- [Speaker 1] So today I'm celebrating Christmas
a little bit early.
I got myself a little present. It is an FPV drone.
Are you surprised? You don't seem too surprised.
But I had to get it. Look how tiny this thing is.
It's made by Flywoo. It's called The Firefly.
Now it looks like a tiny little toy,
but I'm going to be able to throw my Insta 360 GO 2 on top
and also has DJI's digital system
so I could use my goggles and controller.
Now I did buy the Firefly myself,
but Flywoo also offered to send this Cinewhoop
along with it.
They're telling me this is going to be the way to go
for flying through the tiny places
and it's foam on the edges.
So if you bump off something,
it's not going to be as big of a deal.
It's insane how small these things are getting.
I mean, this camera lens up here, it's tiny.
Let me go ahead and plug everything into DJI assistant
and get it all activated.
Everything went smooth,
but I did have to disassemble the Cinewhoop
in order to access that USB-C to activate it.
But I'm gonna get everything charged up
and let's go out for a little flight.
So Dale's like, "I know a statute you should fly through."
And it's here.
Wait, it's right over a water fountain.
You know, if I crash, the stakes are very high now.
- Well, I mean,
I thought you'd just spiral around it or something.
- No, the point of a tiny one
is that you go through little spots.
I don't want to get too risky
'cause I really don't want to lose this thing
on the very first shot.
Have it fall into the water.
But maybe I can hit this gap right here,
right behind his butt and just go straight through that.
Huh?
- If you want, I mean, I never said do that.
That was your idea.
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(drone wheels squeeking)
- How do we get that?
- [Dale] We need a stick.
- Oh, I know tie pod.
It's a little bit short.
- [Dale] What about right here?
- Huh?
- [Dale] I think you could reach it
from like where I'm standing.
- [Speaker 1] But it's going to like fall out, huh?
- [Dale] Yeah.
(Speaker 1 screaming)
- [Dale] Oh my God! Oh my God!
That was too scary.
- [Speaker 1] We're still good.
We're still good.
Oh my God.
Okay let's go to somewhere there's no water.
- [Dale] Let's get out of this place.
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- [Speaker 1] So flight number two went quite a bit better.
I was just hanging out with Josh while he was filming
some super fast cars.
He has a vlog on it, on his channel.
So I'll link that below, if you're curious.
Now there's a few things that I personally look for
in an FPV drone.
First of all, I want it to be pre-built
so I could just turn it on,
plug it and activate it and then start flying right away.
Now I have a ton of respect for the people
that can build them out of scratch
and solder and take pieces of scrap metal and chewing gum.
And then all of a sudden it flies really well.
But I like to just get it out of the box and start flying.
So I'm not really an FPV person.
I just like flying these things.
But that's why I love that lately
there's been a ton of pre-built FPV drones.
And I would say this one actually feels really good
because the throttle feels very dampened.
So I have a lot of control.
Now, it's pretty windy here.
So I do get pushed around quite a bit,
but good thing is I have those foam guards
around the propellers
so if I'm flying around expensive stuff or people
or whatever, it's not as much as a concern.
Now there's no way I could talk about tiny drones
and Cinewhoops without giving a shoutout to Robert McIntosh.
He's my sensei in all this.
And if you're sick of me playing around
with FPV drones all the time,
you could blame him for it.
He was doing this way back before I knew what FPV was
and it was complicated back then.
Now I just go click, buy some stuff and I'm up in the air.
But back then it was a lot harder.
So respect to that man.
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Now some of us may benefit
by having a drone that's less than 250 grams
for certain regulations.
And this one comes in right at 196 grams.
So we are way under the limit.
So here's what this thing looks like all set up.
So I have a FULLSEND 450 4 cell battery up here
and we also have an Insta 360 GO 2.
Now Insta 360 is sponsoring this episode.
So let's talk about why this thing is so awesome.
First of all, you're going to crash this thing a whole bunch
when you're on an FPV drone
and this has a removable lens cover.
So that's important.
It's also nice that this GO 2 is waterproof by itself.
So if we were to lose it in the fountain earlier,
the drone itself might've been in trouble,
but this would have been just fine.
And also this charging case is cool because it's a case,
but it's also a wireless controller.
So when I have this hooked into the drone itself,
all set up and ready to take off.
Then I can just hit the record button from here.
You can use it as a wearable camera
or you can mount it on pretty much wherever an action camera
gets mounted.
Now I have a whole video about this GO 2
so I'll link it right there if you haven't seen it.
But we can't talk about Insta 360
without talking about the 360 cameras.
Now, by now, most of you probably already know
how this 360 camera works.
It's capturing everything in every direction.
And then afterwards in the app,
I can go in and pick out a certain part of the frame,
which is great because while you're recording,
you don't have to worry about which direction
the camera is pointed.
Here's a set up that I think is pretty cool.
This is a magnetic mount and I can attach this here,
extend out the invisible selfie stick
and you get some pretty cool results out of this.
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And I believe right now there is a sale going on,
that Dale will tell you about.
- If you act before December 14th,
each of these products you can get for 10% off,
plus actually special gifts that come with it.
So act now and get all this cool stuff.
Super happy fun time.
- Link in description.
Did you say that part?
- Link in description.
- Okay, cool.
- Before they just go like, "Wait, where do I buy?
What do I do?"
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♪ I wanna wish you a Merry, Merry Christmas. ♪
(drone wheezing)
- [Speaker 1] Whoo!
It's pretty tough flying through these windows right now
because it's pretty windy.
So as soon as I get in,
I have to stop countering the wind.
And then I got wind again on my exit.
But with the size of this being so small,
I have a lot of room for error, which is nice.
Let me try again.
Watch out Dale!
Okay. That was close.
Now in the last video I made about the Cinewhoops
I really liked the iFlight Protek25.
And this is a little bit under seven inches,
but what's nice about this Flywoo
is it's right around five inches.
Dale, is that a big difference?
Five inches to seven inches.
- Shouldn't like judge people on it. That's what-
- [Speaker 1] You shouldn't judge people?
I'm talking about drones.
- Oh yeah. Yeah.
- The thing is, if you slightly bump the edge,
then you usually ruin the shot.
Every little inch at that point,
you feel it.
Like it's a big difference.
Where's your head at?
(nervous laughing)
- Drones.
- So everything up until now has been with the Cinewhoop
which is really nice and small.
But look at this Firefly it's even smaller.
I took off the propeller guards
just to make it even smaller,
but we're using the same battery,
but it's just mounted down here on the bottom.
And of course the Insta 360 GO 2 up top.
It's just ridiculous how tiny this thing is.
- I like how much quieter it is.
- And also since this isn't a Cinewhoop,
I should be able to get a little bit more acrobatic
with this.
So let's give it a shot.
(drone wheezes)
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Extreme thumbnail moment. Yeah, it looks small on my hands.
It'd probably look tiny in Shaq's hand.
I hate doing the thumbnail.
This is the worst part of every YouTube video is just like.
The last fly I got about four minutes out of this,
which is actually pretty decent
considering that I was flying pretty aggressively.
And the Cinewhoop itself, I'm flying less aggressively.
So I was generally getting around six minutes
before the voltage meters started to turn red.
So I would start flying it back.
That's actually not bad.
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(motorcycles rumbling)
- [Speaker 1] Jonathan got his very own Grom.
That's pretty cool.
Nimble, and it weighs pretty much nothing yet.
- Yeah. Yeah.
So I usually take her to work and I go around town
just zipping through traffic.
- Okay. Let me, let me show you guys my drone.
(everyone laughing)
- I thought it was going to be this huge thing.
- What do you guys think?
(everyone laughing)
Pretty badass, huh?
- Dude look at the propellers on that thing.
- You know, it's like my Grom.
You should put like a little fur
so people could just go like this, and pet it.
(drone wheezing)
- [Speaker 2] And it goes pretty high too.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- [Speaker 2] That's pretty cool.
- [Speaker 1] Can I get through this opening,
through these bushes?
- [Speaker 2] I don't think you're gonna make it.
Oh, you proved me wrong.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah. It's pretty smooth.
And it's pretty stable.
The control of this is pretty good.
As long as there's no wind.
Once there's a lot of wind, then it gets really difficult.
(Speaker 1 laughs)
Pretty cute right?
- Yeah.
- How do you know if it's going too far?
- You see these bars, as soon as it starts turning red,
but sometimes it does sneak attack you.
It's like full, full, full,
and then just ooh, ow, and those suck.
- But you're looking at this lens, right?
- Yeah. So there's the bottom lens
which I'm watching and the quality of that's not that good.
But then I extract the footage out of the Insta 360
afterwards to get this better looking image.
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So I'm working on a thumbnail
and I kind of want to put the speed on here.
I've just put 60 miles per hour.
I don't know if it actually goes that fast.
I need to find out how fast this thing can go.
Will you help me?
- How fast?
- Yeah.
- How are we gonna do that?
- I'm thinking you can drive
and I'll just fly behind us
and I can see how fast I can keep up.
- Oh, okay.
- All right. So I'm betting that this thing can go
at least 50 miles per hour.
I think it could probably hit 60.
If it got past 60, I'd be pretty happy about it.
- That's pretty fast.
I'm gonna stick with 45.
- 45 Miles per hour?
- Mm-hm. So does it just say that it can't go faster or...?
- No. It's just how you angle it.
I basically just go full throttle
and just angle it until we start to lose elevation.
And then at that point, that's like top speed.
- Okay.
I'm going 40, 45, but you're pulling away.
It's going at least 50.
- Okay. You get in front then and I'll chase you.
- Okay.
I'm gonna go up to 55 since we know you can go 50.
- [Speaker 1] 55?
Oh yeah. I'm still going faster than you.
- [Female Speaker] Okay. I'm going 60.
- [Speaker 1] Oh, okay.
Yup. 60?
- [Female Speaker] 60, yeah.
- Yeah. I can hit 60.
It is so weird flying while in the car.
'Cause you're trying to disconnect your visual
from your motion that you're feeling, you know.
Which is really tough actually.
Faster?
- [Female Speaker] Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] What are you at?
- [Female Speaker] 65.
- [Speaker 1] 65? Oh yeah. I'm staying up at 65.
We could even go a little bit faster even.
But that's pretty impressive that this tiny thing
can go 70 miles per hour. Isn't it?
That's pretty crazy to think about.
- Way off from my initial estimate.
- Yeah. I bet you, if I took off the camera,
that's just a little bit less weight
and that this could probably hit seven-
- Well it also serves as wind resistance too.
(Speaker 1 laughing)
- [Female Speaker] Whoa!
- Okay. Doesn't have that much pull-out power.
I was full throttle on that one.
- You were like three or four feet.
- It's powerful, but definitely not like a six cell.
So I have to remember that.
- [Female Speaker] I was like, "Pull up, pull up!"
(both laughing)
- [Speaker 1] But I think that pretty much sums it up
for this video.
It's been a really long time
since I've gotten through an FPV video
and still have the drone intact.
Usually like halfway through I destroy it
And I'm like, "Crap, how am I going to finish this video?"
But we made it through this time,
which is amazing.
Links to all this stuff down there in the description.
And one more shout out to Insta 360
for sponsoring this episode.
Check it out.
Holiday sales stuff, links down there,
all in the description.
And hope you guys have a great holiday season.
I kind of feel like this year
we've been stuck in that movie Rewind with Adam Sandler.
Like I didn't even really care about that movie so much,
but there's one scene I remember,
where he kept pressing fast forward
through all the things he didn't want to do.
And then there's like a point in the movie where he's like,
"Oh, I need to stop this thing.
It keeps fast forwarding through the whole life
and I don't want it to fast forward through everything."
And that's how I felt this year.
It's like, it's just been over like that.
I don't know how that happened.
And hopefully next year,
we can slow the pace down a little bit
and experience it little bit more.
Are you about to accelerate is that why,
why you put your fat foot on the accelerator?
- I wasn't very slick with it was I?
- No, not really.
(both laughing)