Gigabyte Remote Control Helicopter Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,140 words · ~5 min read
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this is by far the coolest piece of Swag
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I have ever received uh from anyone this
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one is from what the
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heck ah there we go from Gigabyte yes
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Gigabyte has partnered up with Sima
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radio controlled product new something something metal series 3 channels
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infrared RC mini helicopter yes using a gyroscopes
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s107 your own space in the sky special indoor design adjustable trim control
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rechargeable LiPo battery and three-way Precision controller Design Technology
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interface Gigabyte has delivered an RC
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helicopter to me so I told crazy Russian
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because he wanted to go do work or something like that that if he sticks
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around and helps me with these unboxings today that he can have the
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s107g alloy infrared remote control helicopter you can see right here is a
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balance bar a main blade and a main blade that is to say there are two main
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blades but them okay that's my line we have a
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tailblade landing gear a charging socket a power switch charging wire and an
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infrared remote control so remember kids infrared means that you must have a line
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of sight oh it takes six ablea batteries
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so uh yeah you're going to want to go ahead and have like lots of batteries on
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hand for this uh you can hover up and down you can turn counterclockwise and
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clockwise you can go forward and you can go backwards if the helicopter rotates
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whilst in operation whilst that is even the correct use of whilst I am very
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impressed uh please use the rudder trim to adjust it has trim and everything
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look at that all right spare parts list yeah right I mean if you're actually
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going to like buy spare parts for this thing you might as well just buy a new
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one probably wow it's actually made of metal that seems like okay I'm a little
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torn on this whole made of metal thing with this because like made of metal
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gives it a like a higher quality sort of
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feel but the disadvantage to being made
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of metal is that it is heavier which is going to affect performance negatively
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and potentially battery life negatively and the parts of the helicopter that are
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most likely to break so where metal would provide the biggest um Improvement
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to durability are the blades and those are
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made of plastic so you
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know yeah yeah I don't
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know here let's just sorry I'm having a little bit of trouble here guys getting
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these like hardcore twist ties look at these These are basically like paper
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clips um getting these
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out it's making me feel like not an experienced unboxer here crazy Russian
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was commenting to me I'm getting up near near the 1,000 video Milestone which is
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um a lot of videos on the tube 1000 Giga
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views I have way more than 1,000 Giga views actually no I don't hold on what's
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jiga that's a billion yeah I don't have 1,000 jiga views all right so there we
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are this thing actually looks pretty slick doesn't it so there's your charging Jack right there so what you do
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is it works like all of those little cheap airplanes and helicopters in that
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you open up this right here you pull out the little charging cable once you've
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put in the six AA batteries which inexplicably requires a screwdriver to
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put in and out like why it's like extra work for no
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parent reason I remember when I was a kid like when I was like 10 and I I'd
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like get something I'd be like yeah I'm going to put my batteries in it and i' be oh I can't find a
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screwdriver cuz like most people don't just carry a screwdrivers like oh I'm at
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the store I bought this cool thing and I bought some batteries let me just pull a screwdriver out of my back pocket so so
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anyway you need a screwdriver in order to install the batteries up here we have
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nothing and here's the infrared wow those are super aligned you can see this
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is a very high quality construction here
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there's an onoff switch ooh Channel selectable so u based on whichever
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Channel your chopper is uh I guess just
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trial and error just try things and then find out which channel it's using and
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select that on your controller okay uh
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there is your up and down control there is your forward back right and left this
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is actually very Advanced for one of these like um Cheapo helicopters and you
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know what the build quality for all of my griping about the controller actually
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looks pretty decent so you can see that it uses um rotating blades like not yeah
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obviously rotating blades Herp Derp but it uses blades that are mounted on
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little hinges here so what that means is that if you're all like
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and you hit something like the edge of a table the chances of them breaking are
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dramatically reduced I actually have a helicopter at home that uses a similar
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blade style and I've hit it on all kinds of things my cats have like knocked it
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out of the air and you had St in the three ones yeah I had it no no that was
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my plane um okay here is the back propeller this one's probably pretty
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likely to break but you know what are you going to do um so yeah I guess
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that's pretty much all there is to say about it so crazy hopefully will allow
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me to oh no way okay hold on oh right I
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don't have batteries in the controller So Crazy Russ will hopefully let us uh
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do some some footage of this flying once he's got it all set up and thank you for
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checking out this unboxing online as
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Tech tips I'm just trying to see how big the battery is if I can see how many M
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gigs it is milliamps milliamp hours whatever that
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unit is okay don't forget to subscribe to L techtips for more unboxings reviews
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and oh no we're going to crash then
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forget to get to the chopper I didn't even notice this check
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this out it comes with a USB charging
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cable for the chopper itself so those six AA batteries are going to last you
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like 300 billion years of all they're doing is operating the infrared uh
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emitter also it comes with an extra propeller blade for the secondary prop
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in the back very cool