Steve is important.
We’ll come back to him.
What they don’t know is they’re stealing from Hacksmith Industries.
We spent the last two months building
an autonomous paint launching drone security system.
This story actually starts in June of last year.
We moved into a new facility this past month
and have been working really hard to make this place our new home.
Everything was going great until we got robbed.
So it turns out shipping containers aren't that secure.
And what really sucks is we don't even know
all of what was taken because we had just moved all our stuff in there.
I don't even know what's all been stolen.
One of the things I'm most upset about is last summer I got a used
ATV, and I had a lot of fun with it for about a week.
I got stolen, too. So it sucks.
This made us rethink our approach to security as a whole.
We have cameras and motion detectors.
Those are great, but I think we just need something a little more hands on.
Whose hands?
You might be asking me and Betts to be specific.
Everyone else is busy working
on other incredible projects like Flamethrower, PC, Backwards Bike.
So we have two of the biggest brains on the job.
Okay. One of the biggest brains on the job.
I'm going to record the journey
and Ben here is going to build our new security system.
This brings us to our idea...drones.
We need drones.
A drone security system
checks all of our boxes and should hopefully be the solution to our problems.
I found a fairly affordable drone kit online.
It comes with a pixel autopilot and everything.
We need to fly already in the kit.
Security guards are expensive and they can't control a large property
like ours.
Drones are a one time purchase of $1,000.
The drone has a top
speed of 60 kilometers an hour with a flight time of 15 minutes.
Stock drone alone won't do it.
We need to customize it to identify and find our victims.
We've attached these really bright led lights.
One of these 121 LEDs.
They're good for about 15,000 lumens. Ones are enough.
We got two.
Let's get them mounted on a drone I can control from my computer here.
Let's see how bright they are.
Oh, yeah?
How long of a runtime do we have with that on?
20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes.
Just the lights.
That seems a little excessive.
I think it's just the right amount of excessive.
That's bright.
We want to scare them a little because the best defense is a strong offense.
So we're going to add speakers and a laser to the drones.
I mean, the screwdriver to turn it.
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Yeah, it is super sensitive.
The littlist bit gets really loud.
Ready? It's playing.
Whooooo
We're going to give the speaker a test in the outside
can kind of get an understanding of how loud it's going to be.
Let's say I'm a baddy.
You think they're over there right now?
Maybe...we should fly it over there.
With great power.
Zero responsibility.
Oh..
What the hell happened?
It fell out of the sky.
It was a very gentle falling out.
This is why we buy spares.
We broke the landing legs, the pair of them.
We broke these front arms.
They're broken.
We broke the reflector.
Not too bad.
I can fix it.
Now, when I was reviewing some of the log data for it,
I think I noticed what happened here.
Looking at our battery percentage, well, we still had a 13% battery,
which seemed fine. 8.4 volts is not fine.
I looked in the used mah power and it was 5500 mah.
Now, if I look at our battery,
say 5000 mah battery, 5500 is greater than 5000.
We ran out of battery midflight.
It didn't realize that until it was too late.
We can see it was actually going down at about negative five meters per second.
Means crashing to the ground.
Crashing the ground means unhappy drone.
And an unhappy drone means I'm unhappy.
I can't have this happen every single night.
We need a reliable way to charge this thing.
We want to be able to charge that battery
autonomously in the middle of the night after the drone flies a route.
And you're saying
I haven't thought about it and you haven't thought about it?
Actually, I got an idea.
You have thought about it? I have.
Thank God.
This is a cell phone, wireless charging pad.
You set it down, you put your phone on it, it charges it.
So you want to do that with a drone?
Problem is, wireless charging kind of sucks.
It's really inefficient.
We'd be looking at probably 10 hours
to recharge the battery with wireless charging.
Something tells me that you've thought this through already.
Here's my solution.
I've designed a drone landing and charging PCB
in a piece of software called Altium Designer.
Not only is this the largest PCB we've ever designed here
at Hacksmith Industries.
We're taking 25 of them soldering it together.
So we have a one meter by one meter
lightning and charging pad for these drones.
One second.
Let me let me grab the camera and bring this in here a little bit.
On the bottom of the drone.
We got these little spring loaded pogo pins.
We get the drone to land somewhere on this pad.
Let's say it lands right here.
We're touching one of the pogo pens is touching one pad.
Yeah, the other is touching a different part.
We got positive, negative.
We charge a battery basically anywhere within a meter.
And the drone?
I'm so happy you're running this ship.
Just wait. There's more.
What do you mean, there's more?
This pad is going to sit outside, and if you turn around
and look outside right now,
if it snows on this pad and we cover up the contacts,
it's not going to able to charge.
On the back of this PCB is one giant heater.
We feed it.
A voltage draws a whole bunch of current and the whole pad heats up
to about 40, 45 degrees Celsius, melting all the snow and ice off it.
So we'll always be ready to land.
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How would you say the project is going so far?
On a scale of 1 to 10?
3 to 1, then
I thought we were in tune until now.
It's been going okay, great, great.
It's been going great. Great.
What next?
We're working on paint launchers.
Robbers might want to come back, so we need to give them a reason not to.
We want to leave a friendly, un lethal mark on our burglars.
I bought a bunch
these project kid safe paints that would be safe to drop on people.
I want a way to shoot it out from the drone when it's in the air.
I found these airsoft CO2 shells that hold a small amount of CO2.
My plans here draw on the back of the shell in the back.
Hit that button, see if we got paint.
It looks questionable.
So normally Ben. It's around somewhere here
in the project where something goes wrong
because everything's been going really smoothly so far.
3 2 1.
So it's a pretty wide spread.
It's very wide spread.
I think we fired two of these.
All right, let's mounted to a drone.
So right here we have a little nine gram servo with a fancy horn
I made connected to the servo tester so I can spin it there.
It's become a little more lethal, would you say?
Oh, whoa.
There we go. Let's go.
Now we test it with a live subject.
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In the real world, no one standing just in one spot.
But maybe they are.
I guess if you're looking up at the drone
fires in the fire.
And seriously,
that was a little lackluster.
It worked, but not how you want to.
So I made some design changes.
Same sort of solution.
But instead of a servo with an arm swinging, hit the button.
We have a solenoid slamming the button down.
I'm liking the solution a lot more.
It's it's heavier than the servo.
But you know what?
I'll trade some weight for reliability any day.
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We have the new solenoid based paint launchers on the drone test.
Number two.
Let's give it a go.
Three, two, one oh,
that's pretty good.
Take number three.
Watered down paint. Three.
Yeah, one.
See, that's what we were looking for.
I've covered in paint.
Ben. You know what this reminds me of? Art.
Fine art. This is art attack.
All right, let's do it.
You can actually buy one of these paintings that we made with the drones.
The whole team sign them.
They're on hats with that store. Go check them out.
We have our paint launchers, we have our lights, we have our camera.
We've got our horn, we've got our laser.
My missing anything code?
You're missing the large amount of code it takes to operate this drone.
I always forget about the code.
Ben has been working on this program and coding for
just a little under a month so that the security system
can communicate and be fully integrated with the drone.
So they're happy and cohesive and work together and not against each other.
So what does that what does that entail?
My laptop orchestrates the entire thing.
It's constantly in communication with the security system and the drone.
Whenever the security system detects somebody,
if they're unwelcome here, it'll have the drone take off
and dispatch it to the area that the person was found. From there.
The drone is following a preprogramed route.
Well, constantly watching on the camera what's on the drone.
Once the camera on the drone detects the person,
we can start following them and deploy our countermeasures.
The way you describe it makes it sound really easy.
Yeah, that's what I thought too. It's not.
It's definitely not.
We’re about a thousand lines in and it still doesn’t work.
Okay,
But Ben, what if there are, like, two or three people on the property?
We can't just do this with one drone.
One more. I've never enough for you, Darryl.
Never enough, never enough.
Ignition sequence, start engines
3 2 1..
We like.
I can operate all three drones from my laptop.
Drones one and two are fully kitted out with all of our fun gadgets.
Drone three is a spotter, it has a high resolution camera and a thermal camera.
Now, you know the drones.
It's time to test.
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Ben can you look out the window for me.
Oh we're going to test the drone fully autonomously the full system.
It's pretty much going to detect me on the security system.
It's just going to fly
the preprogramed route and then it'll go and land back at home.
Let's do this thing.
Okay.
Walking around. Here we go.
Is it taking off?
It's taken off some drone found you.
I have done absolutely nothing here.
I got you loud and clear on the camera.
I'm recording what this drone is seeing so I can use that.
I'm just getting ready to set er’ down.
So right above the portable right now and be coming down.
I don't know about that...one sec..
Well, I got that on camera. Yay!
Why didn’t it go back up.
She's she's done Ben.
With one drone down.
We need to keep pressing on.
The charging pad has been on the roof for a couple of days in the rain and snow.
So we have to check to make sure it still works.
This also gave us the opportunity to test landing on the roof.
It didn't know where the pad was, so that's not that surprising.
It thinks it's at home.
It is pretty happy with its home position.
I don't know if I am, but it is.
Fly er’ out to the middle there.
It should reestablish position before it hits the ground
Disarm!
No, this is what I mean,
where I wanted to be somewhere where, if it missed, it would just miss.
If it missed, it would fall off.
I have some good news.
Uh huh, It's charging.
Drones are going up tonight, putting them on the roof.
We're starting with one.
We're starting with the gadgets that we know work.
We're going to take some baby steps.
We had some failures with the test yesterday.
Finishing up the code.
I'm getting it integrated with our company, Slack Channel,
so it'll tell us when stuff gets detected or not.
We can tell it
to arm we can tell it to launch. it's Friday 4:43 p.m.
we're going to a company party tonight we're going to leave the drone up here
over the weekend.
If we get footage, we get footage if nobody shows up, well then
nobody shows up.
We had an eventful weekend.
We're sitting at dinner, all of us company party.
It's going great, is awesome.
And all of a sudden
a few of us get the message that the security system found somebody on the lot.
I was kind of in shock.
And then I saw the message drone in there.
So, talked to James, talked to Ian.
They pulled up the security cameras for the building.
I pulled up my phone, connected to my laptop
and saw that, in fact, yes, the drone was in the air
and it was flying over to supposedly where a person was.
Where is he on this one?
So they heard the drone because the drone is not quiet and they ran
and they went hid behind our tent and the drones just continued to search.
I feel like a proud parent.
You know, it's like seeing my kids swim for the first time.
It's really bad video, but it's okay.
The drone to go land and it missed the landing pad
that that's not all that surprising.
No, totally missed it. That's that's all right on the roof.
It didn't break.
All right.
So we're trying to land on the pad again.
I am controlling and is going to try and land again.
And if we can get land on the charging pad, then that means we're good
for another burglary.
I hate how out of control this is. I know!
Battery low? Yeah. Battery low.
Oh, return to home.
Oh, boy.
Oh, where's the video feed?
Oh no?!?
Yeah she’s done.
No heartbeat.
Where's that?
Where does it go?
I landed next to Slack line.
It worked until it didn’t.
Looking a little sad.
We need to get this thing fixed so we can get this thing back in the air.
Yeah ASAP.
We got the drones and the charging pad working
just in time for this brave soul to wander onto the property.
Since these two incidences, we haven't had anyone else
really show up on the property, which kind of sucks
because while it doesn't suck, it's great for us
because we don't have people trying to rob us.
But it's bad for the video.
It's bad for you guys because we can't show
the potential of this drone if nobody's here.
And I have called up a friend, Tony, who thinks he's going to come here for a tour.
Hopefully this is a opportunity for us
to really flex the potential of these drones.
He does know what we do, so he probably is on edge.
It's like, am I going to die tonight?
Yeah. Do it.
On top of your head.
You alright Tony?
What was that? I’m here for a meeting.
Way more paint than we were expecting.
we set out to build
a drone security system for the new property.
My question for you, Ben, is, do you think we succeeded?
Kind of.
and it did stop a couple of people.
It's the middle of winter here. Not many people were breaking in,
but the few that did, they were able to respond.
We found them. This brings up Steve.
Remember Steve?
Yeah.
I said he was important.
Well,
Steve got arrested for being on the property,
so the drones do one thing.
They deter people, they scare them away.
But if they're stubborn like Steve, cops do get called.
So don't come on to the property.
You will get arrested.
We've learned a lot of lessons from this.
We've learned what works. We've learned what doesn't work.
And we can do a rev 2, if there's interest in it.
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Let us know that you enjoyed the project and we can make a part two.
Cool. Thanks for watching.