hey it's norm from Tested calm I am super excited today one boy joined by a
Carlos Porter less you're a member of a local fpv quadcopter multi-rotor flying
enthusiast kit that's it so if you guys don't know this is
basically racing quad copters or flying it for fun with fpv first-person
perspective goggles
you are flying a quadcopter that you made yep and viewing what the quadcopter
is seeing not by looking at it but by looking through your glasses that's it
so how long you been doing this well I start doing this with like you know
regular building quads and flying them just looking at them instead of using
the fpb but you know I got a little no board but I needed something new and
then all these things start coming out you know glasses and little ones that
you can carry everywhere and that's what I got hooked again and start going like
crazy again all the time
well let's talk about the quad first yes because you say you came from just
building regular quads and people who loved plants all the time yeah it's a
very popular hobby you don't need to buy one you can buy one you can but you can
also build one yeah what differentiates a quarter you fly with fpv from a quad
that you build on just a fly of my line of sight well mainly like well in the
beginning the whole design frames that were not supporting stuff like this that
will hold a camera or stuff like this will hold a camera that you used to fly
so they were more like imagine these but without all the gear for the camera
right and that was what will fly right but then eventually people start getting
really into the fpv and and using the glasses and then the frames of the of
the of the quads evolved to be able to you know add the little camera right
here the video transmitter up here so they evolved a little bit it's still
pretty similar but they evolved in order for us to be able to do fpv more melting
points yeah - who cameras on this yeah they've a GoPro here yeah we also have
fpv camera which is like an almost like a security camera that's it is exactly
it's exactly a security camera the way it works is generally we use these
security cameras because they have a little bit better exposure change so
when you're going to through a dark area to a really bright area
these does it really well and also is a lower-resolution
because we have to send the video wireless so it needs a lower resolution
you can't really send high resolution on this really small quads and the
transmitter is transmitting analog video yes it's over radio right now and that
means it's not an additional signal now when you watch it it really is you know
you need a good line-of-sight yeah so I mean there is enough an independent of
the frequency you use for example today here most of us are using no everybody
is using 5.8 frequency that's a really popular frequency because they're the
antennas are small and on these little guys you want antennas are small the
only bad thing about it is they're only bad thing about it is that maybe they
don't they can't go through walls as much as other ones but enough for
example we were flying here there's a warehouse and there's some walls but
this still can go through these walls you know so we can fly through the
windows for a through walls and then if you really need something that goes even
more through buildings they say or a lot of trees then you can change frequencies
like 1.9 which is bigger antennas so there's not as portable not something
like this but you can get all the ratios of different power
yeah bit more power yeah maybe I mean it's probably close the main difference
is just exchange the frequency so you can go through more stands or maybe I
need a fairly but you know and it's a cool thing about it being an analogue
transmitter and then signal is that you can watch this
oh it's someone else can watch it too it's open its open for anybody who have
a receiver on the goggles or like oh like that you can see there this also
yeah a screen with a receiver on it you can flip through channels and just see
see whoever is flying down there you know on a lawn chair or something they
can wear a similar pair of goggles they're not really interrupt your flying
cuz they're just tapping in their Japanese here you see you have a channel
just change the channel you go through all of them if we're all flying the only
user we have is the transmit inside if we're on the same frequency and I'm
flying and somebody else is goes in and turned the same and they happen to be on
the same frequency then I'm not other side I'm gonna see their obedience and
you're not watching your quad and then you can yeah and so it's good to having
a spotter or someone know generally we're not all flying so there's always
and every time we turn on we say I'm gonna turn on so generally we slow down
and hover somewhere turn on and if everything's okay and we keep going kind
of thing no we're at like an undisclosed location yeah outside of San Francisco
you guys litter like to cross some trains right here there's an abandoned
warehouse is this kind of activity is it is it's just like more underground type
of wine so I mean I think it's getting pretty popular now I'm enough to like I
mean more videos came online people are saying these things the small ones the
big ones there's more once I really popular now because the racing and the
possibilities you have you can take it anywhere in a backpack and fly through
trees fly through here and it's getting really popular so I think it used to be
we on the ground still is but eventually it's gonna get to a point that a lot of
people are when I win when I do these because it's so exciting
I mean difficult to get into no I mean I mean the basic components then you can
build one of these things in like half a day you know if you know I'm online now
you can read everything but yeah it's not it's not too complicated I feel like
almost everybody can build one of these things I'm flying and sometimes you have
to build it in half a day because you crash it oh yeah
you guys plan on leaving here maybe it will not all of them intact no no
definitely not but we bring a bunch of propellers we
bring a bunch of stuff with us because otherwise you know you wanna keep flying
these things are generally pretty tough but you would break the propellers once
in a while maybe a motor yeah and if you're going really really fast you
might break the frame but it's hard it's hard to break it thing is when you do
this a lot you know it's it's not too expensive when you start breaking things
you know you spend some money you have three five replacements all the time
that you can change and well I'm like you know that that I have a sponsorship
so I can get you know stuff so I can be a little more risky if something breaks
and they help me out and send me some more stuff and so that helps and I think
it's getting so popular that they're starting to do that kind of thing
sponsorships and alright racing or skateboarding or things so you guys
actually race what we do yeah we're here I mean we practice a lot here but
eventually we will start organizing something a little more you know more
robust because right now is just a group of group of friends meet up here and
just fly around do a little sick with here and just go around the place but
eventually I think I mean and it's happening already in some areas but they
will be organized you know fun events where everybody racism is a real
competition and even it seems like you're like they're saying like having
the audience being able to you know a bunch of screens yeah I'm the audience
being able to see their racers right let me apply the transmission everyone in
the audience is where you if you keep if you keep escalating this it can be like
or even putting like we're even talking like if you have some kind of a fence in
the middle of the city and the audience's eye are inside and these
things are flying around and you're protected with a fence there will be
like seeing these things flying towards you and then going over you you know
it's like just a lot of fun what type of maneuvers do you like - you're like you
fight indoors and outdoors that comes through windows or oh yeah and you can
do all kind of stuff I mean here you can go through windows like rolling through
windows you can do loops you can run in these things when you start getting the
hang of it they can do crazy maneuvers and they're really interesting maneuvers
because we're used to seeing a lot of airplane maneuvers right but these
things work differently so you can do things that you never see
it just seems weird when you're watching it but it you know and the new staff the
experience of just flying with an fpv how is that different from flying - site
you have to use audio cues as well yeah I mean this is really interesting if
you've never done it before it's kind of like your brain when you do it more and
more your brain kind of gets a little confused because even the first time as
I was flying the first times I start doing this you will see yourself and
when you've been flying for a while you think oh there's a guy there yeah you'd
really get to that point but as you say you're outside your body but yes you you
kind of change the way you fly in fact I used to fly pretty well point of point
of view just looking at it and now I have a hard time because I'm so used to
just seeing from the camera you know it's kind of like your job your brain
gets tuned with this and as I know it's hard to like calculate the distances
without being inside and their other advantages of having a smaller quad more
maneuverable quad and you can zip around yeah to me is like the size thing is
just put in a backpack having on the car driving somewhere and I say I have some
time and this will leave that for is there there's nobody there because
that's important it's always been safe and no flying in places where there's
nobody that's why we love this place there's nobody here there's no and you
can pair it anybody you know it's just simple compare abandoned except for
other quadrants we found like props broken in the truth or the GoPros over
there SD cards lying on the bed so yeah there's some I mean yeah some days I
mean some days everything goes well nothing nothing breaks or maybe just
propellers I think I don't think we've been here a day without braking at least
propellers yeah but you know generally in this place we
kill some of these things you know we'd be crashes some stuff breaks because I'm
obviously the concrete on the brakes if you're going too fast hit one of those
and it's going that's really I can't wait to put on these goggles oh yes you
fly yeah let's go check it out and enjoy some flying cool sounds good thanks
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