 what's going on people's welcome to rotor right now if you're new to this channel my name is Tommy this specific series is called quad mod maybe you are out there with your friends and you're like yo Johnny check this out man is called a racing drone or maybe you were watching ESPN and you saw these things flying around you're like hey what are these what are these guys doing they got these goggles on and got these things flying around hover around like bunch of bus bunch of Justin Bieber fans signing off I don't get it either way you went to Google and you typed race drone this is what popped up the e-sheen wizard because this is probably the most search drone ever so what we're gonna do here today is we're gonna unbox this I'm gonna show you what's inside I'm gonna show you how to connect this so that you can get up and flying but more importantly the reason why y'all gonna be here is we are going to take this quad and we are going to modify it one part by one so that you can go from being stock to being super pro performance level right up there with all the stuff that we fly here at rotor right because you know what nobody wants to stay stock man nobody wants to keep things default let's open this bad boy up and let's take a look at what you're getting because for $200 you pretty much getting everything that you need oh look at that now if you're first starting off you're gonna want to hold on to these because this is going to keep your gimbals nice and protected let's feel them stick so quick not bad doable doable take a look at this again you're getting everything that you hi hey you got your charger cable that goes with that we got a battery 3s 1500 milliamp battery alright I can tell you right that might want to upgrade that a bind tool alright this is what's gonna help us connect your radio to the quad we got couple zip ties because everybody needs zip ties some prop nuts and it looks like we got some silver ones and black ones some of these are clockwise and counterclockwise landing feet alright so that's gonna go underneath your quad and who we got some super cute tools look at this how cute is that it looks like we got some some spare screws and we've got an antenna all look at this I already see an update point this is gonna be a good update points it comes with a linear antenna and we'll get to more on why that's not really the best thing a little bit later let's go check out this quad now the great thing oh look at that look at them edges right there line with the looks to be some paint marker it looks really good I'm quite impressed it comes with these nice motor protection plates that seat guys guys something like this as simple as this motor protectors will go a long way especially for people new to the hobby unless you crash into things and just keep going we've got our drone our racing drone laid out nice and neat we're just gonna put everything that needs to go on the quad charge the batteries it's gonna be the quickest B-roll montage you've ever seen this kit did not come with any type of battery pad and you definitely want a battery pad because one if you look at this you got these exposed by hand and screws and furthermore when you do put a battery on here see this this is like slip and slide bro you land and crash this thing just it just slides off like that what I'm gonna recommend get yourself some omegrip and what this will do keep your battery from sliding or forwarding or moving or combusting or breaking you see that not going nowhere we are now outside now I have got my mini quad my esheen wizard I've got the props on I've got the batteries charge I've got everything set up the way it would be coming out of the box so I'm going to turn on the radio always radio first ladies and gentlemen then we're gonna go and plug in the battery all right I've got my goggles on let's find out what this thing does right out the box taking off and we got we got auto level so this is how it comes out the box I'm just gonna go ahead and fly it with auto level on kind of feels weird but hey this is what to expect all right let's check out this power oh oh oh yeah that's right I can't I can't do an s-flip I can't turn more than like 30 degrees all right so I am gonna say that right off the bat this camera is really really narrow I could see somebody wanting this if the thing that they want to do primarily is like shoot gaps because it makes that look all like natural let's see if I could shoot this gap right here oh nope nope nope nope nope and I'm guessing I don't have internal mode all right let's go log over there it's very zoomed in and focus most cameras these days run a wider lens and the reason for that is because you just want to be able to see all around you and the other thing is is the light changes aren't I mean it's pretty light out here but going in you know where the shaded areas at and where it's lit it definitely has a little bit of time before it adjusts so all right not a big deal guys we'll go and take it back in I've already got a good feel for it I mean the 3s power again you know coming from 4s leaves a little bit to be desired but if you're new to the hobby 3s is plenty so let's go back to the table and let's go talk about what I would do next camera I think that's the first thing that I'm gonna change and what I am going to go with is the rotor riot Fox here predator camera and what this is going to be able to do as you can see it's got this nice bigger lens it's got a 1.8 millimeter lens because the lens that's on there is like this what we call like sniper vision style you just like see this much the reason why I'm gonna suggest that you go with the bigger camera is so that you can see everything around you that's right not only do you want to be able to see a little bit wider but the light transition changes right so going from somewhere light to somewhere dark what you'll notice is that the light transitions take a little bit of time in fact you probably see in this clip where I'm behind a tree and as I pop out to the right and you can see the sun first of all the sun is just its black dot and then it takes a little bit of time for everything to kind of adjust the wide dynamic range isn't as vast on this camera so that's going to be the other main and critical reason that you want to go to change your camera one of these little screwdrivers we're gonna pop this guy off and that comes off like so let's set that to the side so we don't lose it there's another one on this side now you know one thing I also think you should probably do maybe you take off the prop just so that it's not in the way like this but I'm a little bit of a lazy guy you know I just like to just let's just get at it you've got the screws out now you've got your camera all you gotta do just pull it out very simple like so you're gonna notice you've got one cable here pop that off like so so you got that camera off but what you're going to find is that that connector this one is super old school as you can see it's a little bit fatter it's got the circular pins and that is just not what is standard out there today so we're gonna go ahead and open this thing up first start off by taking off your top plate you're gonna take off this one two three four five six screws up top and this top plate will come off let's go ahead and pop this off here we go alright so then you pop off these side plates and now you can kind of get to everything down here in the middle so normally I tell you to just splice this onto the wire and call it a day but because this camera this predator camera actually comes with something called an OSD and on screen display it's gonna give you voltage readout which would be nice and to do that we gotta be able to get to the PDB and to do that you come here this is your flight controller if you don't know and you're gonna take these nuts off this will cop right off and then we'll be able to get to where we are trying to get so we popped off the flight controller the camera wires makes them way over here to this part of the PDB so we're gonna go ahead and undo that we're gonna go ahead and take the wire harness off of the new guy we're gonna go ahead and solder this straight on to there take your tweezers reach in a little dad boom there goes one boom there goes another and lastly that signal wire boom and now we are good to go and it looks like there's enough solder on those pads to keep it there so the next thing we need to do measure out what we've got so I've taken the plug right plug into the camera the camera goes about you know about yay this way and then we need about this much length and now I like to go you know exact length on the wire we can cut it about yay and then while I'm here I'm gonna go ahead and strip all of these now boom there we go so now at this point I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you know how to solder because if you don't I got some use for you you're not gonna get very far in his hobby unless you learn how to solder because these are gonna break and you're gonna want to be able to fix it and to fix it you got to learn how to solder you got your black which is gonna be ground which will go there that little minus sign you got this red wire which is going to go there that plus sign you got this yellow wire which is your signal that is going to connect over to the this pad right over here and we've got this one last wire this white no fuchsia periwinkle periwinkle is what is going to be hooked up to something called the send voltage sensor you're gonna want to hook that up to this positive pad right here and the reason for that is because this pad is what the PDB is seeing as far as the battery voltage because you want this to be whatever the battery voltage is I'm gonna go ahead and connect these now and should be good and want to give a little tug make sure everything's good alright so we got the flight controller back on now I have also put on the camera onto the side place I gave myself a little bit of tilt there I'll fine-tune that as soon as I get it on there and the last thing I want to do one more trick up my sleeve this receiver is currently connected for something called PPM don't ask me what that stands for you can actually hook this up for something called iBus and iBus instantly speeds up the latency from your controlling massive difference you want to hop on over to iBus good news is this receiver does iBus and it's a very simple change when you get this mini quad you'll notice that this receiver is connected here and what you want to do is just simply take that out and move that to this top row up here plug it in bam you are done there and on the flight controller side you just want to pull that the connector out and move it over to the other side like so we are good we got the receiver on here with double-sided sticky tape this was inside what we're also going to do with these antennas just to give you a little bit better assumptions we're actually gonna bring them outside of the quad and mount them to the arms now it's not the best way to move into the arms but this is a this is a step up from it just being inside completely covered by carbon fiber so here is your cable we're gonna go ahead and connect that into our camera and this little cable right here this is where you're gonna connect your OSD controller and what that will let you do is basically adjust camera settings it'll let you adjust or change the pilot name that's right on there so make sure you keep that somewhere where it's accessible I'm gonna go ahead and mount everything back up and then I'm gonna walk you through what's going on in beta flight to take advantage of the iBus and also just a couple of other things that we can do within beta flight without even having to upgrade yet to go ahead and get a little bit more performance out of your mini quad as I'm putting this back together I came in one more realization the screws these little guys that it comes with it's just super low quality and the tool that goes in here only goes in maybe like half a millimeter basically making it really easy to strip out in this bag which your your quad comes with are these longer screws and these longer screws are actually much better the tool actually goes all the end so I recommend that you use these it's only gonna take you oh you know maybe three four years to screw them in because they're so freaking long but it is better than stripping a screw our fellas so we got the side plates back on and like I said earlier we are going to relocate the antennas outside of the body of the quad because as you can see this quad is basically covered on all four sides with carbon fiber and if you know anything about carbon fiber man it does this to radio signals I'm gonna put them over here on the arms now this is not the most ideal the most ideal would actually be have it something like that but for now you know since we don't really have a way to mount it somewhere like this on the outside we're gonna go ahead and put them on the arms over here and that is still going to be better than having them inside and to do that I'm just gonna place it right here as you can see I'm putting it on this side because this is where the propeller spins that way if you crash something like that you won't have a prop strike and I'm just gonna use a simple zip tie to go ahead and keep that in place but now that I've got what I wanted to do on the quad there's a couple of things we need to get straight here okay guys I don't care if you're a new guy or if you've been in here for like a hot minute nobody arms are quad with a freaking stick arm anymore alright guys we're gonna go to switch this up so that you guys don't develop any bad habits we're gonna put the arm from going like this to flip in one of these switches because that's just that's just the way it goes alright guys this is what's gonna look like when you turn it on and to get into the menu you're gonna tap and hold the okay button we're gonna hit down to go to setup hit okay and then we're gonna go over to these ox channels now right now the source are these two knobs not good we don't want you don't want to be going like this to arm nobody does that let's use this switch right here we're gonna use this switch which is called SWB so we're gonna go down here click the up button that's going to change boom SWV that rhymes over here channel six we're gonna put on to this side this is called SWC so let's just hit up till we get there SWC so we are good now let me show you what you got to do okay and it is not intuitive fellas it is it is so backwards tap and hold cancel all of a sudden it saves it why why why radio's done quad is plugged up and done now it's time to go into beta flight to set the iBus plus a couple of other little tips and tricks that we could do to squeeze out a little bit more performance out of your wizard so let's go into beta flight right over here before you do any of this stuff you are gonna need to download and install beta flight configurator and you can do that from this URL here and you're just gonna go down to the latest version whatever it is and you're gonna download the version that's right for your operating system Windows users will get win32 Mac users will get the DMG file and Linux users probably already know what they need to get after downloading and installing beta flight configurator you're gonna need to install the STM32 driver so this is the STM32 site where you're gonna download the drivers at least if you're a Windows user you're gonna need to download the drivers if you're a Mac user you don't need to do any of this your computer already has the drivers ready to go and you can just plug in your flight controller and everything should be fine STM is gonna make you log into their website so you're gonna need to create a login so now I've logged into the STM site and I want to go download the right down here at the bottom get software accept the license agreement after you download the driver you'll go ahead and install the Windows you want the Windows 8 unless you're running Windows 7 if you're running Windows 10 install the Windows 8 your 32 or 64 bit driver depending on what your operating system is then plug in your USB cable to your quadcopter and you should be good to go if you need more detailed instructions you're gonna go here to the beta flight 3.4 3.5 setup for total beginners video over on my channel in which I walk you through every single step and as you can see it's a much much longer video than this one but if that was enough information then you're good to go in case you're wondering this is Joshua Bardwell yeah that's you thought you recognized my voice and you're gonna be seeing me a little later in this series but for now let's go back to these yahoo's alright so we got our quad plugged in everything is cool first thing we're gonna do is go over to ports and what we're gonna do here is actually set it up for iBless now so what you want to go is to ur3 and you're gonna select serial rx click save the flight controller will reboot then you go over to configuration right over there and then you're gonna go down here and what you're gonna click on is under the receiver tab click that hit serial base and then you're gonna select iBus and right there it's already selected for you but just so you see there's a couple of options there you want iBus bada bing bada boom we're gonna hit save and reboot there and once that is ready we're gonna go over to the modes tab now here's where we're gonna go ahead and set up what we want to do as far as the switches go now again nobody stick arms anymore so we're gonna hit that up to a switch I'm gonna click here and I know because on the radio I hooked up this to be auxiliary two and this to be auxiliary one we're gonna put the arm switch on this three-position switch I'm gonna explain to you why here in a second so we're gonna click two and I'm gonna go ahead and drag this all the way over and what that means is that in this top most position it is disarmed but positions two or three will mean that this quad is armed next thing is I'm gonna go ahead and turn on air mode I'm gonna put that on the same switch but I'm only gonna put it at the top end now the reason for this is because maybe where you don't want air mode on maybe you want to perch somewhere and turning off air mode is going to help yeah it keeps you from doing a whole bouncy bouncy bouncy thing or maybe you're trying to get into this whole grinding thing in which case air mode being op is also gonna be beneficial for you so we're gonna put that on that switch and last but not least we are still going to maintain our auto level mode we're gonna put that on to auxiliary one which again is this switch and we're just gonna drag this over to this way that way and we're gonna click save and at this point your radio switches have all been set up all right one you were so close last thing last but not least especially now that we configured auto level to be on a switch we want to turn the motor stop off so that when you go to a zero throttle move like that your motor is still spinning the PIDs are still active it keeps your quad in control and stable and to do that we go over here because by default e-sheen has decided to turn it on and we don't want that on let's just turn that off click save against this is in the configuration tab and once that is ready we're back to go out man this is now e-sheen wizard 220 version 1.1 all right let's go for a flight here armed take it off I can see now people I can see let's flick off oh yeah let's do a flip kind of slow but it works see I like this because now I can see I can see what's going on I can actually do things now remember this is completely stock PIDs right out of the box no need to try it knows no need to mess with it yet just get used to that oh I forgot 3s 3s let's keep things a keep things chill let's keep things chill but as you can see I am now kind of flying a lot closer to normal I would say I do feel a lot more comfortable with these trees hit that branch no big deal do a little stall a little yasmin inverted yasmin as you can see there's a lot that you can do right out of the box that don't cost you a whole lot of money really just just the lens changed for me personally and all of the things that I went through in beta flight let's do another inverted flip here and as you can see you can keep it holding it just keeps going not bad and this is 3s people not even 4s yet so the rates are completely stock as well I recommend that you just stick to the rates get used to it and once you start getting better at flying you can start fine-tuning your rates to suit your needs let's see if I can do like a little rubik's cube here all right let's bring it back so as you can see here I can see exactly what's going on in the shadows of the trees and you go out to the light I can see the light changes are immediate I'm not getting blinded for a second or it's not dark for a second which is huge in my opinion because you can't fly if you can't see and this are there you have it each wizard upgraded version 1.1 done by me oh my god let's go down the list really quick I'm a grip for your battery pads that way you don't slip the receiver on the inside we use double-sided sticky tape so that's not using the battery strap we move the antennas to the outside so they're not stuck and being covered by all the carbon fiber on the inside converted it over from PPM to I bus boom last but not least that camera rode a riot predator mini and in beta flight very simple things we got air mode we turn that on motor stop turn that off so there you have it folks now stay tuned because episode 2 we're gonna take this over to drew maybe we take it over to Kevin maybe we take it over to Josh I don't know but they're gonna pick this up from where I left off you are interested in any of these parts is head on over to store.rhoderite.com you can find all the things that we are doing to modify this quad up on that store be sure to hit that like and subscribe button and I'll see y'all later all right all right okay okay oh are you are you recording ready?