@@MaxLai_0104 bruh, you can get a cheap soldering iron for less than $5, a decent 3d printer is at least several hundred dollars. You can't make rc planes without SOME components, were you expecting him to weld wires together with a fucking skillet?
A4 paper has those weird dimensions (not a round number in either metric or imperial) because of its aspect ratio of √2, which allows cutting it in half and still retaining the same ratio. A0 paper is defined to an area of 1 m², and each subsequent paper number (A1, A2, ...) is the previous paper halved. Therefore A4 paper has an area of 1/16 m², and a √2 ratio, which in no way produces round numbers for the two dimensions!
trabladorr, don't let a few decimals scare you off! There's an underlying elegance to that standard. Check out Numberphile's - the silver ratio video if you're interested :)
It does not have rounded dimensions in any measurement system, because of the irrational √2 factor. A4 paper is defined to an area of 1/16th of 1,000,000 mm², or 62,500 mm². This gives it the dimensions of 297.301778751 mm * 210.224103814 mm, which are rounded for ease of use to 297 mm * 210 mm.
I built this at home and it is one of the coolest things I have ever made! Thank you so much for making this video showing us how to make awesome things like you. Originally I tried using the 3D printed base for it but the motors for the drone I got were a little too big for it so I ended up making the base out of cardboard. Works really well!!
I have a kit for making an RC paper plane, haven't tried it yet. This DIY approach is awesome, I like how you re purposed that mini drone. I'm in Pittsburgh, PA. I was thinking we should collaborate. I was given this COLOSSUS RC helicopter for free because some parts broke, I bet we could gut it for parts and make something new!
@@Waved_Saucer @Kintayisme It's seems a bit arbitrary and to some extend it kinda is. The DIN paper size is based around the idea, that every format has the same ratio compared to the next smaller/ bigger one, which is (1 : 2), with the aspect ratio of width to length always being (1 : √2). The biggest format A0 has a surface area of 1m² and the smaller formats derive off of that. So while the exact lengths are a bit impractical, the constant aspect ratio has proven to be incredibly useful for scanning and printing. As documents of different DIN sizes can be processed without having to distort or crop them.
@@parttimecripple the only successful ornithopter I know of that actually flew was a model that used blank revolver cartridges. I cant remember what calibre as I haven't read the book for near 40 years.
When soldering wire extensions, it is good practice to stagger the lengths. This way it is first, a bit more compact, and second will not short out even if insulation over the joints isn't used and a single piece of shrink tube can cover both connections to make a neat job.
Come on people!!! Letter size is the US standard it is 8.5"x11". A4 is the EU standard and it is based on a golden ratio sequence starting with A1 being 1 sq. meter and having the golden ratio as it's aspect ratio.
It's aspect ratio actually isn't the golden ration. It's the square root of two. It's done like this because this way if you fold it in half by the longer edge, than the aspect ratio remains constant.
X Aviation no. Record goes to me for the longest flying paper airplane. If it’s rc it doesn’t count. He would get the world record for the longest flying RC paper airplane.
xeladoozo A4 paper doesn’t quite go neatly into decimal measurements either (although it nearly does). A1 size paper is defined as having an area of exactly 1m^3 and a ratio of 1:root2. This ratio means that when the paper is cut in half the new sheets will have the exact same aspect ratio as the original sheet.
@@newtoncraftmcTry looking up information on “ the golden Square”. All these paper sizes a1-a5 etc are based on it. The odd numbers are due to the fact that a true square does not actually appear square to the eye. To base the paper sizes on the true square would not therefore look good either. The Golden Square has one plane longer than the other side but gives the eye the apparent “true” square. All paper sizes are then based on The next size down from the largest A0 is half that of. AO and all subsequent sizes are half. Of their predecessor. All this predates the USA. This is as I remember it!
This was really inspiring, thanks for the idea! I got this working today! I used the propel x01 that they have at wal mart, the one with the three blade props. I had to fiddle with it a lot, but for the air frame i tried the classic dart and a glider with mediocre success before settling on one called the nakamura lock. It is excellent and very stable. I cut out a piece of the plastic packaging that the drone came in to mount the electronics on instead of foam lol. So yea this can be done pretty easily still, even if you can't find that exact model of micro drone anymore. Thanks for your hilarious videos and the inspiration to fix my soldering iron and make something cool today 😎
This is, without question, one of the most wonderful videos on all of RU-vid. Thank you so much for making this. Not only is it wonderful to see what can be done with some paper, an inexpensive quad copter and a few other materials, but your expressions and sense of humor add so much to your project. You are a great teacher. (I'm 66 and a retired teacher, so I also taught for a little bit.) The video montage near the end is delightful. Thank you again for all of your hard work making this for us to see. Best wishes to you.
This quiet, elongated tutorial is certainly a change of pace from your normal videos, but I really enjoyed it! especially with you explaining every step I would feel very confident making one of these planes. Also thanks for demonstrating an easy to make non 3-d printed part version, some making channels seem to forget that materials other than 3-d printed plastic exist ;)
This is such a great video! Its easy for everybody to build this thing and its a lot of fun flying it! Peter explains very well so everybody can understand it. Amazing video!
Let’s take a second to analyze something. This channel started approximately 1 year ago and we are already at 555k subscribers, Peter, you sir are a maestro of inventions 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The pizza would get cold from the drone air, and that would be a crime against humanity. Do you really want to complicate pizza with large warning labels telling the customers not to eat the drone or its batteries? I would not do it. Just wait for the walking robots and then we'll worry about automated pizza delivery. Right idea wrong decade..
Just curious... As far as energy efficiency, will the paper airplanes fly longer than just the drone as it comes from the factory? I ask because of the idea that one is working off of typically observed 'planar lift' principles and the other is working like a helicopter or VTOL, and those, typically, consume more energy for time spent in flight.
Potato based building materials.... French Frys- Extruded profile Chips-Riffled for added strength used for reinforcing landing gear mounts and motor mounting. Skins- wing sheeting. Mashed potato flakes- use with CA instead of baking soda or micro balloons for fillets.
Two years later and still my favorite project. Would the conversion work with those hand-launched balsa or foam gliders? Rubber band planes? G.I. Joe Air Commandos gliders?
I guess the 'A size' stands for ANSI A size, which is just size from american paper size series different from ISO 216 'A series'. We need more standards, right?
Just to add to the confusion. ISO 216 A series's dimensions verifies a simple property: if you cut the paper in half, say an A3, it becomes an A4, maintaining its aspect ratio. If you solve the equation L/W = W/(L/2) (math statement that ratios stay the same) you see that L and W are related by sqrt(2). Hence the weird measurements.
Ok, I'm 100% going to make a handful of these as christmas presents for my nieces and nephews. I'm going to be the coolest uncle in the world. Once you have the electronics, it's basically the perfect combination of electronics kids love but can't do themselves and paper airplanes that they CAN do themselves. So they can be creative... AND when the plane they make eventually dies, you can just make another one.
HEY BUD, MY MUM SAW YOUR VID, AW MAN HER REACTION WAS VERY AMAZING IT WAS LIKE WHEN PEOPLE ARE CHILD, thank you. much respect and appriciate your efforts.
It made me laugh when Peter just yoinked the camera off the table. I know this is a very old comment, but I just wanted to say your videos make me happy.
I got the older step son into RCs and he wants a airplane for his birthday. Think I'm going to have him build one of these first so he understands half the fun is tinkering with them. Awesome video!
Thank you for creating top quality content, honestly you saved my life once again !! Honestly I was going crazy on how to do this and vuala!! Your video was the first one to pop! keep being amazing bro 😎👌
The weird lenghts of the A4 paper are because the long side is sqrt(2) times the short side, this is to mantain the ratio between the long and short sides when the sheet is folded in halves
A roll of raw paper weighs 20 lbs this is important when you’re doing art because you need a heavier paper for different mediums. Standard printer paper is around 50 lb
Does it matter which side of the quad you use (front or back propeller motors) and also how does it work? Bc i bought a 20 dollar one and rekt it today. Makes me sad so im trying to bring it back to life 👌😂😂
Mine had screws holding it together, but basically the same thing. Made by "Skyrocket Toys" model 01529. This is one cool build. Can't help but giggle that it is practically a disposable airplane while the power section can be simply attached to a new one. Love it.
@@mcearl8073 thank you, creative is my middle name!...wait, no, it's creates and it's my last name...of my channel...there was a point to all this...I think...
Joel Creates You gotta do whatever you can to be noticed on RU-vid these days. The few videos I’ve watched so far are well done so hopefully at some point you get a lucky break and maybe get mentioned on a bigger channel or something and then it’ll take off like a remote controlled bean can or something.
Crazy to think that one of those micro copters is cheaper than just buying the parts separately ($15 vs like $250 for a tiny flight controller, a couple of motors, and a controller) even though they do literally the same thing Also, you could get full 3 axis control by using all 4 motors (set them in an X arrangement) then when you pull up, the top motors will turn off or slow down, and vice versa when you push down, similarly with roll due to the way the drone would control the yaw axis (though it would require you to build it in 2 parts and poke a hole though the paper for the wires to go through)
A4 is similar to standard 8.5 x 11. A3 is similar to 11 x 17. Dang Europeans keep emailing me documents in A4 size and confusing my printer. It's called 20lb bond because 500 sheets of 11x22 paper weighs 20lbs. That was a standard size at one time I guess, for whatever reason. The thicker the paper the heavier the bond rating/weight. A 500 sheet ream of 8.5x11 will weigh 5lbs if it's 20lb paper.
"A" series paper sizes are used in Australia too, not just Europe. Also in Australia we measure paper weight by GSM (grams per square metre). Standard is 75gsm I think.
I feel like the foam one would do slightly better if the foam was slightly longer and was placed slightly behind the center of the planes mass, because the center of lift is much farther back due to the flaps in the back, generally you want the lift and mass in the same spot. Moving the flight controller slightly back would move the center of mass back and produce a better flight experience. Though I’m not sure so idk.
The DIN A paper format actually comes from the metric system. The DIN A1 has the the size of 1 square meter, A2 is the half of that, A3 is the half of A2 and so on.
I'm a more recent viewer of your content and I have been way down the rabbit hole of videos to get here, and holy crap is this cool. This is some premium content
I'm 53 years old now but all my life I was fascinated with flying I guess you're never too old to learn how to build these little planes thank you son for teaching me how to do this
