today on REBRICKULOUS we're here with YouTube's king of random Grant Thompson
and he's gonna help us to make some LEGO drones to fly on a real drone racing court
hey guys this week on ridiculous we are racing LEGO drones with a very special
guest what's up guys Grant Thompson the king of random if you're not familiar
with our channel we are known for doing very uncommon things with very common
materials and in this case we're taking LEGO Technic elements and building high
speed racing drones. look at beauty. this looks awesome so tell us what goes into
building. the parts are actually really quite simple the four arms are actually
identical they're based on an M 15 beam and then for these motor mounts here we
use an 8 shaped pin connector the reason these are so important is because when
we were putting these together the motors that we used fit absolutely
perfectly with the holes so we never had to drill any holes we didn't have to use
any zip ties and nothing is glued nothing is permanent nothing is modified
in any way so I think it's about as close to the LEGO spear as we can get
that's amazing and then just for one added benefit we put a couple of LEDs on
the back for you as well. Yes. Grab your LEGO Technic so I'm gonna help you build
four different arms that are gonna be completely identical and then we're
gonna use these 5 by 7 open frames for the top and the bottom and then just use
a series of connectors to click everything together and build a little
bracket for the camera mount the next step is to make these things
actually fly and to do that we're gonna have to add the brains the brains of the
drone here if you look closely this thing is something we call the squiddy
in the spirit of LEGO we've designed this that everything clicks together so
we literally replace the top frame click this down into place and then connect
all the wires to the motors and your drones ready to fly the only thing left
for you to do is to customize it. so Grant we wouldn't know before we get started
flying aside who do you think looks better. oh my god these shock absorbers
down at the bottom? There sure are grant I'm so glad you asked that way if I come in a
little strong it can take it a little bit I've got a rocket. What is this on
the back? a rocket booster a rocket booster Dmitry's gonna be seeing a lot
of that in the race. it's like a flying octopus really that's very feels very
top-heavy I mean it feels like it'd be more stable flying upside down but I
love the shock absorber that looks really cool yours looks a lot like a
submarine to me yeah and what I'm really loving here is like these things up here
is this you yeah it's my little throne
right here a throne and if you wanna go ahead like me that's a hair you know
this is a really tough call I think they both got some really unique features
here all right so we're for style points yes all right. Team Tyler. we're gonna do
a quick repair job here yeah and then take these things over to launch pads
and get these things in the air
we got the track all set up and on the starting light both teams are gonna take
off their drones and race around the track to see who crosses the line first
the first one across the finish line will win let's dive right in
I'm taking you down No
because oh oh oh you better get out
you're crazy to try and keep it stable
yeah
it's not about who has a fastest lap it's about that right there all right so
the blue team took it but in the end pretty proud of our performance
especially at the end there that was pretty sweet but overall Grant I want to
say thank you so much for coming out for teaching us how to build these bases for
giving us this amazing idea this was absolutely incredible
I'm totally stoked that this idea even worked I mean when we went into this
this was just kind of like a pipe dream but these things flew and they ripped it
up and yeah you really ripped it up! Hey guys thanks so much for watching go
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