{"video_id":"bkKeijmgXW0","title":"Parrot AR.Drone iPad Controlled Remote Control Aircraft Test Flight Demo Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":676,"segments":[{"start_s":5.68,"end_s":12.519,"text":"so I've actually done a few flights with the AR drone but uh this is the first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.88,"end_s":16.92,"text":"one that I'm going to be doing on camera so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.08,"end_s":21.359,"text":"uh just want to show you guys the Drone itself I did an unboxing but I'll just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.439,"end_s":25.72,"text":"give you a general overview so included you've got the uh inside Hull so the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.199,"end_s":31.4,"text":"indoor hul I'm not going to be using that since I am flying outside today so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.199,"end_s":35.52,"text":"I 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Hull doesn't provide protection for the propellers but it does offer slightly better performance because it's lighter weight as well as better battery life once again because it's lighter weight so the motors don't have to work as hard so I've got the included uh 1,000 Mah LiPo battery it's fresh off the charger so I should get about 12 minutes of flight time out of it depending on uh how hard it has to work so just go ahead head and put that in like that now immediately plugging in the battery the LED lights turn on I'm just going to put the unit over there for a second and I want to show you guys The Binding process so what you do is you go and look for the Wi-Fi network that is AR drone whatever your AR drone happens to be so once you've connected so the AR drone is its own Hots spot so you'll see the Wi-Fi will turn on there and then all you do is go into I've got AR free flight and then actually have a couple of third party apps drone Ace and drone control these are cool um they allow for some additional functionality like uh flashing the LEDs different colors uh performing a couple stunts like wiggling back and forth spinning in circles that kind of stuff as well as recording um video and photos I'm just going to be using the AR drone OEM one to start with here actually sometimes it takes a minute to uh to connect properly and to boot up so uh why don't I finish finish let's see oh yeah there we go so connecting checking updating bootloader and checking version I did have to update the air drone the first time I used it but it was a simple process and it was just a matter of uh doing an overthe a upgrade it took about 5 minutes between the iPad and the air drone itself so you can see the front mounted camera here I am standing in front of it now those are my feet so here this should give you some idea of what the delay is like on the camera can you see my foot as well as the iPad okay so you guys can see that so it's not instantaneous but it's pretty darn good and then there's also the bottom mounted camera so now you can see the ground underneath the AR drone so you can switch between those and there's also a picture and picture view mode where we can see the bottom camera here and the top camera here or the front camera here and the bottom camera here okay oh I'll show you the basic controls as well before we get started here so you can reposition the joysticks anywhere you want just by pressing down so you can see this the GU moving around so pressing down on the iPad here allows me to control the air drone front back Side by to side movement just by tilting the iPad and then this guy does up down and then rotating left and rotating right so like this okay up and down like that okay uh there's also an emergency button to cut out and then this is the takeoff and land button I'm not going to press that just yet so let's go ahead and put the hull on it's just a matter of slipping it on the front here all right now this drone has actually been through some uh fairly impressive crashes so far and I have to say the durability of this thing compared to RC uh devices that I've used in the past is outstanding actually here I'll show you a couple of the durability related features so number one is the awesome foam that they use on the hulls themselves they can take quite a beating now I've had pieces of them actually snap but I was able to I can't even find the part that was broken on this one anymore I was able to repair them quite easily using a little bit of epoxy the propellers are also made of a very flexible material so that means that once they hit something they do have some give to them so they won't just snap instantly and also they the electronics in the AR drone will allow it to actually cut out all four Motors as soon as one of them encounters resistance so if you hit a branch for example it'll cut out all the motors the AR drone drops down and then what happens is that prevents further damage to the more delicate Motors and gear assemblies versus if they did not cut out when it hit the ground and bad things happen okay now I did have one particularly bad crash I just want to show you guys this can you see that that's kind of mangled and can you see that the gear is kind of bent you can get replacement parts actually I should mention this for almost every part of the AR drone with the replacement part list you could pretty much build an AR Drone from scratch if you wanted to you can get replacement housings bases um motherboards all that kind of stuff anyway you can get replacement gears I don't have any and I do need to use it for this video so what I did was what happened was I hit a branch and then it fell down directly onto a curb so the odds of this kind of thing happening were pretty much slim to none but it happened to me of course it fell from about 8 ft high so that was bad so this broke off and you can you see the bend there okay so what I did was I glued it to tack it in place and then I melted the plastic back together and it actually see the gears still work so it actually flies Okay which is kind of remarkable so I'm just going to show you guys a quick flight here around my backyard and I apologize for that segment of the garden we haven't done anything with that yet that's more like what we're aiming for here but it's sort of one year at a time here so here we go take off time so the AR drone automatically takes off and hovers a couple feet above the ground so here let's show you guys the uh the basic controls so here's your up as soon as you let go of the controls the AR drone will actually hover itself which is remarkable compared to most other RC devices out there it actually uses the bottom mounted camera to keep itself from drifting around which is very cool so here you go I can control the yaw don't worry I'm not going to point it at you okay so I'm going to rotate it until I can see myself here hold on a little bit more a little bit more let's go nice and gently gently okay I'll just move there you go so now you guys can see you don't have to keep moving I'm moving myself so you can see me in the iPad right there you go you can also see the AR drone holding itself still in the air over there so let's go ahead and uh let's move it around a little bit so as I mentioned before as soon as you put your thumb here you can start to control the AR drone by tilting it back and forth so that's your general movement control now it can move quite fast so let's go ahead we'll just go forward and we'll just kind of do a little circuit here now I would definitely recommend for your first few flights that you do them indoors because it's a little bit tricky to get the hang of especially when the orientation of the Drone is uh changing around in the air in front of you so sometimes it's kind of hard to tell which way to tilt it to turn the way you want to turn okay okay so like I said no matter what you're doing let's say you're going uh here let's bring it this way so let's say you're moving forward let go of the controls boom AR drone will hover just like that very cool right okay so now there's a lot of debate on the interwebs about whether the AR drone can actually be piloted when you don't have a line of sight to it I would say yes but slowly so here I'm going to take you guys around the other side of my house you're probably going to want to be looking at the iPad here because uh the AR drone won't be visible very soon so here we go hold on like I said when you let go of it it will immediately stop so here I don't want to get too close to those branches so I'm just going to uh check around make sure we're not too close to anything here that's good that's good so I think we're we're high low low enough that we won't touch on those so here we go we can stop at any time we can look around there's my ladder there's my gas meter there's my barbecue and there is uh here I'll show you guys where I am hello I'm over here can you see me yes or no yeah you can see me okay so that's what the responsiveness is like when you're flying the AR drone in a uh a no line of sight type scenario okay let's bring it back around to the front and take it back over there and now you can see I have brought the Drone back from where it was now there's a couple things to bear in mind when you're flying the Drone one is the amount of advanced electronics that's in there like couple cool things so the camera keeps it from drifting it also has an ultrasound transmitter and receiver on the bottom of it that's how it knows what height to stay at so if I go and I put it at this height up to I believe it is 3 m the AR drone can control its height within a very accurate range check this out so you can see it hardly drifts at all now what that means though is that if I were to take the AR drone and I were to put it up at a height of about 5 m and fly over those Hedges on the left as soon as it is above the hedges it would take off 5 m above that so be careful with your drone if you go and you try and fly over a shed or over your house you're going to fly it up 20 ft it's going to jump up another 20 ft get caught in a cross Breeze and get blown away and then you're going to be buying some replacement parts so yeah I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it right now there's a great modding Community around for this thing already which is uh which is just a standing because there's mods to uh to control it with a standard RC controller there's mods to do all kinds of neat stuff with it and it is a very very cool device there's also extended batteries out there so you can fly for about 20 minutes at a time and uh I think that's pretty much it so why don't we bring it in for a landing here just press the landing button and down it goes thanks for checking out my demo video the parrot AR drone just so you guys know the way that I'm flying it now I've only flown it about uh 10 to 12 times so that should give you some idea what the learning curves like this thing is outstanding compared to other RC aircraft that I have used in the past"}