CRAZY 1500 DRONE GIVEAWAY with IBM!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,959 words · ~9 min read
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so today's video is a little different it's sponsored by ibm
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which is a first for us that's pretty cool and
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i have no idea what's going on so it's meant to be very experiential and alex
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here is going to be showing me exactly what is inside these
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black boxes and why they are so
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very cool
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uh okay so what do we do first then just open one
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okay so okay you bad unboxing form yeah just
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like hey camera here's the thing you were already looking at very very much
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already and you know it's just going to kind of hang there oh oh this is great
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if only you could if only you could see what was in this box yeah oh it's
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amazing
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okay so inside you will find an ibm developer
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sticker coaster that's a lick one you gotta lick the back really
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it is not
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you've got this cute little tello drone it seems to be like pretty capable
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and like even if you don't win one you can get them for like 100 bucks or
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something like that oh speaking of winning right that was one of the big
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things for this whole video is they're actually giving away
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1500 of these kits so you can check out the details below we'll tell you a
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little bit more about it later but for now let's just have the experience here
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so here's our battery for our trello drone this thing
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is it's more bad it's more battery now the drone
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twisted and well not evil but pretty cool anyway
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you've got a special code to unlock access to ibm's code pattern to help you
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program your drone you get a medium-sized ibm developer shirt all
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right this one's a large oh i think you can specify and you control it with your
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phone i guess yep iOS and Android yep
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cool nice wallpaper oh thank you all right
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got calvin hops wallpaper okay so we're just joining the wi-fi hotspot from this
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drone yeah you just connect to wi-fi then you get a little app so take off
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take off yep is it black and white oh no it's colored
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am i there would you like me to fly it
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do you know how to fly a drone you can't screw up flying a drone you can and
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people do yes i'm just trying to figure out how to
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um
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yes that's what i was trying to get okay it's really good at doing flips
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do you wanna you wanna have a little go sure
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like it's pretty standard drone functionality but
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yeah it's really stable for uh a tiny drone i guess i should expect no less
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from dji but look at that hover way okay
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no it's bad all right okay so we can land it for now though right
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how does ibm figure into all of this
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so that's the really cool part about this little drone is that it's super
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easy to program so what are we going to program our tele
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drone to do we're just going to give it a little routine kind of like go up
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move one way the other way maybe do like a little square and then a couple flips oh
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cool let's start no dash red
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it's pretty simple but it looks pretty hackery you do need to know how to use
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command a little bit okay and are we connected to the drones hotspot right
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now or are we on the internet we're just on the internet right now okay but
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where did you go mr drone there we go hello
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so flow one tello missions yay so this is just a really like visual
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drag and drop programming interface but then can you can you go straight full
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hacker writing things out if you want yeah like every one of these is
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like an actual bit of code and you can do kind of
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whatever you want in it cool so let's just see if it's working so we'll just
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like hit take off wow that is cool
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don't hit the light please um so if we hit should we just can we
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bring it just like down a bit can you override with your phone or like
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how does this work are we is this computer interface yeah that's
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okay that's all we got um down
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how much is 60 60 centimeters probably i hope so if we go to the right let's just
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get it a little bit away from us yeah
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and so that was right 30. you want to go right 30 again
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uh that's left 30. oh yeah i clicked the wrong one
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10 out of 10 10 out of 10 best way to fly a drone
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2018. okay i wonder what full 360 does
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okay oh okay that's pretty self-explanatory it's a good thing that
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this has a nice stable flight pattern
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and uh flips okay
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yeah land okay
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okay cool
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so now we program it to do something yeah
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so let's just run this little code and see what happens
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so it goes down does a 360 and then lands
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so
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landed yeah that did work then we could have it we could have it
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fly around the room probably right i'm gonna go get a tape measure 50.
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actually here why don't we do you want to take off from the floor instead
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just make our lives maybe a little bit easier command 0 1000 so that must be
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for the take off then we'll have it go up
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maybe another uh
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50 centimeters so that's about head level so instead of down we want to go up 500
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then let's go clockwise 90. clockwise
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90. so we're kind of mapping out where we're expecting it to go and then we'll see
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what happens let's fly in a straight line 220
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centimeters can we do that 220 okay okay
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and see if it lands on the table
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we're asking for a lot here we understand that
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yeah this doesn't have a bottom facing camera does it it does have ir so
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something like that not a camera yeah yeah okay well let's see what happens so
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yeah and then all that we have to do to connect them is just take the custom path and we
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add this little connection here okay successfully injected run mission
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what did we set it to i thought we set it to 50 centimeters
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500 no this is in millimeters
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are you sure yep i wouldn't get too close david
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there goes the conte it's going to go up
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ah no
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i am pretty sure it's centimeters why would you have a granularity of
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millimeters for something that flies like it doesn't make any sense
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i don't know millimeters are just nice which stop it all to like 200 yeah
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okay oh it's gonna hit things
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okay up 50 then we want to go counterclockwise 90. turn turn come on
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turn turn baby oh it didn't turn
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how do you have to stop okay so why didn't get the clockwise you mean
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counterclockwise so yes let's just make sure that that's wait did you write cww
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oh it should be cc all of them
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yup i did that for every single one so that explains why that didn't work
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this is pretty cool yeah here comes the flip
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way yep
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oh is it going to hit anything
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oh it's really close to that chain really close to that chain it might make
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it did you bring it back down alex oh no oh okay
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it's supposed to land oh why is it flipping again oh that's
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the flip okay so it's gonna go forward land now
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so there you have it the only limitation
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is your imagination and your competence
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so that's like pretty cool and all but you know kind of just for like playing
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around with programming and stuff yeah but the actual like powerful part of
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this is the vision recognition stuff so
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basically you can send imagery to watson
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yeah it can like take a little look at it and
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then tell you what it is yeah
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wow so like it's pretty cool for like us and
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like the ibm guys have had it like go around and like find their dog
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or another dog related thing he has a bunch of tennis balls that he always loses in
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the yard so the drone just maps out where all the tennis balls are that he threw for his dog
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or like there's useful things like you can have it go up and inspect a cell tower or like wow look at like
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power lines and make sure they're not all clogged up with icing cracks so now
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this is obviously not the unit that you would necessarily use for all of those
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types of applications but what it is is it's a great affordable learning
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platform what i was trying to do was to get it to find either you or Colton and
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attack you but unfortunately i wasn't quite able to
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get it to work so we had a train on a
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negative which is pictures of like me
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james pella the people in the office that i like you know um
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so we have like our find and destroy Colton thing uh-huh we did this with um
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17 pictures of Colton 15 of you i just grabbed them off the internet
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and if we test this if we like take a picture of you
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okay and
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i'll just email that to myself drone stuff
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take a picture of Linus copy it in loading results oh only 59 Linus
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so it does recognize that it's you but it's not as good as the Colton stuff
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that i was doing like if we take a picture of Colton
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and here's just a random one it wasn't in the training
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yeah that is nice
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yeah and like i was able to do this in like
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15 minutes so we weren't able to get full attack
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drone capability and obviously for stuff
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like the tennis ball or like inspecting cell
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tower examples we gave before something like this is probably not
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quite heavy duty enough but
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really the purpose of the tello drone in these developer kits is to get your feet
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wet and have something that is surprisingly capable for the price with
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that said you won't necessarily have to buy one because as i alluded to before
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ibm is giving away a whopping 1500 of these at the link in the video
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description so a huge thank you to ibm for obviously supporting the developer
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community and sponsoring this video and a huge thank you to you guys for
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