Oh Quickly All right, hey guys welcome to Rotorite as you can see Sean has put together yet another Weird freaking drone this one. This is probably your biggest creation. Yeah, this is ring drone guys I love you guys can even see this on camera. It is so big I mean this is what is this a five foot down I'm six feet tall So this is maybe a five foot diameter. Yeah, you've made I first started out with a 10 foot diameter Version that I wanted to build I called the GT in on the CNC mill and I had it all laid out in the shop And it was just a little bit too flimsy. I didn't think it was gonna hold its own support Maybe 10 foot diameter is a little too big, so we'll make it five foot diameter You know, it's about the same size as multi-GP gate. We should be able to hit that right? Yeah, so that's a whole thing Make a drone shape like a giant ring it basically becomes a flying dive gate flying dive gate And how sweet would that be to dive a drone through a drone? So we took this witness down to Barnwell South Carolina at GTI government training institute this site of Rotorite rampage our FPV freestyle festival that's happening this may may 15th and 16th and while we were there for our site inspection We broke out ring drone to see if we could have some of the best pilots in the world that do some crazy maneuvers around it Oh Nothing I don't actually work So it's whole thing started because we saw Brooks Coleman a member of our Rotorite Facebook group thought of this idea Ring drone and has been working to make it happen so you reached out to him right? Yeah, I reached out to Brooks and I've been chatting with him and talking to him about his progress and seeing how he's doing I thought it was really cool and I wanted to kind of do it myself and I kind of asked him if it would be cool if I I tried to attempt to make one myself also I actually started with these aluminum bars I wanted to make something that was extremely lightweight but also durable and I had all these aluminum bars left over from back in the David Vinistel tricopter days jumped into CAD I started seeing seeing a couple pieces. I cut them out of G10 on my CNC mill slapped it together So essentially what you've ended up with is aluminum bars held together with angled pieces that you cut out of G10 How do you mount the motor this is also a small way to G10 motor mount? Yep, and just happen to work out it turned into like an octocopter type design I just that what this really is like as far as the flight controllers concerned Yeah, does it just think this is an octocop the flight controller just thinks it's not How is this even wired up? Where is the drone? Actually the flight controllers actually right here, okay? So in here not in the center where you would normally see it so there's a pod back here and this is essentially The drone right right there so you got your flight controller you've got your air unit your FPV camera Yeah, I see one foreign one so there's one board here that can drive four of the motors But there's you said eight motors total motors. That's right. What else so on the other side of the board Another end here. We've got another foreign one ESU over here gotcha you have to get the power to the front Yes, yes, the power had to be ran What I actually ended up doing was running two separate batteries Okay, I got one on this side one on that side, but I didn't want one to drain faster than the other so I did run a power Lead around just to try to keep them in balance Yeah, okay, if this can fly this kind of proves the theory that the flight controller can be anywhere right? Yeah, because the flight controller is not in the center. Yeah, it doesn't matter on what point you take the measurement Tilting is tilting y'all is y'all it shouldn't matter But I can definitely see it not working out a hundred percent to the theory because this is certainly not a Origup body, there's there's a lot of flex here. It was a little less flex before we broke it You're not being a lot harder than I expected to make it through you think dude. This is a five Ring again. I can't even fit it on camera. I dive through gaps like this big, okay? This should be easy. It should be super easy. It was not easy It's the left That's it with though. Yeah, I hit I nick that thing like eight times and it was fine. Great is awesome Great job, Sean. I did reach out to our fellow teammates Josh and Nirk and they try to help me One of the major problems we have it is it wouldn't y'all at all. I didn't know why I was like why isn't this thing y'all Is it because the flight controller is off-centered? I I don't know what it is and they said maybe the props just aren't big enough Right, I mean if you think about okay, how big this thing is yeah, it's crazy how much Rotational inertia it has you actually had a really cool idea. Yeah, so my idea my kind of singular contribution to this was To try to solve the y'all problem by angling some of the motors So what a drone does when it y'alls all the props that spin clockwise when you try to y'all it will spool those up and Spinning those up will cause the drone to rotate counter clockwise to conserve its angular momentum So my thing was you could angle the motors So in this example the motors that are spinning clockwise if you angle them so that those are Thrusting in a way that would create counter clockwise thrust You would amplify the effect you don't just have angular momentum rotating you actually have Angled thrust does that make sense what he said science it worked Hi I'm gonna go back to that There you go Oh The moon Hey, that's so cool Oh, did you roll it? Oh no It's done It was barely flying straight no it was flying good he had to try to roll it come on. I had to try and roll it Just run it back We can we can bend it back all right grab that side Wait, can we unplug it first before we fly it's fine. All right. Just pull It'll fly that one seriously whatever. Let's just test out for test I Like without one problem, but the ultimate was at rampage. There is a like 125 foot smoke stack that you can dive down It's a sweet dive you got to watch out for the guide wires We're thinking dude we've got to get the flying dive gate at the top of the smoke stack go through the ring and Die the stack. Yes, you're gonna fly that TV now for the first time Sean. I'm gonna try to fly to TV for the first time Oh All right, this is pretty cool This thing's still working you guys want a chance to dive through a flying ring gate We're gonna be bringing this thing out to rampage again. That's happening in May So you guys are coming to rampage? We will get this thing up in the air and see how many people can dive through it before it's broken So many just Guys thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video you think Sean made something awesome make sure to hit the like button show Some love we had a blast be sure to subscribe to the channel make sure to hit that bell We'll see you next time on Redar