Pretty sure our squirrels are from the same family- one of the curses of adhd is being able to see the writing on the wall clearly- absolutely love your channel- fpv is not a crime- was a skater as a kid before it was PC and then snowboarding- starting to feel like the world powers are trying to put a hold on soul smiles and fun- stay strong my friend- keep smiling - 46 - un medicated - Side eyeing sober🤷❤
Bruh, where tf has this guy been my whole life I am in FPV love! 😂 His vibe I mean everything I love it. I have been clean from the Black Betty for 9 years last week. I know what you mean.
Does no one remember that we originally built these with hacked up video game controlers and actual television sets strapped to our heads? Keep building, flying FPV, and figuring out how to stay in the air. F#&k anyone who says no.
@@dysnomia-anarchia It should be obvious that I am referring to the current group of people who do it for a hobby. If I seemed to make the claim that this group was the first in history to operate something by remote control using a video feed from the vehicle being controlled that was not my intention. But I don't think anyone took it that way and it had nothing to do with the meaning or point of the comment. It was largely done to encourage people like Botgrinder to not give up an activity that they love and to do it despite what is being done to them. But I'm sure anyone with the intelligence to operate a keyboard and be on the Internet would deduce that is really all that mattered in the meaning of the thread.
Yup I was ripping at the park all morning yesterday, I honestly don't give a shit what anybody says or thinks or what laws i break. That's just me though...
they can't outlaw (or at least regulate) sending pcb schematics on reddit and github, so they will never be able to actually kill the hobby, we will forever have open ipc/elrs type projects keeping the boat afloat, even if they try to choke us with regulations and manage to kick the masses out of this hobby, it will never die
FPV as a hobby won't be banned outright but regulation will probably evolve like the early days of radio before the FCC and the big broadcast corporations. Radio started out as an unregulated hobby that eventually became overregulated to point of requiring a license for everything, including CB radio. But CB enforcement proved impractical so that requirement was eventually dropped, as long as you broadcast on certain frequencies below a certain wattage. FPV as a hobby will survive whatever paper tigers come its way, just as amateur radio did.
Interesting analogy, but FCC heavy handedness is really about regulating a very finite resource - the practical usable radio spectrum. Frequency and bandwidth are rare commodities.
i have been flying fpv sense 2019, i have never once seen another drone flying. hobbyists are not a threat and never have been, the chances are you'll never even see one. i would not be surprised if those drones over NJ were backed by amazon or another company to sway public opinion to fast-track regulations....
That’s what I’ve been saying!!! it’s prolly just a corporate fear mongering campaign to push us out mixed with mass hysteria (misidentified planes, satellites, planets, event spotlights, etc) Like we live in one of the dumbest, most fearful, most gullible countries on the planet and the corpos know that and use that to their advantage to manipulate markets all the time. It’s like taking candy from a baby for them.
Lots of fair points. I just want to point out that in 2019/20 Colorado also had a lot of mysterious drone sightings and that turned out to be nothing. It's just a social epidemic, people looking up for the first time and assuming everything is a drone without any reference.
Those actually were drones in CO- i live there, but it was just oil companies trying to find gas leaks using thermal cameras, which work better at night for finding leaks, apparently. They were around before, and they have been here after.
Starting to rewatch your videos at this point lol most other pilots (rotor riot) remind me of the “ASB kids” in high school, so this channel is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for the content man we apreciate it, can’t wait to buy my first demibot.
I'm confused. Are we giving up or not Capitan Boatgrinder? I've had a fkng shyt xmas on my own. My g/f is not here n not well. She hates my house full totally full of quads n drones n now I'm hearing this. I fking slipped down the fpv rabbit hole when my dad had a stroke then passed. I been a dreaded DJI fan boy before that. You really actually told it exactly how it is and how the future of this hobby / rabbit hole is going to turn out. Mate as you know I'm in Australia 🇦🇺 and we follow the USA 🇺🇸 so we won't be far behind. You have a huge following because your real, real funny , like a genius comedian which their should be Nobel prizes for ,you got all the talent man , you don't sell out n do shyt like rotor riot .That bit in this clip ... funny as fk rotor riot does have a much bigger ASSenhole. We want to see you going around the world doing what you do. There is only so many real , funny , caring dudes that I rate n look forward to watching. Shyt man yhis is for real and it's a bloody sad day for FPV. You keep doing you. Your infectious Nobel realness and humor I hope does not stop and we keep getting to see it. Fk I hate xmas.
The fact that the cops are using thousands of dollars of funding for anti-drone technology out of taxpayer's pockets to catch illegal drone flying instead of using department time and resources to catch actual criminal behavior should be concerning to everyone.
A bit more context from another pilot who has been in since 2016: I had a conversation with a relative at thanksgiving about drones. Here, they banned drones from flying in my city around 2020 because of one guy being a dick with his DJI crap and terrorizing a friend of the mayor. Despite all the protesting from us, they passed the ban. I was speaking to a relative about this and how unfair it is to be lumped in with this bs because of one guy who isn't even a part of our community in fpv, and they said they agreed with the ban! "I don't want some stranger looking at me while I'm in my backyard, or whatever." I tried to detail the difference between what I do and what that guy did, but they didn't want to hear it. They insisted that the ban was for the best and I should just suck it up and move on. This is the mentality we are fighting. This is only going to get worse thanks to the hype that Botgrinder is pointing out in this video. The commenters in here are just as correct as bot, though. This hobby is officially dead. Not completely. It will never completely go away, but the days of us flying where we want and enjoying ourselves with fpv are coming to an end. Get used to the harassment and hate because it's about to get real sticky. People will still fly, regardless of the way things turn out. However, this hobby will never be the same again, now. So much for living in a free country. We're only free until we do something someone else doesn't like. Then all bets are off... Have fun. Enjoy yourself. Just don't be surprised when the Karens or cops show up to ruin it.
there's still walksnail, hdz, and good old fashioned analog. even IPC is starting to materialize. dji sucks and i'm glad i never got sucked into it. they have about as much chance of banning fpv as they do banning skateboarding -- good luck with that.
They've banned flights over certain power stations in limited areas in NJ. It's not a ban over an entire county. It's important to be accurate and precise in your messaging if you're going to get political.
they wouldnt have unencrypted comms, two transmissions are in english.... but why have your top secret military prohject be easy discoverd by a basic car radio lmao
Ultimate environmentalist punk rocker RC boat move - RC sailboat, but the RC stands for "Reclaimed cordage" and you control it using bits of twine and shit you found on the side of the road or off hay bails from farms
I'll never be buying DJI again, I'll stick with my V2's for now & I never run GPS as I live in an flight restricted zone and when I buy new goggles it will be HDzero's or whatever is best at the time. They can try restrict our flying as much as they want, I'll still be flying. Like you it's got me through so much, fk anyone who tries to take that from me. Love you "Captain BoatGrinder"
I fly in a city with quite a few FPV pilots, I never see them, but the local shops sell out of tiny whoops, and all the top quads and parts. Heck, one store sold 20 units of goggles L in 4 days. But I've been flying on and off since 2017 and have never ran into another person flying FPV or even using a mini 3 pro or something like that. Most people I meet still have no idea what FPV is.
Bravo Botgrinder, this is why you never give up any rights or anything to the government, they will just take, take, take from us. Stand up for what you love!
building your own drone is the way. DJI is the apple of drones. Total corporate control, no privacy, babying, but... nice R2R features. Some people gravitate to that, and if that gets them into drones, so be it, but as a community hopefully we can show people a better way.
I love DJI and I also hate them. It sucks how it got too many people to fly drones making regulations. DJI does have the best Software I would say though. I feel like it’s the Apple of drones for good and bad while FPV drones are like a Linux computer. “Normies” will probably not get into FPV unless it gets ridiculously easy. Most consumers are lazy as f. They just want something easy out of the box. In theory a user friendly FPV BNF could be built using INav with Position hold and return to home enabled. Then get a gimbal for the camera. However most people would get scared of just having to choose the correct controller or battery. So it would have to truely be a BNF with absolutely everything needed.
I for one welcome you to boat life. It's like drones but much less regulated. If your ever in DC and want to sail in the most restricted airspace in the world hit me up Captain.
Boatgrinder! Cold Dead Hands… That’s the only way I’ll stop flying. The SKILL is the valuable part… we may need to rely on our skills some dark day in our totalitarian future.
it took me way to long to relize thats just a stick with a wind sock on it lmfao. also walsnail avatar over dji every day because of them just handing over your flight data.
I use DJI for the FPV system in my quadcopter. However, I use the V1 goggles and Air Unit. They don't make these anymore so I get them all used so DJI doesn't get my money, and they don't have GPS in them since they all came out before all this RID stuff. It can be a bit of a pain getting it to work with some frames as everything these days is made to use the new O3 Air unit, but with some work it runs just fine.
It's still strong here in san diego. Most people just say wow that's some cool stuff. But I have also started to venture into rc boats as well and rc hovercraft
I'm unironically trying to get into R/C boats, Crawlers, and Nitro R/C trucks. Specifically because of all of the regulation that's looming over FPV. I love FPV with all my heart, but ain't no way I'm catching a federal charge for flying a tiny whoop without Remote I.D. lol
My dad got into fixed wing (including 3d planes) because the po po kept getting called on him and his buddies for flying their quads at parks and schools and all their fly spots got shut down. He’s in his late 70s and his buddies are working dudes in their late 40s to mid 50s, obviously not threatening. But he is having a blast with fixed wing line of sight, and I’ve got into it with him too and it actually is fun. Crashing tends to destroy airframes but they are pretty repairable with the right glues. The electronics seems to do fine although some people get nervous reusing gear after bad crashes. Idk, send it lol. Note: they all fly at an AMA field ( I fly after hours when the club is gone). I also fly sub250 3d foam plane at my local park, and I’ve got a couple RID modules and my stuff registered to avoid FAA trouble if I do get the itch to fly somewhere random (after checking the fly maps for no fly and temporary restrictions).
Ground FPV is so underrated to me. It allows you to do all the things drones can't. I was automatically drawn to it over drone FPV just due to the impending possibilities.. I mean you can literally make your own long range avatar these days. I put a gel blaster on one and had way too much fun driving around shooting things with it. I think the coolest thing ever is a good RC truck that can go off road almost anywhere and includes all the basic stuff like live 2 way audio, lights, horn, stabilizing gimbal etc.. With something like the *MT12 it opens up doors to add more cool stuff like robot arms etc. You can get close to an hour or more of run time on a charge so there's no constantly swapping packs etc. Can just sit somewhere and spy (zoom camera in the future would be cool). Interacting with people or dogs is a lot easier and less troublesome, you can get real close up steady shots of things, you're not always making tons of noise, can drive them around at night easily, and snafus don't typically result in the thing dropping to its death or getting stuck in an unreachable place etc. One of the coolest things is driving around a decent sized park just sitting in your car out of sight. Hitting all the paths and seeing different people lol. Many of them are turning heads trying to find the person controlling it etc. A little honk or wheel wave and keep it moving. I've snuck into some pretty cool places before using a sensored rig to where I could creep real quiet. Some place where they have an overhead door open just enough to creep under, or somewhere that is fenced off but there is just enough clearance. At the very least I always thought it would be cool for drone guys to build an RC truck purpose-built for going over and picking up drones they crashed. I guess that would save a lot of exercise though lol.
We always find a way to fly! I just srated to build a Ruby (open ipc like system) based fpv goggle from scratch for myself as a hobby project, designing and 3D printing the shell and building it's electronics and optics from off the shelf parts.
When I first got into fpv back in 2017-18, people thought it was cool when I brought it up as a unique and fun hobby. I loved sharing it and talking about it. Around 2020, mentioning it would get me weird looks because I was potentially a perv spying on people's backyards. 21-22 it's associated with airport shutdowns and plane crashes 2023 my hobby became the face of a weapon of war And now I keep it to myself. Most of my builds are broken from crashes and I haven't had the motivation to fix em. What a way to end 2024.
Ahoy Skipper! Eh, you’ll sneak in a flight or two with tiny whoops every now and then. Once bitten by something that fly’s you always come down with something.
Big TH-camrs will have to buy big warehouse's. A inside drone safe place. We're you can fly anything that will fit. It's a perfect business opportunity as well. Sell merch and sell ways that are affordable so normal ppl can fly for 5 mins or something and host drone racing events. It's a win win. It can be open year around no matter the weather. ✌️🤙
💀metal sweater: bit.ly/botsshop
Pretty sure our squirrels are from the same family- one of the curses of adhd is being able to see the writing on the wall clearly- absolutely love your channel- fpv is not a crime- was a skater as a kid before it was PC and then snowboarding- starting to feel like the world powers are trying to put a hold on soul smiles and fun- stay strong my friend- keep smiling
- 46 - un medicated - Side eyeing sober🤷❤
no shipping to canada! i want a pink metal sweater dammit
The nose ring is metal, but the sweater seems to be made of fabric?🤔
Bruh, where tf has this guy been my whole life I am in FPV love! 😂 His vibe I mean everything I love it. I have been clean from the Black Betty for 9 years last week. I know what you mean.
Not shipping to Germany... Thats a shame man
You can't kill FPV, we'll just rebuild, stronger 💪
You should never stop doing the hobby you love.
Let's gooo 💪
FLY. CRASH. REBUILD. SURVIVE. REPEAT.
My quads aren't gonna go away, im still going to fly them in the bush unttil all my packs self destruct and catch on fire, just saying.
@@power21100view the entire freakin way!
Does no one remember that we originally built these with hacked up video game controlers and actual television sets strapped to our heads? Keep building, flying FPV, and figuring out how to stay in the air. F#&k anyone who says no.
YEA 14 years ago....
US military contractors did it first... in the 1940's... so... who is... we?
@@dysnomia-anarchia
It should be obvious that I am referring to the current group of people who do it for a hobby. If I seemed to make the claim that this group was the first in history to operate something by remote control using a video feed from the vehicle being controlled that was not my intention. But I don't think anyone took it that way and it had nothing to do with the meaning or point of the comment. It was largely done to encourage people like Botgrinder to not give up an activity that they love and to do it despite what is being done to them. But I'm sure anyone with the intelligence to operate a keyboard and be on the Internet would deduce that is really all that mattered in the meaning of the thread.
ＩＴ’Ｓ ＥＡＳＹ！
Gonna keep ripping as normal. And we do need to band together! This is hobby has basically saved my life. Im not given up yet.
we need to bando together
@SpaghettiFPV-tg3qh well said. Bando for life!!!
this hobby got me off doing heroin abd they just been shitting on it ever since. really rubs me the wrong way
Yup I was ripping at the park all morning yesterday, I honestly don't give a shit what anybody says or thinks or what laws i break. That's just me though...
@TheMkourkis I'm so with ya!!! Fpv life!!!
they can't outlaw (or at least regulate) sending pcb schematics on reddit and github, so they will never be able to actually kill the hobby, we will forever have open ipc/elrs type projects keeping the boat afloat, even if they try to choke us with regulations and manage to kick the masses out of this hobby, it will never die
If drones get banned, it’s never going to stop me from flying 1s toothpicks and whoop racing. It’s crazy how much better whoops are now
Like what do they want to do if I am whooping at home??? They can’t break in
This is why I've been obsessed with building 1S drones for the past few months lol.
BOATGRINDER LETS FUCKING GO
😂😂
I've been thinking about that, FPV boats.
FPV as a hobby won't be banned outright but regulation will probably evolve like the early days of radio before the FCC and the big broadcast corporations. Radio started out as an unregulated hobby that eventually became overregulated to point of requiring a license for everything, including CB radio. But CB enforcement proved impractical so that requirement was eventually dropped, as long as you broadcast on certain frequencies below a certain wattage. FPV as a hobby will survive whatever paper tigers come its way, just as amateur radio did.
Interesting analogy, but FCC heavy handedness is really about regulating a very finite resource - the practical usable radio spectrum. Frequency and bandwidth are rare commodities.
Captain Grinder is the saltiest of sea dogs.
Who is capitan grinder?
Came in here to make this comment nicely, don't need to now, you did it for me. Props.
6:54 We are gonna change our channel name to Ready Set Boat.
😅hahaha
"Mysteriously brightly lit drones." But they caught two guys flying inside? 🤣😂🤣😂 Officials don't even know how to lie right...
i have been flying fpv sense 2019, i have never once seen another drone flying. hobbyists are not a threat and never have been, the chances are you'll never even see one. i would not be surprised if those drones over NJ were backed by amazon or another company to sway public opinion to fast-track regulations....
I am a newbie and never seen FPV anywhere in real life.
What about companies setting records with 'drone' shows? They publicly advert their endeavors at least...
That’s what I’ve been saying!!! it’s prolly just a corporate fear mongering campaign to push us out mixed with mass hysteria (misidentified planes, satellites, planets, event spotlights, etc)
Like we live in one of the dumbest, most fearful, most gullible countries on the planet and the corpos know that and use that to their advantage to manipulate markets all the time. It’s like taking candy from a baby for them.
Lots of fair points. I just want to point out that in 2019/20 Colorado also had a lot of mysterious drone sightings and that turned out to be nothing. It's just a social epidemic, people looking up for the first time and assuming everything is a drone without any reference.
Those actually were drones in CO- i live there, but it was just oil companies trying to find gas leaks using thermal cameras, which work better at night for finding leaks, apparently. They were around before, and they have been here after.
Reminds me of the movie Desperado.
Bucho: How hard is it? You see someone you don't know, you shoot him.
Was boutta say, i was there and saw one@@r3beatty
I will never stop, as long as I can get or build parts. I dont care if im the only one left and using wii remotes as fight controllers!
Man this is why I toke up, too fkin real. Good luck out there homies
Starting to rewatch your videos at this point lol most other pilots (rotor riot) remind me of the “ASB kids” in high school, so this channel is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for the content man we apreciate it, can’t wait to buy my first demibot.
I ain’t EVER GONNA STOP!
I really liked that first mic you were holding.
3:27 TH-cam Rewind 2025 first clip right here.
Haha
Pretty excited for the boat content.
good luck tracking tiny whoops! betaflight don't report squat! elrs for life!
Tinywhoop is the future 🥷🥷 you can kill 5" but not tiny
I agree.
@@BOTGRINDER I hope you gonna still do fpv kwad content
I'm confused. Are we giving up or not Capitan Boatgrinder?
I've had a fkng shyt xmas on my own. My g/f is not here n not well. She hates my house full totally full of quads n drones n now I'm hearing this. I fking slipped down the fpv rabbit hole when my dad had a stroke then passed. I been a dreaded DJI fan boy before that. You really actually told it exactly how it is and how the future of this hobby / rabbit hole is going to turn out. Mate as you know I'm in Australia 🇦🇺 and we follow the USA 🇺🇸 so we won't be far behind.
You have a huge following because your real, real funny , like a genius comedian which their should be Nobel prizes for ,you got all the talent man , you don't sell out n do shyt like rotor riot .That bit in this clip ... funny as fk rotor riot does have a much bigger ASSenhole. We want to see you going around the world doing what you do. There is only so many real , funny , caring dudes that I rate n look forward to watching. Shyt man yhis is for real and it's a bloody sad day for FPV.
You keep doing you. Your infectious Nobel realness and humor I hope does not stop and we keep getting to see it.
Fk I hate xmas.
@@axemanarborhey stranger
I hope shit gets better for you, happy new year brother
keep ripping
The fact that the cops are using thousands of dollars of funding for anti-drone technology out of taxpayer's pockets to catch illegal drone flying instead of using department time and resources to catch actual criminal behavior should be concerning to everyone.
I'm mad
Guarantee Trump doesn't care about hobbyist drones....despite wthat Botgrinder says...
They‘re chasing the easy ones not the bad ones
A bit more context from another pilot who has been in since 2016: I had a conversation with a relative at thanksgiving about drones. Here, they banned drones from flying in my city around 2020 because of one guy being a dick with his DJI crap and terrorizing a friend of the mayor. Despite all the protesting from us, they passed the ban. I was speaking to a relative about this and how unfair it is to be lumped in with this bs because of one guy who isn't even a part of our community in fpv, and they said they agreed with the ban! "I don't want some stranger looking at me while I'm in my backyard, or whatever." I tried to detail the difference between what I do and what that guy did, but they didn't want to hear it. They insisted that the ban was for the best and I should just suck it up and move on. This is the mentality we are fighting. This is only going to get worse thanks to the hype that Botgrinder is pointing out in this video. The commenters in here are just as correct as bot, though. This hobby is officially dead. Not completely. It will never completely go away, but the days of us flying where we want and enjoying ourselves with fpv are coming to an end. Get used to the harassment and hate because it's about to get real sticky. People will still fly, regardless of the way things turn out. However, this hobby will never be the same again, now. So much for living in a free country. We're only free until we do something someone else doesn't like. Then all bets are off... Have fun. Enjoy yourself. Just don't be surprised when the Karens or cops show up to ruin it.
You should simply ignore the ban and fly anyway.
there's still walksnail, hdz, and good old fashioned analog. even IPC is starting to materialize. dji sucks and i'm glad i never got sucked into it. they have about as much chance of banning fpv as they do banning skateboarding -- good luck with that.
Enjoy life while you can, a great way to look at everything.
Unironically one of the best takes ive heard. Thank you for speaking the truth!
They've banned flights over certain power stations in limited areas in NJ. It's not a ban over an entire county. It's important to be accurate and precise in your messaging if you're going to get political.
The gang buys a boat
When federal agencies say nothing to worry about, you know they're military tests 🪖
Wasn't that the exact same response they gave on nuclear testing when they radiated whole populations? :)
@nielsB_FPV yup
they wouldnt have unencrypted comms, two transmissions are in english.... but why have your top secret military prohject be easy discoverd by a basic car radio lmao
It’s Philly drone lol
More news on the Jersey drones today... this just dialed up to a whole new level 🤣🤣🤣
This dude.. 😂😂😂 That's why I like your channel, good information while keeping it funny. LoL
2:41 @botgrinder hence why in 6 years I've never moved from analog. No one can turn my drone off dude 👊👊👊
Three years from now news reports of mysterious lights on a lake in oklhoma and mass hysteria resumes.
They will start saying it is a UFO or UFA. People are now saying they see orbs and plasma balls flying around, going against the law of physics.
Great video! In other news my dogs went crazy when they heard all those horns at the end. They thought I had a new dog toy in the living room.
Ultimate environmentalist punk rocker RC boat move - RC sailboat, but the RC stands for "Reclaimed cordage" and you control it using bits of twine and shit you found on the side of the road or off hay bails from farms
Thanks for the weekly Debbie downer video 😅
haha sorry.
time for a huge dab
I'll never be buying DJI again, I'll stick with my V2's for now & I never run GPS as I live in an flight restricted zone and when I buy new goggles it will be HDzero's or whatever is best at the time. They can try restrict our flying as much as they want, I'll still be flying. Like you it's got me through so much, fk anyone who tries to take that from me. Love you "Captain BoatGrinder"
Open source is getting ALOT better too.
Openipc and hdzero are the way to go, apen source(ish in hdzero) and no snitches
@@jesucar3811 @BOTGRINDER All totally new to me so I look forward to learning more!
I wanna see the gov try to stop open source lmao. Can't stop the signal
Ok, the boat bit had me dead😂
Punk Rock Rules. It sucks getting stomped. RC trucks & Boatgrinder to the Rescue!
for reals.
Hey Bot, I love the stick for a mic handle. Keep up the great work. love your vids.
Dude what???!! You can't give up on this Hobbie bro.
Thank you ,thank you, for bringing this topic up and bringing everybody aware
FPV sucks so hard but I can’t stop doing it ❤
I fly in a city with quite a few FPV pilots, I never see them, but the local shops sell out of tiny whoops, and all the top quads and parts. Heck, one store sold 20 units of goggles L in 4 days. But I've been flying on and off since 2017 and have never ran into another person flying FPV or even using a mini 3 pro or something like that. Most people I meet still have no idea what FPV is.
I’m new to the hobby as of a year ago and i ain’t stopping love the hobby and I’m not stopping
BOTGRINDER turns into BOATGRINDER
I love when you talk all grown up and shit ! :D Keep it up Bot never give up !
Bravo Botgrinder, this is why you never give up any rights or anything to the government, they will just take, take, take from us. Stand up for what you love!
Awesome, great vid dude! You nailed it IMO.
The thought of boats and hose be getting my barnacles in a bunch.
I love the stick mic. Great video.
building your own drone is the way. DJI is the apple of drones. Total corporate control, no privacy, babying, but... nice R2R features. Some people gravitate to that, and if that gets them into drones, so be it, but as a community hopefully we can show people a better way.
I love DJI and I also hate them. It sucks how it got too many people to fly drones making regulations.
DJI does have the best Software I would say though. I feel like it’s the Apple of drones for good and bad while FPV drones are like a Linux computer.
“Normies” will probably not get into FPV unless it gets ridiculously easy. Most consumers are lazy as f. They just want something easy out of the box.
In theory a user friendly FPV BNF could be built using INav with Position hold and return to home enabled. Then get a gimbal for the camera. However most people would get scared of just having to choose the correct controller or battery. So it would have to truely be a BNF with absolutely everything needed.
Okay, BoatGrinder. Make a truck-boat truck! Yeah. From Squidbillies!! ❤
I for one welcome you to boat life. It's like drones but much less regulated. If your ever in DC and want to sail in the most restricted airspace in the world hit me up Captain.
That mic is so freaking cool
Spot on old boy, spot on. I wish you were wrong.
Boatgrinder! Cold Dead Hands… That’s the only way I’ll stop flying. The SKILL is the valuable part… we may need to rely on our skills some dark day in our totalitarian future.
it took me way to long to relize thats just a stick with a wind sock on it lmfao. also walsnail avatar over dji every day because of them just handing over your flight data.
Haha there was a rode mic under the wind sock.
I use DJI for the FPV system in my quadcopter. However, I use the V1 goggles and Air Unit. They don't make these anymore so I get them all used so DJI doesn't get my money, and they don't have GPS in them since they all came out before all this RID stuff. It can be a bit of a pain getting it to work with some frames as everything these days is made to use the new O3 Air unit, but with some work it runs just fine.
It's still strong here in san diego. Most people just say wow that's some cool stuff. But I have also started to venture into rc boats as well and rc hovercraft
Cool video... Happy New Year bud....
Happy new year.
Enjoy it while you can!!!
You did a very good job on this bro. 💪🏾
captain bot grinder. once a fearsome pilot now a salty pirate.
This just in: "Amazon to deliver packages by RC Boats now"
I hate this theory because it's so probable
Ya, f this theory.
I'm unironically trying to get into R/C boats, Crawlers, and Nitro R/C trucks. Specifically because of all of the regulation that's looming over FPV. I love FPV with all my heart, but ain't no way I'm catching a federal charge for flying a tiny whoop without Remote I.D. lol
My dad got into fixed wing (including 3d planes) because the po po kept getting called on him and his buddies for flying their quads at parks and schools and all their fly spots got shut down. He’s in his late 70s and his buddies are working dudes in their late 40s to mid 50s, obviously not threatening. But he is having a blast with fixed wing line of sight, and I’ve got into it with him too and it actually is fun. Crashing tends to destroy airframes but they are pretty repairable with the right glues. The electronics seems to do fine although some people get nervous reusing gear after bad crashes. Idk, send it lol. Note: they all fly at an AMA field ( I fly after hours when the club is gone). I also fly sub250 3d foam plane at my local park, and I’ve got a couple RID modules and my stuff registered to avoid FAA trouble if I do get the itch to fly somewhere random (after checking the fly maps for no fly and temporary restrictions).
Ground FPV is so underrated to me. It allows you to do all the things drones can't. I was automatically drawn to it over drone FPV just due to the impending possibilities.. I mean you can literally make your own long range avatar these days. I put a gel blaster on one and had way too much fun driving around shooting things with it.
I think the coolest thing ever is a good RC truck that can go off road almost anywhere and includes all the basic stuff like live 2 way audio, lights, horn, stabilizing gimbal etc..
With something like the *MT12 it opens up doors to add more cool stuff like robot arms etc. You can get close to an hour or more of run time on a charge so there's no constantly swapping packs etc. Can just sit somewhere and spy (zoom camera in the future would be cool). Interacting with people or dogs is a lot easier and less troublesome, you can get real close up steady shots of things, you're not always making tons of noise, can drive them around at night easily, and snafus don't typically result in the thing dropping to its death or getting stuck in an unreachable place etc. One of the coolest things is driving around a decent sized park just sitting in your car out of sight. Hitting all the paths and seeing different people lol. Many of them are turning heads trying to find the person controlling it etc. A little honk or wheel wave and keep it moving. I've snuck into some pretty cool places before using a sensored rig to where I could creep real quiet. Some place where they have an overhead door open just enough to creep under, or somewhere that is fenced off but there is just enough clearance. At the very least I always thought it would be cool for drone guys to build an RC truck purpose-built for going over and picking up drones they crashed. I guess that would save a lot of exercise though lol.
Bodgrinder: president.
We always find a way to fly! I just srated to build a Ruby (open ipc like system) based fpv goggle from scratch for myself as a hobby project, designing and 3D printing the shell and building it's electronics and optics from off the shelf parts.
Yo that's so rad! Are you documenting the build online anywhere.
@@BOTGRINDER Not yet, but i will share the final files and build guide on thingiverse.
I’m also into RC boats. I did this crazy mod to mine, it has 4 propellors and can hover above the water.
3:29 You just read my mind. Are you spying on me and my drones!? 😅
thanks bro that was good info! i didn't know it was bando guys arrested
27 reports for drones in one night in my small W Mass town last weekend……. It was starlink.🤦🏻♂️
FPV will never die. Builders will always find a way to build and fly!
Southpark cartoon predicted that years before in episode about drones.
Unfortunatley your right in so many points!
When I first got into fpv back in 2017-18, people thought it was cool when I brought it up as a unique and fun hobby. I loved sharing it and talking about it.
Around 2020, mentioning it would get me weird looks because I was potentially a perv spying on people's backyards.
21-22 it's associated with airport shutdowns and plane crashes
2023 my hobby became the face of a weapon of war
And now I keep it to myself. Most of my builds are broken from crashes and I haven't had the motivation to fix em. What a way to end 2024.
*laughs in Slaughterbots*
Maybe people should just go back to analog for goggles 😉 Or just all move to Australia, we have room!
Happy New Year Captain 🧑✈️
No remote ID and no DJI integra 🎉
Welcome to Boatgrinder!
SPOT ON. Loved the rant about Trump and Biden! Same page on everything. Totally not the direction I though you were going to cover it.
3:40 is why I love this dude
Love ya content brother !
Thanks for watchin!
There goes thousands of dollars in Fpv gear we are left with flying whoops in that one bedroom studio.
Captain Botgrinder 2044
Love the stick! 😂
you frkn said everything!!! I tried to warn people. I’m still gonna fly in my backyard, damn it 🤫 lol. Analog too!
The 2018 fpv scene was the best😢
Aye aye captain, oh wait all the drone stuff and 0 deaths... This is a WIN for fpv and drones.. in the same period how many died in general aviation?
I'll see you on the other side BOATGRINDER.
now he is: BOATgrinder
Ahoy Skipper! Eh, you’ll sneak in a flight or two with tiny whoops every now and then. Once bitten by something that fly’s you always come down with something.
I'm so glad I got rid of all of my DJI stuff a year ago. I'm strictly HDZero.
i didnt realise you where holding as stick until 3 mins in
More videos on TH-cam need it’s always sunny references that relate to everyday life 👌
Wow! you're the only person I've heard in the drone community who isn't kissing up to DJI!
Amazing! Someone willing to call them out!
Big TH-camrs will have to buy big warehouse's. A inside drone safe place. We're you can fly anything that will fit. It's a perfect business opportunity as well. Sell merch and sell ways that are affordable so normal ppl can fly for 5 mins or something and host drone racing events. It's a win win. It can be open year around no matter the weather. ✌️🤙
Shrimpin boats!🤔