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Hey guys, do you remember Riley?
That's heavy
me neither
Anyway, he left to pursue an education in engineering but it's his fall reading week break which means
he's back to work one week, so I got a little preset for while he's here
It's a remote controlled robot, since he really likes Rainbow Six Siege his challenge is to turn this toy
into Twitch's drone in the next 3 days
3 days
Riley
There you go, have fun
You need this
Ok we're just going to disassemble it and we'll go on from there
Nope taking it apart up here
Alright so let's unbox this thing
Instruction manual
This is our guy
No we've got to put it together
There we go that's better
Alright so we've go this whole thing together
We've got to shoot some people with it before we start disassembling it
Fire fire!
Die safety goggles!
Alright so we ave our core drone
Which I'm sure someone in the comment is going to say something about me using a pre-made drone
Yes I could have bought all the servos, and the motor drivers, and made an arduino
and programmed it and all that fun stuff. And bought a controller
That would have taken forever
So what we're going to do basically is we're going to transfer all the guts of this guy into this box
Alright so as part of a previous twitch drone project I took apart a FPV headset
and I made a little box for it
So this headset is originally meant for FPV drone racing which is first person view drone racing
Where you put this on and you race your drone through a course
you know, how ever far away so you don't have to have a line of sight on the drone itself
What I'm going to do is re-adapt it
into my needs which is first person view of a RC controlled drone, which is on the ground
And so right now I'm just testing the camera
Ok so it's got no signal
And then we're going to connect the connector
That is feed from our camera
Look at that
So effectively this will be our way or tracking our drone
And that is connecting to this guy over here
Stick it on the front here
So that we've got a little FPV view of our drone
It should make a spark
We actually have a more detailed electronics diagram which you can check out using the link in the description below
to visit our project on maker.io
I think it's ready to be tested in it's new case because I've soldered everything together
and it's definitely not going to work on the first try
Ok it lights up
Why is it doing that?
I can only stop that side
You broke the power button?
What are you going to do? Taze me?
I guess one of the last things for now is to wire the FPV camera into the main power switch here
So that when you turn the whole thing on, when you turn everything on, it all turns on together
Ok so we've got the FPV functioning
And we've got the display here and there's the camera on the front
and so now we can drive it around and look at out FPV camera without worries of where he is going
yay far away and I'm going to go off of that bases
Under it that you can see with the FPV camera and that's going to be our taser
Now I guess basically we'll just test it out
Finalize the controller and the FPV view
and then we'll take it out and zap some people's ankles
Ok so we ran into a bunch of issues. Some output on the motherboard died
The antenna doesn't do anything
Why?
Hey guys while Riley finishes up the Twitch drone I wanted to answer one of the most common questions
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Now let's see how RIley's getting along with the Twitch drone
First test of the Twitch drone
We ended up putting it on a phone controller, so now it's just kind of
Go ahead
Sweet
Nice
Get that thing away from me
It looks like a crab, you just grab it by the ****
It's not that easy, you keep moving your hand
Just put it into me already
There we go
Alright team here we go
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Great gadget guru and Jariusofall
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