 Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. Today we've got something a little bit different and this is what was first started out doing. And today we've got this source, open source racing drone frame. And this is actually a, literally it's an open source. It's the mini quad or racing quad community. I'm just going to read it from this bit here. It's an international, let's see if I can get that better for you. It's an international community made up of people just like you, who for whatever reason wanted to fly a quadcopter or drone. So they set out to learn how to do that and with the help you will be able to do the same. Brilliant. I buy this locally in this country for you guys in America, like it's like that. You can go straight to team-blacksheet.com. I'm not affiliated or anything like that. I just think that they're a huge, great stuff. And so I tend to use quite a lot of their stuff. So the frame, the drone frame serve as a platform to put your equipment on. The source series of frames was designed for, for several specialized applications designed by the community. The frame is donated to the community to empower creators and makers and integrate best practices and current trends faster into the continuing manufactured products. In return, it allows the local distribution network to have, to have cheap and direct access to a good frame to complete in a increasingly competitive market, to compete in a increasingly competitive marketplace. There you can go to a Facebook group's Black Sheep Lounge to discuss if you wish. And there we go. There's a TBSA again. There you go. It's code.uk, Hong Kong. And this, you know, I did realise I was in Hong Kong before. You know, I live in a free and open society, but I've had to be very careful about what I say. Never mind. So this one is actually, is 143, it says, grams. But this is for the 5-inch arms. This is 7-inch. I've gone for a 7-inch because I want this to be a bit of a long range. Or something. Look, I've got a whole bunch of those hops and props and I still want to be able to use them. My RDs look like they're good 5 mils or better, I'm not sure. I don't have a measuring capability. It's not exactly true. I do have a measuring capability. I can put that, let's say, against that one. Or one where I can actually see where they, there we go. Or we can have a little look and see what we've got. Yeah, so they're 5 mils or maybe 6. 6 mil. Yeah, 6 mils. 6 mil arms. These are going to be just a couple of mil, expect. And these, oh, this is the two pieces. Alright, and there's no destructions of course. So here's a figure it out for yourself. This is, you know, I don't mind if there have been things like this. I just, I would prefer if it was just easier. Ah, there we go. So I'm expected to go something like this or probably more like that with some of that bits and stuff. Now, what I want to be able to do is get this out of the plastic and actually weigh it to see what it is. Oh, I see. Maybe I should put that on the chain and wear it around my neck. See who starts throwing things at me. Yeah, come on, I'm going to be able to say some things. I could probably do all these bags and try and figure out what's bought here, but I'm not going to, I'm just going to take all these out and then just chuck them on some scales just so we can see what the weight of this is. I won't be able to get it to go under the 250 grams right from the offset. I know that as soon as I want to put a battery on this, if it is 143 grams in five inch arms, that's going to take you pretty much over if you want to do any sort of length flying more than two or three minutes. All right, so these have all got cut out. So this is going to be the outside of this will be the rubber before where you put your battery. So it gives it a nice purchase there. So it's not going to be around. So what we want to do now is just put all this onto some scales, which I need to find. Here's the scales and I need the battery. As you can see, as with all my videos, they are straight off the cuff. All right, so here we go. Make sure you can see that. Let's tear that in. All right, now let's get all the big stuff. I'm going to miss any of this. I'm going to put that there. So I'm going to put all the smaller stuff in the middle. I'm going to put that there. So we're already on the 100 grams. Now let's get the fixings. Well, this would be interesting if this comes up with 143 grams. And look at that. Bang on 100. Oh, no, that's for the back of the, that's for the back of this. So there we go. 143 grams. And that's with the seven inch props. I'll stick a quick thing up here where it shows you about. So it's with the five inch props. We'll do that because if we see, see the weight down here. It says five inch, right, five inch, 143.5 grams. So let's I mean these are probably not good enough to be 143.5. There we go. So we got a 320 wheelbase, middle plate, two millimeter, bottom plate, 2.5 millimeter, arms space, six millimeter, camera plate, two millimeter, the standoff height, 30 and 22 millimeters. All right, arm thickness, yeah, six millimeters, stack mounting, 30.5 times 30.5 or 20 times 20. So you can do the smaller stuff or the bigger stuff on it. One for four now. I presume that's just going to be because it can't do the 0.5 on these. All right. So that's what we got for our frame. Let's have a little look at the components. Now I wish I could use what could be suggest as the great stuff to be using on this, but unfortunately, like most of us, I'm tied down to a pretty narrow sort of budget. And so I'm going to be using some things that I had another stuff for this particular one because the frame isn't as heavy. I've got to look at the frame. I've got to impulse Apex LR EVO, but that's a lot heavier. And so on this one, I'm going to be using these Brother Hobby Returner 3s. I've had these for quite a while and they're great little motors. And I do believe that they will be fine for the weight of this frame and the components that I'm going to be putting on there because I've actually had them running on a heavier frame. But it was with six inch props. We're going to be running seven inch props off this. So it may be a case of I may only be able to use three S on them. I actually need to look up actually what I can use on them. I'm pretty sure I can use four S but with six inch, so three S with seven inch. Possibly. I'll have to do some double checking on that. I've got a choice between a couple of them. I think this one, actually, I think this one could be faulty. I think this one has been used and abused quite a bit. But I need to check. I know I had one faulty one. I can't seem to find, I had two of these and I can't seem to find one. So I may have just gotten rid of the faulty one to stop me from keeping me trying. This one got pulled off here so I had to redo all the soldering. I don't know if you can see around that to get it to stay down. But it's going to be a choice of this or this. I do like this because I can pull this off. I've got another 10 of it with a 90 degree angle on there if that needs to be used. And it's pretty, you know, it's a well made. I do like these. They're well made and I think this is the, I think I can put up 36 volts in this so we can go like, you know, success. But I shouldn't be doing that with the motors I got. So that's for the video transmitter. Possibility I might use this because I like these antennas. They're good for transmit and receive. But I'm more likely, this has got a bit of gain on it, but I'm more likely to go for an antenna really without any gain. That's how you get a nice, a nice type of, I think, rather than it be too splayed out because that could mean that if it's rocking about, it might be, you know, signal a tiny bit and then on the receive side, of course, to have decent antennas for reception. That's very important in receiving antennas. One thing I don't have for this is a receiver as yet. Now, the reason why I don't have that, I do have a receiver, but I've noticed now that TBS have developed receivers which have much better power output of the receiver back to the radio for telemetry. And it's very important that you get to keep your telemetry, which you might find, like I have done before in the past, where you're flying blind for a little bit of time, but as long as that telemetry is on your radio, you know that you're at the right. Well, this was with a fixed wing. So, of course, you've got to keep your speed, if you want to keep your altitude. So, you know you're at the right speed, you're at the right altitude during the right heading. And as long as you keep going that way, you're not crashing and eventually you're going to come out of a bit of a blind spot, your visual blind spot, which I showed, I demonstrated it with a 30-second snow and then came into a nice clear image again. That was a long time ago on a video. If I can find the video, if I go about looking, I'll stick a link to it. Now, the only thing that I need now is I need some ESCs and I also need a fly controller and some sort of distribution board for those powers going to the ESCs. Now, you can do this by buying a flash board. Sorry about my cheer again. In my instance here, I'm going to be using what I've already got. It's got a great little 405 board on there, which is the Metec 405. I'm not saying this is what you should buy, I'm just saying this is what's on here. And if you can see it says the STD, which is standard or whatever that stands for, but what it does for me is enables me to have enough UART, enough serial connection ports so I can have a GPS on this. That's going to be helpful, right? And we can also use the crossfire protocol because on here you'll find there's SBUS and F-Port, which is all right if you use a free sky, the SBUS ports. But I will need another transmit receive UART for my crossfire protocol. So with that and then a crossfire protocol as well for the video transmitter, you can come really unstuck really quickly with these things if you don't have enough ports. So I do find that these have enough ports to be able to do that as well as the GPS. And I will use these. These are the first DSCs I bought, which is quite a while ago, but they still work. And if I'm not going to be using this on this frame, I can use these ESCs again to cut the costs down on this build. And, you know, they will just go on to these. Now, even though, you know, sometimes you have to cross the wires over, the nice thing about these, if you use BLHeli, the software, you can program them so that these, no matter which way around they are, you don't need to cross them around, you just get them to work in the fashion the neatest that you can have on there. And that's all good. So there are the components. Now, you may be thinking, well, why don't you use this receiver with this antenna here? Maybe if I have to, I might do. Just to get it going. Again, you need another UART for this. It's using the crossfire protocol. There. I think we may have covered that. I think we did, yes. But again, I mean, that is a great, there is a great receiver. It is a great receiver. And I may use it on this just to get it going. Or I may wait until I get one of these, one of these TBS Crossfire Nano Pro receivers. And the reason why I like this is because it's TBS Crossfire. It's very small. There will come with another one of these antennas, which I really don't need, but it comes with it. I've just shown you the antenna I've got. The board is tiny. But the most intriguing thing for me about it is it's up to, and I believe this will be dynamic change. It's up to 500 mW of telemetry output back to the receiver, back to the radio. Which gives me that bonus of having that information even if I lose visual through my monitor or goggles. I tend to use a monitor because I can't afford the goggles. But there we go. That's what we got. Another one, but it's got a nice battery strap, which is you can call me a fanboy if you like. I am a bit of a fanboy for TBS gear. I'll tell you what, I've only ever had one problem with any TBS gear and I spoke to them through the website and then through my and they quickly came to realise actually there was a bit of a problem with this particular diversity receiver I had and they expedited free of charge. I had it within days I think it was about four or five days tops another one to me. And that to me was just first class and I just thought that's brilliant. I've explained to them the best the problem I was showing them as best as I can and there was no let's wait two months or two and from with this they just got onto it expedited out to me and I thought to myself well this is the reason why even I know this isn't but this is this is VAS video video aerial systems so you've got all the same guys they are enthusiastic they love doing some really good flights when you see the stuff on their website so you know I tend to go for it I just know it's going to be good from them from the get go and I don't have to mess around with firmware or finding other components to plug into it to get it to work all this is upgradable updatable over the air which means if I update let's say if I update my radio module in the back of my radio which in this instance just get it which in this instance is my trusty tyrannus here and of course I've got my crossfire in there and so when I update this by connecting my computer you can go for the TBS agent I update this and as soon as I turn any of the stuff on that's got power like these things or the receiver it just comes up here, update it and you just press the button to update it there's it all for you oh it's brilliant and again for those other issues it's always been very good so I tend to stick with why I know it works I'm not trying to advertise I'm just trying to say this is what I use and this is the reason why it's not because it looks great it's because it actually does what I want it to alright so there's the components