How NINTENDO Changed Drones FOREVER!! 

THIS IS VIDEO 1000 and one of the funnest videos I have ever pout together. Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey over the last 10 years. I really hope you enjoy this. What year did you fly your first real drone in??

I love these old day stories.

Stew-a-roo-roo, You never cease to impress. I am digging the creativity and shout outs in this vid. Thanks to all those home improvement gurus of our early TV watching years. All we need now is a hearty Tim-The-Tool Man Grunt and we're Golden. Lmfao. Thanks for the History lesson bro.

I was there with the multiWii too... went thru baseflight, cleanflight and then betaflight and the cc3d boards

Great video for your 1000th Stew - thanks for all you;ve done getting people into the hobby and upo and flying.

Wow. Best non review video that you have made so far imo.. got me real excited for part two!!

Very nostalgic thanks😊

Very informative!👍👍

Congratulations on your 1000th video Stu! Great fun way to share the history of how we got to where we are today. Whilst I no longer have any MultiWii, or Baseflight drones, like driving a classic car, I still get out & fly my OG BlackOut Mini-H for old times sake.

Excellent "How it when down" video Stu. Love the the various cuts and editing that went into this, definitely next level! And 'one more thing' ... thee's Part Deux. ♥😎👍👍

LETS GOOOO! 🎉 UAV FUTURES MEET UP, when is it happening Stu?

Big Thumbs up, and never a truer word said, i lived it to, keep up the great work, cant wait for part 2

For those of us fairly new to the hobby this was soooooo good to understand where this all came from

Congrats on 200k subs. i loved video 1000! been watching since the first 99 dollars drone video!

Thanks for helping me navigate the goodbad old days, Stu. Congrats on 1000 videos-can’t wait for more!

Exciting stuff

2012...KK2 controller - 12" quad tube frame, 2826/2200kv w/10" props & heli landing gear. Eventually I got a Walkera UFO canopy to cover the monsters brain.

It's about time for a livestream. I can't wait.

Absolutely loved this video, dude. I can tell you liked making it too, which is the most important thing. It's been draining my soul making content lately, so I'm just going back to making stuff I like😎 Also, it was awesome to hear TimeCop mentioned again lol. I definitely appreciate everything that guy did for the drone community and I remember seeing him trolling other devs/contributors on the forums; and as a young man, thinking it was the funniest thing ever. I'm also very grateful for everyone that put aside those troll comments and pushed for the innovation we have today. Excited for part 2, brother 🤙

Great job! Cant wait till part 2!

Man this was amazing! I was hoping somebody would do a small documentary of how FPV quadcopters started off. I started in 2020 but Im fascinated by history. Excellent job Stu! Thanks for this and your hard work!🍺🍺😀👍

Oh man, cool video, loved it!

This is easily the best video youve ever done, big congrats dude. While i wasnt around in the wiimote hacking and baby monitor dismemberment, its still fascinating to see where the hobby started. And now you look at that video of a drone racing an f1 car, all of that was because of a bunch of dedicated people passionate about the hobby.

Legend. Just like this channel. 👍🏻 great vid bro. ⚡️

Wow, I had no idea about any of this. It kind of helps to explain how FPV drones got to the state they are now, still being as comparatively open as they are when the trend for everything else is to become locked down and proprietary. There's one thing I want to add, the very early days when people were basically first inventing quadcopters, they used helicopter gyros. I saw people posting pictures and reports of this on some RC forum back in the day. Now you can get different kinds of fixed wing RC airplane autopilots and flight stabilizers, but back then the easiest way to get an rc ready gyro was to get one of the ones meant to stabilize the yaw axis of RC helicopters. Their whole design was to try to hold the yaw access steady. I don't remember exactly how they wired them up now, but they used pairs of them to stabilize the x and y axis of those early home built quadcopters. I don't know if they even had a way to control yaw with those things. The reports I read were just about trying to make them stable. I must have been well and truly out of the loop by the time people started using gyros from wiimotes. I haven't done exhaustive research into this so I'm not certain about it, but what I am certain of is that the first mention of a quadcopter style aircraft that I encountered what's on that RC forum. As far as I've been able to tell hobbyist RC pilots invented the entire electric multirotor concept that has become so influential today. And I've got to say, given the way governments around the world are trying to push them out of the air through onerous drone regulations designed to favor big business, I don't think they get enough credit for that. If it wasn't for the same people they're trying to push out of the air the concept wouldn't exist and nobody would care about that extremely low altitude airspace. We made that. Not Amazon, not zipline. It was only once those pioneering FPV pilots got the attention of the world that big business except their sights on it and the drone gold rush started.

Great video! Still I can't wait for part 2!

This video was fantastic. I didnt know thats where it alp started but it makes so much sense. Thanks stu!

love the history of this can't wait for part two!

amazing video; loved it!

so that's why it's called the multiwii. I was thinking is there any sort of connection, turns out I forgot about it having imu inside. Never had one, never experienced one lol

I like this style of video! Do it again!!

Thank you so much. I love all your video content. I've been flying since 2019 and I had no idea the roots of this hobby came from the humble beginnings of a few visionaries. This really needs to be made into a documentary. I wish I could see the rest but I'm not a member of your Patreon.

This video Is sooo good man, even If sometimes you struggle with the green screen, It's so well put that we forget about It !

love these videos! make more

Stew! Please find your guard and whack it back on your grinder. 🙃 Great video as always mate. 👌👌

you know you've been around long enough to know what this video is about just from the thumbnail 😅

Great video.

This is really good. I never heard the background of FPV even tho Ive been doing this on and off for years.

So i was right on the Wii smashing picture!?😂 Looking forward to the video!😁

Hype!! 🎉

Dji had flight controllers at that time...

this was great!

Great stuff.

Lol i just love how there is no saftyguard on that ankelgribder safty first all timer😂😂 Nice whit a bit of history thx for the education stu.. And grats on vid 1000🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I remember 2005-2006 where Silverlit X-UFO was one of the first quads using a mechanical gyro and 8” props. 2007 a german group of techies developed Mikrokopter out of aluminium profiles and self developed i2c based ESCs. Only 10” and 12” props were available in both directions, CW and CCW

I love this! I started right when cc3d came out

This is phenom!

Love the history lesson!

Timecop came back from the future to create Baseflight

Yeah that is something that many don't know anymore. Followed the whole development of flight controllers since the beginning until it got more pracical but it was quite amazing for the time to even have an active flight controller at all.

the sledgehammer got grinning Stu ;) hehe may i ask why you upload in 50hz and not the 60hz standard?

Did you forget about kk multicopter? Only gyros and pid tuning via on board pots. I got two of those flight controllers. Rolf Bakke should be mentioned.

Retro! Harvesting gyros on heli yaw controllers on KK controller for a snap together plywood frame.

I started getting into drones at this time 😭😭❤❤ the good days

Sick!

How crazy. I just dusted my Wii off 3 weeks ago and home brewed it 😅I love it

I have a box with a bunch of naze32 and ccd flight controllers from the beginning days

Ayee, I started with the wii as well and then kk

all the PPE, no guard lol

i bought a second hand kit with goggles, transmitter, fc and frame all the motors and escs off ebay for like 300 bucks, it was a bargain until i dug deeper but i learnt a lot from it. this would've been late 2017 early 2018. i got that fucking thing in the air all together for maybe 30 seconds. it came with a KK2.1.5 fc and that was soooo interesting and wack. i would've subbed to you as soon as i made the order i reckon. i bought a heap of new stuff, screwed up some soldering and shelved it, moved away and just got my hands back on it. i'm keen to try get a new build on. I always appreciated your sense of humor and opinions I got into a lot of fpv tubers and I'm veerrryyyy excited for the next episode

My cleanflight armattan chameleon with emax 2205 motors is still running lol

I was today years old when I learned why multiwii is called multiwii. Origato, Nintendo San.

Nothing on OpenPilot or any of it's drama? Or all the CC3D and Evolution clones/derivatives?

I tried doing this, not even in FPV. I never got the damn thing to stop just flipping over.

The F1 didn't come out until 2012. People were flying FPV around on my multispawning highly modded FPS gunship server all the way back starting in 2008 up until 2014 when GameSpy login servers went offline. They called it FPV because it started on an FPS game server... that's why it's not called RC... because it did not start in the RC community. RC plane and helicopter guys call their hobby RC. We were in a totally different future... a dysutopian 2142 future... an Oblivion (the movie) future.

Oh man, I enjoyed the trip down memory lane as I was along in the beginning! But man I gotta say I'm not on board with the editing style of the standing to bent over view and back..lol please no more of that.

This was fascinating

Awwww giddy up!

This was way too hard to find. Whe. Yt recommended part 2 I searched 3 different ways for this and only found it by visiting the part 2 video. Please add something common to both.