 Let me show you how you put a prop on here. Oh! Popo. Welcome to Rotor Riot. I am Joshua Bardwell. I'm Vortex. I'm Van Over. And I'm Ledriv. And today, we're flying a very unique quad. What do you have for us, Bardwell? It's a cheater quad. It's got two cameras, one facing to the front and one facing to the back. And we can switch between them with an AUX switch. So we could, like, do a matty flip. But instead of having to exit the matty flip backwards, we can just switch to the back-facing camera. Fly forward. That's why it's a cheater quad. Dirty bunch of cheaters. Dirty, dirty freestylers. So obviously we have two cameras on the quad, but you can't just wire two cameras up to your VTX bill and switch it. So how do we switch them between camera one and camera two on this quad? This flight controller, you kind of can't see it, but is the Luminear Lux F7 Ultimate. And it actually has two camera inputs and a built-in ability to switch between them. But you can actually get, if you don't have that flight controller, you can actually get, like, a third-party board to a camera switcher that lets you do it. Now the problem I see is we're flying facing forward in the normal direction. When we switch the back camera, all of a sudden, your roll and your pitch are going to be reversed. So are we going to be reversed to that when we flip the switch as well? Right. So if you look at it, roll left, roll right. But then if you're flying from this camera, left roll is actually right roll. So basically in the transmitter, we've set the mixing up so that when we flip the switch, the roll and pitch axis are inverted. I think we just need to fly it. Yeah. But I don't want to go first. And I don't think Drew should go first either because I think he's going to, I think he's going to, I think he's going to. We should give credit to Dividing by Zero FPV. Now he, I don't think he's the first guy to come up with this idea, but he's definitely popularized it a lot. And I feel like he actually popularized the name Cheater Quad too. Yeah. So without taking away from anybody else who's done this, definitely credit to Dividing by Zero FPV. And you guys can check Dividing by Zero FPV on YouTube or hashtag Cheater Quad on YouTube. He's doing some cool stuff. He's not just doing front back facing, but also 3D, where he flips upside down 3D and flies, but his camera's right side up. So definitely check him out. If you are going to use rapid fire module with this method, then you need to go into the rapid fire and change it to legacy mode because rapid fire locks onto the sync pulses from the camera. And when you switch cameras, the sync pulses are out of sync. And legacy mode, it just acts like traditional diversity and the switching is much quicker. If you try to switch when you're in rapid fire mode one, you get a blurry black screen for a few seconds, maybe forever until you crash. The hard roll is going first. Don't break it so the rest of us get to fly. I'm rolling. And let's just check the camera flip. That's so weird. Okay, so now I'm going to arm. And we're airborne. So then, that's road over. That's so weird. It is really weird. That's so weird. Now I'm flying backwards. And the controls are normal? Yeah, completely normal. And, Aye! So one thing I'm noticing is that when I flip it, I am pitched back because I'm pitched forward. So if I just go this way and I pull back, how pitched up do I have to be? That's normal. Now we're flying backwards or forwards. I've lost track of which it is. Yeah, right. I don't even know which one it is. No, I can feel the switch. You should have done different color props. Oh, nice. Whoa! Okay, I'm really curious as to what that's gonna look like. The way he did the yaw roll, it still came out the same direction. It's super weird. Now you're flying backwards now. Woo! Oh, dang! That's so sick. That's nice. That's so sick. So Jeff is hiding the transition more with a snap roll. So he does, or a snap move. So he does the camera switch and then does some sort of snap move to like point it the way he wants. You know what I'm saying? So because I'm like a hybrid pinch guy, it's kind of hard to get to the switch, so. I pinch. Woo! Broke, broke! Oh! That's the smoothest transition yet. You kind of slide into it and flip. That's slick. Yeah. That's slick. Oh! Smooth AF, that was great. Yeah, that's kind of been like one of my new things is like doing these backwards. I already hate you. So I'm just gonna hold a roll and then do the switch. So rolling, that's so weird because it made the FPV roll the same way, but I bet you the GoPro. Yeah, it'll be like half roll then back again. But that actually shows us that roll moves actually don't look that impressive because all it looks like from the roll axis is like you just change directions. Big deal. Yeah. It's pitch moves and yon moves. You have to do this yaw and then click. Yes. There it is. Oh! Nice. Woo! Right up at the top of the tree. All right, I am officially not the worst. All right, so we just got back from flying. We're about to check out the footage. Let's see if we got something cool here. When we were watching it, we were watching the FPV feed. So now we're seeing what it's like. Okay, so now. Oh, it's so weird. Okay, so now you're rolling backwards. I'm just kind of looking up at the sky though. I think your GoPro angle's a little bit too high. I think you should keep it almost dead flat. You're being pretty docile with it though. Oh, that's good. That's cool. No, that's cool. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. Back through it. Oh, this looks cool. So it looks like it's reversed. Oh, but no, that's so cool! So that's just a power loop. Dang! I think, oh! That was just a backwards power loop. So it was just a power loop with the GoPro, the wrong, oh! I was trying this, but I tried to figure it out. That's, so there it is. Those kind of pitch back yacht tricks. You know what this is like? Yeah! Oh! That's it! That's it! You could just do this. You could just do that blindly, but no! Not as easy, not like, not as easy. Not as blind like that. I mean, that would be really challenging. You see me try and do some of those yacht tricks. It's really, really hard to get that momentum going backwards, and then you don't know what's behind you. Or when you switch the camera, now all of a sudden you can see it, but it's very, if you can do it smoothly, it'd be very, very deceiving, because you probably wouldn't even notice it. Here's Mr. Drew. So you were cheating a Maddie there. Yeah, I was trying. No, I was doing a real Maddie, but then coming out of it. Here he goes. You flipped, you flipped in the middle, right? Yeah, so I wanted to do a real Maddie, and then I'm out of it, just keep going for like ever. All right, we gotta get back out there and try this some more. And we've made a few changes based on our review of yesterday's video to try and make the video more awesome. I said it from the beginning, we needed a lower GoPro angle because when we started flying backwards, the GoPro's just angled way too high. Put just about a five degree angle in it, and we also lower the angle on the camera that's gonna be facing backwards. So with this being almost darn near flat, it's gonna kind of force you to slow it down and be able to get hopefully some more cinematic shots going in reverse. The biggest thing I'm excited about is that we put the camera switching on another switch. And this time we used a momentary switch, which is one larger, so it's gonna be easier to find. Two, I just plan to keep my finger on it the whole time. I have to squeeze it to be using the reverse camera, and then that's also gonna give me a physical feedback to know that I'm in reverse because I was finally gonna fly around, and I'm like, wait, which one am I again? So by having a physical feedback, I think I'm gonna be able to plan lines better. As soon as you release, you're going forward. Yeah, release to go forward, and I'll always know which one I'm in. And the other thing I remember us discussing was that it looks best when you're flying backward if you're flying under stuff. Because the camera is up tilted now, if you're just flying in a field, then it's just, look, there's the sky going behind me. It's not that interesting. Exactly, so yeah, just flying around trees proximity. Let's try to put that into practice. I kind of want to like snake it to where I right yaw, switch it, but then like left yaw and switch it. And then right yaw and switch it. That sounds awesome. That sounds really badass actually. You can get smooth. Oh, that's badass. Yeah, okay. Oh, I want more of that. Oh, yeah, that's smooth. No, he kept it smooth, he kept it smooth. Dude, this is actually really fun now. Now you're getting a little braver with those entries. You're starting to yaw into it earlier. I like, okay, he's doing, he's like proxy switching. That's a new trick, proxy switch. And I want to do is just, Maddie. I'm gonna switch. Nice. That's so good. I gotta smooth that out. I gotta smooth that out. What you're trying to do is flip when the switch is centered, or the stick is centered, right? So you don't interrupt your flip. Yeah. I see. So you can't exactly flip the switch in the middle of the flip. Right, you can't do it too early. So I have to, you know, hold on now. Okay, going backwards and now. Yeah, that was. And just hold it for a long time. That was, and then yaw around. There it is. That's money right there. That move is, that's gonna look good. Yeah. Cheater quad. What did you think, guys? It makes you definitely think a lot about what's going on around you. When you start making those moves, trying to keep it smooth, but it's something I want to like get into more and kind of experiment with and figure out how to get some. A Cheater Quad fan. A Cheater Quad fan, yeah. I think it's fun. I'd build a Cheater Quad setup. You know, it's hard to come up with new moves to do. how many flips and rolls and flicks and Rubik's Cubes can you do. It's finally getting me back to where like, how do I think, how do I utilize this again? So it was fun. I didn't like it that much. It was fun to try. It made some new things possible, not what we were expecting. I think we were expecting that there would be more high action moves that would be possible, but it was much more of a cinematic tool. But the individual items could just be done like individually by just having a rear-facing GoPro. If you had a rear-facing GoPro, there would always be a cut between when you switch. So this allows you, and I think if you built a cheater quad and flew like 80% of your flight, normal freestyle, but then once, when they weren't expecting it, then you went like, wait, how's he going backwards like that? And it would really freak people out. That's kind of the whole thing. You can take a GoPro and reverse it or you can just even reverse your footage and play it back, but if you can pull off a trick like halfway through your flight, that's like, wait a second, that couldn't have been reversed. There's no way. Exactly, then you're really cheating and you'll wow everyone. I gotta thank the folks who sent us gear for this build. Ripped Quad's Lindworm is the frame that we're using and we beat the crap out of it and it didn't break. So I mean, that's an endorsement if I ever saw one. The flight controller is Illumineer Lux F7 Ultimate which has built-in two-camera switching. If you don't have that flight controller, you can use a third-party board for it. These are Runcam cameras, the Runcam Sparrow on the front and the Runcam Racer two on the back. Big shout out to Divide by a Zero for inspiring us to want to try this. Check him out, link in the description to see more experimenting in this realm. We had a lot of fun trying it. If you want to build your own quad, cheater or non-cheater, make sure to visit our store, Rotorite.com, to get all the parts that you could possibly need for your mini-quad addiction. Joshua Mardwell, everybody! He knows it all! Ba-ba-boo! I have a video on my channel, it's a build video for this exact quad. If you want to go check that out. Like, comment, hit that notification bell. Smash your quadcopter right into that subscribe button! Check out the store and we'll see you guys on the next one. Wah! Woo! Mardwell. I see. Reversin, he's swervin', he weave in the trees. He's every little man that you wanna be. And he's still breathin' deep from the run up there. Get nauseous on this floor to air cause it's low, so sick. Will he ever stop? Will he ever drop? The lipo is charged and it's so hot! I'm sweatin' my balls off! That's all I got! Ha ha ha!