Anyone try this recently? How'd it turn out?

I soldered some wires once.

This is why being called a nerd is a compliment.

"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!

I DEMAND AN UPDATE ON THIS GUY!

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 KZfaq. -Doc

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.

and then it was completed, he called it skynet.

I was wrong... The nerds have ALREADY taken over...

Very well spoken guy, Seems to be very passionate in what he does. I hope he gets a job in this sector.

The force is strong in this one...

That was a good interview. Guy was a cool cucumber and knew what he was taking about.

This is VERY impressive for just one months work!

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 :(

He needs to get a job with Amazon as an R & D engineer to build their drones for home delivery operations.

Reading things that interest me make me realise the people doing this stuff are so much smarter than me.

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 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.

I love to see young people doing things that take patience, knowledge and dedication. So cool!

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.

He is using only one pin and he used a Mega for that.. Nice job.

Interesting idea. Anyone knows if there are updates on this?

Nice work!! Love the way young people get into that sort of technology at that age.

Nice work Kyle! Need more makers like this ;)

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.

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.

It's been two years since this video aired.. Where is the kid now and has any progress been made.?

Very cool Kyle. The world needs more electrical engineers

This guy is awesome, has a real knack for explaining things too.

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.

first time in my life watching a youtube ad to the end 😂😂

Great Idea, but the only thing that bugs me that the arduino mega was ON a ESD bag..

literally best ever, this kid is spending all his time programming for fun... AWESOME!!!

That is a very smart kid. He's pretty coordinated too. Keep up the good work bro!

one time my power went out and i used the gray metal box thing to switch it back on

its 3 years later.... lets see the finished version..... and lets get some links to the arduino coding.

Pretty slick project! Definitely interested so see how well it will work.

Wow, wow the kids great. Hope to hear more about his future projects

"Autonomous"

This guy is a smart cookie.

Awesome start, hope too see more...

well done mate,i watched the vid,and i am impressed with your way of thinking.keep it up......

If you could catch up with him on where it he is now that would be amazing

This is really cool, except RC copters this size have like 8 minute battery life.

Congratulations! The world needs people like this guy!

Very cool! The light radar scanning is the real gem here it could be used for more real time AR interaction and robotic vision!

I understood the spring break bit.

I bet well be hearing about this guy in the near future

Great and inspiring work! Keep it up!

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*

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.

He should work for hacksmith

Well done, this is great in every way.

Would love to see an update on this when he's finished.

these guys are creating skynet

0:36 "Figure out where the hell the copter is"

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

its people like him that make giant leaps in the way our world works.. One word.. Brilliant 💡

he looks like michael from RT

ive been waiting for the code and how to for 4 years now cmon where is it

I dig Kyle Moore's hobbies.

This does deserve a follow up. This is the kind of thinking I would love to see followed by Tested...

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.

Dude, you are like, the world's biggest nerd right now. I wish I ever get half as much a nerd as you.

great interview, nice one kyle

How you done this? "Well, it actually been done couple of times in the internet." Man, hatsoff to use giving credits to the internet.

It's not hacking it's modifying

Can't tolerate the upward inflection any more (?) lol

I wish our robotics club was organized enough to start projects like this .-.

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

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?

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

awesome dude congrats

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.

Hey Nerd - This is what you did in a month? You work for DARPA now.

everything he says end like a question? it's kind of weird? i don't understand?

I would like to see more videos like this one ! :)

Sounds like a boatload of fun.

Kickstart that

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

The robot uprising seems to get closer every-day.LOL

I'm extremely impressed.

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.

That LIDAR work he is doing is interesting.

People can call him a nerd now but soon he might be their boss

An update would be awesome.

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.

Its not hard.. having a arduino and having a good knowledge in coding this looks easy in some ways !

Wow very nice programming!

Thats actually awesome

the government has now taken this super nerd

Yeah our US military already has this technology

a nerd with social skills. he's going to go far

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.

44 sec... How many are looking at the triangle on the shirt?.. Damn illuminati .. Lol This guy is intelligent🌹hope hes smart enough to not work for a weapons manufacturer Its 2015.. Nov1... Whats this guy doing right now?... ✨👽✨

what happened to this guy? Can't find an update anywhere. I guess he got a girlfriend

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.

give this man a job.