 What's up, everybody? Welcome to Road to Ride. I'm Let's Fly RC. And I'm Bobby F. Phoebe. And we came to this awesome bandit because of all of these little tiny gaps. We came here because we want to try to hit these little gaps with an X8. Now you're thinking X8, that's eight motors, right? And the last time we had an eight motor drone, it had seven inch props. But I built something new, something really small that has an X8 form factor. This is going to be an awesome new inspection drone that we're going to be able to use to inspect really small spaces where humans shouldn't be going. So we're hoping at this bandit we're going to be able to test out this thing and get in all the small gaps. So we recently did an episode with SkyPersonic. It was really cool. I recently got an opportunity to go up to Detroit and fly with those guys and test out their inspection drone. The SkyPersonic drone has a plastic bubble around it as protection to allow it to bump into objects, not damage the props or any of the internal workings or moving parts of the drone. We were able to use this drone to do really cool things and really cool inspections in areas where humans can't necessarily go. While I was there, there was a couple of really small objects we were trying to get the drone through. And because it was so large and almost exactly the same size as the tube or tunnel we're trying to go through, it got sucked against the sides a lot. And so while I was there, I was thinking, what if I can make this even smaller? So what about doing a smaller drone? Well, lately we've been messing around a lot with this new baby shark that we make. It's a micro size, two inch prop drone, but yay big. And it carries the Sharkbite HD system, which is great because you get HD video in the goggles, but it's very lightweight. This thing rips. In fact, we took it to this exact spot, tore it up doing some freestyle. Bobby just went bananas. It was awesome. And it definitely has some bump ability because it's got the prop guard. So you can knock off things a little bit, but not so much as like something that's fully cage, right? It's because it's got that flat profile. So that's the challenge that Sean took on. Could we build a micro size drone that had the capabilities of a fully cage drone? Why are there two battery connectors on this drone? So I wasn't sure how much power this thing was gonna need. I wasn't sure if one battery was gonna be sufficient. I wasn't sure if I put a battery on the top, if it was gonna throw off the weight. The whole idea of this design was to get the most stability possible. So I went ahead and put batteries on top and bottom just in case I wanted to put a battery on the top and on the bottom, just in case I needed the extra power of a second battery to either way, it'll be fine. Okay, so it's just more just for stability. For stability mainly, yeah. I had an awesome time finding the baby shark, free-selling it around this area, but there was just one thing that Paul was trying to do and I tried to do it and I kind of struggled with. It was this pipe right here, and it's really small, eight inches or something like that. And we could fly through there, but we were kind of bumping around and we'd get tossed over and we'd get stuck to the side of the wall. So I think Sean's little X-8 thingy with the cage around it would be really useful for something like this. So for this drone, I'm gonna be wanting to be using angle mode because it's a connection drone. Well, I mean, if you're gonna try to go into some like really tight areas, angle mode will help a little bit. It'll keep your focus on flying rather than trying to keep everything centered. So not only that, if you're in angle mode, there's an angle limit. So it's gonna stop you from over-correcting if you do bump into something, gotcha. Whoa, it sounds crazy. Watch out for the roof, Bubby. I can see the roof. It feels faster than the baby shark. Is that just me? Well, I would hope it'd be fast. I've got twice as much motors, twice as many props. I feel like Vano. Wow. I'm gonna put it in angle mode and see what I can get into. Let's see. Angle mode, angle mode. Oh my gosh, having fun in angle mode in forever. Yeah. This is weird. So in angle mode, I have to hold the pitch stick forward to move forward, correct? Yeah. Angle mode. Oh, he's going up in the rafters. Up in the rafters. Oh my gosh. Yeah, just bounce off stuff. Okay. Yeah, okay. I didn't, don't do it on purpose. Oh, that's so cool. Dude, I can just crash it all I want now. You can just crash as much as you want, as hard as you want. As much as you want. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Why are you breaking my stuff? You guys always have to break my stuff. Oh my gosh. Why are you telling me to do this? Okay, don't break it before we put it in. You know what? I'm going to go inspect some rooms. Are you just going to go inspect? Yeah, this is cool. I'm going to go inspect some stuff. Go up top. Go into the rafters and stuff. I want to, oh, I can inspect because it's as small as you can get up here. Oh, wow. Yeah, you're up there. Ah, angle mode. Yeah, slow it down, slow it down. Relax, don't ever correct. You're okay. You got this. You got to learn how to move your fingers slowly. That's what they taught me in Skype for something. They taught me how to fly the drone slowly. I mean, I'm bound to that. Oh, I don't need to fly stuff. Oh my gosh. I'm bound to that stuff. Do we have the stick? I hope we brought the stick. He's going to get it stuck. All right, this is an inspection drone, not a freestyle drone. Okay, go slow. Show me the bolt. I want to see the bolt. Where? Find a bolt. I want to inspect the bolt. There's a bolt. There's a bolt to the right. I want to see the bolt. See. I want to see it really close in HD. Look, you can see that it has a flat head on it. Oh, it has a flat head. I know what tool to go grab out of my toolbox now. It's a flat head screw. Okay, we're good. We did the inspection. Very good. We have a stick, right? Whoa! Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Ah! What's the arm pressure? Oh my gosh. He made me laugh, and I was like, ah! You made it, though. I made it, though. That was cool. What's your battery, yeah? The battery? We're at 9.49. That's not good for a 3S. What do you land at for a 3S? Not that. Not that. So I started thinking about the baby shark and how I could make it better. I designed the baby shark a while back to be a lightweight freestyle drone that could carry the shark bite digital HD system so that we could fly tiny whoops around our house in HD. And that was the coolest thing ever. So I tried to figure out how I could put a bubble around baby shark. And every time I tried to add something to it, it just kept gaining weight and I didn't wanna make it unstable. So I figured if I'm gonna stick a bubble around this thing, I need to have a little bit more power, but I don't really wanna increase the size too much. So rather than having to come up with a complete new design and add a bubble, I actually took two beta 85x frames and stacked them on top of each other, upside down and created a baby shark X8. And this thing's really awesome. It still carries the shark bite digital HD system. Ended up having to use a 30 by 30 flight control board in the middle here rather than a 20 by 20 because it's only board that I could find that had eight motor outputs. How about we let Shawn fly it first before you, Drew? Yeah, I wanna, can I fly it before you break it please? I'm not gonna break it. I will not break it. You promise you're not gonna break it? I promise you're not gonna break it. Three, two, one. Did you roll it yet, Bubby? I did, yeah. This is awesome. Did you parol it by anything yet? I didn't wanna break it, so I didn't try it. I'll parol it just bent right by it. Oh my gosh, here you go. Or right here. Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out. Oh my gosh, watch out, watch out, watch out. Oh my gosh. Oh, okay, okay, I'm gonna try it again. Wait, no, here you go. Why is it so close to us? Three different ones. Okay, I'll just go back to there. Don't even clean it again. It was not clean, but, let me, let me. You're gonna parol it with me standing on top? You get them in section, yeah. Are you an acro, man? No, I'm an acro right now. I'm gonna be an angle. Angle. You're gonna put your angle? Put me an angle, sure. Here we go, one, two, three. Oh my gosh. Okay, now I'm an angle. You're above that fiberglass stuff, dude. Just do drop it there, we're done. Okay. Okay. This is crazy. This is crazy. Oh my gosh. I just feel like I can go anywhere. I haven't really bounced off anything yet, though. It's just so small. Oh wow, okay. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up. We're bouncing, we're bouncing, we made it, we made it. See, the angle mode really works for that. If I was an acro, I think I would have flipped. I mean, maybe not, I don't know. Yeah, this is awesome. Look, I'm gonna go through the little one. I'm gonna go through the little one. Did you go through the little one? I didn't, no, you did. You go through the little one. Angle is so weird, though. Oh, you just bounced it off of it, though. I'm just gonna power through. Power through, power through. It works, it works, it works. Yeah, that's cool. I did video. Video's good for me. Nice. How's your video? I got a couple, I just got some snow, but. Yeah, some snow. Look at all this, this is crazy. Shawn, this is awesome. I had so much fun right now, just flying through all this little stuff. Oh, this is awesome. I'm just gonna try it. Okay, wow, this is awesome. There we go, perfect. This is so cool. You think I could fly through this thing? Try it, do it. You think I should? Yes, yes, go, go, go, go, go. You got this. Wait, let's try it. I'm gonna pull out, are we okay? Yeah, we'll be fine. Do it, go. Oh, fly better. Okay, hold on. Oh, I disarmed. I didn't mean to, oh, oh. Breaking stuff already, huh? Uh-oh, oh my gosh, she's not, oh wait, that's turtle mode. We're good. We're alive. We're alive, I'm back in the actual mode. Okay, maybe not that one. Where was the one that you were trying with just the normal baby tryers? Over by our side? Yeah, that's turtle mode. Right there. Okay, so this one's less risk. Yeah. Okay, wait, too fast, too fast, too fast, too fast. So now you're gonna do an angle, right? Yeah, I'm an angle right now. Which angle, man, when you're used to flying Afro, angle is just so counterintuitive. It's like difficult. Doesn't have to be. Oh, you're stuck, you're stuck in the wall. You're still got stuck. I didn't think you'd get stuck. Man, it's still get stuck. It's just chilling up there. It's still getting stuck. Hold on, dude, is this air mode again? Yes. We gotta get, all right, you're not allowed to use air mode anymore. But why air mode? Because it's almost, what is air mode? Air mode spikes up the eye term, so it's making this way worse. We can put air mode on us. We gotta turn air mode off. Because what's happening is, air mode boosts your eye term at low throttle. So it's, I'm hitting something and it's feeling that I'm hitting something and eye term deals with external forces like wind or knocks and stuff like that. And even though I'm going to zero throttle, the eye term is just going crazy, correct, correct, correct, correct. And it's like, it's getting stuck. So we need to turn off air mode so that if you bump something and you are at low throttle, you won't have eye term just go nuts. So let's see if that helps. Okay. I'm in angle mode now, all right. Oh, I'm scared. What'd you, this is hard. Oh my goodness. I almost went like I crossed her. Okay, I'm in there. I'm in there. Oh, it works. It works. I was able to just bounce my way through. That was perfect. Hey, all the way through? Yeah. All right, I'm going to come back through. It just bounces right around. Let's go. It just bounces right around, no problem. That is, that's really cool. It just bounced right off. No problem. And now like I have so much more confidence in these rafters. Now I'm like, if I can fit through, I mean, I did fly the Cinewup three rafters, no problem, but still like, okay, I'm going over. So when I was up in the rafters in my Cinewup, this is the area that I avoided because it got extra congested and there was stuff hanging. Now with this smaller drone, I feel like I can just be right up in here. This is so cool. This is so cool. This, oh my gosh, what? And look, I just bounce off stuff, no problem. No problem. If I could fit between, oh my gosh, this is so cool. I can tell you exactly what type of screw this is. Look at that bolt. That's a great bolt. Hey, crew, crew that bolt? That bolt is looking really rusty. I think we should replace it. Oh, not, where? Inspect the wasp nest, no. Oh, look at that, there's a wasp nest here. Oh, this is freaking me out because I'm allergic to insects. And I know I'm safe on the ground, but still it's like giving me anxiety. Oh God, I need to get away. It's freaking me out. I gotta get away from this. That's so cool. That is so cool. Acryl mode, whoo, and then she rips. Okay, that's awesome. That's awesome. Catch me, Sean, catch me. Three, two, one, disarm. Yes, that's so cool. That is so cool. I think that this project was definitely a huge success. What do you think? I mean, we could do all kinds of cool stuff with it. All right, this drone was awesome. We were flying it, inspecting things in like the tiniest gaps ever. I can't believe we made it through that little tiny tube over there. I mean, Drew flew it through there like it was no big deal. I was expecting it to totally get stuck in there. So this is really more of a proof of concept. I don't think we'll be selling this in store. We do sell all the parts in the store if you want to build one of these yourself. And I will provide the STL files online of all these 3D printed parts in case you want to build it yourself. But this is really more of a proof of concept. I think it's a very viable concept. If you enjoyed this episode of Rotorite, go ahead and hit the like button. And if you are not subscribed, smash that subscribe button. Don't forget the bell. We'll see you guys next time on Rotorite.