 If that's not okay, dude. Wow, it sounds like it has a harmonic tone. Oh, oh, that's sick! Oh, oh, whoa! Everybody, welcome to Road to Ride. I'm Les Flair C. I'm Bobby F.P.V. I'm Peter F.P.V. And if you guys know me, you know I like to build crazy things. The idea behind this is that it is going to be the ultimate gap hitter, right? Okay. You can shrink yourself down, hit the gap and then expand back out again. So when this thing is flying and you give throttle, then all the arms extend, right? Exactly, yeah. So they're just extending on their own thrust. So I've had to do a few things in Betaflight to make this possible. I had to go in and turn off all of the good juiciness that makes our drones fly well today because all those filters and all the stuff that Betaflight's doing in the background actually interferes with this. It's trying to correct constantly. And it was trying to correct with all the motors like that. You can imagine what's going to happen to the drone. Talk about the frame with the most resonance or whatever, right? Exactly. So I had to actually tell it to completely turn the motors off and actually stop them whenever I drop the throttle to zero. So keep that in mind. When you go to re-enable the throttle, this thing is going to be all over the place trying to correct for what is confused with the flight controller. And unfortunately with the five inch, they have so much thrust that in order to get the arms of drop back down, I had to add rubber bands on the bottom to kind of pull it back centered. I mean, that's good though. So that when you do like let off throttle, it definitely goes back really fast. Yeah. I mean, just when we're feeling it, let's see it like, boom. Yeah. Super fast. So let's go ahead and put this up in the air. I'll fly a little bit line of sight just to kind of show you guys what it's capable of. Yeah. And then we'll try to see if we can chase it around here and hit some gaps. I want to just see you do a test hover once it's hovering, make it go like that. Make it go like a squid. Dan should probably stand over here. Yeah, Dan will go over here. Hey guys, I'm standing behind the tree. I don't know. There we go. Fly it. That's gonna be it. Sounds better. That's the cool guy. That's the cool guy. It's kind of going to feel of what it's doing before I get in the FVV. Cause when I get in the FVV, I don't think I'm going to be able to know what's going on. What is that? That's the tree. It does not start spinning because the motor's code will complete stop at zero throttle. Oh. Air mode is off. There's no air mode. And no idle. There's no idle. Yeah. Well, it's really good for you. It doesn't like me. Oh my God. What are you trying to do? Don't know. Don't yacht. Don't yacht at all. You have to give it enough throttle to keep the tension locked in place. Oh. If you don't give it enough tension, if you don't give it enough throttle, then they're not locked in place and the rear bands are trying to pull them back down. Gotcha. I'll see how we get the vibrating motor again. Oh. Oh. What? Oh. Oh. Oh, jeez. Oh, you flipped. Oh. Oh. That was acro right there. That was acro. I didn't try to do a flip. I just did a flip. This thing is crazy. Well, let's FPV it before I break it. Mitch is back now. I'm going to sit down and fly because I feel like once it freaks out, it's my disorientating little bus. Ready to follow? What's your other part of your phone? Squishy. Oh my gosh. It's so weird. I have to be really high in throttle. Oh. I'm just going to fly around for a sec. Okay. It looks like it's doing okay. All right. Oh my gosh. Oh, what? Oh. Fire. What, fire? What? Fire? Fire. Oh, yeah. Motor smoke. See, I completely stopped. Yep. All right, let's do it out there now so I can actually make it do its thing. Ready, Peter? Yep. Nice. You got it, you got it. Ready, John? Now let's go find that gap. I know where it is. It's just right here. Let's go. Here it is. You got this? You want me to take the safety-ness? All right. I'll just go slow. I see you. Oh. There we go. Oh, there we go. Nice, you got it. That was sweet. You did it, Peter? You got it. All right, do it again. All right, come on. Okay. John, yeah, I'm on you. All right, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow. You're too fast. It just doesn't ring. It'll squid. It's squided through. Oh, that was good. That was good. Okay, okay, so I just got to give a really big flip. Oh my goodness. Make sure they all go up. Okay, hold on. You're doing really good now. This thing's flying awesome now. Peter, did you get- I don't know what you're doing differently, but it's already got three. You got it? Okay. Ooh. You ready? Oh, I know. There's a gap. Crackle. Oh, it's going to go up. You ready? You got me? Oh, there's one. Yeah. Oh, it's squided through it. Ooh. Power, power. Power, power. But in doubt, power out. Oh my goodness. Did you fall in that, Peter? Oh, yeah. As much as I could. You want to try again? Right behind him now, yeah. Over going through the small gap down here, nice. Okay, let's find another one. All right. Let's go find a gap. Yeah. Right here. Peter, you on me? Yup, I'm on you. Peter, you on it, okay. I'm on you, boy. I'm on you. Let's see what we can do. Oh, it's squided. It's squided. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. It's a little squid. It's just like every other drone though. The planet is stuck in a tree. At least it's pretty low. It's somewhere in here. That's fun. You guys think, is this going to be your next drone that you're going to want to fly every day? Not really. I don't know. I don't know. Not really. So at the end, I kind of started to figure it out. It's, you really just, once you're like this, you got to just pin the throttle for like a second to get it to go up. Yeah. And then you can slowly drop the throttle again. Exactly, yeah. It's like a balancing act. You have to give it enough throttle so these things engage. Yeah. But not too much to where you're in the trees and not too little to where it splops around. Yeah. This is like the maximum test. It's so funny when it goes through the trees like this. Yeah. This is like the maximum test of throttle control. I wish I would have been a follow along in your goggles because I think it probably looked sick. Yeah. It looked really cool. Yeah. And then all of a sudden you flop with an almost hemiplegia. Well, I don't know if this was a success or a failure, but I think it was pretty cool to play with at least as a prototype and as a proof of concept that something like this could be really cool in regular everyday drone flying. If you can get it to fly better than I did. Yeah. I think this would be awesome to be the ultimate gap hitter. Yeah. So if any of you guys watching this video want to maybe try to do the same thing yourself, I think it would also work really well if you can somehow put servos on the arm. I thought about using servos, but that was a whole other level of complexity with programming and stuff that would have had to go into beta flight to make it happen. Yeah. And on top of that, it would be less durable because the servos, we know after experience, they break really easily. Yeah. So our vans are pretty durable apparently. Yeah. So if you guys try this project at home, let us know in the comments below and also just tag us wherever you post it because we'd love to see what you guys do with it. If you guys like this episode of Rotorite, make sure that you subscribe and then right next to the subscribe button there's a little bell and if you press the bell, you'll get pinged when we upload every Monday. So let us know in the comments what project you want me to do next. Yeah. Sean's our mad scientist builder. You can build anything. Anything you put in the comments, he will build. And be sure to check out Rotorite.com. We have a store where you can buy all the parts that I use to build this except for some of the carbon pieces. If you guys want to try this out for yourself, I'll leave links to all the STL plans for this in the description so you guys can try it out for yourself. Yeah. Thanks for watching guys. We'll see you next time on Rotorite. Woo!