 What do you think we've got going on? Um, I'm not exactly sure. I can't see what you're holding. I see a radio. What do you think is the control thing? Oh my gosh. That's a whole drum. Oh. OK, this is awesome. I know! What was your first video game experience? Like, what was the first console? It was an Atari 2600. What is that? Because I am old. I did not get an NES for the longest time. I would have to go over to this other kid's house so I didn't really like and pretend to be his friend so he would play NES with me. So I had this goal. I had this crazy idea that I wanted to be able to control a drone using a retro arcade controller. Oh my gosh. Basically, you've made these switches. Be these switches. Right, so actually, because the switch is just like a switch. The stick inputs I didn't actually touch. What I did is I hooked up the buttons to the switches because on this controller. And then you map the switches to the outputs. Right. So I used a mixer so that when you hit, say, left on the D-pad, it gives a set amount of left yaw. Because there's no analog. Right. But it's going to be like throttle on a switch, but also it's in roll on a switch. Right, because no matter, I know it felt otherwise, but no matter how hard you hit the button, it didn't make Mario run any faster. You know, it was always just on or off. Stop it! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! How do you usually control a drone? So with the drone, we have four types of controls. So we have your throttle. Throttle essentially makes the drone go up and down or makes it go faster or slower. We have our roll. This is basically our side to side on the drone just like that. We have our pitch, which is forward and backwards. So when we pitch the drone forward, the drone increases speed. We pitch the drone back. It tilts the drone backwards. And that decreases speed. And then finally, we have yaw, which is our throttle stick, side to side. Our yaw is essentially it turns the drone side to side like this. We have to use all four of these controls in unison together in order to control the drone and be able to fly it nice and smoothly around, say, a bunch of trees or around a racing track. So normally when we fly these drones, we put the drone at an angle and it stays at that angle. So with this drone, if you want to turn your pitch forward, you need to both yaw and roll to accomplish a right turn. Not going to be able to do that. We limited it amount of input. So we're going to use an auto level. Pitch, stop, turn like, ah, this is going to be fun. So if you use an auto level, then all you have to do is be flying forward. And as you yaw, the drone will compensate for you. Is this like a legit original? Where'd you get this controller? I got it off eBay, so I don't know if it's legit original. It could be. I mean, I can't tell. Our cameraman is an avid video game aficionados. He really knows. He saw this, and he was like, not original. Like, how do you know? He's like, well, Drew, the original buttons. Let me tell you, the original buttons had a slight concave to them, and these have a slight convex. No, you're right. So anyone that might be cringing that we were destroying an original, we would never do that. I mean, I would if I could get one. I had so many different theories on how to make this happen. And I had, at one point, gone so far down this rabbit hole of figuring out how to decode the signal from these pins. I actually ended up talking to my friends at Spectrum, and we were down this rabbit hole. I had all these Arduino and stuff. And then Miguel, I won't pull it. I was like, wait, why don't you just hardwire to the inputs of the circuit? This was so simple, so it shouldn't be too hard. Drew was an engineer at GM. A lot of people think he's just a pretty looking, excellent FPV pilot and charismatic leader of the Rotorite Colts. Look at this. He, like, soldered all this junk up. It looks really neat. You know, he is legit a smart dude. Thanks, Bart. Well, no one ever says nice things about me on the show. We got a new face here. I'm Conrad, also known as Ferati. I'm known as a racer. I was in the first season of DRL. Not so competitive anymore. Now, FPV is just super fun. Let me know when you're ready. So it is just throttle. And so you're going to have to, like, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. No, I got it. And then you got to hold forward and then just steer. You're armed. Yeah, just start tapping. Tap and hold forward. Oh my god. Oh, god. No, no, hang on. You have to always. I'm yawing, but it's not changing direction. Because you're not holding forward enough. Because you yaw, you have to hold forward. I really thought I pushed forward. I feel like this is a terrible place for this. Or maybe it's the best place for this. It's the best place. He's out in the open field now. OK, so now he's just cheating, basically. I'm coming back. Oh, my god. Yeah, there's no roll, you know, I'll give you a little roll. It rolled slightly. I was trying to get it back here. Let me see if I can get it back. Turtle it back. Can you fly it back through? I'm going to try. Land it under the tree. Sounds better. Land it under the tree. OK. OK, I'm starting to get the feel for this. OK, you ready? My thumbs are off the sticks. It's all you. It doesn't just come together. It's not trimmed out quite right. Oh. Oh, fire. Oh, fire. Fire. For real? Oh. Yeah, I saw a motor or something smoke. The motors were super hot on the bench the other day. I think that was my turn. The motor just burned up. I think that was my concern is all that on and off of the throttle. Just real aggressive, like 0 to 100, 0 to 100. It is slightly trimmed to the right. OK. So it was pulling to the right. So we could try to trim that out, or you did that in real time. The other thing that's weird is that you cannot input both yaw and pitch at the same time. The D-pad doesn't allow. You can. I guess you could diagonal. Yeah, you just have to hit the diagonal. Because you're constantly going da, da, da, da, da, da. Come on, man. You can fly it, Mara. So it's kind of like, it's kind of like, well, let's see if Van Over can do it. But for me, it was kind of like, yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw. Pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch. It was pretty sketchy. Let's see how it looks to us. All right, you ready? You're on. Now he's got it. Oh, he's a natural. Oh. Now he's a shootout. Oh, wow, I didn't think I had a gas. Ah! All right, let's warm it up. You can just hold pitch forward even as you're like, you don't have to tap pitch. You can hold pitch. You know? Right. Oh, man. It's so hard for me not to, I'm not touching anything. These are off the sticks. This is all you. All right, hold on me. Try and get back in. Oh, it died. It died. Again? It died again. Dude, they're dead. It says core 76 degrees Celsius. That's the flight controller. Ignore that. That's a real. Why is the flight controller heating up? I feel like 76C is really hot. That's really hot. I know. Some flight controllers just run hot, and I don't know why, but it's just. I think a motor smoke. What the? Oh, this is the field. Yeah, they're really hot. Same motor or different motor? Ooh, they are smoking hot again. Let's try another quad. What's the deal with the battery? I don't. I don't do. Is it dead? Can we test it? I just said I have no idea. I have no idea. I'm trying to help. Do you have a multimeter? I have a multimeter. That's why I'm trying to help. 184 millivolts. That's not enough millivolts. So Drew moved the receiver to a whole other quad so that now we can fly it. And then his spectrum battery just was like nah, not today, friends. And went, just died. Huh. Serenity now. Serenity. Serenity now. I just want to play my video game. So we took my Fat Shark 18650 pack. We cut the battery connector for his spectrum off it and put it on my balance lead. And now. You got to do what you got to do. I took my beautiful DIY project and put red tape all over. Oh, and a new quad. And we have a new quad. You ready, Drew? I'm ready. I want to hold it. Oh my god. Oh, wow. That is hard. OK, there we go, there we go, there we go. We're going really fast. I'm holding the quad all the way. I think it's just the XL-1. I want more input. I feel like I'm just not getting enough. So he's basically giving himself more end-throw. So by doing so, let's say he was at 30% of control. Now he's going to go up to like 60% of the control. So you're going to increase your throttle, too? No, no, throttle's perfect. Rudder was pretty fine. I just couldn't pitch forward enough. It just sounds like you're playing Street Fighter, dude. There you go. What are you after? Oh, that. Oh, not having any. Oh! Oh, it went out. It went out. You went for the gas. Watching it in the goggles, it seems like it makes sense that it keeps catching on fire. It's like, it's so violent. Not having any roll is really, really difficult. So you turn and you just drift backwards. I think I need to go in there and add more mixers so that when you give it left and right, it banks the turns. That dude, it's awesome. I'm jealous. Count right. He's going to go when it's best. This is pretty good. OK, it's already. Yeah. Oh, it's so much better with the mixers. It looks way better. It looks way better. It looks way better. Oh, we're going nuts. While the throttle is going punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, the stick movements, the pitch and the aileron, all that stuff, you should hold. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's a weird mind. It's like trying to pat your stomach and rub your head at the same time where you want one finger to go, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, and the other one, you just want to hold the direction and be a little more smooth on it. Right, right. At least now I can see the quad coming straight at us. There you go. That's awesome. Conrad's doing best for sure. What do you think about the, oh, look at that. That was a nice spin. Oh, god. Yeah. That's looking pretty good. Yeah. OK, well, I think we should set a course. What? We should set a course and race. You set the track because you're racer number one. One pavilion and one tree gap. Right, yeah. Nice. Nice. Oh, my gosh. He's doing it. Oh, my gosh. This is so crazy. This is so crazy. Yeah, it's different when you have to actually do a, oh, god. Do a task. The V is going to be crazy. There it is. That's it. That ahead. That ahead. That ahead. You did it. Oh, my gosh. And you hit the pavilion. You're going to be first lap when you do it. You're doing it. You're doing it. Yes, first lap. What was that Conrad? 25, 34. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. I'm going to wreck it. You can actually get a little speed going. Do you want to try it better? Let's let somebody else have a try. This is really hard. Oh, god. This is horrible. Yeah, hold forward. Reminds me of playing Flappy Bird. Yeah, Flappy Clash. All right. Oh, my god. One minute, four seconds. OK, let's call it. Given longer punches, it won't dip like that. Yeah, in my opinion, that's what you want. Get a hold forward. I know, I know. He's getting ready before he starts the clock. The clock started. He finally found a way to beat Ben over. Yeah, I haven't beat him yet. Oh, I see where you added roll. That helped so much. Oh, that moss near hit. So hard. Through the bee, through the bee. All right, finish the lap. Oh, no, finish the lap. What's his time? It's time, 55. I'm still in the lead. I'm in moss. I got it. All right, we'll just reset it, then. OK, two more laps. Your arms. Oh, see, now he's got it. Start. Oh, yeah, he's way better now. God darn it. He was just trolling us on the first lap. No, he's got it. Oh, he's doing so good. Gosh darn it. No. I'm so excited to win. You could still win. No, this is about to be a crazy good lap. Oh, my gosh, are you? Go! I went through it. It's not through. OK, he's through. That was a 22-48. Yeah! Oh, my gosh. I'm not even going to do the next one. You're just calling it a call. You just done? I trolled you guys so hard that first run. Were you trolling? Yes. I'm such a jerk. Everyone's going to hate me after watching this. Alex, give me your fingers. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stick him rolling, he's got the eye of the tiger. Got it. Like, it is so hard to be lined up for anything. There you go, all right. Nice turn. Yeah, I was proud of that one. There you go, there you go. Focus, focus. Ooh! Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Send it, send it, send it, send it. Don't care, don't care. We don't care. Oh! You made it, you made it. You made it. This arm, this arm. Please, this arm, please, this arm it. What was the time? What was the time? What was the time? 29. Damn! 29-9. That was good. That was everything I had. You beat Bart world. It doesn't count, but let me just finish this pack. Just for fun. Oh. Good at this. That was a time. Oh my god, I want a time on this. You got the timer, Conrad? Yeah. Okay. Skip through, skip through. What was it? 21-8. Oh! 21 seconds. I'm proud of that, even if we don't count it. Yeah. It counts after you did six blocks from the track. It's fun. All right, so what impressed me most was that Alex was able to do better than all of us on essentially the second or third lap or whatever. Really his first lap, because he sandbagged the first lap just to make us look like chubs. Pretty much. I'm proud that after many tries I was able to beat that time, but I'm aware that if you got that many attempts, you'd be running 17-18. You never know. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Yeah. And I think what I explained to Joshua earlier is, you're a really good racer. Yeah, but I don't ever play console games. I think that got you. Give me like a mouse and keyboard. Oh! What would you guys want to see? So Conrad wants to do mouse and keyboard, apparently. I just want to see some other game controllers. I want to try out the Super Nintendo, because then we have shoulder buttons. Comment down below what game controller would you like to see us try tomorrow. And big thanks to our buddy Farahdi for coming all the way from some part of the western United States here. Yeah, thanks for having me out. Link in the description of his channel, of course, so you can check out more of his actual racing with a real controller because he is super talented. If you really liked this episode, be sure to give it a thumbs up, guys. Let us know that you loved it. And if you're not subscribed already, it's your first time watching WorldWrite. Well, thank you so much for joining. We hope you subscribe for more awesome content like this. Be sure to go check out our store because that's how we are able to even make these episodes for you guys. We always appreciate you guys shopping because it helps us keep doing crazy things like this. We hope you enjoy it. Anything? I also hope you enjoyed it. We both got a haircut today. We did. Whose looks better? Comment down below. Your haircut looks better, mine or Alex's. I actually have a haircut. Not whose face looks better. Well, no, I actually have a haircut, so I went by default. Let's... No, okay.