iHelicopter Bluetooth RC Helicopter for iPhone iPod iPad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today uh in a very okay this product has
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already been previewed so it's I'm not the first one opening it but today we're
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going to be having a look at the I super which is apparently the world's ultimate
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helicopter and it is controlled by the iPhone iPod touch or iPad which is
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available there's an app which is free available on the app store which I will
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definitely download so this is is not quite like something like the AR drone
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there's no built-in you know um ultimeter there's no built-in camera
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showing you like a first person view but you can actually see what the app looks
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like here so you got your forward backwards and what looks like uh
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probably it's going to tilt the helicopter this way that way and that way let's see what else they got to say
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the endless fun okay cool fun with
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ascending and descending so you can put it up or down and then you can touch or
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tilt the iPhone to control safe landing and emergency buttons path record and
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Playback function that's interesting you can have multiple helicopters Chase each
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other so you are controlling it through Bluetooth no adapter or dongle is needed
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so there's actually a Bluetooth chipset on the helicopter itself which also
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means you're not running off like sort of old-fashioned uh radio frequencies so
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yes you can have multiple helicopters in the same room at the same time and you
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can play songs from the iPhone during the flight metal frame and built-in
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gyroscope all Direction precise flight smooth hovering performance incredibly
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easy to control intelligent control system rechargeable long life battery
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energy saving power cut off and true realtime control so they've said an
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awful lot of times that we have true and precise realtime control and I am very
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curious to see how that turns out in real life uh from what I've heard so far
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about this device and I have heard already about this device it's actually
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really really cool so here's what they mean by metal construction metal rods
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here uh these are plastic right here but there's a the main Rod here is metal
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going out to the uh the tail uh there's our motor Independent Motor for that guy
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so it's not gear driven um these are
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going to be counter rotating very very flexible which is really really good for
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me to see you can actually see it's probably it's already got a couple DS in it it's probably been crashed a few
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times already but uh that's a really strong indicator the fact that it has
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dents in it but they haven't been broken that these are made out of a good high
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quality flexible material there's a lot of uh give in them that means if they
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hit a wall or something they're much more likely to buckle like this than to
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actually snap and break um more metal
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construction here and here this guy right here the the canopy right here is
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plastic there's our on and off switch hopefully they sent it to me charged I
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really hope so okay we've got a little LED on the front which is kind of cool
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and uh yeah I think that pretty much
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covers the device itself you guys have seen it pretty up close and personal now
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so uh what I want to do now is show you any accessories that it may or may not
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happen to come with oh look it comes with an extra tail propeller that's very
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handy cuz those actually with hel tend to be one of the first things to break
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it also comes with a USB charging cable and I've seen this connector a lot of
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times so this might actually come in handy if you have other um like lowcost
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RC devices that you might also want to charge oh look at this it also comes
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with it spare parts list okay user guide
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instructions of charging the Power Batteries environment for flight so fly
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indoors or on a sunny day without wind do not fly in Wind so they've made that
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very clear charge the helicopter how to control it here we go so you press this
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button for up or down and then for steering you go left and right and then
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for forward and backwards you go forward and back that makes
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sense okay so this shows you how to um
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uh how to adjust the trims all right charging the helicopter aha here's how
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to uh connect it and pair it so let me figure this out and then I'll be back in
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just a moment so once Bluetooth is enabled on your eye device and you have
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turned on the helicopter you just press the I super helicopter under devices
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and they should pair I actually don't
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use Bluetooth much so not sure how long this is going to take or anything like
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that connected there we go after it's
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connected you just go ahead and launch the I super heli
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app okay which looks a little something like
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this and then the first thing you're going to want to do
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is okay you begin to control the helicopter so this you want it to be at
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the bottom cuz that means you know stopped and bottomed out so let's go
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ahead and give me a second here to sort of figure out what the heck it is that I'm doing I haven't flown this yet and
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uh yeah let's uh see how this
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goes whoops Okay so I crashed into the ASUS
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transformer which is not a good thing let's try this one more time
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here okay so that one
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rotates oh
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Neo so forward and
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back oops you got to watch the height
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there my cat's definitely in interested in
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it oh honey please don't touch that it's going to hurt
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you and it damages my wall okay so why
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don't I just show you guys the controls really quick here so you're going to want to find a whoops a nice hover
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setting in the middle so there you go this controls how much U sort of thrust
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you're giving
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it so yeah I would definitely recommend
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uh removing curious pets from the
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room see look how bad he is see how bad
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he is before you play with something like this so out you
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go Rocket's much better behaved so he can
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stay all right let's try this again so
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let's find that hover
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point and I almost hit rocket sorry
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rocket yeah fourth times a charm here we go
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all
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right okay the problem is that uh with
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my Blade mSR I am used to this joystick
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uh going like this and like this but it
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actually controls the yaw rather than the tilt on this particular helicopter
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so I keep taking it and trying to lean
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away from something and instead I'm turning the tail towards it so let me
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try this one more time here we go so there's up and down all right we got
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that this time okay there's my hover it's actually quite stable in a hover if
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you don't do the wrong thing at all so there you go there's my yaw control can
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see that can you see the helicopter in the background yeah okay good and then this
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is my forward and backwards so I'd
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imagine it takes a little while to get the hang of it mind you this is my very first flight and I've sort of got it now
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but then I wouldn't by any means say that I'm an expert with this this
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particular device but this is actually pretty cool
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especially given the uh the cost of the unit itself look at that okay there we
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go now I got the hang of this let's see if we can fly around in a
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little circle here so let's go forward
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let's go a little bit more forward a little bit turn a little bit more
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forward a little bit turn a little bit more forward okay we're not going to go too
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fast or anything but hey hey there we go
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very cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the I
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oh wow I totally forgot to show you guys the Tilt functionality so here let's
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figure out how to do this so I'm going to turn on tilt and let's see what
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happens whoa whoa okay up up
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up hold on go over there thank
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you oh
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okay okay we're not having as much luck with tilt here maybe I'm doing it
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wrong okay and now I think we're
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done although it's not busted maybe I did it now no no hold on
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I'm I have to put it in the air again now I'm determined there we go you know
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what I think I prefer the joystick controls very very much
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