There are videos on TH-cam showing them being used outdoors. Not recommended, though, due to sunlight overwhelming the I.R. sensors and strong winds resulting in the drones being ... well ... "gone with the wind."
A rare glimpse of workbench wide shot. Not disappointed. We need Attenborough to narrate... "And here we have the seldom observed technical person in it's natural habitat. Majestic."
Quite!! - "And here we have the Lesser Spotted Clive completely buggering another Chinacon killer toy, in order to ensure the survival of his bearded 'see you Jimmy' species..."
The first prototype of one of the most feared machines of 2047, the infamous Beard Terminator 1200, was actually a rather sad little thing. It took quite a while for it to evolve into the murdering bot we now know and fear.
You're supposed to calibrate it by setting it upside down and press and hold the button until the LEDs flash green, then after a few seconds they'll flash green blue and red signifying calibration. I've never been able to get mine to hover. It always takes off and crashes.
I came back to watch this again and was not disappointed! The comedic timing of that drone is spot on, I could watch a full episode of drone crashing in your workshop! Good work, Sir!
Actually if I had a beard like that it's something he did that to me oh and would become fodder for a project immediately if not sooner no matter what it was maybe maybe not depending on if it was something that was too expensive to become fodder for a project AKA parts
The Roombas "suck" at flying. :-) I worked for iRobot and saw the prototype Roomba being tested. It would be cool to make a flying version. It would have to be made out of Balsa Wood!! ;-)
Totally agree on that Big 5 needs have a t-shirt that says something like time to take your defense or I just got it and take it to bibs or let's just not get it let's take it the bits something like that. You know Dave Jones from eevblog. She's always saying t-shirt t-shirt when something like that comes up. You know t-shirt worthy stuff. I'm just waiting for big climb to say don't turn it on take it apart. But then again Dave Jones that's his saying probably copyrighted by now. Wonder if the copyright system for TH-cam could catch someone using everybody else's catch phrases and give them a copyright strike or at least a the video with someone else's because they use that same saying? You know what I need to do with a collab between Evie blog and big Clive. And that would be interesting I would say anything like that would be. Or big Clive eevblog and Ben heck that would be completely awesome probably the most awesome video yet or videos I should say. You could also throw in the ring the 8-Bit guy. Maybe even a v e. Perhaps even a few others maybe even franlab as well. That was just all the ones I can think of at the moment even more would be awesome. You know friend lab has already looked at parts of the Apollo computer not to mention the inside as far as I could go into the flight guidance computer they actually took a part that in a video as far as I can go. Not only that she was actually building a model of that thing as well. Not to mention her model of one of the parts of the space shuttle of the model of 2001 the movie that is can't remember which parts you built bud is a pretty awesome looking panel. Also it was all relay logic. One reason I mentioned this was because the Apollo program in the flight controls the diski did use miniature latching relays also it was in Luxor luminescent display. Also most people don't realize that most of the lighting in the Apollo program was actually electroluminescence panels. Like some night lights and other things. Could be very lightweight and very power efficient. Not to mention could be easily dimmed. Very few power supplies were required. For this lighting system. I wish they would do more videos that they send Park to one TH-camr and to another and to another. Much like that was done with the Apollo guidance computer boards and also one of the Retro computer channels was reconstructing that at least part of the call Gand system. Computer. But I do remember that Apple computer project can't remember which one it was that was being sent from person to person to person that was pretty interesting.
I have one of those. It's kinda fun. You can play volley-drone with it (two people required). It will sense your hand and reverse course before you touch it. The "body" seems to be made from the same kind of plastic they use for those dastardly un-openable bubble packaging.
I bought 3 of these; one for me and two for gifts. They're a big plus over the type that have unprotected (non-covered) blades which can hurt eyes, etc.
Why does Clive's suddenly seem to cut out ? Given adequate space, what do they do ? How long do they then run for and do they land in a controlled fashion before shutting down ?
We have two of those things. I don't know whether they're different versions but ours came with a paper sheet which explains how to steer it. If you hold your hand above it and slowly push down it will lower its height. if you hold your hand below it it'll go up and you can push it in direction you want it to go. Ours are quite stable in holding position.
In case you read this Clive... In the drone community we have boards that are under 10gramm have 25x25 diagonal and switch 25.2v at 120amps max 30amp per motor Esc on board. Brushless 6 mosfets per motor :Doh and they also offer a 400mhz micro controller a gyro an accerlometer and an osd chip
@@ferrumignis I've had some experience with the props of those smaller drones and I got to say if you have that in your face you have a real problem. A weed eater is a good comparison.. Those with the metal blades that is
So fun running into these videos, even if fairly old, since I have a lesser capable one of these I got from Costco a few(?) years ago myself on a whim at only $15! It's the HOVER STAR™ 2.0 Motion Controlled Stunt UFO Even found the manual online for easier reading. Rarely got the gestures to work well and the sensing near objects/walls, etc. almost always was a failure. I suspect as it would fly off so much faster than expected. Ceiling and floor sensor, surprisingly, did seem to work though. Mine had just a microUSB cable to charge it, no cable included so no circuitry there at least. "Some Day", I'll bring it to a field on a calm day and let it fly and see what happens/where it goes, how long it runs, etc. Hmmm, better put my name and phone number on it before THAT happens though. :)
When a board doesn't provide a lot of contrast for traces, would you be able to apply a bit of heat to a contact to visualize the connected traces with a thermal camera? You don't want enough heat to melt solder, but you would want enough of a thermal difference for one of your FLIR cameras/sensors to visualize the trace.
This should become a new fashion, golden drones entangled in beards. 3:51 There is a reason why all _properly built_ robots, even the cute social ones like Pepper, in real life include a Big Red Button. Really is impressive how cheapy toy garbage nowadays does what previously could only be done by something like Lockheed.
You know how we were saying about the golden drone I just thought when you said that where is Zach golden snitch from Harry Potter next thing they will have something like the cribbage drone license from Harry Potter or maybe even not licensed but it could be done theoretically something like that maybe a drone version of a Quidditch game? Just don't have a beard. Oh by the way with the big red button that one should have one due to the fact of the processor issue.
I'm reminded when the local anime club watched subs of the anime 'Child's Toy' back in the day. Interesting thing about the tapes they used was that they included the Japanese commercials with the program. Always amused me that items that were still fairly high-end business items in the US..PDAs, Fax, and the like...were in the ads marketed as children's toys by Tomy.
I would love to see his Workshop I think everyone else would too just Navy that's a hell but it was probably just a fluke big Clive either way? Response would be appreciated and a video touring Workshop of course we've been waiting time to get that answer needs to be yes
@@phishpot maybe you're right or not enough footage maybe not but still hilarious and yes love worship tour ending abruptly when the Drone finds his beard if that was me and I was able to pull out my beard it would have immediately found something either smashing it Jam do the propeller or just totally current to Apollo salvage parts as fast as possible AKA get a bigger hammer Navy especially if the software and crashed it went nuts. And as he said it had done that and he couldn't turn off until the battery died bad design no hottest toy for you.
I laughed so hard at the opening. First it flies off (twice) then it has your beard. I bought one of these for my son a few years ago, they're no better in open spaces to be honest. It was from the science museum and it was one of my more regrettable decisions. I got it cos i thought he'd learn something from it. The only things he learned were 1) How to run away and 2) Never launch it outside the front door when a bus is driving by...
I am surprised (as a fellow bearded man myself) that the beard lasted so long in that situation! Well done.... I loved the shot, It has made my day..... I hope the beard didn't suffer irreparable trauma. K Watt.
I have one of these..mines purple got it off allixpress $10. It really freaks the cats out. I dont think it would work outdoors well. Breezes would disrupt it. It flew fine in a gymnasium tho.
Clive as the battery drains does your flip over when close to the floor? I got this for my Savanah cat and she thinks it;s a flying mouse. What a fun night we had. Thank You.
The British designed gyro chips are from a harrier jump jet, where they open a valve for 2 seconds sending blasts hot engine gas to level the plane. ✈ The motors are from a mobile phone buzzing mechanism The embedded software might be interesting
@@rogerc7960 temp is relative. Control 'thrusters ' are powered by air from the third stage compressor. This means that the air for the thrusters is hotter than ambient, do to absorption of engine heat and being compressed, but much much cooler than engine exhaust. Engine exhaust is the combination of both combustion state exhaust and bypass air from the first stage compressor fan. Bypass stage compressor air is used for both cooling and thrust.
One of the things I love about that little drone is. it looks so very, very retro... like something out of a Decopunk (Diesilpunk-offshoot) sci-fi movie. Or maybe late Steampunk.
Ah, beard entanglement, we need more entanglement. Years ago we (work) concocted the idea of a cooled hard hat (the recipient was known as a 'hot head'), however a much younger fellow worker had temporarily pulled it apart, then re-assembled it with the fan in upside-down. We all had a good laugh when he tested it, as it drew his hair in and all jammed up. It was quite the job so extricate his head from his error prone hard-hat.
No x-ray machined to death and also wall being restrained by the voice of knowledge and then have a few Nails driven through its battery and just to be on the safe side or on the dangerous side depending on which way you say it.
I love the way you do tear downs. The big print outs, the basic completeness of the way you do explain things. Even after the bastard chewed your beard in it's blades.
The square mystery chip looks like a barometer/accelerometer package. The flight controller board on the drone I built has something similar if not the same. The manual of my flight controller board lists it as the barometer/accelerometer package.
Yes. It'll contain the accelerometer, gyro and barometer for altitude change calculations. It's amazing what they squeeze into the smallest devices these day's, mobile phones use them too.
As demonstrated in one of Casey Neistat's videos when his drone decided to drop communication with the controller just out of reach at the top of a building.
when i was a kid RC toy cars didnt even have steering left-right because it costed to much to make below the hundred dollar mark. now a days we literally have disposable flying robot with built-in gyroscope, accelerator and infrared sensing for 10$..
I'm guessing, having done loads of research on UAVs at university, is guess the QFN chip is a 2 or 3axis gyro. If it was good it would be a full AHRS with a 3 axis accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer. But given the price point, that chip would cost more than the whole product so I guess it's just a MEMS gyro.
@@ftrueck I also saw the hole and first thought barometer. But I'm not sure if that was an actual hole or a bit of schmutz since Clive never pointed it out as a hole.
That's as creepy and freaky as being trapped in a workshop when the biggest blue dragonfly, that lives in the UK, flew in thrashing all four wings, raising dust on the overhead tubes, which attracted it's compound eyes, only got the dragon out by switching off the lights, the strong summer sun light was more interesting. The thought that Carboniferous dragonfly's were a foot across was too much!!! Enjoy your videos, thankyou.
It looks like the IR LEDs are tied to pins that can be inputs, outputs and a wake-up input. Before shutting down the software can change the pin mode from grounding to wake-up, input with a weak pull down resistor. That could also account for the lock-up if the pin control register is being written when a power glitch occurs. We often added a dedicated reset component that would handle voltage brownouts and a timer that would initiate a reset if not cleared by the software. Probably asking too much at the price of this "toy". Somehow I see the Chinese military having this thing follow an IR laser pointer for dubious purposes.
Maybe it would be a good idea to fit a tiny microswitch to the battery, so you could remove power to the circuit completely for the usual 5 seconds to clear whatever the software glitch is. It's probably some kind of memory management problem (bit over-run like the Apollo glitch springs to mind!)
The one I have you need to calibrate by putting on a level surface and then powering it on. The lights flash in a sequence then go off. You the power off and power on and throw in air as you demonstrated but it tends to hover in place until you bring your hand within sensor range. Theoretically veers away from walls and ceiling when it gets close but sensors are not that great so crashes are frequent!
Love watching your videos Clive! Something you might care to experiment with is the fixed dimming of LED lights that use a separate driver attached to a ribbon array. There's lots of videos and gadgets for variable controlled dimming systems, but sometimes you just want a low power light for soft ambient lighting, as I did recently for my wine cellar, and you just need something to fit between the driver and the ribbon inside the unit to attenuate the light output. Experimenting with this has been a bit of a journey. On some cheap Chinese units, with a driver rated at 11-28V it actually ramps up to 50V if the output of the driver is open circuit. Using resistors to force down the amount of power going to the LED ribbon reveals a remarkably high light output, even when the power available to the LEDs is knocked back by 90%. Strange stuff. I'm still experimenting before installing these - not sure whether the drivers will survive long term, outputting a much higher voltage than it's rated range as it fights my resistors.. Cheers, Tom
The electronic drivers regulate the current, so if you add resistors it bumps the voltage up to get the same current. If you use 12V strips you can get inline dimmers.
I'm only just restarting my interest in electronics. I used to be a technician for PC/Server hardware but I hated the software/OS side of things. Ended up moving on to Carpentry. I wonder how difficult it would be to improve or perhaps redesign the electronics in that drone to make it smarter. One thing I'd be interested to add to that design would be the ability to learn to map and remember a location. So its autonomous ability would improve over time in a room. But I'm sure that sounds much easier to do than it actually is.
Look at James Burton's recent videos on ROS, specifically the intro where the demo robot maps a room and he starts adding this ability to an old project he already had. BTW, " *its* ability would improve". No apostrophe, just as with "his" and "hers".
Clive, you should have a look at washing machines that fail outside the warranty period and whose components all work fine. Plus all the components on the circuit board also work fine, leaving the micro-controller chip as the suspect. They could be counting mains cycles and are perhaps programmed to fail?
Great vid. Just a thought. If you were to use a different light source (IR) and a filter (on camera), would you se through the red coating on the board?
Nice one. An interesting piece of kit. My drone is motion control by your hand, you have a palm sized mouse under your hand to control it. Really amazing.
Some of the chip suppliers have started labelling chips on underside. Maybe to save the manufacturers from grinding it off to hide it? The MCU can be a PADAUK mcu as they do not use a logo, and the markings on the chip is not directly model number of mcu etc. Makes it really hard to identify. The chips are redicolously cheap and program memory is OTP. (One Time Programmable)
Ouch, that self-bypassed current limiting "charger"... Also the IR Enable diode to the button is probably for factory test, so they can quickly confirm all the LEDs work?
I suspect the IR enable being connected to the power button might be a way to leak more power into the MCU through the IR LEDs and IO pins protection diodes to wake it up properly. It looks so pointless it must be a work-around of sorts for a glitch / instability.
It would be better if they put IR emitters and detectors looking every direction, so it would not hit furniture and beards this often. It could hover around the room until the battery dies.
Hey Clive, have you ever tried/done a teardown of a TENS/EMS machine? They are affordable and pretty interesting, they can produce quite a lot of interesting effects on muscles. Used mine a couple of times for minor back pain and its a weird feeling.
This reminds me a lot of the "Random trajectory flying disco eyeball chopper" you covered a while ago. The charger looks exactly the same and uses a similar mechanism with the IR LEDs. I wonder if it's made in the same factory that makes these kind of toys. I got a few of those..they were fun and cheap enough that you didnt care when they inevitably crashed and broke.
“beard entanglement incident” is exactly the type of content that makes me so glad to be subscribed to bigclive.
It's what I signed up for hehe. Clive is like the engineer version of electrobooom 😀
Instructions unclear; beard stuck in drone fan.
You can always expect things to get hairy when Big Clive is in town!
I will just point out he wanted it to stay in shot for a longer period of time… while in his beard it was in shot longer then the other 2 tries :)
I came here for the "whizzzzzGZZZRRRRK" of the drone choking to death on beard. Was not disappointed.
“It’s still funny!”
_When your'e awakened at night and it's hovering above you, speaking in Klingon. 0.o_
I can just see some kid taking it outside throwing it up and literally never seeing it again lmao
Returns to the factory for repackaging ;)
There are videos on TH-cam showing them being used outdoors. Not recommended, though, due to sunlight overwhelming the I.R. sensors and strong winds resulting in the drones being ... well ... "gone with the wind."
@@maintoc - Good fun though, I'll bet.
@@brianartillery No doubt ... while it lasts ... which probably wouldn't be for very long. :p
Maybe tie some fishing line to it just in case
A rare glimpse of workbench wide shot. Not disappointed. We need Attenborough to narrate... "And here we have the seldom observed technical person in it's natural habitat. Majestic."
You need to watch his live stream to get a wider view.
Quite!! - "And here we have the Lesser Spotted Clive completely buggering another Chinacon killer toy, in order to ensure the survival of his bearded 'see you Jimmy' species..."
lmao
The hover mode is when it's seeking it's target.... Innocent beards beware..
There's no such thing as an innocent beard.
@@olavl8827 wtf?
_It's confusing it for some sort of.......Bavarian Chinchilla. 0.o_
@@olavl8827 I was going to comment the same, I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows the truth about beards.
The first prototype of one of the most feared machines of 2047, the infamous Beard Terminator 1200, was actually a rather sad little thing. It took quite a while for it to evolve into the murdering bot we now know and fear.
I'm seeing these as being suitable for some sort of nerf-blaster flying target shooting. Very very suitable.
That's actually a great idea, moving skeet shooting object you can do inside a garage or warehouse.
Shootable, too!
Or add a servo and a drawing pin next to the battery? I mean just an idea.
Given it has an infra-red reciever, I wager there are accompanying "guns" you can find for it.
Oh man, now I want one!
You're supposed to calibrate it by setting it upside down and press and hold the button until the LEDs flash green, then after a few seconds they'll flash green blue and red signifying calibration.
I've never been able to get mine to hover. It always takes off and crashes.
I came back to watch this again and was not disappointed! The comedic timing of that drone is spot on, I could watch a full episode of drone crashing in your workshop! Good work, Sir!
"That's enough, time to take it to bits" you've been naughty, you'll pay for your sins against the beard
Actually if I had a beard like that it's something he did that to me oh and would become fodder for a project immediately if not sooner no matter what it was maybe maybe not depending on if it was something that was too expensive to become fodder for a project AKA parts
I think it's rather cute - maybe I've been spending too long with technology since lockdown but it seemed cruel to take it apart.
"It stuck in my mind..." I *knew* the beard was the brains of this operation!
Clive pulls a Gimli.
*"NOT THE BEARD!"*
Some guy, probably: "What if Roomba's could fly?"
some other guy: you didn't need the apostrophe.
The Roombas "suck" at flying. :-) I worked for iRobot and saw the prototype Roomba being tested. It would be cool to make a flying version. It would have to be made out of Balsa Wood!! ;-)
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@Dave Micolichek because stairs
@Dave Micolichek *enter Engineer impression* That's what it was made for.
"come back..."
*yeets itself across the room*
Right! That's enough, it's time to take it to bits! I need that printed onto a t-shirt haha.
Totally agree on that Big 5 needs have a t-shirt that says something like time to take your defense or I just got it and take it to bibs or let's just not get it let's take it the bits something like that.
You know Dave Jones from eevblog.
She's always saying t-shirt t-shirt when something like that comes up.
You know t-shirt worthy stuff.
I'm just waiting for big climb to say don't turn it on take it apart.
But then again Dave Jones that's his saying probably copyrighted by now.
Wonder if the copyright system for TH-cam could catch someone using everybody else's catch phrases and give them a copyright strike or at least a the video with someone else's because they use that same saying?
You know what I need to do with a collab between Evie blog and big Clive.
And that would be interesting I would say anything like that would be.
Or big Clive eevblog and Ben heck that would be completely awesome probably the most awesome video yet or videos I should say.
You could also throw in the ring the 8-Bit guy.
Maybe even a v e.
Perhaps even a few others maybe even franlab as well.
That was just all the ones I can think of at the moment even more would be awesome.
You know friend lab has already looked at parts of the Apollo computer not to mention the inside as far as I could go into the flight guidance computer they actually took a part that in a video as far as I can go.
Not only that she was actually building a model of that thing as well.
Not to mention her model of one of the parts of the space shuttle of the model of 2001 the movie that is can't remember which parts you built bud is a pretty awesome looking panel.
Also it was all relay logic.
One reason I mentioned this was because the Apollo program in the flight controls the diski did use miniature latching relays also it was in Luxor luminescent display.
Also most people don't realize that most of the lighting in the Apollo program was actually electroluminescence panels.
Like some night lights and other things.
Could be very lightweight and very power efficient. Not to mention could be easily dimmed.
Very few power supplies were required. For this lighting system.
I wish they would do more videos that they send Park to one TH-camr and to another and to another.
Much like that was done with the Apollo guidance computer boards and also one of the Retro computer channels was reconstructing that at least part of the call Gand system. Computer.
But I do remember that Apple computer project can't remember which one it was that was being sent from person to person to person that was pretty interesting.
That whole opening scene was perfect in every way.
That intro is a classic! Another excellent teardown.
I have one of those. It's kinda fun. You can play volley-drone with it (two people required). It will sense your hand and reverse course before you touch it. The "body" seems to be made from the same kind of plastic they use for those dastardly un-openable bubble packaging.
I love this 😂
I bought 3 of these; one for me and two for gifts. They're a big plus over the type that have unprotected (non-covered) blades which can hurt eyes, etc.
Why does Clive's suddenly seem to cut out ? Given adequate space, what do they do ? How long do they then run for and do they land in a controlled fashion before shutting down ?
@@millomweb as far as im aware just about 90% of them just dive into the earth at terminal velocity, or into a beard.
Why did I expect you to attack it with a lightsaber when you first threw it in the air?
my thougths exeactly i just missed the laser flashes shooting a clive but it got the beard i guess thats counts. use the force clive use the force ;)
Training you come for, training... Master is here
We have two of those things. I don't know whether they're different versions but ours came with a paper sheet which explains how to steer it. If you hold your hand above it and slowly push down it will lower its height. if you hold your hand below it it'll go up and you can push it in direction you want it to go. Ours are quite stable in holding position.
Is beard entanglement like quantum entanglement but hairier?
I was in the middle of watching your 4th of July livestream in which you mentioned this. Very surprised when it just came up in my notifications!
In case you read this Clive... In the drone community we have boards that are under 10gramm have 25x25 diagonal and switch 25.2v at 120amps max 30amp per motor Esc on board. Brushless 6 mosfets per motor :Doh and they also offer a 400mhz micro controller a gyro an accerlometer and an osd chip
That sounds like the basis of a really effective beard muncher.
Yeah, please "review" those
@@ferrumignis I've had some experience with the props of those smaller drones and I got to say if you have that in your face you have a real problem. A weed eater is a good comparison.. Those with the metal blades that is
Lovely to see the expression on Clive's face when his beard caught in the drone!
So it's basically the manhack
Those micro motors are interesting inside. The magnet is in the center of the armature.
So fun running into these videos, even if fairly old, since I have a lesser capable one of these I got from Costco a few(?) years ago myself on a whim at only $15! It's the HOVER STAR™ 2.0 Motion Controlled Stunt UFO Even found the manual online for easier reading. Rarely got the gestures to work well and the sensing near objects/walls, etc. almost always was a failure. I suspect as it would fly off so much faster than expected. Ceiling and floor sensor, surprisingly, did seem to work though. Mine had just a microUSB cable to charge it, no cable included so no circuitry there at least. "Some Day", I'll bring it to a field on a calm day and let it fly and see what happens/where it goes, how long it runs, etc. Hmmm, better put my name and phone number on it before THAT happens though. :)
When a board doesn't provide a lot of contrast for traces, would you be able to apply a bit of heat to a contact to visualize the connected traces with a thermal camera? You don't want enough heat to melt solder, but you would want enough of a thermal difference for one of your FLIR cameras/sensors to visualize the trace.
This should become a new fashion, golden drones entangled in beards.
3:51 There is a reason why all _properly built_ robots, even the cute social ones like Pepper, in real life include a Big Red Button.
Really is impressive how cheapy toy garbage nowadays does what previously could only be done by something like Lockheed.
Big Clive's Beardy Bling!!
You know how we were saying about the golden drone I just thought when you said that where is Zach golden snitch from Harry Potter next thing they will have something like the cribbage drone license from Harry Potter or maybe even not licensed but it could be done theoretically something like that maybe a drone version of a Quidditch game?
Just don't have a beard.
Oh by the way with the big red button that one should have one due to the fact of the processor issue.
It probably would have headed for Professor Dumbledoor's beard, too. :p :) Mind you, no doubt he'd have a spell at the ready to counter the drone.
I'm reminded when the local anime club watched subs of the anime 'Child's Toy' back in the day. Interesting thing about the tapes they used was that they included the Japanese commercials with the program. Always amused me that items that were still fairly high-end business items in the US..PDAs, Fax, and the like...were in the ads marketed as children's toys by Tomy.
What a lovely little thing. Always nice to see you Clive. Thanks for the video's.
Omfg that expression on your face when you knew it was coming for the beard was priceless. Shout out from down under!
I'd like to imagine there was no time between the cut and you just did the entire video with a drone stuck in your beard.
I wonder if the IR-assisted autofocus of your camera was being misinterpreted as flight commands by its IR receiver.
A rare glimps of the workshop. Perhaps we're getting closer to that long awaited tour.
I would love to see his Workshop I think everyone else would too just Navy that's a hell but it was probably just a fluke big Clive either way? Response would be appreciated and a video touring Workshop of course we've been waiting time to get that answer needs to be yes
There isn't enough footage for a tour of the workshop; all anyone can turn up is 15 seconds of drone footage that ends abruptly.
@@phishpot maybe you're right or not enough footage maybe not but still hilarious and yes love worship tour ending abruptly when the Drone finds his beard if that was me and I was able to pull out my beard it would have immediately found something either smashing it Jam do the propeller or just totally current to Apollo salvage parts as fast as possible AKA get a bigger hammer Navy especially if the software and crashed it went nuts.
And as he said it had done that and he couldn't turn off until the battery died bad design no hottest toy for you.
I gotta admit that the title did attract me and wasn't disappointed.
That instant vengeance too
beard entanglement is just another word for quantum entanglement
After it is turned on another short press on the button toggles between modes for big and small rooms indicated by the LED shining in green or blue.
I laughed so hard at the opening. First it flies off (twice) then it has your beard. I bought one of these for my son a few years ago, they're no better in open spaces to be honest. It was from the science museum and it was one of my more regrettable decisions. I got it cos i thought he'd learn something from it. The only things he learned were 1) How to run away and 2) Never launch it outside the front door when a bus is driving by...
I am surprised (as a fellow bearded man myself) that the beard lasted so long in that situation!
Well done.... I loved the shot, It has made my day.....
I hope the beard didn't suffer irreparable trauma.
K Watt.
I have one of these..mines purple got it off allixpress $10. It really freaks the cats out. I dont think it would work outdoors well. Breezes would disrupt it. It flew fine in a gymnasium tho.
Clive as the battery drains does your flip over when close to the floor? I got this for my Savanah cat and she thinks it;s a flying mouse. What a fun night we had. Thank You.
It does have a flip function. I think it detects it as multiple sensing inputs.
The British designed gyro chips are from a harrier jump jet, where they open a valve for 2 seconds sending blasts hot engine gas to level the plane. ✈
The motors are from a mobile phone buzzing mechanism
The embedded software might be interesting
Those vanes are fed from the compressor side of the Pegasus. Therefore it's cold air.
@@BigGoucho hot gas instagram.com/p/CAkJwdhBv5B/
@@rogerc7960 temp is relative. Control 'thrusters ' are powered by air from the third stage compressor. This means that the air for the thrusters is hotter than ambient, do to absorption of engine heat and being compressed, but much much cooler than engine exhaust. Engine exhaust is the combination of both combustion state exhaust and bypass air from the first stage compressor fan. Bypass stage compressor air is used for both cooling and thrust.
One of the things I love about that little drone is. it looks so very, very retro... like something out of a Decopunk (Diesilpunk-offshoot) sci-fi movie. Or maybe late Steampunk.
That gyroscope and accelerator is also a magnetometer chip used in mobile phones.
Technically, it did stay in the shot...
I was Expecting it get caught in the beard... AND IT DID! 10/10
Ah, beard entanglement, we need more entanglement.
Years ago we (work) concocted the idea of a cooled hard hat (the recipient was known as a 'hot head'), however a much younger fellow worker had temporarily pulled it apart, then re-assembled it with the fan in upside-down. We all had a good laugh when he tested it, as it drew his hair in and all jammed up. It was quite the job so extricate his head from his error prone hard-hat.
That little drone deserves to be spudgered to bits
No x-ray machined to death and also wall being restrained by the voice of knowledge and then have a few Nails driven through its battery and just to be on the safe side or on the dangerous side depending on which way you say it.
I love the way you do tear downs. The big print outs, the basic completeness of the way you do explain things. Even after the bastard chewed your beard in it's blades.
the off camera crash, thud, silence is the best.
I got one in blue, the cats love it.
Glad we got to see the beard drone incident
You showed something similar a while ago. The blades were not caged, so it was a nice hazard. I immediately bought one.
That ornate cage looks a bit steampunk... or hellraiser.
Clearly >50% of the mcu's memory is filled with total hatred for beards.
Correction 95% +
Yes - the counterspinning motors are for stability - they do this by countering the torque.
i have one of these, but it has 4 side sensors, hardly ever hits a wall
The square mystery chip looks like a barometer/accelerometer package. The flight controller board on the drone I built has something similar if not the same. The manual of my flight controller board lists it as the barometer/accelerometer package.
Yeah, the port on top is a dead giveaway, definitely a baro in there, and based on the capabilities of the drone an accelerometer would make sense
Yes. It'll contain the accelerometer, gyro and barometer for altitude change calculations.
It's amazing what they squeeze into the smallest devices these day's, mobile phones use them too.
As for the main microcontroller I'd say a clone of a STM32F03x or f10x that older "toy drones" used as mcu
A barometer Reading would not be sufficient for that kind of drone.
Also thinking about software crashing on drones is terrifying...sounds like a really bad time
As demonstrated in one of Casey Neistat's videos when his drone decided to drop communication with the controller just out of reach at the top of a building.
when i was a kid RC toy cars didnt even have steering left-right because it costed to much to make below the hundred dollar mark. now a days we literally have disposable flying robot with built-in gyroscope, accelerator and infrared sensing for 10$..
Oh man the one way turn on reverse.
I'm guessing, having done loads of research on UAVs at university, is guess the QFN chip is a 2 or 3axis gyro. If it was good it would be a full AHRS with a 3 axis accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer. But given the price point, that chip would cost more than the whole product so I guess it's just a MEMS gyro.
I'd rader guess the small chip is a pressure sensor as it has a hole on its top surface.
@@ftrueck I'd go with a combination of both.
@@ftrueck I also saw the hole and first thought barometer. But I'm not sure if that was an actual hole or a bit of schmutz since Clive never pointed it out as a hole.
Oh, also thanks Clive for another informative video.
Kept waiting for it to smack into that monitor and destroy the screen.
I'm so glad this got taken to bits for science. I mean, it tasted beard. It had to be put down...
That's as creepy and freaky as being trapped in a workshop when the biggest blue dragonfly, that lives in the UK, flew in thrashing all four wings, raising dust on the overhead tubes, which attracted it's compound eyes, only got the dragon out by switching off the lights, the strong summer sun light was more interesting. The thought that Carboniferous dragonfly's were a foot across was too much!!! Enjoy your videos, thankyou.
Keep in mind that the props on the motors will help to cool the mosfets that drive them.
So they don't have to be quite as large.
It looks like the IR LEDs are tied to pins that can be inputs, outputs and a wake-up input. Before shutting down the software can change the pin mode from grounding to wake-up, input with a weak pull down resistor. That could also account for the lock-up if the pin control register is being written when a power glitch occurs. We often added a dedicated reset component that would handle voltage brownouts and a timer that would initiate a reset if not cleared by the software. Probably asking too much at the price of this "toy". Somehow I see the Chinese military having this thing follow an IR laser pointer for dubious purposes.
Impressive bit of kit with the limited space.
Bad and naughty drones get sent to the dismantling bench
Beard attack made me upvote this video.
I have two of these. One came with a warped cage and never flew right, the other is fine. They're pretty fun toys for kids to play with.
Maybe it would be a good idea to fit a tiny microswitch to the battery, so you could remove power to the circuit completely for the usual 5 seconds to clear whatever the software glitch is. It's probably some kind of memory management problem (bit over-run like the Apollo glitch springs to mind!)
Autonomous Beard Attack Drone = AB-AD XD
And here I was thinking it would enable the Kill All Humans Mode when the disassembling began.
0:52 I’m so sorry Big Clive but I laughed so hard at that beard eating drone 😆
The one I have you need to calibrate by putting on a level surface and then powering it on. The lights flash in a sequence then go off. You the power off and power on and throw in air as you demonstrated but it tends to hover in place until you bring your hand within sensor range. Theoretically veers away from walls and ceiling when it gets close but sensors are not that great so crashes are frequent!
Love watching your videos Clive!
Something you might care to experiment with is the fixed dimming of LED lights that use a separate driver attached to a ribbon array.
There's lots of videos and gadgets for variable controlled dimming systems, but sometimes you just want a low power light for soft ambient lighting, as I did recently for my wine cellar, and you just need something to fit between the driver and the ribbon inside the unit to attenuate the light output.
Experimenting with this has been a bit of a journey. On some cheap Chinese units, with a driver rated at 11-28V it actually ramps up to 50V if the output of the driver is open circuit. Using resistors to force down the amount of power going to the LED ribbon reveals a remarkably high light output, even when the power available to the LEDs is knocked back by 90%.
Strange stuff. I'm still experimenting before installing these - not sure whether the drivers will survive long term, outputting a much higher voltage than it's rated range as it fights my resistors..
Cheers,
Tom
The electronic drivers regulate the current, so if you add resistors it bumps the voltage up to get the same current. If you use 12V strips you can get inline dimmers.
last attempt is always the one that goes horribly wrong
Could the wakeup system turning the ir leds on could it be it's getting it's initial position? Or have I misunderstood what is happening
New disco electronic beardcessories by big Clive.
I'm only just restarting my interest in electronics. I used to be a technician for PC/Server hardware but I hated the software/OS side of things. Ended up moving on to Carpentry. I wonder how difficult it would be to improve or perhaps redesign the electronics in that drone to make it smarter. One thing I'd be interested to add to that design would be the ability to learn to map and remember a location. So its autonomous ability would improve over time in a room. But I'm sure that sounds much easier to do than it actually is.
Look at James Burton's recent videos on ROS, specifically the intro where the demo robot maps a room and he starts adding this ability to an old project he already had.
BTW, " *its* ability would improve". No apostrophe, just as with "his" and "hers".
Clive, you should have a look at washing machines that fail outside the warranty period and whose components all work fine. Plus all the components on the circuit board also work fine, leaving the micro-controller chip as the suspect. They could be counting mains cycles and are perhaps programmed to fail?
I think you found a slaughter bot prototype. This would explain the untraceable custom chips...
Great vid.
Just a thought. If you were to use a different light source (IR) and a filter (on camera), would you se through the red coating on the board?
So a camera-shy autonomous drone, with a builtin attack mode... nice.
Nice one. An interesting piece of kit. My drone is motion control by your hand, you have a palm sized mouse under your hand to control it. Really amazing.
It probably uses the ir leds as LED when driven and as photodiode sensor when not (to detect the IR bounced back).
Some of the chip suppliers have started labelling chips on underside. Maybe to save the manufacturers from grinding it off to hide it?
The MCU can be a PADAUK mcu as they do not use a logo, and the markings on the chip is not directly model number of mcu etc.
Makes it really hard to identify. The chips are redicolously cheap and program memory is OTP. (One Time Programmable)
Ouch, that self-bypassed current limiting "charger"...
Also the IR Enable diode to the button is probably for factory test, so they can quickly confirm all the LEDs work?
I suspect the IR enable being connected to the power button might be a way to leak more power into the MCU through the IR LEDs and IO pins protection diodes to wake it up properly. It looks so pointless it must be a work-around of sorts for a glitch / instability.
It would be better if they put IR emitters and detectors looking every direction, so it would not hit furniture and beards this often. It could hover around the room until the battery dies.
Hey Clive, have you ever tried/done a teardown of a TENS/EMS machine? They are affordable and pretty interesting, they can produce quite a lot of interesting effects on muscles. Used mine a couple of times for minor back pain and its a weird feeling.
This reminds me a lot of the "Random trajectory flying disco eyeball chopper" you covered a while ago. The charger looks exactly the same and uses a similar mechanism with the IR LEDs. I wonder if it's made in the same factory that makes these kind of toys. I got a few of those..they were fun and cheap enough that you didnt care when they inevitably crashed and broke.
It's often found in the same listings.
Why isn't it pink? :)
Cuz it's designer wasn't man enough to dare to use such a powerful colour
Eh, bright golden will have to do it seems
He looked, he hunted, and was defeated by the seller. Also some people making it gold color would sell better. :/
Not deadly enough to be pink.
Think of it as a single giant piece of golden glitter, or a giant golden flying sequin.
Might force wake up the IR LEDs so they are on and ready to go just in case it is tossed real quick after starting.
but does it combust spontaneously...
The mad scientist in me wants to buy a hundred of these, wait for an indoor gathering, set them all free, and see what happens.
What's the 5v rail used for??
Just for the 3v3 LDO regulator?? Or perhaps the motors too??
Couldn't see on the schematic
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I'm dissapointed to not see the explosion containment pie dish this episode
Oh my, lol... I wasn't expecting it to go for the beard like that!
So if you're being chased by a hostile drone, put on a false beard, wait for the drone to get entangled in it, then take it off.