 All right, we are fully disarmed. Uh-oh. Arm it. Oh! Hey, guys, welcome to Rotorite, where we are all about flying FPV drones, doing all sorts of crazy things with these. Sometimes crashing them, but you know what? When you do a hobby long enough, eventually you like to want to customize your gear, right? And there's all sorts of little things that you can do. On my radio, you can get different stick ends to change the look and the feel, some rip tape on the side to make it, you know, have a little more tactileness. You know, on the goggles, check this out. Rotorite goggle strap available in the store, link in the description. But if you want to get a little bit more wild, it's really fun to like make things and do something like really unique. So like on my front here, this is real carbon fiber that I like grafted onto the front plate. Very few people have something like this and I just love how like special that is, but I want to come up with something even more special. I want to take it to the next, next level. I want to do something that not only makes the gear unique to me, but makes it so that it only works for me. But I'm going to call for some help on this one. I'm going to phone a friend. I'm going to call up Hackmake Mod. These guys do all sorts of weird little projects like making vacuum cleaners out of water jugs and turning Bluetooth speakers into logs, stuff that no one asked for, but they did it anyway. So when you got something really off the wall that you want to put together, these are the guys for the job. So I'm going to call these guys up and see if we can come up with something really unique, really special, something that makes it only work for me. I'm Brandon. And I'm Chad. And Chad, I found this in your closet. Can you tell me what this is? What are you doing in my closet? Don't worry about it, but that's my fingerprint reader. Yeah, so you want to put this on a drone controller so not just anyone can come pick it up and fly your drone. Bingo. Sounds like kind of a simple task, but the more I started thinking about it, the more difficult I think it's going to be. And here's why. Because this is a DJI controller and everything DJI does is complicated. So I know when I get into this, I'm going to be cutting into a computer and I'm going to try to make modifications so that it can always be undone. How are we going to go about doing that? We got the fingerprint reader, which is pretty nice. It does a lot of the heavy lifting. It can store fingerprint files in it and it can identify if the fingerprint is one of those files. But from there, all the controlling and button pushes and stuff that you might have to automate after that, you'll have to do with an Arduino. It's not an actual Arduino. It's an ESP8266. So it uses Arduino code. We'll print a little case to make things nice and tidy and then we'll stick that on the back. And that should be everything. Free position switch here has two wires coming out of it and each wire can either be high or low. That results in four possible states for this to be in. But because of the way the switch works, we actually can only ever have three of them. So we know from the notes that Drew sent us that if the switch is to the right, which is position three, it'll reset the scanner altogether, no matter what. If it's in the middle, this fingerprint scanner will just run its default code as normal, checking against whatever it can. And then when it finds a good match, it'll stop itself from running. Then all we need to check for is if it is running or not. Because if it's not running, that means it already found a good match. So if it's not running and the switch is over here, it's armed. It's all working. I can't believe it. So now you just need to get it off the breadboard and into the box. It's so cool. So now if we put it in the middle position, now it's unlocked. So that shows you that it's unlocked and you have visual status saying that it's unlocked. And if I wanna arm it, I'm pretty excited. This is one of the coolest projects we've done. Look how cool it looks. Got it all in the safe container. We're headed to Florida. I'm hanging my mask. You guys just came right in. Special delivery. Yeah, the guy didn't care that we just walked through the door. I'm gonna have to check on my security. We've got what you requested. What'd you get? We got what you requested. The fingerprint activated remote control. Got your finger here. You're already holding it like this. Hop your finger on. I don't even feel that. I would not have thought of this, but seeing it, I'm like, that is pretty clever. Cause like while you're holding the radio, you can just be like, boop. We got a nice little 3D printed housing. Jet black. I like the pin here you got on there. Yeah. Oh yeah. Emblem. It's really slick how you built a port into the radio that looks like it was there. Yes. And it receives power from the radio. Real? Okay. So there's no other battery in here? Nope. So I told you, I use this switch for arming. Yes. You gave us very specific instructions. I'm very particular about my arming. This is for my drawing. It's gonna be unique to me. So we've basically hot wired the switch and interrupted it so that if you flip it to the arm switch, it's not gonna send a signal to your controller unless the fingerprint has been activated. In order to do that, we're gonna need your fingerprints on the laptop. Okay. So you didn't just download my fingerprints from like a police database or something? No, we couldn't find them. You're pretty good at all the radar. Yeah, you're clean. We are running two separate scripts at different times. We have one script for recording your fingerprints and another script for actually running the process that you want, which is locking your controller up if you are not the right person. Okay. So there's not like someone could even pick this up and just register their fingerprint. You've got to load a custom script to do it. So once this is set up, this really is mine. All right, so that's plugged in. I like the red light. We're gonna load the enroll script, which is the one that actually records your data. So now it's gonna say, pick a number between one and 128. It can store up to 128 fingerprints. I think I'll just do really these three because I feel like it'd be one of these three fingers that I would fit on the radio. So we'll start with number one. Okay, we'll make that my pointer. It's gonna ask you to just scan your finger. Okay. Scan it up. Scan. It'll ask you to do it one more time to verify. So just the same finger again. Oh, it's kind of like when you did touch ID on the iPhone, it would get different angles. Not quite. So it just needs to check if they match. Okay, did it get it? Yes. All right, so that matched. So that one's done. Yes. Now, if you wanted to be extra thorough, you could do the same finger again at a different angle. Like different angles. Gotcha, okay, okay. But for now, let's go to the next finger. Okay. We'll do that one. So first we did this finger. Next we'll... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Number two, so that one. Okay, so it read. And now go ahead and do it one more time. And there you go. And we can just keep doing this for as many fingers as you want. I could even do it for my finger. Nope, no, this is for me only. We got my fingers in there. We're unplugging this. I don't want anyone else registered. Although I guess we have to change it to the script, right? Yes, we're gonna get rid of the enroll script. We're gonna run the result script, which is the name of the one that actually runs when you're flying. We're just going to compile and upload that one. All right, so now... Now you're gonna need to make sure that it's powered by the controller. So you need to turn your controller on. Okay, so when this control, when I turn the controller on. Yes. Oh, this comes on. Okay, that's really cool. And so we've got little red and green lights here. Okay. So every time you scan. No, none for you. No, sir. None. I like this, if this works for me. Hey, look at that! How cool. Okay, so then now when this is green and I flip the switch to armed, that'll send my arm signal. It gets a little beep. And then if I wanna lock someone out again, third position. Okay, so that resets it. Yes. Your position resets. All right, so I'm gonna bind this radio to my flippy floppy machine. Yes. And let's get out and see how well this actually works. Absolutely, let's do it. Plug it in downtown. Whoa. Is it bad to say downtown? I guess. Why? I couldn't say it. I said junk in the trunk. I said downtown and it chatted. Who's censoring you? Chad. Chad says you can't say downtown. Yeah, I'm cuffed, Pam. I'm cuffed out here. You can say whatever you want here. Let's go! Let's go! S***! So I wanna test this thing out. So we should be all set up now. If I put this down into my arm position. Okay, nothing actually happened there. But then if I just go here. Oh. Hey! Oh! There it is. That's so satisfying too with the beep and everything. Okay, but then so now to the middle position. Still green. Oh, it's so cool. Yeah. Okay, but if I go all the way up, click. Oh, we turn red again. Yep. Let's go! Time to rip. Yep. Guys. Are you big enough? I'm gonna perch up top on top of this thing. Okay. Oh, I heard it. I heard it. And I flipped it twice so we're red again. Uh-huh. All right, so I'm just good. I can just leave this. Yeah, set it down. No one can fly it. You know, I kinda wanna fly your drone, Drew. You can go for it. You think I can fly it? You got your sofa. Oh, I can't, I can't get in, Drew. You got nothing. I got nothing. My quad. Nah, I hope this actually works. Because if I'm just stuck on top of a light pole. That would be not a why. That would be a bad time for you. We would just leave and go back home. Oh, oh, right in the middle. Oh, hold on. I didn't do it too good. Uh-oh. Why aren't you working? Oh no. Hey, there it is. It's the goggles. You just not take the goggles. All right, the props are spinning now. Okay. I'm set. So I don't know if you wanna reset your finger print while you're perch somewhere. Yeah. Because it was acting up a little bit. Well, I guess let's see. If I only did one click, then it shouldn't reset, right? So I just do one click. Yeah. And then now I should just be able to, boom, rearm no problem. Hey. Hey-oh. That's pretty sick. What is, okay. If all goes well, how quickly can we actually disarm it and rearm it? Disarm it and rearm it with a full finger print. Okay. In the goggles. Disarm, go all the way down. Hit the thing. Ooh. Ooh. It takes a minute, man. All right, let's see. Yeah, and you gotta get your finger just right on it too. Okay, so. So the ultimate test is, can you fully, hard disarm it? Yeah. And then rearm it with the finger print. The main thing is getting the finger print dead in the middle. Yeah. And hope for the best. Disarm, reset. Go down. Got it. Let's go. You just gotta be really fast. This is the new drone trick. Every drone trick has been found and documented. So the new thing is just introducing more failure points. More failure points. Make it harder to succeed. I think you can do it though. I mean, I'm concerned that if I mess up, then like. What are you gonna lose? My drone. All right, maybe that is a lot. Don't mess up. You got ice in the veins, baby. All right, so disarm, reset. Arm position. Rearm. Ooh, that was clean. That was pretty quick. Okay, I think you can fly it near and disarm it and rearm it. Oh man. I believe in you. Okay, so if I don't reset it, we can dead duck it. So let's see, we go up high. There we go. Disarm. Rearm. Oh, sweet. That's the old wild Willy Randall roll. So if I like went up and started rolling and then disarmed, we're disarmed, we're disarmed. Woo, save it. Oh, good. Okay, so now what I would actually have to do is get some elevation. Yeah, yeah, get some. Oh, you're going way up. Way uptown. Oh, lots of time. Lots of time. Okay, I'm gonna point it down so I can see. All right, we are fully disarmed. Uh-oh. Arm it. Uh-oh. Oh. Oh, we got it. Let's go. Oh my goodness, I was genuinely worried for you. I couldn't tell. The props didn't stop spinning. You almost feel like your finger was like twitching. Did you see on the thing that it actually turned red? Yeah. Oh, the props didn't stop spinning, which I was like, I didn't know what happened, but I think just the whoosh of it, we'll have to hear it. Yeah. That was terrifying. I saw it on my screen, it said disarmed, but I'm like, why are the props still spinning? Yeah. Oh, okay, we got it. It's windy up there, huh? It's a little windy. All right, you didn't make that gap. I wanted that gap. You like shopping with the gaps? Gaps rejected me, because we don't have jeans in your size. You're too large. Come on, I'm just gonna suck it in. I fit, but it- Too much junk in the trunk, huh? I want a nice drone. Are the gaps still around? Why do I suck at drones, huh? I heard you were good at drones. There it is. I bounce off the old Navy too. There it is. It's a pro drone pilot at work. He's a professional. He's good, yeah, he's good. He rode good. Thought I was about to witness a splatter of drone parts all over the ground. I was worried that was gonna happen too, because it really wasn't feeling like, I was like, oh no. Because your finger when I was recording it- I was twitching. It was like- I was very scared. I didn't want to crash. Biometric drone. This was a pretty tough challenge and you guys knocked it out of the park. This is really cool. I'm glad we came through for you. I know you really wanted something special and we decided on this fingerprint thing, so no one could get inside your drone. Yeah, it's a really big problem when you're out there. People are always trying to come up and be like, how far does it go? How fast does it go? Can I fly it? High, fast, and no. For a first swag, this looks pretty frickin' cool. I really like the plug that you guys integrated. It's a really nice touch. Yeah, and another thing, Drew, you can do it. You ain't gotta use it for the remote control. You can slap that puppy on a door knob. You can slap it on your car if you're feeling froggy. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad I could provide a challenge to make you play with some fingerprint biometric stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, and if you ever need anything else done for us, just let us know. I'm sure Chad would love to hop on that for you. What else can we do? We'll have to do retinal scanning goggles or DNA propellers, or you have to prick the prop with your blood to get it to spin. Ain't no one getting in unless they got your blood. If you wanna see more crazy off-the-wall projects, definitely check out the Hackmake Mod YouTube channel. Absolutely. Hopefully we'll be in the description. Yeah, of course. Hopefully, yeah. If you enjoyed this video, if you guys enjoyed it as much as I did, make sure you drop a like on the video, hit that subscribe button, leave a comment of something like you like Drew's shirt because I like it. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'm Brandon. I'm the Dreven. And we'll catch you next time.