{"video_id":"PEoTtws9rcE","title":"Parrot AR.Drone Range Test in the NCIX Parking Lot Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":376,"segments":[{"start_s":7.72,"end_s":14.36,"text":"so we're here in the NC parking lot doing a bit of a range test on the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.559,"end_s":19.84,"text":"parrot AR drone so I got my iPad here you can see the front mounted camera","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.96,"end_s":23.199,"text":"view and actually that is oh well why don't to show you guys the settings in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.16,"end_s":26.92,"text":"here as well can you see that at all no how about if I go up this way can you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.48,"end_s":32.559,"text":"see it now okay cool okay so I'm just going to turn on uh outdoor Hull and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.759,"end_s":36.32,"text":"outdoor flight are both on okay so it looks like we're ready to go already so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":34.32,"end_s":40.64,"text":"I'm also going to switch on my alternate camera which is right here okay so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":38.76,"end_s":43.76,"text":"that's my downward facing camera and I just want to show you guys for the for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":42.12,"end_s":48.239,"text":"the sake of interest that it's a little bit windy out here today so you can see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":46.719,"end_s":53.96,"text":"that drifting I'm going to go ahead I'm going to take off with the AR drone and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":50.76,"end_s":57.16,"text":"I want to show you guys how little it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.96,"end_s":60.68,"text":"actually drifts even in the wind check","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.16,"end_s":63.12,"text":"that out so it actually controls itself","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.68,"end_s":66.08,"text":"using the bottom mounted camera to keep itself from drifting away see it got","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":65.0,"end_s":69.88,"text":"blown away a little bit and then corrected itself and brought itself back","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":68.2,"end_s":75.159,"text":"pretty cool eh so we're going to do a bit of a range test here I'm going to go","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":71.68,"end_s":77.4,"text":"ahead and uh fly it down the parking lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":75.159,"end_s":81.36,"text":"keeping it nice and low no need to put it up high especially on a windy day","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":79.159,"end_s":81.36,"text":"like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":83.479,"end_s":90.52,"text":"today so remember this is Wi-Fi controlled so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":89.119,"end_s":98.32,"text":"here I'm going to go ahead and stop for a second here there we go so just for scale guys","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":95.6,"end_s":104.56,"text":"so the Drone is about it's got to be at least about 50 60 M away at this point","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":101.6,"end_s":108.36,"text":"and I still do have my video feed and I still do have control of the Drone so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.2,"end_s":113.56,"text":"here I'm going to turn it around and point it at us let's see if we can see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":110.759,"end_s":117.2,"text":"ourselves here o it's getting uh oh it's pretty Gusty right now so you can see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":115.2,"end_s":121.96,"text":"the Drone struggling a little bit but it is managing to uh hold itself in place","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":119.88,"end_s":127.2,"text":"so I'm just going to bring it back tilt it this way tilt her that way oh here we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":127.56,"end_s":131.92,"text":"go okay there we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":132.36,"end_s":139.319,"text":"go oh okay I couldn't figure out if it was coming back or not cuz it's going","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":136.2,"end_s":144.599,"text":"kind of slow cuz it's uh in the breeze","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":139.319,"end_s":144.599,"text":"here there we go come on Mr","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":146.599,"end_s":155.12,"text":"drone so there you go we can comfortably go about 50 to 60 M away without any","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":153.28,"end_s":157.879,"text":"difficulties so I brought it back now let's wait for this car to move along","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":156.56,"end_s":161.959,"text":"and then we'll we'll pick this up again in a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":159.68,"end_s":164.959,"text":"sec so we're back we're going to take the Drone all the way down to the end of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":163.44,"end_s":169.64,"text":"the parking lot but first let's go harass our uh our HR manager over","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":171.76,"end_s":178.84,"text":"there he's all like WTF and I'm all like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":175.84,"end_s":178.84,"text":"hello","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":180.44,"end_s":186.92,"text":"and I can't see it behind that tree right now but I'm just going to go ahead and uh bring it back over here I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":191.04,"end_s":197.64,"text":"think okay let's just bring it between these","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":194.12,"end_s":197.64,"text":"trees turn it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":198.599,"end_s":203.72,"text":"around oh I lost my orientation oh I hit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":201.92,"end_s":208.36,"text":"the tree oh here well I'll show you guys what happens so this is a cutout","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":205.12,"end_s":209.84,"text":"emergency so what happens is uh what the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":208.36,"end_s":214.439,"text":"blade here come come check this out because this is a great demo of how","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":211.879,"end_s":219.68,"text":"durable the AR drone actually is a cutout emergency occurs when one of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":216.799,"end_s":224.12,"text":"propellers strikes an immovable object and what the AR drone does is it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":221.48,"end_s":228.439,"text":"actually turns off all four Motors before immediately before the AR drone","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":226.159,"end_s":231.599,"text":"even hits the ground in order to minimize the amount of damage that can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":230.239,"end_s":234.84,"text":"be done to it now the propellers are made out of a very flexible material","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":233.48,"end_s":241.28,"text":"they're very difficult to break I've crashed it like this a couple dozen times at this point but what you can see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":239.319,"end_s":245.599,"text":"here is that so yeah they've got that Flex to them and if they all turn off","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":243.4,"end_s":250.04,"text":"when one of them encounters an obstacle then you dramatically reduce the risk of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":248.239,"end_s":255.079,"text":"serious damage to the Drone so in this case we hit a tree and that was bad but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":252.48,"end_s":260.0,"text":"uh let's go ahead and uh take off again here and see if we can do another little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":257.519,"end_s":264.199,"text":"range test here we go make sure all systems are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":261.96,"end_s":268.759,"text":"functional there we are and let's go ahead and wow it's getting pretty windy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":266.6,"end_s":275.16,"text":"though I got to say this is definitely not the optimal conditions for uh for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":271.8,"end_s":276.759,"text":"flying a small RC aircraft like this so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":275.16,"end_s":281.24,"text":"let's go ahead and take it down to the other end of the parking lot and uh see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":279.72,"end_s":286.72,"text":"how far we can go I'm flying into the wind right now so this represents pretty","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":282.96,"end_s":290.4,"text":"much my top speed into a strong","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":286.72,"end_s":292.24,"text":"headwind really you're realistically","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":290.4,"end_s":298.72,"text":"you're going to lose control of the AR drone in terms of your visual ability to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":296.56,"end_s":303.32,"text":"determine what's forward and what's backwards before before you're going to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":300.4,"end_s":306.0,"text":"lose control of the AR drone from the iPad so you can see it's getting blown","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":304.88,"end_s":310.919,"text":"around quite a bit over there but I guess that pretty much wraps us up there's my range test on the AR drone","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":309.88,"end_s":317.24,"text":"thank you for checking it out don't forget to subscribe to line us techit for unboxings reviews and other computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":314.84,"end_s":320.56,"text":"videos so here's cameraman trying to fly the AR","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":318.28,"end_s":324.479,"text":"drone he approves of this product because uh he's using the iPad to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":322.8,"end_s":330.4,"text":"control it I'll just zoom in on his uh his drone","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":327.319,"end_s":332.84,"text":"flate here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.4,"end_s":337.68,"text":"please don't hit the car cameraman so we're quite far away at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":335.039,"end_s":341.36,"text":"this point I'm going to max out the zoom of my camera","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.08,"end_s":348.12,"text":"here wow I think I can actually see it better through the zoom than I can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":344.72,"end_s":348.12,"text":"uh with my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.199,"end_s":353.36,"text":"eyes oh please don't hit that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":351.24,"end_s":359.8,"text":"car so yeah this cameraman flying the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":357.759,"end_s":363.12,"text":"Drone something's cool is that is that if you actually do manage to go outside","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":361.28,"end_s":368.96,"text":"of the maximum range of the Drone what it does is it just switches off and goes","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.08,"end_s":371.199,"text":"into hover mode so there's no risk of uh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.96,"end_s":377.44,"text":"it damaging Itself by like flying away or anything like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":373.199,"end_s":377.44,"text":"that so yeah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so we're here in the NC parking lot doing a bit of a range test on the parrot AR drone so I got my iPad here you can see the front mounted camera view and actually that is oh well why don't to show you guys the settings in here as well can you see that at all no how about if I go up this way can you see it now okay cool okay so I'm just going to turn on uh outdoor Hull and outdoor flight are both on okay so it looks like we're ready to go already so I'm also going to switch on my alternate camera which is right here okay so that's my downward facing camera and I just want to show you guys for the for the sake of interest that it's a little bit windy out here today so you can see that drifting I'm going to go ahead I'm going to take off with the AR drone and I want to show you guys how little it actually drifts even in the wind check that out so it actually controls itself using the bottom mounted camera to keep itself from drifting away see it got blown away a little bit and then corrected itself and brought itself back pretty cool eh so we're going to do a bit of a range test here I'm going to go ahead and uh fly it down the parking lot keeping it nice and low no need to put it up high especially on a windy day like today so remember this is Wi-Fi controlled so here I'm going to go ahead and stop for a second here there we go so just for scale guys so the Drone is about it's got to be at least about 50 60 M away at this point and I still do have my video feed and I still do have control of the Drone so here I'm going to turn it around and point it at us let's see if we can see ourselves here o it's getting uh oh it's pretty Gusty right now so you can see the Drone struggling a little bit but it is managing to uh hold itself in place so I'm just going to bring it back tilt it this way tilt her that way oh here we go okay there we go oh okay I couldn't figure out if it was coming back or not cuz it's going kind of slow cuz it's uh in the breeze here there we go come on Mr drone so there you go we can comfortably go about 50 to 60 M away without any difficulties so I brought it back now let's wait for this car to move along and then we'll we'll pick this up again in a sec so we're back we're going to take the Drone all the way down to the end of the parking lot but first let's go harass our uh our HR manager over there he's all like WTF and I'm all like hello and I can't see it behind that tree right now but I'm just going to go ahead and uh bring it back over here I think okay let's just bring it between these trees turn it around oh I lost my orientation oh I hit the tree oh here well I'll show you guys what happens so this is a cutout emergency so what happens is uh what the blade here come come check this out because this is a great demo of how durable the AR drone actually is a cutout emergency occurs when one of the propellers strikes an immovable object and what the AR drone does is it actually turns off all four Motors before immediately before the AR drone even hits the ground in order to minimize the amount of damage that can be done to it now the propellers are made out of a very flexible material they're very difficult to break I've crashed it like this a couple dozen times at this point but what you can see here is that so yeah they've got that Flex to them and if they all turn off when one of them encounters an obstacle then you dramatically reduce the risk of serious damage to the Drone so in this case we hit a tree and that was bad but uh let's go ahead and uh take off again here and see if we can do another little range test here we go make sure all systems are functional there we are and let's go ahead and wow it's getting pretty windy though I got to say this is definitely not the optimal conditions for uh for flying a small RC aircraft like this so let's go ahead and take it down to the other end of the parking lot and uh see how far we can go I'm flying into the wind right now so this represents pretty much my top speed into a strong headwind really you're realistically you're going to lose control of the AR drone in terms of your visual ability to determine what's forward and what's backwards before before you're going to lose control of the AR drone from the iPad so you can see it's getting blown around quite a bit over there but I guess that pretty much wraps us up there's my range test on the AR drone thank you for checking it out don't forget to subscribe to line us techit for unboxings reviews and other computer videos so here's cameraman trying to fly the AR drone he approves of this product because uh he's using the iPad to control it I'll just zoom in on his uh his drone flate here please don't hit the car cameraman so we're quite far away at this point I'm going to max out the zoom of my camera here wow I think I can actually see it better through the zoom than I can uh with my eyes oh please don't hit that car so yeah this cameraman flying the Drone something's cool is that is that if you actually do manage to go outside of the maximum range of the Drone what it does is it just switches off and goes into hover mode so there's no risk of uh it damaging Itself by like flying away or anything like that so yeah"}