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Welcome to my first outdoor unboxing in quite a while. The weather's beautiful,

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perfect for flying. So, we've got the Parrot AR drone 2.0 here today. This is

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basically like the original parro AR drone except that it is smarter, faster,

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it's higher definition. It's like more

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maneuverable. It's got more features.

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So, you can like flip around and stuff. So, basically, it's like the AR drone

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except way better. I mean, one of the things that I said when I first saw the

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AR drone is I'm not really that excited about AR drone, but what I'm excited

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about is where this is heading. This is the next evolutionary step. So, they've

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taken the lowresolution camera on the drone V1 and added an HD camera. So, you

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can view on your tablet or on your smartphone in 1280 by 720 HD. They've

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added intuitive smart Okay, intuitive smartphone control isn't new. It's also

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available in both the market and the App Store, although it's called Google Play

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now. I guess um at launch, which the V1 wasn't YouTube ready. Okay, I suppose

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most video recording devices could be called YouTube ready. What else we got

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on here? Okay. Easy connect. Yeah, we got that. So, HD front camera and

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um QVGA vertical camera. So, they haven't upgraded the bottom camera, but

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that's okay cuz it's just to keep it from drifting side to side. Uh you tilt,

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tilt, control, record, and share. Ah, yes. Video recording. AR drone V1 did

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not come in the native uh freeflight app

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from Parrot with video recording capability. V2 does. So, people were

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putting like um what HD heroes and all

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that on their drones. Now, you don't have to. You can use the front camera to

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record in HD video and share with aha

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share with friends through the control application available on the app store

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and the Android market. Automatic camera moves. Okay. High

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stability. Wow. Automatic static flight up to 50 m high when commands are

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released. That's cool. So, the original drone couldn't really go that high and

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retain a certain amount of control. Looks like they've improved that aspect

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as well. Carbon fiber central cross. Okay, let's move right along here.

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Stabilization system, photo video recording, 50 m, 165 ft range. Yep, I

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believe that because we took even a drone V1, which was using wireless G,

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the distance of this entire parking lot here. So, you can see that's pretty far

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away. So, drone V2 with wireless end should be even better. Realtime video

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slash realtime video feedback. Yep. Cool. Okay, let's get it opened up. I'm

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actually pretty stoked here. Oh, yeah. The apps. So, the game apps, if you know

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other people who uh own an AR drone, you can download these apps and you can play

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virtual games where it's like an augmented reality type of gaming

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experience thing going on. Okay,

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then. So, it feels lighter than the

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original drone actually. That's kind of

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interesting. Move right along. Let's have a look at what we've got included.

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So, first thing that's included is your outdoor hull. So, this one doesn't have

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the protective cover around the propellers. So, the advantage is you get

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better battery life and you get better maneuverability, but the disadvantage is

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if you get too close to a tree, you're not going to have that protective bumper

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zone that well protects you. I would suggest flying the AR drone with the

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indoor hall at first until you get a little bit used to it, even though it's

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not quite as fast and not quite as exciting to fly. AR drone 2.0 battery.

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So, they have changed the battery design as well as the charger design from the

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original AR drone. So, if you have existing batteries, you will need to get

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the new ones and the new charger as well. So, let's just go ahead and throw

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that on there. Now, it's a nice little clip-in design, whereas the old one was actually kind of ghetto. It includes all

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the adapters you need for various regions. So, there's my North American

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one, but uh no matter where you live, you just throw it on there and you're

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ready to charge up your battery. It also includes some helpful little stickers.

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These are great for augmented reality games. You can also do neat things with

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the drone like you can put these on things like your hat. You can set the

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drone to follow you around because they are designed to recognize these

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stickers. Also includes a thick old manual. So they recommend for 14 up for

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the AR drone 2.0. I can see why because you know you bust up your AR drone, your

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your 10-year-old busts up their AR drone on like the first time they're flying

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it, they're going to be pretty disappointed. But you kind of expect that to happen with young kids. It is

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pretty easy to fly, uh, assuming that it's at least as easy as the V1, which

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I'm sure it is, but you can make mistakes. It does happen from time to

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time. So, in here, we got your basic controls. This is good. It gets you

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started. However, I would definitely recommend watching some of Parrot's

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YouTube videos, or I'm going to be doing more of a video review of this one

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later, and you can check that out as well if you want some more tips on flying. Let's have a look at some specs

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here. So, we already covered this. You got a wide-angle lens. That's important

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for navigation because you don't want to just have tunnel vision right in front

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of you if you don't have line of sight to the drone. So, if you're actually

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navigating by the video feed, you're going to want to be able to see what's

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on your left and your right to get around it or over it or whatever else,

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not run into it. Video storage on the fly with Wi-Fi directly to a remote

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device or on a USB key. So, you can actually plug a USB key right into the

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AR drone right here. Very, very cool stuff. There's all your specs in terms

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of the uh the recording. Not much else to say about that. Robust structure, so

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expanded polyropylene EP hulls. Okay,

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they feel lighter than the old ones, so if nothing else, that's good. Foam to

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isolate inertial center from the engine's vibrations. Cool. Carbon fiber

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tubes, which are located here. No, that's not right here.

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So, the central cross is made of carbon fiber. Total weight 380 grams with

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outdoor health, 420 with the indoor hull. Highrade 30% fibercharged nylon

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plastic parts. This is important because the AR drone is incredibly durable. I've

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actually had my drone V1 uh fall from

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heights in excess of here just directly down on its side with an outdoor hull

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and actually not be damaged. I was able

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to pick it right back up, do a quick check, quick visual inspection, and fly

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it again immediately. So, yes, the

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replacement parts are, you know, they're there for you, but odds are you won't

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need them right away, even if you crash a few times, unless you're incredibly

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unlucky. Liquid repelling nano coating on the ultrasound sensors. So, that's

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kind of cool. Fully repairable. All parts and instructions for repairing are

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available on the internet. Their instructions are outstanding. I actually

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had them crash my AR drone B1 at the Vancouver Men's Show. They flew it up to

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the very top of the ceiling of a warehouse. So, we're talking about three

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stories up and then it hit something and

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fell down. They lost control while I wasn't there to supervise them using my

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drone. So, it busted the central cross. It took me a couple hours to repair, but

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using the videos available from Parrot, I didn't waste any time. So, I just had

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to get myself a new central cross. All right, electronic assistance. Check this

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out. This thing basically has a tablet in it. 1 ghahz ARM Cortex A8 processor

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with 800 MHz video DSP. one gigabit DDR2

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RAM at 200 megahertz, which is plenty. Wi-Fi N, as I mentioned before, it's got

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an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a pressure sensor, as well as the 60 FPS

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vertical vertical QVGA camera for ground speed measurement. Oh, okay. I guess

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they're using it for speed measurement now, too. The uh the vertical camera,

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which is located here on the drone, if I can find it. It used to be located here

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on the drone. Here on the here on the drone, is also used to keep it from

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drifting. So, if on a windy day like today, it's easy for the wind to blow

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the drone a little to this side, but it can look at this line and readjust

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itself to make sure that it doesn't drift all over the

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place. All right, going right back along. Threeaxis magneettometer, 60°

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ultrasound sensors for ground altitude measurement. So, that's pretty cool as

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well. So, I'll show you the ultrasound sensors. These guys are right here. So,

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there's a transmitter and a receiver. This tells the drone within a very very

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accurate degree of measurement how high it is off the

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ground. And finally, yes, it's very easy

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to fly. This much is true. We already know this. Aha, motors. So, they've

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upgraded the motors as well. Specific hyperpelled drag. So, bunch of specs

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here that probably don't mean that much to you unless you are a total, you know,

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RC motor geek. But there you go. Water resistant. Cool stuff. So, in

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summary, drone 2 is awesome than drone 1

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in pretty much every possible way. Includes basically the same package. You

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got your outdoor hall, your indoor hall, your battery, and your charger, as well

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as the drone itself. And I am very, very

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excited to take this thing out for a flight. So, I just want to show you guys

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a quick sort of visual tour of the drone. So, there's your there's how you

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swap the hull. You just pick it up. It's held on with a magnet, which is stored in here. So once you pop it into place,

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it's not going to come off, but it's also easy to remove if you want to.

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Okay. Your battery gets held in the harness right here. Plugs in your power

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right there. And uh your USB recording,

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it's done right here. I'd recommend using a lightweight USB key, not

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something really heavy. You don't want to affect the balance of the drone, although it looks like it's right in the

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center. Um and you don't want to affect your battery life as well as the

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performance of it. There's your HD camera. You want to be careful with that

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guy. And these this design looks very very similar to drone v1 other than a

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couple changes in component in uh in the components that

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are being used. So you got your same uh gears and shafts, your same propeller

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blades by the look of things. Very flexible, which will save your bacon at

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some point. I guarantee it when you accidentally fly it up against a tree

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and it bends like this instead of snapping off like I've seen many other

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less intelligently designed uh RC

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aircraft do. Uh on the bottom here, yeah, there's pretty much nothing uh

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nothing out of the ordinary. So, you got your camera as well as your ultrasound. And I think that pretty much covers it.

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