Programming Throwdown, Episode 63, Spring. Take it away, Patrick.

I wanted to talk about a sort of weird, tangent, interesting phenomenon, and that is very

small quadcopters with cameras on them.

So growing up as a child, the, you know, very tiny spy tiny spy airplane spy helicopter spy robot thing was always

like a fascinating thought for yeah for I guess for a young child I mean in general they had remember

honey I shrunk the kids when the kids got really small and they were kind of like, you know, flies, literally flies on the wall size.

Yeah. Yeah. And so, so now the technology for miniature electronics is, and cheap electronics is getting so good that it's sort of culminating this thing that's just, I guess some sort of phenomenon or whatever, but it's called the tiny whoop. So the tiny whoop is a small ducted fan quadcopter.

So the,

each of the,

so quadcopter has four propellers on motors,

uh,

arranged in sort of a square around the center or an X,

but around the center where the electronics and

battery go. And the ducted part means there's like a sort of a, what would you call, like a barrel,

a small ring around the propeller that helps make it more efficient, but also means that

if you like sort of run into something, the propellers don't stop and get caught. You can kind of bump into things, no big deal. Yeah. And so this thing being so small and ducted means you can fly it around inside and it's sort of perfectly fine. It's light enough that it isn't really going to damage much. I mean, you should still be careful, but it's not dangerous like the kind of Mavic pros, like you see people flying around the big outdoor quadcopters.

You probably can't fly this outdoors because the wind is too big.

Anyway, so it's a small ducted fan thing and then someone put a really tiny camera on it so that

it broadcasts to if you have first person view goggles, which are basically goggles with like

little TV screens in them, sort of like

virtual reality screens, only there's not normally 3D information.

Got it.

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