real
world flying by flying with our goggles
and a tiny move.
Now we want to take it to the next step
and enter phase three.
Since we already have our basic
equipment, we can now buy as
many quads as we want and expand our
fleet.
This will largely depend on what type
of flying you're interested.
So I'm going to go into some of the
different types of flying in different
types of quads and have here on the
table.
For this phase, we will be briefly
covering different flying styles, the
classes of quads, et cetera.
So you kind of have a good or
a better idea of what kind of quads are
out there and maybe see a style of
flying, which you can say, Oh, I could
see myself doing that.
So just remember the words and
yeah, it's all good.
So we're going to get into freestyle
freestyle.
It is a generic term which can
include many other styles of flying.
However, in order to keep things
simple.
We will glob it into the catch all term
freestyle, so freestyle is arguably
the most action packed style of flying in
the world
as comparison.
It's similar to the world of freestyle
skateboarding. I see it as pretty
much the same thing as people get
together. They they do tricks.
And you know, in a nutshell,
the flying style involves flying in and
around objects through tight spaces and
openings. Sharp turns near misses
while trying to pull off a couple of
tricks like great at the last second
and freestyle quads needs to take a lot
of beating.
That is why, because you'll be crashing
like crazy.
That is why it is the most robust
compared to the other classes.
A freestyle quad can come in many shapes
and sizes.
I'll start from the smallest to largest.
I'll just start at around this one
here. You could call this freestyle
quad.
This one's kind of cute.
It looks like a flying helmet.
I don't know. Lord Helmet with propellers
from Space Balls,
it is.
It's one s on a warrant runs
on one. Its battery will
move up the ladder a little bit and
graduate to a three inch
freestyle quad.
As I said, these are very
robust. You can see this is made of
carbon fiber.
I have my own tbou
3D printed parts on this some
camera holders.
This one's pretty small.
It's a three inch quad
and they're called three inch in five
inch and has to do with the diameter of
the propellers.
So that's three inches across.
And here is a bigger call, this is
actually called a mini quad, because
back in the day, these things were much
bigger. And when they got him this this
size, they said, Hey, this freaking
small, you know, so many.
Quite so.
This is a freestyle mini quad.
It has a lot of custom configurations,
some camera mounts. I designed myself
in small space, small space.
Check it out. Love it.
Great CAD program.
I can always plug safe space.
Love that program.
A I have a my own
custom antenna mounts.
And yes, these are have larger props.
Three Blade props you can get to read
blade props.
The common usage, or the common
configuration, is a three depth three
blade prop.
Here are some of the antennas that we
talked about earlier.
Yes, this is a six squad.
We'll talk about batteries in a second.
OK. So those are some just
a general introduction to Freestyle
Quad.
Next, we can talk about long range, long
range is a hell of a lot of fun
and they just go long range.
They fly really, really, really far.
So how far along range
can fly really depends on who you're
talking to and what type of Quad you're
referring to. And since this
can sometimes be debatable, what
constitutes a long range Quad?
I'll just say it. It's kind of like a
Quad that can fly above average distances
while taking into account
its size, performance and battery,
which is a very convoluted saying of
I don't fucking know.
So no, actually,
there are some things that these things
can go pretty far. They can go
anywhere from one to 10 to more
kilometers, depending on.
Depending on some of the components you
build into them, long range flights
are generally smoother.
They have a feel of cruising
without any tricks or rolls.
You're just going to kind of fly and
cruise
and long range quads are usually equipped
with a GPS module.
You can see in this flight and
you can check out those GPS coordinates
if you want. That's not gonna bother me.
It features a GPS
module was built into this court.
I built it myself. I'll show you in a
second.
It features return to home functionality.
This means that if the Quad loses signal
from the transmitter, it will turn around
and fly back to its point of origin.
So you see a little arrow, and that
points to where I am.
I have two long range quads.
Ironically, both of these were designed
by David Clevedon,
otherwise known as Dave C, and I'll
get into this one first.
This is a micro long range.
It is very light.
Here's the GPS module here on the back
F5 camera in the front,
and I've gotten this quite out pretty
far.
I built in a new vortex, which is
the video transmitter, and
it can get.
I won't say illegal amounts
of power
because I wouldn't do that, but this
thing can get out pretty far.
Here's the GPS module on the back.
A longer antenna. I'll get into this
camera in a second. This camera's pretty
cool. And here is
the nano long range.
This is a 3D printed frame.
I built this one from scratch.
I also made a build video about this on
my YouTube channel.
So if you want to check that out, learn
how to build this guy.
It's a lot of fun. Here's a GPS
module. It's run on a single 18
650 battery has three inch
propellers.
This thing is, I think it's pretty
amazing.
Not because I designed it or did it.
I just built it.
The engineering behind this is very
interesting. It's very, very light.
Very interesting.
OK, so
we're going to have to move along here a
little bit, so cinematic
style cards, I'll just show you that real
quick. This is a cinematic style quad.
It is used for getting
tight and close up to people.
You can see
it also carries its camera here.
Cinematic style to think cinema.
Think movies.
That's a better F5.
85.
And I used it to film this music video
here. You can see I'm flying through an
office space down corridors.
It's very nimble and very
maneuverable, flying down the stairwell
there.
And as I said, you can fly very close to
people because it has prop guards or
woops.
OK, let's move on.
OK, so the and all three phases
we talked about core equipment, so
here's some other stuff you can get.
I'm going to brush this really, really
quick because we're running out of time
here. So batteries, batteries,
they're lithium polymer, they're
dangerous.
So you need to learn about how they work.
They don't work like your phone.
You don't just plug them in and they work
well. Your phone can be dangerous to
think of the Samsung seven.
I think it was. That was a lot of fun.
They can be dangerous.
That's why I store them in an ammunition
case, as you see here.
There are no bullets in this.
There are batteries because they can go
up in flame and they can take you with
them.
So keep those in
mind. Keep that in mind when you're
working with lithium polymer batteries,
cameras, this is a stripped down
naked GoPro. I took a GoPro apart,
placed it.
In this case, it stripped down to only
what is needed for it to function.
Look it up a naked
GoPro running
out of time here, so I got to move.
There's some other cameras on there, so
check them out tools.
I have an awesome tool kit that I wanted
to get into because I could talk about
tools all day long.
And here's my tool kit
antennas,
hex drivers, different camera
mounts, modules,
multi meter antennas,
et cetera. So keep a tool kit
with you. This is my field tool kit.
I use it all the time in the field.
I make repairs in the field.
A soldering iron is in there,
OK, and 3D printing,
as you saw most of the cards
here and they are used with 3D
printing.
They have 3D printed
components on them.
So to round out this presentation, we
will do a short test flight around
the studio to make sure you get a feel of
what it's like to sit in the cockpit of
real life TV drone.
Let's do that.
Hopefully, this live demo will work.
I'm going to plug in here.
I'm going to be using the jumper light.
Turn it on.
OK.
Turn on my goggles.
Turn on the drone so you can get a video
feed. See what I'm seeing
and this is an analog system.
So if if you have
epileptic epileptic issues, this
could flash a lot. So if you have a
problem with flashing lights, please look
the other way.
Don't stare into the light.
OK, let's do it.
I'm not warm, so we'll see how this works
out.
Oh, bad start.
Very bad start
and too excited.
I've had enough booze yet
I don't fly and drink.
OK, here we go.
Here we go.
Let's take it easy.
Say hi people.
Let's go out. Let's fly around the
hackerspace, folks.
Here we are.
So as I said before,
flying is very, very immersive.
I feel like a little man sitting
in the front in the little cockpit.
You know, a little tiny guy lets fly
around the corner. I made it.
Oh, no.
Crashed and burned.
Hopefully someone saw it, and
let's see, I got turn around and I can
probably see myself better.
There we go. I see a little movement.
I don't know if you see anything. Here we
go.
Here we go. We're back on, we're back on
track and I go back.
I'm going to risk it.
You only live once and I'm saying,
OK, I got to do some tricks here.
You know, I'm going to crash, so I might
as well crash in style.
Well, let's call the roll,
folks. That's how you do it.
2001.
20 21,
2001.
I've been listening to old rap albums
recently. Sorry about that.
Here we go.
I don't want getting anyone's hair.
Yes. As you see, this is really
easy to get into.
You'll be getting.
You'll irritate the shit out of people
with these little things. After a while,
they'll be like, Hey, that's really cool.
And then you're flying to their hair and
then they won't like it anymore.
No, they won't like
you for a while because it takes a long
time to get out of the hair.
Those little does little motors when they
get cotton hair. It's bad news.
It's bad news bears.
Oh, he crashes and he burns
slow around here. How much time I got,
folks.
We're doing OK. Still one minute.
You just.
Finally, Chris.
All right, so you see those are
those
those numbers and everything, that's
the onscreen display and that's being
transmitted from the flight controller.
So I can configure that in beta flight.
So if I want to know a different
metric.
There we go. Made it.
If I want to know a different metric, I
can figure that I can put it in my
On-Screen display and see it posted
there. Let's go fast.
Woo, let's go faster.
Oh, crashed and burned.
OK, I think I think
I'm I think I'm done.
So like I said, you're going to crash a
hell of a lot.
It's something you get used to.
These things can crash a lot.
So imagine this.
This is a small version.
Imagine flying one.
Hold on. I'll turn on the beaver.
I can. Is it beeping?
Can you find it?
OK, that's something that's
that's something you can configure.
You can make a beep. So imagine flying
that little card and
and translate it to a big s.
Quite like this one, this five inch it'll
go maybe 200 kilometers an hour
flying on the seat of your pants.
You want to fly this around people.
If you run into someone, you're going to
have a bad day and they're going to have
a worse day. So don't do that.
So that's about it.
You can download the slides from my
presentation on my
at the following URL from my
website.
If you have found something I said to be
an error in my presentation, please let
me know.
As you mentioned, Mitch Alcance has this
by enlightened friend Carson.
But does your immediate opponents,
if you can get it out, is dangerous,
touted as a positive
on a positive, your I.D.
loiter? Yeah, I'm sorry.
I had to say that in German for
the folks, you're standing here.
Not that they don't understand me, you
know? I don't know.
Stay healthy, happy, and I am looking
forward to your questions.
Thank you very much.
This is so nice, thank you so much.
It's nice to see our little village
of, you know, is really just a village
in the transcode of a big city and I know
all the spots.
All right. So there are
lots of questions
to 3D printing
and using that with with drones.
What materials are suitable for 3D
printing frames and are de sturdy enough?
That's a good question, and it really
depends on what card you're making.
This, for example, was printed in play,
but since it's a long range drone,
I'm not going to do crazy tricks with it.
I'm going to be a little more careful.
I have crash with this one.
You can do it with play, but you're not
going to be printing
off a frame for a drone like this
or of this size.
You could, but it probably wouldn't last
very long.
Play abs.
What's a harder one?
Maybe you'll be using a lot of
TPU because TPU is soft
for different mounts and padding
style components.
So, yeah, that's a good question.
Yeah, nice.
How often do you get motion sickness
flying one of the few drones?
Yes, very good question.
I'll just put it this way.
I have a tendency to get motion sickness
generally when I'm in a car.
And the first time I flew with goggles,
I felt that way.
Maybe the first 20 seconds and
something in my brain clicked and
told me it was OK.
And after the first flight, I was really
OK. I don't really have that many
problems and I am more prone to
motion sickness. So yeah, that is a good
question.
Can I? I can hear the last
drone beeping in the couches.
Let me turn it off.
No, no.
I think it's the time out thing.
All right.
Where to look for other people flying MPV
in Germany?
Communities online hubs.
Forums, mature recommend.
There are lots of online hubs.
One forum that I visit
quite often is called into FP Viacom.
There are German people
in Germany. I live in Germany, so
that applies to me.
But there are people from all over the
world on that forum.
Now, with problems with corona,
there used to be more SPV meet ups.
There are sometimes you can look into
tiny woop races.
You can race these things around
through obstacle courses.
There are events and things going on.
The SPV community is rather small.
It's not a big community.
So, yeah, that's
a good question. But there are plenty of
resources online and meetings and
people. All right.
And what about the legal side,
about long range and.
Doing that in Germany or even the U.
Well, there are requirements
and things you should do in Germany,
you're going to have to go to the little
fart button disarmed and
you can take a while.
Maybe a year ago, they offered a free
course to be licensed.
There are three different licenses there,
at least four in this hobby.
The A1, the A2 and the A3.
I have the A1 in the A2.
I'm sorry. I have the A1 and the A3.
I'm currently taking the A2.
The good thing about this is every
country has its own,
I guess you could say, organization,
which takes care of those or regulates
those laws.
You have to look in for your specific
country.
The good thing in the EU is all these
drone licenses are standardized.
So if you get A1 two or three, you can
fly anywhere in the U.S.
I'm only speaking for EU.
So.
Good question. Yeah, nice.
And does anybody in the
FP community use Cinco Stereo
or dual camera setups in combination with
the headsets?
Or is that too intense?
Oh, like a 3D?
Yeah. Yes.
Actually, that is interesting.
I've never tried it.
I would like to.
There was a time, maybe, maybe
four or five years ago.
Maybe now it was longer.
Her father back where you could
do that, there is
a setup where you can transmit
3-D. So yes, that is possible.
It's not very popular.
Not anymore. And there were some people
doing that.
You can probably find a bunch of videos
on YouTube about that.
They're probably a little older.
But yeah, good question.
And I haven't done it myself.
I would love to.
That's something that's definitely on my
bucket list. Good question.
All right.
And then another regulatory
thing.
Does a ham radio license
help in SPV, for example, for stronger
video signal?
Yes, and it depends on the band
and it depends on your class of license,
and it depends on what country you're
living in. So,
yes, with the five point eight megahertz,
there are specific channels.
I think it was like five
point nine or there's a couple
which depending on the flight control or
the vortex, which are not in use,
there's specified as ham radio
channels. And if you are licensed as
a ham radio operator, you
can.
I think you can get up to five watts
or something like that. It's quite
don't quote me on this.
I'm just pulling this out of my ass right
now as a specific question.
But yes, you do have
some advantages.
All right. That's very interesting.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you.
And yeah, happy
New Year. See you next year.
Hopefully live in person.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Our next talk on chaos on TV will
be better, and he will talk about
Electro. Who? Who's a cabinet best of
Linda.
What may happen if one
applies dementia?
If it's stupid and it works, it's not
stupid to electricity installations?
All right, that sounds interesting.
See you then.