 Hey guys, welcome to Rotorite and as you can see Sean has put together yet another Weird frickin drone this one. This is probably your biggest creation yet. This is ring drone guys I love you guys. You can even see this on camera. It is so big. I mean this is what is this a five-foot diamond? I'm six feet tall So this is maybe a five-foot diamond array that you've made I first started out with a 10-foot diameter Version that I wanted to build but I call the g10 on the CNC mill and had it all laid out in the shop And it was just a little bit too flimsy. I didn't think it was gonna hold its own support Maybe 10 foot diameter is a little too big so we'll make it five foot diameter, you know It's about the same size as a multi-gp gate. We should be able to hit that right? Yeah, so that's the whole thing think a drone shaped like a giant ring It basically becomes a flying dive gate flying dive gate and how sweet would that be to dive a drone through a drone So we took this with us down to Barnwell, South Carolina at GTI government training Institute the site of Rotorite Rampage our FPV freestyle festival that's happening this May May 15th and 16th and while we were there for our site inspection We broke out ring drone to see if we could have some of the best pilots in the world do some crazy maneuvers around it So this whole thing started because we saw Brooks Coleman a member of our Rotorite Facebook group thought of this idea Ring drone and has been working to make it happen. So you reached out to him, right? Yeah, I reached out to Brooks and I've been chatting with him and talking to him about his progress and seeing how he's doing I thought it was really cool and I wanted to kind of do it myself And I kind of asked him if it would be cool if I tried to attempt to make one myself also I actually started with these aluminum bars I wanted to make something that was extremely lightweight but also durable and I had all these aluminum bars left over from back in The David Venestal tricopter days jumped into CAD. I started CNC and a couple pieces I cut them out of G10 on my CNC mill slapped it together So essentially what you've ended up with is aluminum bars held together With angled pieces that you cut out of G10. How'd you mount the motor? This is also a G10 motor mountain. Yeah, and I just happened to work out It turned into like an octocopter type design. Is that what this really is like as far as the flight controller is concerned Yeah, does it just think this is an octocopter? The flight controller just thinks it's an octocopter. That's it. How is this even wired up? Where is the drone? So the flight controller is actually right here Okay, so in here not in the center where you would normally see it So there's a pod back here and this is essentially the drone, right? Right. There's the flight controller. You've got your flight controller You've got your air unit your FPV camera I see one four and one so there's one board here that can drive four of the motors But there's you said eight motors total motors. That's right. What else so on the other side of the board We've got another four and one ESC over here. Gotcha. You have to get the power to the front ESC as well The power had to be ran. What I actually ended up doing was running two separate batteries Okay, I've got one on this side, one on that side But I didn't want one to drain faster than the other so I did run a power lead around just to try to keep them in balance, right? Yeah, okay If this can fly this kind of proves the theory that the flight controller can be anywhere, right? Yeah, because the flight controller is not in the center Yeah, it doesn't matter on what point you take the measurement tilting is tilting y'all is yawing It shouldn't matter But I can definitely see it not working out a hundred percent to the theory because this is certainly not a Rigid body because there's a lot of flex here. It was a little less flex before he broke it You're not being a lot harder than I expected to make it through you think dude. This is a five Ring again, I can't even fit it on camera. I dive through gaps like this big, okay? This should be easy. It should be super easy. It was not easy Hey Yeah, I think that thing like eight times and it was fine. Great is awesome. Yeah, great job So I did reach out to our fellow teammates Josh and NERC and they tried to help me one of the major problems We have it is wouldn't yaw at all. I didn't know why I was like why isn't it saying yawing? Is it because the flight controller is off-center? I don't know what it is and they said maybe the props just aren't big enough, right? I mean if you think about okay, how big this thing is crazy how much Rotational inertia it has you actually had a really cool idea. Yeah, so my idea my kind of singular Contribution to this was to try to solve the yaw problem by angling some of the motors So what a drone does when it yaws all the props that spin clockwise when you try to yaw It will spool those up and spinning those up will cause the drone to rotate counterclockwise to conserve its Angular momentum so my thinking was you could angle the motors so in this example the motors that are spinning clockwise if you angle them So that those are thrusting in a way that would create counterclockwise thrust You would amplify the effect. You don't just have angular momentum rotating. You actually have Angled thrust. Does that make sense what he said science it worked You're doing great Alex There you go I Don't know it's done It was barely flying straight. No, it was flying good. We had to try to roll it. Come on. I had to try and roll it Just went it back. All the G-10 pieces are fine. We can we can bend it back. All right, grab that side Wait, can we unplug it first before we buy it? All right, just pull Look at that. It's it's all right. It'll fly that one seriously whatever. Let's just test our test Flying without one problem. The ultimate was at rampage. There is a like 125 foot smoke stack that you can dive down It's a sweet dive. You got to watch out for the guide wires We're thinking dude We've got to get the flying dive gate at the top of the smoke stack go through the ring and dive the stack Yes, you're gonna fly it up to you now for the first time Sean. I'm gonna try to fly it up to you for the first time This thing's still working. You guys want a chance to dive through a flying ring gate We are gonna be bringing this thing out to rampage again. That's happening in May So if you guys are coming to rampage, we will get this thing up in the air and see how many people can dive through it before Thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video you think Sean made something awesome Make sure to hit the like button show him some love We had a blast be sure to subscribe to the channel make sure to hit that bell We'll see you next time on Rotoride