Flying a RACING Drone with a NES CONTROLLER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Drone pilots normally fly with big fancy radios with dual analog sticks and fancy switches. But what if we took a step back... and tried to fly a drone with a 35-year-old game controller?
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- FPV Freestyle Pilots / Hosts
Joshua Bardwell [Knowitall]
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Drew Camden [Le Drib]
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Alex Vanover [CaptainVanover]
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with Special Guest, Conrad a.k.a. Furadi
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-Production Team
Chad Kapper - Executive Producer
Drew Camden - Producer
Christian Kapper - Editor / Camera
MUSIC:
Air Man's 9-bit Rock and Roll
(Mega Man 2 Remix)
By: DDRKirby
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To the Moon or Bust
(DuckTales Remix)
By: PirateCrab
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Kraid's Forgotten Lair
(Metroid Remix)
By: Schmoo
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-2°
By: Nightime Burnout
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The Chase
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Controller suggestions in no particular order:
- Power glove
- Guitar hero controller
- Steering wheel + pedals
- Bop It
- Wii controller
- Calculator
- TV remote
- Head tracker in goggle
- Monitor instead of goggle + eyetracker
Gonun Etch a Sketch? Eh???
I need wii controller
Steering wheel would be a good one
Steam controller
Wasn't multiwii literally designed from a Wii controller?
It is inpiring to see these guys never giving up so easily on anything
More Furadi please. He has been a rock of our hobby from the start, and a great guy 👍
Mouse and Keyboard would be amusing! Check out how the Battlefield helicopters fly for reference. I bet you could actually fly pretty darn well, but it would be hard to set up.
I actually did write an interface a few years ago to do exactly that with mouse and keyboard as a joke for someone who dominated a drone sim with mouse and keyboard. (PPM via Soundcard to trainer port)
Its on github if you like crashing and dangerous situations. (Ultrawipf/PPM-Gen).
feel like i could fly like a boss on mouse and keyboard lol
I loved flying BF2 Choppers with mouse.
Took alot of practice to switch to joystick. AND when I needed max focus I'd still switch back, like dog fighting
I'm down.
@@xgoodvibesx feel better soon
Try find one of the old 1970's transmitters and recievers. And see if there's really any point to new transmitters coming out every year :)
You mean the one channel ones.. Oh god
Considering the old stuff works at 50hz and the speed and proximity of fpv there definitely is a point to digital transmitters.
Short answer: Ye
Long answer: YEP!
This episode was spectacular! I can't believe you guys managed to fly the quad that well in the end. Shoutout to Christian for the excellent music choice as well!
Damn, surprised Alex knew what a NES is, JKJK😂😅
Turn the ESC braking off so the motors can spool up! that would have changed everything!
Yes that's probably the reason it got so hot, the motor was breaking too much which just turns all the rotational energy of the motor into heat.
Would like to see Conrad on more episodes. Guy has mad skills, wicked smart.
Guys quads aside - I’m kind of a hybrid pc FPS gamer.
Hear me out a sec.
Mode 2:
Pitch & Roll on a mouse
Throttle & Yaw on an Xbox (left) thumb stick 😁
I had a mouse like this once that had half a controller for the left hand and a mouse for the other hand. Pretty neat for gaming, combines the best of both worlds. Unfortunately didn't really work anymore on Windows 7 due to driver issues.
Drew,absolutely amazing that you could get that setup wired like you did! That alone makes a show in itself! Great job
Congratulations, you just made Flappy Drone.
Bardwell’s chest hair for the win!
Furadi is the best! Awesome seeing him in RR videos! He should be a part of the team!
That´s just nerdy on so many levels.
Love it.
What I love most about this video is that we got to see you guys (except for Alex) as if you were flying a quad for the first time. It was totally inspiring for me as a beginner FPV pilot who is still struggling with throttle management.
Steering wheel and pedals xD
I just laughed my ass off the whole way through this episode, and I'm thinking the SNES controller would be awesome!
Roll on the shoulder buttons or yaw? Maybe 4 discreet throttle levels?
@@danieldimitri6133 the snes controller also has 4 buttons instead of two on the face. So I say yaw on shoulder and some throttle mixing for the four buttons.
@@danieldimitri6133 definitely yaw, shoulders/pedals are generally rudder.
How would the PlayStation dual shock controller do ? I'm way curious
Drew: "What was your first console?" Joshua: "It was an Atari 2600" Drew: "Whuut is that?" lol
I recall playing on a 2600 in the 80s too :)
I've a reasonable collection of 80s handheld LCD & VFD games, which includes about 40 wrist watch LCD games, and the complete set of seven Tomytronic 3D's, plus the clone by Tandy...
this looks similar to my first flights in the sim. lol
A flight simulator joystick, pedals, and levers. Dji hd fpv in a large monitor/monitors.
Yes please! I'd love to see that. Been dreaming of that setup. Please upvote!!
man you can tell that bardwell is a dad. I love it. and you can tell that drew was an engineer. My dad was an engineer, i know those struggles
Keybard would be cool af :D
W - Pitch foeward
S - Pitch backwards
A - Yaw left
D - Yaw right
🠈 - Roll right
🠊 - Roll left
This is flappy bird but with kwads, and I love it.
I was reading the comments just to see if I had to write this
A single joystick like a fighter jet would be cool. With throttle on the trigger. Yaw maybe with your thumb or a joystick that has a twist function.
I've always wanted to see a logitech or thrustmaster joystick, you have the X-Y on the joy as roll - pitch and you can rotate the joystick with your wrist for yaw which is super intuitive.This leaves one hand free to control throttle only with a throw lever for right on the base for throttle. You still get total control and you leave one hand free to just control throttle. I remember thinking as a kid that this would be a superior set up for fixed wing when I visited a local AMA field.
Plus at some point they are probably all analog encoders so it should be possible just to hack analog inputs maybe pass through an arduino if you need the voltages to come inverted or at a different scale... That's it I'm going to do it, that will be totally sick.
Remember flappy bird? This is flappy bird 3D irl
Before I watch this, how?
After, oh, I see.
Original PS controller next, with analog sticks.
The Boise Beast is in Florida??? Hey man Spokane and its glorious weather says hello Conrad
This was so fun to watch lol. And Furadis face when he was behind Vanover lolol
What I would have done was made the A button be at a throttle position that would sustain forward flight. Then the B button would be a "boost" button which would be full throttle. SNES controller would be better. Not sure if you'd be able to do it but I would configure it in quazi acro. Basically acro in roll but not pitch. Use the Shoulder buttons for roll left and right, with full 360 degree movement, but have forward and backward on the D-Pad be pitch to a certain angle as it would in angle. Then you could use the 4 buttons (A, B X, Y) for different throttle outputs (hover, forward flight, full throttle and gradual descend)
Awesome to see Furadi on Rotor Riot! He's one of my favorite vloggers. Mature, thoughtful, and entertaining.
He'd sure be a great choice as a future Rotor Riot pilot...
You guys should try a HOTAS joystick setup because that could actually be useful for people who for whatever reason don't have the ability to use the gimbals and switches on a standard R/C transmitter. It could open up a whole new world for people with physical challenges. I had the idea some time ago, but since Drew has the interfacing of the controller to the transmitter figured out already, I'll gladly pass it on so someone who's confined to a wheelchair and doesn't have the fine motor control to use a standard transmitter for example, might get the opportunity to participate in our hobby while we still have it. If you lay the groundwork, it might open the hobby up to people who never even thought it possible that they can operate a quadcopter. Cool episode guys. I knew it was possible,... 😁👍
You could try adding some delay to the throttle mixer to smooth it out a bit.
I'd like to see mouse and keyboard:
- Throttle set to default to just below hover (20-30%) with no keys pressed, control to lower throttle to minimum and space to increase throttle
- Mouse for pitch / roll
- A / D for yaw
Wii remote hands down. I want to see the Quad fly off the accelerometer in the remote
good idea... but I would turn the active braking off. That's why the motors ESC and batts are having such a hard time!
When will these be available on the Rotor Riot website? lol Mouse and keyboard, definitely. If not, then a joystick with throttle control. Fly it like you're playing Descent.
Crazy controller hack. Great content!
This was a great idea if it’s possible you could make the A and B buttons increase and decrease the throttle making it more steady
This was fun! Thanks guys.
Bardwell had the better haircut lol
JB you have patients, and like to be helpful like me. Drib has gets frustrated like me, after putting a lot of work in something. But I like being a helpful person when someone is struggling as well. This was very cool idea! So cool I sent it to my buddy, because I know we would try to do something like this.
Now this.....this is why i watch rotor riot. pure stupidity at its finest. LOVE IT>
Guitar hero controller, a synthesizer, and a Quest 2 headset+remotes would be awesome!
I would love to see a controller with the throttle like an rc car mapped to a trigger and yaw only on the left thumb. I mapped a sim to an Xbox remote and it was sweet!!!
that throttle input is essentially IRL Flappy Bird!
Full racecar sim set up with pedals and stick shift gears..
Way too awesome! Flying drones is much like playing video games. Love this hobby actually stopped playing video games and switched to this hobby. Pretty neat, good work
As a game developer (and homebrew NES dev), you don't need to treat digital inputs as strictly digital. It's quite common to add some smoothing or inertia to the input value to emulate the feel of an analog control. Bonus project! I wonder if you can modulate the audio signal fast enough to output a PPM trainer signal from an actual NES. NES whoop racing?
It’s like the ultimate game of “Fappy bird”
The NES has these joystick things you used to be able to clip on the controller that made the D Pad into a joystick. That's what you need.
Alex’s laugh is so awkward 😂😂
Please have Furadi on more. He's a cool dude. Also would love to see keyboard/mouse, or a joystick with buttons or sliders for the throttle & yaw.
That's what it looks like when i use my regular remote🤨
I wanna see you guys flying with a joystick next time
This was legit fun to watch. Also, @Furadi !!!
Loved the Mega Man (Airman) music! Mega man 2 was the best!
Good to see that charpu's pole hasn't been returned yet! 😁👍
That was so hard 😂😂
You did a great job, Conrad!
Throttle is usually stateful. Instead of tapping like flappy bird, maybe hold 'a' for more throttle, 'b' for less throttle, and neither to stay at the same level of throttle. Should be much easier in the happy path.
Would there happen to be a way to make the throttle button respond like Mario jumping? Like change the physics of gravity rather than just on/off.....I don't know if the controller software would be able to do that but extremely interesting and seems really fun.
I would love to see you try the PS1 Flightstick, Namcos NeGcon with some analogue buttons or a steering wheel with foot pedals for yaw, gear shift for pitch and the wheel for roll.
you've made FPV Flappy Bird!!!!!
This was an awesome idea drew really enjoyed the video and good work on the d.i.y
You boy's are having too much fun with that cool old school controller
this was amazing!!!!! please!!!! do it again with any controller!!!!
You should have the A & B buttons increase and decrease throttle level, the start button arms and disarms the quad, and the select button, while your holding it , momentarily sets throttle to zero, but keep the D-pad mixes the same.
Better yet the Nintendo virtual boy with the red led screen for fpv
Alex attempting to rub his belly and pat his head😂😂😂 priceless!!
Yes, mouse and keyboard, PC master race
Power glove for sure, but also the dance dance revolution foot pads. You could totally have theme music for flying style! Also, you should go the other way around and have the quad provide feedback to the pilot, I’m thinking those electrical shock things they use to sell for getting rock hard abs. The faster you go the more shock you receive.
Use a SNES controller! having D-pad and 4 face buttons will let you have enough inputs for Acro mode!
D-pad for left stick, buttons for right stick.
as a bonus you have L & R shoulder pads for Aux 1 and 2
Insane!
Josh Bardwel "I had to pretend to be this kids friend so I could play NES with him" Why was that not surprising to me?
Funny how old technology comes back as something new, and brings back memories of us older folks.
This is the most fun I've had watching TV in a while.
Nice idea! I am excited for the next episode 🙌🙌🙌
Also still like bardwell so much 👌👌👌
worth it for bardwells moobs at the end :D
Furadi I am a huge fan! awesome shirt!
Flappy kwad 🤔😂😂😂
Sounds like flying elephants :D Great idea:P
Take controler from RC cars, with steering wheel
Honestly looks like so much fun
Use a snes controller next and put roll on the shoulder buttons :D nice video guys
Gday Drew and Crew, awsome vlog mate fun to watch and nice one beating Alex, JB nice work and you win the haircut comp and good flying with that crazy controller, maybe you can try a xbox 360 controller next Drew.👍🛸
That mega man sound track on point
Drone mesh has a device you can plug just about any game controller in and it makes it a rc controller where you don't need a rc controller
th-cam.com/video/4QKKIAVuhNs/w-d-xo.html
That's how new pilots look at gear from 2015
That was fun as hell to watch! Thanks for your efforts.
That was genius!!!! Loved every minute.. Great stuff guys👊👊 definitely mouse and keyboard
No way Furadi is here!!! Cheers guys!!
Wii controller would be fun. Using the acceleration meter in the controller. Can be read quite easily with Bluetooth and passthrough to your transmitter
I WANT TO TRY THAT! That looks Awsome! Drones + NES controller = cant go wrong. Love the video as always!
(For other game controllers you could try; Wii mote, any xbox or playstation controller, nintendo switch / nintendo switch lite, steam controller, your phone, Atari 2600 controller, any nintendo ds, keyboard and mouse, a midi device like a launchpad or something like that, an rc car transmitter, voice controls, a smartwatch, lego, sega game gear, gamecube controller, n64 controller, dreamcast controller, Wii u gamepad, vr controllers, body tracking controls, genesis controller, any gameboy, eye tracking, ect)
Serenity now, insanity later🍳🥩 this looks like so much fun
I feel like mapping the A and B buttons to increase and decrease the throttle rather than doing it Flappy Bird style would really increase the controllability. It would basically be rate mode for throttle at that point. Still super weird, but might make normal flight patterns map better.
just amazing!
"Drew went from Engineer to tech, to pilot, to personality, he's a fart... I mean smart dude"... para phrasing Josh there.
It needs to hold altitude, A up B down, D up forward while maintaining altitude, left and right as you like it, not to mention you can have preprogrammed moves like in a game, like Double-tap left or right for a roll, that would require a little bit of a lag in response to initiate a button sequence,not much.
I know this is a rly old vid, but I timed Drew's flight that didn't count and it was 10 seconds! Good job!
Do Doodle jump with a drone!!!
Lol it like flappy bird but for quads, impressive stuff guys!!
Vanover looks so happy lol