"How long did this take you?" I was prepared to hear "a year", and the dude says "A month... but I took some time off to do school work too". This man is a genious! They should be funding him!
Not really a genius, what he is doing is at a basic level really. Sounds like he hasn't worked out the autonomous part of it at all yet. Not to mention the line laser isn't going to help at all, you need a grid matrix laser much like the kinect.
Joe Anthing What type would that be? Because I doubt you're the person who coded IVAS back in 1996 or VIVOS a few years ago (which are the two major game-changers in the field of intelligent video analysis software).
Joe Anthing Dude, I made both those things up. Next time you try to look cool in front of strangers on the Internet, at least do a simple Google search first xD
He has been working on this only for about a month. What he is trying to do is actually fairly ambitious. Those of you who would belittle what he has done so far (like aoxilus) fail to grasp that he is putting lidar on the craft, to map close spaces AND to track and control its 3D position, orientation, and movement through space. It is NOT just somebody tearing apart toy copters. It is NOT just substituting a different interface to control the machine. Trolling here has gotten out of hand, and just sounds like so much whiny jealosy. Would it kill any of you critics to have a minimal (entry level for humans) respect for anyone, anywhere, at any time? I would be interested to see where this project goes, and how difficult it is for him to make the machine function in a completely autonomous fashion. I sincerely doubt that many of you would be able to duplicate his success, especially thousands of times, here on UA-cam. -Doc
***** So since you have such a distaste for furthering the works of others whom have made them available for the community to expand upon, should you now throw out your cookbook, all of your appliances and begin pedestrian travel to and from your job, also which should be without the aid of electricity or mechanized tools or technology? No matter how much of a 'Me! Me! Me!' society we digress into we are all reliant on the works of others for individual success!
What he's accomplished so far is great, but the most difficult implementations of his project are "yet to come" and in the engineering world talk is cheap. Especially, talking about creating an autopilot; unless he finds an open source system small enough to implement on that toy, he will be spending months attempting an autopilot on his own.
aoxilus No. Open source software has copyrights pertaining to the author and if someone tries to license it, the author can simply sue for infringement.
as a man who spent most of his life farming and logging and never using a computer at all until about 25 yrs old I am so amazed by guys like this. He took his finals and went on spring break in between working on this.
+jtoddjb as a man who has a little bit of general experience with electronics and software development, I can tell you that I too am amazed by this guy. To be able to achieve what he has achieved requires quite a lot of knowledge. Not knowledge about the project itself, just general knowledge to efficiently plan and execute the project. Amazing!
Nerds and Geeks are different, Nerds concentrate more on porn, stalking people using the internet and more stuff like that, while Geeks are a bit more involved in the outside world like the guy from the video.
Yeah. I too spent about a month working on my time travel machine... it too, looks somewhat unimpressive right now as it's 85% hard bits that you just done see... my end-date is open-ended too... LOL
They just know the field way better and have way more knowledge about what they are doing. Once you acquired the same level of knowledge, all these things will be easy to you aswell. Just keep on learning. :P
I love when people go off topic, the video was interesting and this kid is techno smart. How could the comments stray so far from the subject. Thats one hell of a trolling job.
This type of creativity is amazing. Taking everyday technology and transforming it into something more useful is good. To Kyle and the Stanford Robotics Club, job well done.
because lidar is a portmanteau of light and radar... He says "obviously" because he said "lidar is like radar but with laser beams" which is basically what the word lidar implies.
Crypt1cmyst1c Not exactly. "The name lidar, sometimes considered an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, (sometimes Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging), was originally a portmanteau of light and radar." James Ring, The Laser in Astronomy. p. 672-673, New Scientist Jun 20, 1963
He's really doing this the hard way. He's scanning the environment with his D.I.Y. LIDAR and hoping to pick out the heli out of all the data+noise.... yeah, good luck with that. I've been down that road. He has a better chance of success if he sets up an IR beacon on his heli and sets up three IR filtered cameras looking at space along the X, Y, and Z axes. He can then do some simple image processing to extrapolate the cartesian co-ords of his heli in near-real time. That's the only way he's going to get a control loop with a high enough iteration frequency, low enough signal/noise ratio, and sufficient position & acceleration fidelity to allow autonomous control of the heli. He could also extend the system further and get several orders of magnitude better control if he used a transmitter and an IMU on the heli in the control loop, but that's another project. ....other than that, looks like a fun little learning project with cheap off the shelf parts.
Brilliant! This kid is awesome! If he can do this in a month while taking exams etc imagine what he could do in a year without any interruptions. Well done.
A esd bag is used to protect electronics from getting electrocuted by statit electricity (that the same stuff that zapps you if you touch a shoping cart etc.) and the issue with putting the arduino on one of them is: A: It doesn't protect at all B: It can short out the Arduino btw: sorry for my bad english, it's not my mother tongue
Not really autonomous r actually yes bt only within its own space, because as he said he's using algorithm and marking an area with laser beams the drone could not fly outside that area without the algorithm.
Being an engineer, I find this interview soo satisfying. Usually guys just throw around buzz words to make it sound cooler. But everything he said actually makes sense. the project is pretty simple and I could finish it in a month and a half but only after procastinating for a seminar maybe lol. guess, that's why he's at Stanford! *silently cries*
The arudino only takes serial input from the laptop and turned it into IR pulses. This really isn't anything amazing, and it's no where near being "autonomous" .
Andrew Micallef It's completely the wrong way of doing it. He's using a Web cam with an IR filter and a line laser. Should be using something like a kinect that can actually sense depth.
Kids a genius. I say this because ive always beleived there was new ways to do things with different particles in the universe. Using his knowledge and putting together this program is amazing
Hacking = Making it with the least resources, or Finding a way to make a existing better + simpler. Finding mistakes/weak-points in a system/object and take advantage of it, or in modern ages, modify a system or object with ''simple'' cheap tools/methods.
For sure but the point of this video was to run with a $20 toy helicopter, not a decent RC copter with hobbyist parts / upgraded battery. These low end pieces won't have the battery life to make use of this.
mastermanio2 I dont remember him saying the idea was to do this with a $20 copter. That is just what he started this project on.obviously he has put a lot more money into this with the laser and electronics he has purchased. i think its more about the concepts hes applying. When he has it all figured out and fine tuned it would be much easier for him to apply the same concepts to a copter that could do a lot more.
I like how people are bagging the kid out for knowing nothing and using the wrong kind of microcontroller... check the date of the upload people. It was over 3 and a half years ago. Stuff's changed.
That's quite amazing. He basically went to walmart, spent about $100 in components and is recreating what the military does for millions.. It's young men like this that give me the greatest hope for the future.. I love the concept of using the line laser and webcam for 3D imaging.
Lets test Google plus.( this will be top comment as its praising them) Google plus is awesome i don't know why people hate it, i think its very useful and easy once you get the hang of it.
Awesome job man. Anyone being negative either does not get it or they know about this stuff and are being completely ignorant. Great software engineers, computer engineers, programers etc,etc will tell you that his is awesome. We all start somewhere and either make something new, improve it, or just keep on trying. Best thing is to test and drive, test and drive.
I liked this guys passion for taking bits and pieces of knowledge from different areas of engineering and deciding to create something useful. If this small drone can then be used to map a room with laser measurements it would save hours of time on site surveys. If anyone knows if this has already been done, I'd love to hear about it.
I'm astounded right now. This kids project put's mine to shame by comparison no doubt. They're both good in their own right. It's just the creepy weird similarity between his 3D 'laser scanning' helicopter, and my 3D 'laser scanner' made FROM a helicopter. Kudos a thousand times to these guys for doing what they do.
As a guy who understands about 10% of what this guy is talking about... is he basically making those mapping drones that they let loose in the caves in the movie Prometheus?
Michael Rose Essentially, no. The thing on the table is used to map the room - the drones themselves would then use that information to fly around without hitting things. In prometheus the idea is more that the drones have an active understanding of their environment and are mapping the caves for the humans use.
daweller In layman terms: He took apart the drone and reconfigured its remote function to run on his PC, so now his PC is the remote (pitch, yaw, roll, thrust etc). Then he is using a webcam + a laser as a cheap version of a laser scanner to scan a room so that his drones can fly inside them without hitting anything. His challenge he said was to scan such that it is of high enough resolution, once he does that, he can program his drones to do anything.
This is really interesting... It is cool to see that nowadays we are able to transform cheap flying toys into autonomous drones. The next step would be to mount an IR led with an Arduino Micro directly onto the helicopter with a scaled down laser system so that it could fly autonomously through varying rooms, instead of just staying inside of the one, while also giving it the ability for it to transmit information back to the computer. It probably wouldn't have been possible in 2013 though.
Val Rie That is actually a really nice answer! I've tried to listen to my freinds and many of them do this sort of "questioning everything" thingie... but nice catch there, I didnt notice it.
Thetimeman100 Well he is "experimenting." He's obviously still tampering and not 100% on his design. To speak with full certainty on his part would be a mistake.
I actually understood every single word he said. It's actually not that easy. I found this arduino board from a local radio shack that's going out of business, and I actually have one of those cheap little helicopters. Same model. I'm gonna try this.
Peter Pukdeesri Easy as pie, as long as it is copying signals with an arduino there are PLENTY of libraries that help you sniff code with ease (be it 433mhz or IR), don't forget to find out what each octet of data stands for (ex: first octet = direction, 2nd octet = speed with 4 settings and so on). Have fun ;)
he doing something creative thumbs up for that so what the funny part aoxilus. I would say he smart and creative doing something that will keep him focus. In stead of angry and destructive
aoxilus Aoxilus, you're such an idiot!!! The immediate implications of this simple and incredibly cheap method of LIDAR mapping is so obvious to anyone in the construction business alone, not to mention numerous other science fields and industry. This kid could just about bankrupt the whole of industry of 3-D mapping via laser scanning, an industry just getting off the ground---and costs a fortune to own the equipment! Great job Kyle Moore! And if you ever get a chance to read this, please, please, email me. Now Aoxilus, live up to your word and either remove your comment or/AND apologize to the young man! At least HE IS GOING PLACES!
Scott Williams This exact project (albeit on a larger scale) was done in an electrical engineering capstone course at my university. The concept exists and it isn't unique to the kid in the video.
MadBreh Yea, I was pretty brash. I just didn't care for the put down of a kid that's accomplishing a lot more than I'm able to muster these days. MadBreh, please share with me, if you can, some information about this type of project or your electrical engineering course/university where i can poke my head into and see just how beyond this old mans capability these days---thanks!
I love it when people goto seminars to show off their shit, and they take something that dont really work just yet. the idea is there, it "kinda" works, about 85%. shit ive got a uav that "kinda" works, its about 90% done. Im not going to any seminar, id feel like an idiot showing off an idea of something that dosent work just yet around everyone else who is showing working products. keep up the good work.
There is a big push from the department of education of Australia for primary school kids to learn how to code, I hope it leads to things like this, amongst other areas. Really really awesome.
For you hobbyists, the' ArduPilot' with GPS, is a good device to start with (currently about $80. with GPS), then add the 'kind' of visual system this kid is envisioning. The rest is simulated neural networking, adaptive pathfinding, routing optimization, various statistical weighing algorithms, etc.
Hacker is a word created by Hackers to describe the creation of a different object by modifying an existing object, possibly creating a new purpose or expanding the existing purpose or even a hybridization of purposes. People using a garbage bag to keep dry, or the applying bacteria to the waste of breweries to produce materials that can be used in batteries, are Hackers.
a.) His will most likely cost $10, 000 less than the militarie's will b.) His is about 10X smaller than most c.) I'd like to see you hack a $15 heli and THEN make a 3D mapping system and THEN control it with your iPhone Seriously, quit knocking this guy
Jaren Hinten I bet his was $500 million cheaper to build and program, not $10,000 cheaper. You have to remember that the army would pay $10,000 for a silica based carbon receptacle, aka glass ashtray.
Just because what he did is very clever doesn't mean you wouldn't be able to do the same. Don't underestimate yourselves. All you need is an ambitious idea and by working methodically you can achieve almost anything.
While it's definitely cool what he did - it's not something that's 'genius'. He is just interested, and reasonably talented in electronics. The things he did in a month probably were like 1 hour a day on average - so 30 hours. In those 30 hours, he reverse engineered the protocol for the IR remote, which is mostly time consuming, not that hard. Then he wrote an app, just for fun. Not really hard at all though. Then, he STARTED working on a LIDAR with a laser and a webcam - yeah, cool, if that worked it would have been a LOT more impressive. Also, keep in mind he's in a Robotics Club, so he probably got some help. He sure shows promise, and might become great, but this is not something you should call a 'genius' project. It's cool, just not genius level.
Exactly, I have no doubt that he may go on to make something very clever with this, but from his current progress in this video, all he has done is recorded the IR commands and plays them back to the helicopter via Arduino. He even said it can only go up and down. Lasers won't help with this really, he would be better off using motion tracking from 2 or more camera's, or for better precision, add IR filters to the camera's and add a IR beacon to the helicopter.
It's actually not as hard as most of the commenters think. * Reverse engineering infra red control. very matured tech, methods all over the internet. * LIDAR positioning, very common tech. Ripping LIDAR modules from robotic house floor cleaners for DIY projects are popular projects. * Flying a drone. open source everywhere. all are pieces of cake. I don't see anything special about this. this is more like a hobbyist DIY practice, like a typical high school project in China. It is a fun project but if it's something from the prestigious Stanford Robotics Club, then it is little bit disappointing. I hope the remaining 15% (did he say he finished 85%?) could be more interesting like actually putting some AI into the drone flight, like coordinated flight in multiple drones.
basically everything has already been done before, a quick Google search for each step should yield easy to follow information on how to do it. he even said that a lot of it is easily available online lol
Anyone try this recently? How'd it turn out?
I got to hacking the RC remote but not much farther.
It's time for you to re-cover the subject!
Cant decide which RC model to go for to hack the Propel star wars drone.
I am still trying
You have red colour wings and balancing rod nice job
I soldered some wires once.
Doc. FunkBlack made my day 😂😂
Doc. FunkBlack OMG 😂😂😂😂😂
i debugged my drone once
I hacked a toster once
Doc. FunkBlack Lemme guess.. it was in 1764?
"How long did this take you?"
I was prepared to hear "a year", and the dude says "A month... but I took some time off to do school work too".
This man is a genious! They should be funding him!
Not really a genius, what he is doing is at a basic level really. Sounds like he hasn't worked out the autonomous part of it at all yet. Not to mention the line laser isn't going to help at all, you need a grid matrix laser much like the kinect.
Coding the world's first of its type intelligent security video analysis software.
Joe Anthing What type would that be? Because I doubt you're the person who coded IVAS back in 1996 or VIVOS a few years ago (which are the two major game-changers in the field of intelligent video analysis software).
Similar features to the IVAS, but for a different application and can work with simple hardware. Can't say much more at the moment.
Joe Anthing Dude, I made both those things up. Next time you try to look cool in front of strangers on the Internet, at least do a simple Google search first xD
This is why being called a nerd is a compliment.
Nerds are why we have toys
Engineers are the ultimate nerd
Fk most lawyers and their self inflated fake ✨status
About 10% of lawyers fight the system
+Crazy Funny Cats Exactly.
+Casher59 *than
+CosmicCheetah Jocks are millionaires, but nerds are billionaires!
skmetal7 Jocks often end up as burger flippers.
He has been working on this only for about a month. What he is trying to do is actually fairly ambitious. Those of you who would belittle what he has done so far (like aoxilus) fail to grasp that he is putting lidar on the craft, to map close spaces AND to track and control its 3D position, orientation, and movement through space. It is NOT just somebody tearing apart toy copters. It is NOT just substituting a different interface to control the machine. Trolling here has gotten out of hand, and just sounds like so much whiny jealosy. Would it kill any of you critics to have a minimal (entry level for humans) respect for anyone, anywhere, at any time? I would be interested to see where this project goes, and how difficult it is for him to make the machine function in a completely autonomous fashion. I sincerely doubt that many of you would be able to duplicate his success, especially thousands of times, here on UA-cam.
-Doc
ditto to docbravo2go, this is impressive hacking, even if he has adopted previous work by others. Kudos.
***** So since you have such a distaste for furthering the works of others whom have made them available for the community to expand upon, should you now throw out your cookbook, all of your appliances and begin pedestrian travel to and from your job, also which should be without the aid of electricity or mechanized tools or technology? No matter how much of a 'Me! Me! Me!' society we digress into we are all reliant on the works of others for individual success!
What he's accomplished so far is great, but the most difficult implementations of his project are "yet to come" and in the engineering world talk is cheap. Especially, talking about creating an autopilot; unless he finds an open source system small enough to implement on that toy, he will be spending months attempting an autopilot on his own.
***** I don't think you understand how open source software/hardware works.
aoxilus No. Open source software has copyrights pertaining to the author and if someone tries to license it, the author can simply sue for infringement.
as a man who spent most of his life farming and logging and never using a computer at all until about 25 yrs old I am so amazed by guys like this. He took his finals and went on spring break in between working on this.
+ jtoddjb I can relate to that.
+Random UA-cam Watcher wtf kind of comment is that
i meant who the fuck is conformed enough to say shit like that
+jtoddjb as a man who has a little bit of general experience with electronics and software development, I can tell you that I too am amazed by this guy. To be able to achieve what he has achieved requires quite a lot of knowledge. Not knowledge about the project itself, just general knowledge to efficiently plan and execute the project. Amazing!
I DEMAND AN UPDATE ON THIS GUY!
J Castelan No update yet...
J Castelan he sounds like the kind of guy that knows more about you than you do...
shieeet
top secret clearance at the agency does not allow updates!!
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Very well spoken guy, Seems to be very passionate in what he does. I hope he gets a job in this sector.
That was a good interview. Guy was a cool cucumber and knew what he was taking about.
Harrison Allen, you have a poor grasp of the situation.
J+J Minecraft Ne spelt it right doe...
I was wrong... The nerds have ALREADY taken over...
yes Yes YESSSS next thing you know we will build flying tanks after y'all who messed with us and gave us swirlies in the toilet in high school.
Before you do that, us cool kids and jocks will beat you to a pulp. nerd
zymuur NO. We will go to our secret corner in the garbage can where you left us and meet up in there to create a plasma turret.
Nerds and Geeks are different, Nerds concentrate more on porn, stalking people using the internet and more stuff like that, while Geeks are a bit more involved in the outside world like the guy from the video.
6laderunner That was meant as a joke
This is VERY impressive for just one months work!
Yeah. I too spent about a month working on my time travel machine... it too, looks somewhat unimpressive right now as it's 85% hard bits that you just done see... my end-date is open-ended too... LOL
and then it was completed, he called it skynet.
Lol so true
+A Turtle waddap turtle!!
+Dat Boi ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I so want one...how has it progressed?
Attt
The force is strong in this one...
Reading things that interest me make me realise the people doing this stuff are so much smarter than me.
They just know the field way better and have way more knowledge about what they are doing.
Once you acquired the same level of knowledge, all these things will be easy to you aswell. Just keep on learning. :P
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He needs to get a job with Amazon as an R & D engineer to build their drones for home delivery operations.
That would be like Bo Jackson leaving the pro's to play in the sand box
His proposed system would not work for that his is for a small room
I love when people go off topic, the video was interesting and this kid is techno smart. How could the comments stray so far from the subject. Thats one hell of a trolling job.
This type of creativity is amazing. Taking everyday technology and transforming it into something more useful is good. To Kyle and the Stanford Robotics Club, job well done.
2:40 he said "obviously". I feel dumb now :(
I feel dumb when ever he opens his mouth I have no idea how I should do it even if I had all the materials and programs
to understand the context of "obviously" it should be 2:42
because lidar is a portmanteau of light and radar... He says "obviously" because he said "lidar is like radar but with laser beams" which is basically what the word lidar implies.
It's not a portmanteau, it's its own acronym. LIght Detection And Ranging, vs RAdio Detection And Ranging.
Crypt1cmyst1c Not exactly. "The name lidar, sometimes considered an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, (sometimes Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging), was originally a portmanteau of light and radar." James Ring, The Laser in Astronomy. p. 672-673, New Scientist Jun 20, 1963
He's really doing this the hard way. He's scanning the environment with his D.I.Y. LIDAR and hoping to pick out the heli out of all the data+noise.... yeah, good luck with that. I've been down that road.
He has a better chance of success if he sets up an IR beacon on his heli and sets up three IR filtered cameras looking at space along the X, Y, and Z axes. He can then do some simple image processing to extrapolate the cartesian co-ords of his heli in near-real time. That's the only way he's going to get a control loop with a high enough iteration frequency, low enough signal/noise ratio, and sufficient position & acceleration fidelity to allow autonomous control of the heli.
He could also extend the system further and get several orders of magnitude better control if he used a transmitter and an IMU on the heli in the control loop, but that's another project.
....other than that, looks like a fun little learning project with cheap off the shelf parts.
I was thinking that too. Good thinking there!
His method is how the military does missile guidance in some cases.
Tim R. Lol I was about to comment that
Can't believe there are haters here. Great project and interesting to hear what he has to say.
That young man is really cool. I respect him and I don't envy him because he deserves all the energy available. I send my best wishes.
Interesting idea. Anyone knows if there are updates on this?
Update: he's been hired
Is there any vids
@@monoblockadi9530 by the NSA he went to update the Reaper drone to kill Soleimani so I guess he put this autonomous cheapo copter project on hold
literally best ever, this kid is spending all his time programming for fun... AWESOME!!!
Very cool Kyle. The world needs more electrical engineers
I love to see young people doing things that take patience, knowledge and dedication. So cool!
This guy is a smart cookie.
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A lot smarter than Achmed the clock boy!
Ahmed was like 10 years old you dumbass, this guy is in college
Congratulations! The world needs people like this guy!
It's been two years since this video aired.. Where is the kid now and has any progress been made.?
Brilliant! This kid is awesome!
If he can do this in a month while taking exams etc imagine what he could do in a year without any interruptions. Well done.
Great Idea, but the only thing that bugs me that the arduino mega was ON a ESD bag..
i feel u bro... i cringe the whole time while watching the video. *sigh
A esd bag is used to protect electronics from getting electrocuted by statit electricity (that the same stuff that zapps you if you touch a shoping cart etc.) and the issue with putting the arduino on one of them is:
A: It doesn't protect at all
B: It can short out the Arduino
btw: sorry for my bad english, it's not my mother tongue
This guy is awesome, has a real knack for explaining things too.
"Autonomous"
pacrat90 yes? That's what he is creating.
Not really autonomous r actually yes bt only within its own space, because as he said he's using algorithm and marking an area with laser beams the drone could not fly outside that area without the algorithm.
That is amazing! what is really amazing is that he was not only able to think up what he wanted this drone to do but t build it.
Nice work!! Love the way young people get into that sort of technology at that age.
first time in my life watching a youtube ad to the end 😂😂
Murad Alsharif it's get worse when you can skip them
Being an engineer, I find this interview soo satisfying. Usually guys just throw around buzz words to make it sound cooler. But everything he said actually makes sense. the project is pretty simple and I could finish it in a month and a half but only after procastinating for a seminar maybe lol. guess, that's why he's at Stanford! *silently cries*
one time my power went out and i used the gray metal box thing to switch it back on
How you done this?
"Well, it actually been done couple of times in the internet."
Man, hatsoff to use giving credits to the internet.
its 3 years later.... lets see the finished version..... and lets get some links to the arduino coding.
The arudino only takes serial input from the laptop and turned it into IR pulses. This really isn't anything amazing, and it's no where near being "autonomous" .
Joe Anthing Not yet at least
Andrew Micallef It's completely the wrong way of doing it. He's using a Web cam with an IR filter and a line laser. Should be using something like a kinect that can actually sense depth.
Joe Anthing that's pretty much how the kinect works, he's just using his own version of the same principle
Kids a genius. I say this because ive always beleived there was new ways to do things with different particles in the universe. Using his knowledge and putting together this program is amazing
I bet well be hearing about this guy in the near future
Very cool! The light radar scanning is the real gem here it could be used for more real time AR interaction and robotic vision!
Dude, you are like, the world's biggest nerd right now.
I wish I ever get half as much a nerd as you.
I'm not even going to comment the irony that is going on right now. It's too easy; not worth it.
its people like him that make giant leaps in the way our world works.. One word.. Brilliant 💡
Hacking = Making it with the least resources, or Finding a way to make a existing better + simpler. Finding mistakes/weak-points in a system/object and take advantage of it, or in modern ages, modify a system or object with ''simple'' cheap tools/methods.
Nice work Kyle! Need more makers like this ;)
This is really cool, except RC copters this size have like 8 minute battery life.
My syma can fly 32minutes on a lipo tenergy battery
For sure but the point of this video was to run with a $20 toy helicopter, not a decent RC copter with hobbyist parts / upgraded battery.
These low end pieces won't have the battery life to make use of this.
The syma cost $20 and the battery cost $12
Exactly.
mastermanio2 I dont remember him saying the idea was to do this with a $20 copter. That is just what he started this project on.obviously he has put a lot more money into this with the laser and electronics he has purchased. i think its more about the concepts hes applying. When he has it all figured out and fine tuned it would be much easier for him to apply the same concepts to a copter that could do a lot more.
That is a very smart kid. He's pretty coordinated too. Keep up the good work bro!
these guys are creating skynet
Noe Camarena no
Noe Camarena
Skynet creates itself when the T-X terminator downloads it into the system.
This does deserve a follow up. This is the kind of thinking I would love to see followed by Tested...
I understood the spring break bit.
Lol.
mark rainford really? It was all really simple tho. Still, was pretty funny what you said :3 . I guess you can still have my upvote
Wow, wow the kids great. Hope to hear more about his future projects
I like how people are bagging the kid out for knowing nothing and using the wrong kind of microcontroller... check the date of the upload people. It was over 3 and a half years ago. Stuff's changed.
Almost six years
That's quite amazing. He basically went to walmart, spent about $100 in components and is recreating what the military does for millions.. It's young men like this that give me the greatest hope for the future.. I love the concept of using the line laser and webcam for 3D imaging.
0:36 "Figure out where the hell the copter is"
People can call him a nerd now but soon he might be their boss
Lets test Google plus.( this will be top comment as its praising them) Google plus is awesome i don't know why people hate it, i think its very useful and easy once you get the hang of it.
you proved nothing
Richmond Estes actually I kinda did
Exactly.
Awesome job man. Anyone being negative either does not get it or they know about this stuff and are being completely ignorant. Great software engineers, computer engineers, programers etc,etc will tell you that his is awesome. We all start somewhere and either make something new, improve it, or just keep on trying. Best thing is to test and drive, test and drive.
If you could catch up with him on where it he is now that would be amazing
a nerd with social skills. he's going to go far
I liked this guys passion for taking bits and pieces of knowledge from different areas of engineering and deciding to create something useful. If this small drone can then be used to map a room with laser measurements it would save hours of time on site surveys. If anyone knows if this has already been done, I'd love to hear about it.
People love to make fun of "nerds" when they're in college, but it all changes when they graduate and make 3 times your salary :P
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Hey Nerd - This is what you did in a month? You work for DARPA now.
I'm astounded right now. This kids project put's mine to shame by comparison no doubt. They're both good in their own right. It's just the creepy weird similarity between his 3D 'laser scanning' helicopter, and my 3D 'laser scanner' made FROM a helicopter. Kudos a thousand times to these guys for doing what they do.
As a guy who understands about 10% of what this guy is talking about... is he basically making those mapping drones that they let loose in the caves in the movie Prometheus?
daweller Essentially, yes.
Michael Rose Essentially, no. The thing on the table is used to map the room - the drones themselves would then use that information to fly around without hitting things. In prometheus the idea is more that the drones have an active understanding of their environment and are mapping the caves for the humans use.
daweller In layman terms: He took apart the drone and reconfigured its remote function to run on his PC, so now his PC is the remote (pitch, yaw, roll, thrust etc). Then he is using a webcam + a laser as a cheap version of a laser scanner to scan a room so that his drones can fly inside them without hitting anything. His challenge he said was to scan such that it is of high enough resolution, once he does that, he can program his drones to do anything.
Pretty slick project! Definitely interested so see how well it will work.
Can't tolerate the upward inflection any more (?) lol
I wish our robotics club was organized enough to start projects like this .-.
ive been waiting for the code and how to for 4 years now cmon where is it
I'm thinking God I can't wait til my multi-billion dollar tech corporation hires this kid
That kid is so annoying. Where every sentence sounds like a question? It's not a very assertive way of speaking?
Isn't that upspeak? Supposedly from ancient Ireland, ya?
you must really hate Australians? they do that all the time?
Kevin Langstone your criticism is way more annoying, yes?
LOL? I am reading your comment?
Im Ron Burgundy?
This is really interesting... It is cool to see that nowadays we are able to transform cheap flying toys into autonomous drones. The next step would be to mount an IR led with an Arduino Micro directly onto the helicopter with a scaled down laser system so that it could fly autonomously through varying rooms, instead of just staying inside of the one, while also giving it the ability for it to transmit information back to the computer. It probably wouldn't have been possible in 2013 though.
everything he says end like a question? it's kind of weird? i don't understand?
Thetimeman100 California accent
SpAzMaNiK ah
Thetimeman100 That's the open-ended spirit of software/hardware development.
Val Rie That is actually a really nice answer! I've tried to listen to my freinds and many of them do this sort of "questioning everything" thingie... but nice catch there, I didnt notice it.
Thetimeman100 Well he is "experimenting." He's obviously still tampering and not 100% on his design. To speak with full certainty on his part would be a mistake.
I actually understood every single word he said. It's actually not that easy. I found this arduino board from a local radio shack that's going out of business, and I actually have one of those cheap little helicopters. Same model. I'm gonna try this.
Peter Pukdeesri Easy as pie, as long as it is copying signals with an arduino there are PLENTY of libraries that help you sniff code with ease (be it 433mhz or IR), don't forget to find out what each octet of data stands for (ex: first octet = direction, 2nd octet = speed with 4 settings and so on). Have fun ;)
he doing something creative thumbs up for that so what the funny part aoxilus. I would say he smart and creative doing something that will keep him focus.
In stead of angry and destructive
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aoxilus Aoxilus, you're such an idiot!!! The immediate implications of this simple and incredibly cheap method of LIDAR mapping is so obvious to anyone in the construction business alone, not to mention numerous other science fields and industry. This kid could just about bankrupt the whole of industry of 3-D mapping via laser scanning, an industry just getting off the ground---and costs a fortune to own the equipment! Great job Kyle Moore! And if you ever get a chance to read this, please, please, email me. Now Aoxilus, live up to your word and either remove your comment or/AND apologize to the young man! At least HE IS GOING PLACES!
Scott Williams This exact project (albeit on a larger scale) was done in an electrical engineering capstone course at my university. The concept exists and it isn't unique to the kid in the video.
MadBreh Yea, I was pretty brash. I just didn't care for the put down of a kid that's accomplishing a lot more than I'm able to muster these days. MadBreh, please share with me, if you can, some information about this type of project or your electrical engineering course/university where i can poke my head into and see just how beyond this old mans capability these days---thanks!
That is amazing. When he said one month I nearly spat out my drink! :D. I'd love to see an update is a month or so
I love it when people goto seminars to show off their shit, and they take something that dont really work just yet. the idea is there, it "kinda" works, about 85%.
shit ive got a uav that "kinda" works, its about 90% done. Im not going to any seminar, id feel like an idiot showing off an idea of something that dosent work just yet around everyone else who is showing working products.
keep up the good work.
There is a big push from the department of education of Australia for primary school kids to learn how to code, I hope it leads to things like this, amongst other areas. Really really awesome.
he looks like michael from RT
For you hobbyists, the' ArduPilot' with GPS, is a good device to start with (currently about $80. with GPS), then add the 'kind' of visual system this kid is envisioning. The rest is simulated neural networking, adaptive pathfinding, routing optimization, various statistical weighing algorithms, etc.
It's not hacking it's modifying
Well in today's world hacking can also mean something along the lines of modifying something to work beyond its intended purpose.
do you know what hacking means?
Hacker is a word created by Hackers to describe the creation of a different object by modifying an existing object, possibly creating a new purpose or expanding the existing purpose or even a hybridization of purposes. People using a garbage bag to keep dry, or the applying bacteria to the waste of breweries to produce materials that can be used in batteries, are Hackers.
i m a life hacker ill hack your life into little pieces with an axe ;) btw hack also means shortcut
havent you ever heard of the expressions "hacking things together" or "its a bit of a hack but it works"
Well done, this is great in every way.
That LIDAR work he is doing is interesting.
Impressive - but need to see the final project working instead of presenting theories only - great work - keep moving
Yeah our US military already has this technology
a.) His will most likely cost $10, 000 less than the militarie's will
b.) His is about 10X smaller than most
c.) I'd like to see you hack a $15 heli and THEN make a 3D mapping system and THEN control it with your iPhone
Seriously, quit knocking this guy
Jaren Hinten
I bet his was $500 million cheaper to build and program, not $10,000 cheaper.
You have to remember that the army would pay $10,000 for a silica based carbon receptacle, aka glass ashtray.
Oh shit I failed to realize that you were the only one that knew this, fucking jackass. What else do you know that no one else knows
Khavannah Dunkley
take you meds and carry on a civil conversation. Your turrets, is treatable
Khavannah Dunkley I KNOW so much that other people don't know, in some cultures I'm considered to be ...a God.
Awesome start, hope too see more...
Kickstart that
ugh
Yes, rob my money please. It's a product that already exists....................
100% of this chat went right over my head but my fuck this is cool.
the government has now taken this super nerd
well done mate,i watched the vid,and i am impressed with your way of thinking.keep it up......
so in short he did nothing new,
I dig Kyle Moore's hobbies.
Its not hard.. having a arduino and having a good knowledge in coding this looks easy in some ways !
Just because what he did is very clever doesn't mean you wouldn't be able to do the same. Don't underestimate yourselves. All you need is an ambitious idea and by working methodically you can achieve almost anything.
While it's definitely cool what he did - it's not something that's 'genius'. He is just interested, and reasonably talented in electronics.
The things he did in a month probably were like 1 hour a day on average - so 30 hours. In those 30 hours, he reverse engineered the protocol for the IR remote, which is mostly time consuming, not that hard. Then he wrote an app, just for fun. Not really hard at all though.
Then, he STARTED working on a LIDAR with a laser and a webcam - yeah, cool, if that worked it would have been a LOT more impressive.
Also, keep in mind he's in a Robotics Club, so he probably got some help.
He sure shows promise, and might become great, but this is not something you should call a 'genius' project. It's cool, just not genius level.
Exactly, I have no doubt that he may go on to make something very clever with this, but from his current progress in this video, all he has done is recorded the IR commands and plays them back to the helicopter via Arduino. He even said it can only go up and down. Lasers won't help with this really, he would be better off using motion tracking from 2 or more camera's, or for better precision, add IR filters to the camera's and add a IR beacon to the helicopter.
yea, well I know I couldn't do it!
This is essentially like a flying Roomba, in a sense.
If he succeeds, he must create a version that kills flies and mosquitoes, as well as annoy cats.
It's actually not as hard as most of the commenters think.
* Reverse engineering infra red control.
very matured tech, methods all over the internet.
* LIDAR positioning,
very common tech. Ripping LIDAR modules from robotic house floor cleaners for DIY projects are popular projects.
* Flying a drone.
open source everywhere.
all are pieces of cake. I don't see anything special about this. this is more like a hobbyist DIY practice, like a typical high school project in China. It is a fun project but if it's something from the prestigious Stanford Robotics Club, then it is little bit disappointing. I hope the remaining 15% (did he say he finished 85%?) could be more interesting like actually putting some AI into the drone flight, like coordinated flight in multiple drones.
basically everything has already been done before, a quick Google search for each step should yield easy to follow information on how to do it. he even said that a lot of it is easily available online lol
Haha every time he "autonomous" i couldn't help but say "AUTONOBOTS, ROLL OUT!!!"
what happened to this guy? Can't find an update anywhere. I guess he got a girlfriend
No, no he doesn't