Gadgetory

so I'm headed out to go fly drones with my buddy Jared he's a big youtuber who lives close by me and has one of those new phantom fours I've had a phantom too since about when they came out and it's been pretty fun to fly I'm not as good as I wish I was I don't know everything there is to know I mean matter of fact last time I flew a drone this happened so I might not be the best flier of drones but this guy Jared he's pretty good I've flown once or twice he's going to teach us today how to deliver something special what are we doing so I have a little gift for my wife and we're going to use some of the drones special features to deliver it directly to our house all right let's get started let's do it so we've got the DJI phantom4 the remote and then the little kids in the bag here the Phantom has a pretty unique system called waypoints where you can actually control a set pattern they call it a mission where you tell where to go how high how fast and we're going to set up those different way points to direct the drone where to go and drop off the gift and you do it all through the remote control on the iPad it's really easy you just hit a couple buttons as you fly the drone it's probably one of my favorite features on here so right now we have the Phantom 4 turned on and what's going on here how do we set up those waypoints so this is like the main screen that you see at the beginning when you're about to take off and obviously we're not taking off yet but if you'd that button right there that'll take you into different the different fly modes that you can go through we're going to go to intelligent and then waypoints now obviously we're not in the air just yet so but that's the path that you would take and we're going to take off right now so we can show you a little further just as simple as slide to takeoff there we go now again to get back into the waypoints we're going to hit the different fly modes intelligent waypoints we have a they call them missions and so we're going to tap new mission and it's going to give us a few different options here we can see how many waypoints we have the total distance of the mission delete the Waypoint and record the Waypoint now you see C 2 and C 1 those are actually going to be the buttons on the back here C 1 and C 2 so it's really easy to fly and record at the same time so I'm going to hit my first button here I just recorded that one Waypoint there I'm going to fly forward at least 25 feet and I'm going to hit record again and I can fly wherever I want now as long as I fly 25 feet away from the previous one and I'm 9 feet high in the air it'll be able to record the Waypoint so Jared is there limit on how far away you can set these waypoints so I believe the max path length is 5,000 meters so that's I think that's as long as your mission can go and the biggest radius is 500 meters there and that gives you your limits and then again you have to be 25 feet from the last point and at least three meters high above the ground so once you are done with your mission set up there's a few different options you have here you can have a head two consistent with recording consistent with a route or free consistent with recording means that the drone will fly in the same way that you had flown it whether it's turned or anything else when you created the Waypoint consistent with the route means it's going to point to the direction of the next Waypoint and free means you can like yaw the drone throughout the waypoints when you're done with the mission you can have two options you can have hover where it ends or you can have it return to the starting point of the very beginning when you flew off the home point and you can also adjust your speed from very low all the way up to five meters per second once you're all ready to go hit apply and then you're good to go so right now it's uploading those waypoints that we just set to the drone is it actually starting the mission right it's starting it's going to the very first point and once it gets there it's going to start its mission cool so now it's starting so when you set the Waypoint it's setting how high the drone is and the location like where it's facing and stuff exactly yeah now if I was a pitched or yacht a different way I have it set to consistent with the recording so it's doing the exact same thing that I did on the on the drone if it was a different point it would point to it as it's flying too so there's different settings that you can have to make get different looks as you're flying the drone okay we're gonna make it go a little faster alright geração now that we've learned what waypoints are how to set them up I think it's time that we actually set up this mission for the delivery I think we should - I think my wife is ready to receive this gift and I'm ready to give it to work okay let's do it so right now what we're hoping to accomplish is Jared wants to deliver this gift to his wife without actually having to fly the drone to her so we're going to use the automated system to take the gift fly it up into the air all while no one's controlling the drone and then drop it off on his front doorstep where his wife will be waiting for it let's see what happens so we're finding the actual route right now that the drone is going to fly autonomously by itself so we started way down there at the end of the street we're going to fly the drone around this roundabout and then up the street over there all the way to his front step and the drone will follow each Waypoint as we set it so this is probably the trickiest part of the whole thing we're right by the townhomes that we live and we're trying to navigate through all of the trees and brushes and everything make it look cool while staying safe so we're down the driveway but we've got to go that way it looks like we have 20 waypoints set up already yes and we're at a distance of 242 meters so we've got plenty of room to go you should've went up to like 5,000 or so the 5,000 lengths yeah so the biggest thing is getting around that corner with the waypoints so I'm going to go down here a little further now you can see here this Waypoint is too close to the one I previously just did within 5 meters so I've got to go this way a little bit so it gives you a little warning Waypoint altitude is below 32 feet maintain a steady speed and fly with cautions basically saying don't be an idiot so Jerry's lining up those final waypoints making sure that the cameras positioned right towards the front door that way when he delivers the package the camera will be focused on his wife and positioning it so the package will be ready for her to grab all right Jarrod think it's gonna make it I'm hoping it does we've set it up to do so so I think with our powers combined we can make it work alright so we've learned how to set waypoints yep we've actually set the waypoints for this specific mission check what are the chances of this actually succeeding you know I want to say that we've got at least an 85 percent chance of this going through exactly how I wanted to I don't doubt the drones going to go through and pick the right way and everything I think the drones going to make it just fine where I have a little hesitation is in the actual package if that's going to hit like a tree or something I don't know but I'm so excited to see I'm very anxious and it's I think it's gonna do well but there's a small chance of something terrible happening hopefully don't had any kids or tree that's right exactly all right so if you want to watch the actual drone delivery for the very first time that we've ever attempted this go ahead and click this link in the center also put a card in the top corner and in the video description if you're on mobile you can go find it they're looking forward to it it's gonna be awesome thanks stump for watching hope see you around