so today's video is a little different it's sponsored by ibm
which is a first for us that's pretty cool and
i have no idea what's going on so it's meant to be very experiential and alex
here is going to be showing me exactly what is inside these
black boxes and why they are so
very cool
uh okay so what do we do first then just open one
okay so okay you bad unboxing form yeah just
like hey camera here's the thing you were already looking at very very much
already and you know it's just going to kind of hang there oh oh this is great
if only you could if only you could see what was in this box yeah oh it's
amazing
okay so inside you will find an ibm developer
sticker coaster that's a lick one you gotta lick the back really
it is not
you've got this cute little tello drone it seems to be like pretty capable
and like even if you don't win one you can get them for like 100 bucks or
something like that oh speaking of winning right that was one of the big
things for this whole video is they're actually giving away
1500 of these kits so you can check out the details below we'll tell you a
little bit more about it later but for now let's just have the experience here
so here's our battery for our trello drone this thing
is it's more bad it's more battery now the drone
twisted and well not evil but pretty cool anyway
you've got a special code to unlock access to ibm's code pattern to help you
program your drone you get a medium-sized ibm developer shirt all
right this one's a large oh i think you can specify and you control it with your
phone i guess yep iOS and Android yep
cool nice wallpaper oh thank you all right
got calvin hops wallpaper okay so we're just joining the wi-fi hotspot from this
drone yeah you just connect to wi-fi then you get a little app so take off
take off yep is it black and white oh no it's colored
am i there would you like me to fly it
do you know how to fly a drone you can't screw up flying a drone you can and
people do yes i'm just trying to figure out how to
um
yes that's what i was trying to get okay it's really good at doing flips
do you wanna you wanna have a little go sure
like it's pretty standard drone functionality but
yeah it's really stable for uh a tiny drone i guess i should expect no less
from dji but look at that hover way okay
no it's bad all right okay so we can land it for now though right
how does ibm figure into all of this
so that's the really cool part about this little drone is that it's super
easy to program so what are we going to program our tele
drone to do we're just going to give it a little routine kind of like go up
move one way the other way maybe do like a little square and then a couple flips oh
cool let's start no dash red
it's pretty simple but it looks pretty hackery you do need to know how to use
command a little bit okay and are we connected to the drones hotspot right
now or are we on the internet we're just on the internet right now okay but
where did you go mr drone there we go hello
so flow one tello missions yay so this is just a really like visual
drag and drop programming interface but then can you can you go straight full
hacker writing things out if you want yeah like every one of these is
like an actual bit of code and you can do kind of
whatever you want in it cool so let's just see if it's working so we'll just
like hit take off wow that is cool
don't hit the light please um so if we hit should we just can we
bring it just like down a bit can you override with your phone or like
how does this work are we is this computer interface yeah that's
okay that's all we got um down
how much is 60 60 centimeters probably i hope so if we go to the right let's just
get it a little bit away from us yeah
and so that was right 30. you want to go right 30 again
uh that's left 30. oh yeah i clicked the wrong one
10 out of 10 10 out of 10 best way to fly a drone
2018. okay i wonder what full 360 does
okay oh okay that's pretty self-explanatory it's a good thing that
this has a nice stable flight pattern
and uh flips okay
yeah land okay
okay cool
so now we program it to do something yeah
so let's just run this little code and see what happens
so it goes down does a 360 and then lands
so
landed yeah that did work then we could have it we could have it
fly around the room probably right i'm gonna go get a tape measure 50.
actually here why don't we do you want to take off from the floor instead
just make our lives maybe a little bit easier command 0 1000 so that must be
for the take off then we'll have it go up
maybe another uh
50 centimeters so that's about head level so instead of down we want to go up 500
then let's go clockwise 90. clockwise
90. so we're kind of mapping out where we're expecting it to go and then we'll see
what happens let's fly in a straight line 220
centimeters can we do that 220 okay okay
and see if it lands on the table
we're asking for a lot here we understand that
yeah this doesn't have a bottom facing camera does it it does have ir so
something like that not a camera yeah yeah okay well let's see what happens so
yeah and then all that we have to do to connect them is just take the custom path and we
add this little connection here okay successfully injected run mission
what did we set it to i thought we set it to 50 centimeters
500 no this is in millimeters
are you sure yep i wouldn't get too close david
there goes the conte it's going to go up
ah no
i am pretty sure it's centimeters why would you have a granularity of
millimeters for something that flies like it doesn't make any sense
i don't know millimeters are just nice which stop it all to like 200 yeah
okay oh it's gonna hit things
okay up 50 then we want to go counterclockwise 90. turn turn come on
turn turn baby oh it didn't turn
how do you have to stop okay so why didn't get the clockwise you mean
counterclockwise so yes let's just make sure that that's wait did you write cww
oh it should be cc all of them
yup i did that for every single one so that explains why that didn't work
this is pretty cool yeah here comes the flip
way yep
oh is it going to hit anything
oh it's really close to that chain really close to that chain it might make
it did you bring it back down alex oh no oh okay
it's supposed to land oh why is it flipping again oh that's
the flip okay so it's gonna go forward land now
so there you have it the only limitation
is your imagination and your competence
so that's like pretty cool and all but you know kind of just for like playing
around with programming and stuff yeah but the actual like powerful part of
this is the vision recognition stuff so
basically you can send imagery to watson
yeah it can like take a little look at it and
then tell you what it is yeah
wow so like it's pretty cool for like us and
like the ibm guys have had it like go around and like find their dog
or another dog related thing he has a bunch of tennis balls that he always loses in
the yard so the drone just maps out where all the tennis balls are that he threw for his dog
or like there's useful things like you can have it go up and inspect a cell tower or like wow look at like
power lines and make sure they're not all clogged up with icing cracks so now
this is obviously not the unit that you would necessarily use for all of those
types of applications but what it is is it's a great affordable learning
platform what i was trying to do was to get it to find either you or Colton and
attack you but unfortunately i wasn't quite able to
get it to work so we had a train on a
negative which is pictures of like me
james pella the people in the office that i like you know um
so we have like our find and destroy Colton thing uh-huh we did this with um
17 pictures of Colton 15 of you i just grabbed them off the internet
and if we test this if we like take a picture of you
okay and
i'll just email that to myself drone stuff
take a picture of Linus copy it in loading results oh only 59 Linus
so it does recognize that it's you but it's not as good as the Colton stuff
that i was doing like if we take a picture of Colton
and here's just a random one it wasn't in the training
yeah that is nice
yeah and like i was able to do this in like
15 minutes so we weren't able to get full attack
drone capability and obviously for stuff
like the tennis ball or like inspecting cell
tower examples we gave before something like this is probably not
quite heavy duty enough but
really the purpose of the tello drone in these developer kits is to get your feet
wet and have something that is surprisingly capable for the price with
that said you won't necessarily have to buy one because as i alluded to before
ibm is giving away a whopping 1500 of these at the link in the video
description so a huge thank you to ibm for obviously supporting the developer
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