Minirig in the Air Using a Dji Phantom 3

0:01 I have there one of the mini rig speakers

Hi guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor, and today I'm going to do something that's a little bit silly. I like silly things. I have there one of the mini rig speakers. It's a Bluetooth speaker, you can plug it in manually, but what I'm doing at the moment is I've got it Bluetoothed to my phone. By the way, the tune we're listening to is When You Feel What Love Has, Lenny Fontana featuring D-Train. So, Bluetoothed. But of course, what I want to try and find out is how far I can move the phone away from the mini rig speaker before it loses connection. Now you're probably thinking the easiest way of course is for me to have my phone there and walk outside the door. That's very boring isn't it? I mean, there's no fun in that. Now you'll notice on the mini rig at the moment I've got a cable tie. Now there's a reason for that.

Because I'm going to make the neighbours think what the hell's going on. I have a drone. Right, is this starting to make sense? Drone, speaker, Bluetooth. This could get very, very interesting. I'm going to attach the speaker to the drone, fly it in the air and see how long we get the signal for. Right, okay, so let's pause that. Right, so what I need to do first of all is I need to make sure that the speaker is attached correctly and I'm going to do that using cable ties. So I've got one there already. If I do that, if I just wrap that up like that. So the idea is to now have cable ties On the legs of the drone, and then attach that so it's in the centre. So I need to make sure that the centre of gravity is right underneath, directly underneath the drone. Now this is a DJI Phantom 3, and it can, I believe it can lift a good two pounds, so nearly getting on for a kilogram, which is a hell of a lot of weight. I mean that's amazing, but...

2:25 I've done very shortly

This, I'm not exactly sure of the weight. There will be info on the mini rig in the description by the way. So yeah, leave it with me and I'm going to pause the camera and then just show you what I've done very shortly. So hold on. Right, we're not just good to go yet because I've got to calibrate the compass, what that is and what it does. It just tells the drone where it's sort of flown off from, where it's taken off from. If I don't do that, then wherever I calibrated it... Previously, it'll fly there. Don't really want it doing that, do I? So, turn it all on and move it around a bit and then cross fingers. Right, so here we go. Playing. Phone. Mad. Can you hear that? It's up there. It's breaking. Why am I doing this? This is insane.

5:04 The signal's coming in and out

Get that. It's lost it. There it is, up there. The signal's coming in and out. I think it's because I'm using the Wi-Fi from the house and it keeps on losing connection. Okay, so, it's still getting it. Let's go higher. And at the moment now, let's record this as well. So I'm recording on the... Still hear it? Screenshot. 17 metres. Right, I'm just doing the edits now. I'd like to say a big thank you very much to Mr Lenny Fontana for letting me use his tune and also to the mini rig posse. It's a bit of a crucial piece of kit. Now, of course, a lot of people are thinking, well, all you needed to do was just hold the mini rig, have the phone in one place and then walk away until it lost signal. Well, that's not fun. This is fun. But how about this? I was thinking, you imagine you've got someone stuck on a cliff face and there is no way of communicating with them.

Potentially take a microphone down and a speaker, and they could talk into the microphone and hear through the speaker. So think about it. There is scope here for communicating with people that you can't normally get to. Like, how are you? What's hurting? Oh, it's my leg, my arm. You know, someone's down at Cliff Face. How on earth are you supposed to contact them? Someone is a mile away. And you can see them, but you can't hear them. Guess what? You could have a speaker and you could be communicating via that speaker and you could say, if you agree, put your hand up. They wave their hand, they can understand you so they can hear you. So this is... Potentially another way of using a drone. So once again, Mr Lenny Fontana, thank you very much. Check out the link in the description to the mini rig site and I will finish off with practice and enjoy. And yes, I am a complete nutter and I love it. Thank you.

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