This is the second one of these. I bought Was the first one while I was learning I was learning out on a Field which was like stroy type stuff. So it really get damaged as it hit the deck and But I decided I want to put this back together again and And I'm gonna use enough and so we can go over the whole line of setting and everything and Go that together, but first of all, I'm gonna talk to you about the other bits that are on here Now as you can see here, we've got some We've got some servos some on each side for these ailerons And the nice thing about these that these are metal gear servos I would say just for the sake of it get metal gear. Yeah, that's likely to strip What's going on these a max two things are pretty good 9 gram servos Doesn't mean so much should be any type of advert or anything. It's not Now when you put them in you want to make sure you get one of these little like servo setting things where you can get it to the Middle they're pretty cheap I got myself this thing and the reason why I got this as well is because it comes with some bulbs Three of them discharge a battery for you a lot better than leaving it charged, you know Sometimes you might come back. You've got a couple of packs left. I haven't been discharged and you're not gonna go out for a few more days weather whatever So you got this charging having one of these this Bulb system that goes on for discharging absolutely fantastic, but getting it to be able to set your servos Is is primary sort of job So you just set them up so they go on to 1500 we'll get some servers doing a separate thing if necessary You're going to 1500 and you're gonna make sure that this thing is sticking as close to be 90 degrees with this as possible And the same on the other side. They're not gonna be matched. Absolutely But that doesn't matter because you've got some adjustment here Onto your a run to make sure you get that sort of straightish really imagine this things flying You might want to and I do I always have just a little tiny bit of uplift on my a runs About the width of the the end of the a run you can't see from there Can you but about this much of width the width this?  I just select the closest size to frame And for me, I think it's the Z840 because this is 900mm the 840 is 840mm That's why I use that set up for it pig tuning and everything I don't have to mess about and I know that as long as I put a little tiny bit of uplift on here a little bit of uplift on this one as well For itself naturally as it's that I Can just throw this up in the air none of that auto launch Malarkey, I mean do it if you want to but I prefer just make a launch it for myself Yeah, you know, it's no biggie as soon as you get your little your little snack your little swing of launching Then it's there.  It's line of sight. It's just as fun as FPV No, I mean it can be but FPV is pretty cool, too. They're both cool So, yeah, so then you can just get this set up literally just get it look at say mine Mine just goes on Velcro And that's it and that's been fine. I've never had any issues with Velcro doing You know rolls and flips all this sort of stuff never had any issues. I do mine Pretty much everything's straight out the box. Like I say I find the closest match And I rely on Inav and then great guys who have been setting up and doing the Right now and it you can't just use Inav and think oh that's gonna be I mean He can and you can get on with the way it flies now. I'm one of them people that if I play on a game I don't adjust all the controls to what I'm used to I just have to get used to it the way it is And that's how I do it. This is how I do these if it's a little tiny bit off Who cares as long as it's still fun, right? You can land it You can throw it up and it comes down and you can still scream it around the place So, yeah, so for setting up those that This is a 1200 1.2 watt craziness 32 mil size so you can just go in there doesn't matter I've took some formal coat on there, but I'll put some black tape over here anyway to cover it I'll cut a hole in the tape And that stay in there and just cover that up So because when it lands this is this is what I'm building this for because what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this to train myself how to Catch it rather than let it land because I won't go and fly this Because the wet the ground is always wet at the moment And as soon as you have your first flight your landing water goes in seeps into this weighs it down It doesn't do very good in here. Anyway, it's no good any of it going on the electrics So what I want to do is learn how to Fly this into myself to catch it And so that's what I'm setting up for for this because I have another package here that once I got used to doing it like that I got another package here, but I can't wait to get into look at that. See what that says it is Yeah, yeah, baby That's all they pilot That's all the pilot gear going and going and going on that one Be nice that I could just Undo them pull them and pull them out as and when I wanted to me maybe I'll do something I'll fit some sort of Slugs or whatever they call them. So they just pop together On these and just have some coming off on both of them. So I can just take them out easy Stop them over fly order pilot fire. I know if yeah But the first but first is setting this up. So like I say setting up. Yeah your servo is dead easy really Making sure you've got enough movement here dead easy not too much poor, you know It depends when you're in manual you're going to get a lot more But that's what makes manual really good fun So We're going to need a receiver to receivers. We're going to need a receiver Should we call it a transceiver these as I suppose if it's sending telemetry back as a transmitter And it's receiving as well as that be transceiver and we also need a receiver for gps So we're going to put a receiver in here. It's receiving for gps here I'm going to use this small one even though I do prefer I'm not going to lie to you. I prefer these to get more gps to get them quicker and they seem to I just prefer the bigger and tenet job is on this lighter frame This is u blocks. This is also a u blocks You can see that on the back there at all. Oh There you go, but they're both they're both u blocks. They're both they're both good ones And that's going to go in there as you can see this sort of stuff has been on it before That's not really going there like I say that's going to go in there like this And again, they'll just be tape over it They'll be tape over this with a bit cut out for the antenna, but that's already got like a Heat shrink rubbery type coating on it anyway So maybe I can just cut the tape gently around. I just don't want any moisture getting underneath into this Like I say it's going to be one of those I will I am going to start flying it Train myself to catch it and you're going to be able to watch that Because I want to be able to catch it and then I can um I've got to make sure that a bit of bloody wet grass doesn't stump play because what happens is the first landing on this I'm pretty sure I just said it I'm going to say that again the first landing gets a lot of moisture on it and it doesn't fly in very well after that Um, it's a bit heavier. You get stuff, you know coming it doesn't fly again heavy What I am going to do on it like Is I'm going to stick this 4k camera on it even though I don't really use the 4k part of it Maybe I will inside this You know because you can Well, we're just going to see we'll see but I'm going to take this off here. I think it's wasted on here in a way Um, I take it off here And fit this into this And hopefully be able to fit into a trail I can protect it a bit for those uh impacts But this is going to be stuck behind this. So that's the great thing about flying one of these this And aeroplanes and I'm going to say it like this because this is what happens the public Us we get programmed We get conditioned And what happens is when you start telling people about how big drones are Everybody's on the lookout for these And I hate to use this terminology or this this name, but the carons of the world male and female Are into policing you And so if they see you with one of these are more likely to want to try and police you As in one of these because they've not been conditioned off the telly the telly hasn't told them That the mavic uh, not the mavic that the phantom because that's the one that they normally use Is a drone and drones are bad bad connotations drones go around killing people We know that and they kill a lot of civilians drones are bad And uh, I think that's why they decided to take it away from UAV. It's just a game of psychology A game of psychology of these people, especially in the UK. They love playing their psychology They love it so This is not a drone to a lot of people This is not some sort of aircraft And it's very easy when you've got the cover on this and this is on to let people feel the weight of that And just say like, you know, there's the propellers on the back So it has all the right Things to being safe. Even if this was a bump into you.  I thought it might hit me. I saw it in the panic Anyway So, uh, so that's what we're gonna do and we're gonna get out there and have a little fly this Not in this video because we're gonna go for all this stuff first And don't get up in the air because I'm being a bit. I'm going a bit nuts. Just sat around not doing anything Yeah, and I just wanted to point out as well. They see the antenna here This little tiny stubby Now the reason why I use it is uh, because it's just a standard low dbi And as this thing rolls around a bit and does a lot you don't want Like a high dbi antenna on there. I mean No, I should reframe myself from saying that you can use whatever antenna you like But on this setup, I'm using this little antenna here because it's gonna it's got a um Um a radiation Um more like an apple Rather than like a donut rather than like someone's being compressed to squish out further It's more just like all around so Above it's going to be a little bit better, you know below a little bit better and just more all around So that's what I'm using on this anyway, and hopefully this is going to see me good I'm not going to use above the legal limit in my country I don't feel that you need to if you've got a decent receiver antenna and a decent receiver um And we're going to try out as well Because I showed you the first part didn't I of the um rssi tracker type system Uh, yeah, and we're going to try that out as well because that just uses one antenna I'm going to put a 10 dbi antenna on that and we're going to have that tracking this around So quite a bit on the first Video of this being flown once it's been set up again on this side here. I'm using this tbs I use tbs receivers because I have the tbs radio, of course If you're flying around buildings and stuff you're going to get reflections in here because of the The amount of power that you're using You know if I'm not flying out far as a distance I only fly 200 milliwatts in front or around me anyway I just don't see the need for it and if I'm flying low I only get a load of reflections If I've got 600 milliwatts on or something like that, or you get a lot more interference So it's just better off turning the power down So that's what I do everyone just the wrong thing the wrong way And that's the great thing about what is Is you can pick it up and you can start saying no, I'm going to try this antenna I'm going to try this and I'm going to do this and yeah, and everything's going to work pretty much the same The differences that you might have is with a free sky receiver. You might have a serial s s bus Right and you're going to have a for your telemetry So you're going to need a telemetry for I think a smart port isn't on the free sky Where on this it uses a data link plus a receive transmit and the telemetry comes down That link so you just need one uart for transmit and receive On the on the uart and you're good to go and that's what I like about these as well The reason why I bought this in the first place not this particular one But um tbs is because of that way it connected It was easier for me to understand that than get them around the head Trying to do a tx On another f for s port on another pad and then Somewhere else on the board find the jumper for it. No, this just saw it out straight away Yeah, it either works one way around or it works the other way around even if you can't get it But just remember to transmit goes on to receive and receive goes on to transmit And that's it from your power Of course, he's a he's very little power. So that's good. You know that that's good That's the sort of thing you can just unplug from the board pop it on to another one and you're off again same with this transmit and receive again Uh, you don't need for the compass because you're flying In a normally forward direction and so the gps bearings because of the way you're flying through the gps and Your you will uh, they'll know you're flying forward all the time So when you want to turn left in now it's to go left because you're always flying forward So you don't need a compass on the go. So that takes out a big lot of Prattling around or where you're flying from what's it like? You need to keep recalibrating your compass depending on where you are with a wing. You don't have to Uh, the disadvantages to the wing, I suppose over an airplane is you're going to get more travel up and down like this Right, the airplane's got a fuse large. It's got a tail on the back and stabilizes And so it's going to be more stable Like that, but the airplane is not as much to funer play around with for funer just for doing loops and spins and all this sort of stuff is The rolls, sorry spins. Can you just really do spins if you want to go up high and start spinning down to the ground I've done that in a few videos and just pulled up just at the end um And it's fantastic and that's what I do like flying around with these things We've got our ESC on there already. This is the same ESC Is what's been on here since I decided uh, I don't need to use a big chunky one on here and learn how to set up that analog Up top and then down and Now just uh multi shot On there Um, I think it's just a 30m ESC. I could do with taking one off and just sticking one inside here But I just found that just kept it cool Never had a problem with this thing got it stuck in the tree once for about two weeks You see all the where the water got in See the water got in the stain and That's because it was up in the tree for a couple of weeks and then it came really really blurry and my mate said to me He says go and have a look seriously. I said nah, I've lost that I was gifted. I was like, no, I've lost it mate. I was someone else would I found it And then he says again this go out go and have a look and I thought ah go on It's really windy go and I'm gonna have a look and you know, I was looking around down the bottom of the tree And I found it I found it down the bottom of the tree. I'm really glad I went out and looked for it there So yeah We've got some LEDs as well. So we'll go through the LED setup. Let me just turn over you can see the ones there On the back And they also got we also got a couple of LEDs on the front. Oh underneath. Yeah Put this stuff in a more permanent way And we're going to get on to the iNav and start setting up the iNav I've got to set it up with it in there because we're going to get things going And that's going to be the next part of the project Let's get that down there right guys So what we're going to do now then is we're going to put the software on to The board so we're going to put the firmware on I should say Onto the board and use iNav Now this is just going to bring us in We're just going to check con 6 good. We're all good Just check that Now it doesn't look like it's got the gyro and accelerometer configured. So I must have some Information for that somewhere, but I'm just going to go into the CLI and I'm going to do this default default Okay, and I'm just going to copy this because All I can save myself a bit of time with is um Is doing the alignments Because that can be a bit tricky You know when you've got stuff on the board and it's just easy to keep your alignments And you know that your alignment was it was okay. So like I say we're going to do This and I'm just going to uh, I've copied that over the second because it's on the Clipboard and let me just go into Notepad I'm just going to drop that in there Paste that so I've got that now on this one. I can just disconnect Because really what I want to do is Disconnect out of there. I want to press the boot button Which is I try and do this with Which is here And then plug this back in So now we're in DFU release what supposed to be let me just pull that out of there for a second Try that again. Okay It's not letting us in DFU now. I'll just take that out again. I'm right to recognize it there But it doesn't allow me to I'm going to be clicking it click in Ah DFU, maybe I hadn't clicked it hard enough Maybe you can get bits of fluff or something trapped. I don't know Anyway, we're in now and what we're going to be looking for Um And I'm hoping that I'm online to find it and I'm not Let me just go for my online monarchy We're going DFU again though. Oh, we should actually be there There we go. Just doing DFU Going to firmware flasher We're going to get to choose a board now. So we just want the um 405 Matek f405 I'm pretty sure it's just that Yep Yeah, oh, is it the se I don't know if it might be the se let me just check Always best to check I'll be safe and sorry, right? Shea before flakes um That's a bit of a time So it's the se I enough target matek 405 se always best to just double check 405 se So we're going to have this new firmware, which is firmware for we're going to load that online There's our firmware We can go through the bits and pieces upgrading from previous Blah blah important changes Calm and feel taking unicorn filter is enabled by default Don't know. Don't know. So there's quite a few things in there people that were really into tomorrow want to go through that um Yep, all right.  I'm sure it's going to be worth good Watch oh excellent add proper percentage for iris's height at the crossfire protocol That's the first one I've seen and that's great because uh, it does it a little bit differently Within then it can be hard to Hard to think about it sometimes. Well, that's great. I like this. I like I like this a bit piece in here Uh Oh wicked add 50 milli watt crossfire transmitter power I'm not I yeah, I suppose I am seeing stuff that's more related to mine. That's just because you know, I've got the crossfire stuff All right. Well, there's there's quite a lot of uh quite a lot of uh updates and such Recommended hardware cause that's all in there Yep, lovely. Right, so we're just going to say flush the firmware All right, uh note stm32 bootloader restored and rum cannot be bricked. That's nice things to know about your flight controllers You can't brick it with this system uh Okay, that's all the normal buff there you can read that while i'm just pressing this button I raise the old stuff off which I expect it's just getting rid of the uh Just getting rid of the index rather than actually, you know raising correctly like rewriting and Just rewriting all the zeros or something Your best I'm running it running the normal time. How long it would take to do it So if you're running it on the computer, my computer's about five six years old. It's laptop. I'll tell you what it is It's a Dell precision m4 800 Uh Little bad machine. It's the top one that they do that they did with its dedicated in video graphics and stuff and It's all right I don't use it for anything but doing this all right and I find it great I've got two hard drives in there two solid state drives One's got windows on there and one's got uh, Linux It's Linux I mainly use but there is a few apps and windows I can still use I am setting up a virtual box on my Linux petition I think that's successful And in that I'll put windows 10 and see if I can run all the bits from inside that Right, I always recycle here doesn't say you got it but I always just recycle it just because um It's not like that to do All right, so we just did a connection here Right now we're going to choose what it is we're going to be doing in this instance Before we went for the quad this instance. We're going to go to the airplane Uh without a tail or a wing delta et cetera a tail. Yeah Well, you can have a airplane with a towel, but we're having the one without a tail So there's a little reboot. It's all good. I wish that had just been snug in the picture, but Uh, right. Okay, so we don't have The accelerometer calibrated. Yeah, that's why it's that all scary even allowed to be honest with you It's that all scary on the mange So if we just pop that down if I just push that to Just push that down. So it's not quite level. I've got that flat there and it should be level but on the thing there It's not level. So Not level but what we do have is Some bits and pieces in this that we can now just add into there So instead of us having to go through this what I'm going to do is I'm just going to copy this out Where is it? Um Yeah, sorry. I'm just uh, just looking through and just talking it For me where things are so oh, where's it going? Come here Come here. Come here. Come here. I can't remember. I don't know. I don't know They were in for the other one. I presume they were I don't see any alignment stuff Okay. Well, we might have fluffed up and we might have to go through the alignment Don't mind Let me just get rid of that Don't bother saving. We don't need all that stuff. All right, then so We need to go into calibration. I'm one of the first things we're going to do then is calibrate our accelerometer Well, we're going to want that anyway, so Right guys. So what we're going to want to do then is we're going to want to do this calibration So we are going to just set something up here Oh cool plumbing Just a little bit I don't want to put this on something that I know is relatively flat. It doesn't have to be exactly flat It could do it being sort of relatively flat and That might do it. I don't think it is. It's already on a slant Here we go We're going to put this on here and the reason why I'm going to do that Is because why are we doing this? Don't I just lose the connection? That's not going to be very good So let me just check that we can move this around without it going wrong All right, I'm sorry because we're going to be able to do all this All right, so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to start the calibration Okay, so it's going to say there please place a flight controller in a position showed in image Then press calibrate button again repeat for each of six position keep a stable keep it stable during calibration Which means You're better off having it just flat and left there Rather than trying to Do it shake it around holding it or something just let it go flat and even if it's slightly wobbly Slightly not flat. It's better than having it doing this. All right, so on this one what I'm going to do is I'm just going to I'm just going to push it on there like this and just hold that down just why I press this button If I get something that doesn't look as Weird as my finger there we go So I'm going to go okay there And then I'm going to go into step one, which is this one which is all right like this. I'm going to press this calibrate So it's processing that where it is All right, it doesn't Let's just hold it as still as possible for some reason We're not getting uh, it says the accelerometer calibration finished Which is really weird All right, so that's not doing it All right, that's not actually doing the accelerometer calibration Because I just pressed that a couple of times. It wasn't doing it. So let's just try that again Nope, this should have been lit up blue something's a little bit wrong. So let's just go into setup Could be something to do with the the connection here There's a good possibility it is. I don't think this may be the best. This is a very old connector, but it's all I got really. I mean I'm not Just not made of connectors All right, that seems Semi tight a bit closer see if that'll help Uh, right. So let's go back into the calibration Now we're going to start that calibration of this just I just goofed it a bit there, but never mind. I was near enough down And I just turn that over because it wants to be upside down now Now this is where the bit that I said about not moving it around that you want to be just as careful as you can Well, we're just gonna do our best here because the way this is Try not to move. Okay Ah, we've lost it Yeah, we're gonna damage it keep doing that. So One of the things you got to make sure is that you got a good good good connection here It could be down to these cables. They're very old cables Let's try this one This is as you can see look it's quite an old cable again This one's actually got bits missing out of it, but it's got a nice screen around it. So there's probably a better quality Trying to see if there's a brand on it. There isn't Nothing open Let's see if this is any better. I don't want to mess this up. I don't want to mess it up Let's just hope that even though it looks like it's a little rubbish It'll uh It'll get us through All right, let's get back into our calibration I'm just gonna leave it flat just there for a second. I'm just gonna Bring this down here All right, I'm just gonna always like that and press the calibrates for you again So we can do it this time To be honest with you, it doesn't really matter which way around you do this. It's like it knows you watch I'm gonna do it like this. I'm gonna I'm gonna on purpose do it the wrong way. See it knew It just knew I do it like that. I said you got to do it in order But you don't have to be you can rebel You can do it which have a bloody orgy of tune I can probably see I'm shaking a little bit. It's not going to do any good, is it? And of course if you do it in a specific order, you at least know what you've done when you've done it But now Not quite sure if I've done this already. Yep Turns out I have All like this one Uh, yeah, probably done that as well It's gonna be the most awkward ones. I haven't done that, isn't it? Upside down of course, that's going to be an awkward one. So I'm just going to hold that like Sort of levelish that I can see What I'd probably say is you know, all right, but I am shaking a bit but I'm just going to hope that it will do just a bit of an average Uh, now we need it nose diving That's why I'm just going handy So we just put it on the edge of that And between these being roughly accurate and the calibration finished That's what we like to see Now save that Woof and just reboot and put this really thing down. All right, so that's even though it looks the digest of the wires It's the best wire It's the best one so far Right, I'm just going to put that like that because it's just going to make my life easier It'd be nice if it was either way round when it just for aesthetics Uh Can't have everything you can do that. All right, so let's see what else we got then So we've got our calibration. We're not can't do a compass yet. Well, we're not going to use a compass on a wing So we don't have to do that. That's great. We never have to think about that out in the field The compass because the the wing and the gps Well, you know, the wing knows he's going forward because it's you know forward flight And uh, the gps will be able to see by that forward flight. So it's data We're all good. It just makes it really really easy So yet we're going to look on here and we're going to go for an airplane because it is airplane It is a flying wing. It is and so we're going to say yes, please load and apply That mixer right just to say load and apply it all right, so Reboot and we're back in Okie dokie Now what we're going to do now is uh, we're going to look for a We're going to look for our uh, our mixer again and we don't want I do want a flying wing differential first airplane just a flying wing just a flying wing Right, cool. Let's look down here what we've got down here Here we are stabilized rolls stabilized pitch stabilized rolls stabilized pitch and our throttle so we've got channel one and two it starts from zero one and You know in reality, but uh I do it like that So that is our mixer. We're in We're going to check on our outputs here Okay, so our ESC is using the multi-shot protocol on this And we can enable the motors and the servos not that we got anything connected at the moment We're not going to see anything. So here's a zero one This would be one sorry and then two three four and five But because it goes from zero Making a bit confusing sometimes when you're when you're doing that But don't be confused stop motors on low throttle I don't know if I want to be doing that But yeah, I do for when I come in hitting the deck I may have to set it up on my throttle. So when it gets past a certain threshold it will stop So I set up let's just go back into a setup so we can see what we got going on here You can see as we roll on our wing because I see that's the That is our wing. That's basically what we got As a wing and that's great, isn't it because you actually get to see We've got our port side and starboard side All right, so now We can now Right our ports. We've not actually got any of this set up yet, but you can just see the amount of connections we can make And there's pretty good That's a little looking configuration All right, so it's already picked up that we're using the np use 600 accelerometer BMP 280 for the barometer bashew warning bashew voltage monitoring. So yeah, all that can stay on the way it is We don't need to do anything with this We're going to be using a u-blocks, but what we're going to do is we are going to Just check what's going through here because there might be some things you might want to just adjust And I don't think we really need to so far Right, so basically Now that's in We don't have calibration We set the mixer. We know it's a wing our outputs. Well, we might want to just connect up now Because now we've actually done the board um alignment Now we've actually done the board alignment. I don't know when that happened, but mind now We've actually done the board alignment. We can just go ahead and set up Put it in the bird And because we're going to do most of our alignment when we're flying when we realize there's a little bit out We can make some adjustments And uh and bring that in because there's loads of stuff you can do with your radio You don't just need to use your pots and stuff for Turning lights on or landing gear and that you can actually use up for doing your alignments while you're flying as well And we'll go through that And show you how to do that because that's going to make life a lot easier All around Going to get all wired up now. Okay doken then guys this is as far as I forget The we've got the the camera in all the bits and pieces and it's wired up everything's working As it should be and so we're going to go over some of the island stuff It's going to get that connected up for a second There's what we're going to put on that main power. Just put that on Put the Radio on as well. And then so we're going to go into our island over there and um Get ready for doing with this so Oh, we can do really with this at the moment now is I've been going through with the um Setting up off the onscreen display You might be able to see that by Taking a peek over there Then you can see what I got Just All right, so it looks a bit of a mess Um, yeah, so that's just ignore that part for now so, okay We can uh look at our onscreen display As you can see there All right, just give it a few seconds takes a bit of time this I'm going a bit quicker than the Other system It needs arranging. There's a lot of information on there There's a whole bunch of extra stuff for the CR and then crossfire protocol for the receiver I'm not using a crossfire VTX in this but it does have smart audio which Team Blacksheep's smart audio So we will be able to facilitate that which means I can use the sticks on my radio before changing video settings and channels You know banned channel And power and even give it the ability for pick mode If we look into the LED strip we can set this up now because this thing does have LEDs on it and they Look did I think Looks like it might be You know, it looks like it may not be as well. So let me just see if we can do that Plug in the LEDs and what you might see is the LEDs come on just in some app and add a hook fashion So and this is the pretty much hoping this is the connection for the LEDs So the LED is going to go in there just make sure our power and everything's right around Because we want that to be so Yep Okay I saw the LEDs on it lit up or done anything You see there's some LEDs here and there's some LEDs on the other side as well and at the back So, uh Yeah And we are now going to set up the The front two so what we need to do Is we need to start our wire ordering mode So we're going to click on that Now you can imagine that these LEDs are connected in one daisy chain So we're going to say one Well, it'll go zero sorry But we're just going to say just for the count it now we've got Eight sixteen LEDs All right, so we're going to a naught fifteen So To so that really before that's four on the front And then we're going to go one two three Four that's do a four on the front Uh, and now we're going to go um, we're going to do the back ones and the back ones are the um The LEDs that go across so I think we can do it like this two three Four and then we're just going to do a one two three four So we've used half of our 32 LEDs that we could use if we wanted to so you could Spoil it up with a lot more maybe do some poor side starboard side LEDs flashing if you're wished Right, so I'm just going to do a quick save on that And now I'm going to go to zero And I'm going to hope that this side here is here. It doesn't matter. We'll just work it out It doesn't really matter But we're going to go here and we're going to put that one down as number one as a white And then number two we're going to put that. Oh, sorry. Let's go back to zero We're going to give it a function and our function on this one is going to be Uh color And so for that we're going to give it a color white the next one again. You have to give it a function Uh, we're going to go color and again we're going to go white The next one is going to have a function it's going to have a color And it's going to go white The next one Function color and white now let's just see we don't have a switch on those at the moment for switching LEDs on and off so I'm not sure we can do it like that but we're gonna do the next one I'm just gonna quickly run through this now just color white again these are our front lights type thing color and then white again color and white again color white is in so now I've got my four each side at the front will be white just done doing nothing else you can change it you can have them so the blinkings the LED blink on landing yeah there are all sorts of other ways of playing around with this but really it's good for you to sit down and just play around with it you can't brick it just remember that and now we've got other numbers and I'm just gonna put these on reds for now so again it's gonna be color and we're just gonna go red right the back you can put the last and scanner on I don't even remember this show that used to be on about a thousand years ago it was called a night rider and a car and it called kit which had a little so a little string of LEDs on the front and they would just go up and down up and down run through the LEDs got a license kind of I see you could do it like that if you really wanted to there's no I'm just gonna carry on going color first of all you just got to see if we've arranged them and set them out currently red again color and this is one of the nice things about when you're doing this sort of thing he's been able to do the default and once you've set all this up you can just copy your LED arrangement and copy and paste it into the next update you know if you've got to do a complete and complete update rather than lose all these settings now which it's time-consuming these ones are easy enough to copy across we're just gonna carry on there color just knowing it doesn't matter do it now and hopefully unless you lose your default and hopefully you won't do what I did we should lose mine so I gotta do one by hand but that makes no difference I can show you how to do it anyway that's a good thing so now the reason why I've just set them out the way I have here is because that's sort of how it look I'm inquired if I was a bit neater at bought 12 13 14 and 15 in one thing closer but I'll live with myself on that one for now okay so now what we want to do is just getting a configuration just make sure we've got our LEDs on there is gonna be active I saw a lot multi-color LED strip support so we're gonna say yes please for that or just put that across now let's see what we get as this boots up right I've got a sort of funny feeling let me just turn off this HD preview on this camera let's doesn't need to be wasting energy there we go just turn that HD off I should have looked actually see how much currently we're using but at the back now I'm sure you might be able to see that there is some LED activity but we've got nothing at the front but we have got it at the back as you can see that's lit up down there at the back but that's all lit up as white no these are daisy chains but the first ones that get power are the ones down there so it's possible that we've lost power up the front here and it's only seen the first ones that I put on it's only seen the first ones that I put on and which means that the front ones may not be working but that's all right what we'll do then is we'll just switch that off because like I say it's wired directly to those ones at the back first and then it comes through here to the front so there's possibly a break in that in the cable alright so what we're gonna do then is we're just gonna I'm just gonna clear that clear this clear this clear this clear it I think I can do it like this just clear it so it doesn't have anything and then I'm gonna change those other ones these white ones now to red just because there's no point to you know having them there and being on white at the back I'm just doing it you know willy-nilly here like this just to shed it doesn't matter doesn't matter which way you do this you've already numbed them so they're gonna be my back lights red hopefully you can see that but it's just changed that to red at the back there and we're using less power now because it's red rather than white no I should make a difference the most people but let me just check man that is nice nice red now I know you can't see that but I wonder if you can see if I just if I just last and scanned all of I don't think it matters which order again I do this because it's just gonna go through the LED wiring order so no I did that so that what we should see is that just traveling up and down the LEDs now it's gonna be maybe you can see that that easy on the on the camera there does actually show you anything at all oh that didn't work out very well and that's not so lasted that long on the last right there let's just we do a little save on that and what's going on why are they just sticking like that I've got more folks and I think this end one here is broken this is where they're all connected and I think I need to do because that's what's taking it down that side and as you can see there's been some damage there so I've got a funny feeling let me just zoom in so you can see that damage there's some damage here stuck up in a tree so that could be a reason why it's not working the way it's we'd hope to be working but a second ago it was just doing that last and so let me just see if I can what can we do there just to push that one more time let's have a look or maybe we've got a slight slight connection error reason why I say that is because it's dragging on there I know so if we restart this just turn it off I have to remember to turn it off again so yeah what I might do then is because now I can see that there is a problem not so much with that when it sort of just shut itself off but this end one doesn't work and I've got a funny feeling that's why the front ones are not working because it's stopping here won't be so difficult I'll just warm this up a little tiny bit because there's a bit of hot snot behind it take it off put another one on there just check the wiring one on doing it or not be bothered about it but I'll show you how you just wire those up so maybe I'll get around to that maybe I went I really want to get outside and throw it up in the air can't do it today but I really want to get this done over the next few days depending on whether of course because the weather is holding us back a lot of time alright so like I say there's a way of playing around with the LED side of things let's try not to smash everything up and just take a few a little look at some of the other settings I'm going to turn the HD preview off again because it just gets it too warm don't need it to be I'm getting that warm okay so let's have a little look inside the configuration here like I say or like I just showed I just put those LEDs on there are some other things down here as well so you can stop the motors on low-throttle well this seems to have a bit of a throttle issue anyway we're on there but maybe I've changed that maybe I need to look inside my radio for that but I'll have a little look see what's going on there I don't like that you gotta go nearly 60% on a 4s battery to get some umph out of this you know to get it to spin up it's that's no good so we got it we've got a black box flight data recorder I'm not gonna bother with that we've not got a no-LED screen display on and I'm gonna say I know we're using digital over the radio telemetry we've got our telemetry on yeah enable CPU based serial ports that we need that at the moment can just stay on if it wants to well we got it for a soft seal yeah but what do we need it for so you could use it for changing the camera estimate but we can use PDVM for that as well so throttle compensation now this could come in handy enable feature v-back comp automatic compensates for the voltage drop when the battery is discharging to keep the thrust contact constant relative to throttle that could be handy you've got to continuously trim servos on fixed wing here as well when flying in a stabilized mode continuously adjust the server midpoint so that the airplane keeps flying straight and switch to manual that could come in handy but I do have a servo trim on a switch and that's where I'm more likely gonna go with that I'm just by using on the switch but permanently enable launch mode for fixed wing this one's got permanently enable air modes not sure if you need that with a fixed wing because really with a fixed wing you're gonna want to maybe glide you know maybe get a little bit out with nothing on the throttle so you want this to stop so when you're off the throttle this is doing nothing it's great also you know for landing as well you don't want that thing spinning around yes you can see you know look pretty for yourself and you see there's all sorts of settings this is no it's the channel mind I think it might be boss cat I don't know which one to use that shows too many choices let's see if it is if I change that now to that and change this to let's say just five on that power level one we'll leave that the same what we want to do is just see oh just missed it anyway what we want to see is if we lose the if we lose this here which of course we have which means that changes from there let's just do a quick let it just scan for itself I just go to that there we go so we know we got that sorted out that's good and we can use our radio to change these these channels every just zoom in here so we can do that I wonder if we'd actually give in a little bit better let me just hold on a minute hold on a minute radio all right I mean I could I don't have a chip in the back otherwise I'd just record it of the others I don't think there's a chip anyway so what we can do with the radio you see back to that oh sorry that way and then you can see on there we zoom back in again you can see on there that we can actually go down into a like features ignore this go into features into the BTX where we can change our pit mode you see yeah the LEDs are enabled look can actually turn that off from here as well trying to see where we got there we go and then go back we'll have to reboot it for that to have a look at the BTX as well just so yeah we can change our power our channel and our band from there and even put it in our out of pit mode so let's just say we've turned that off you see we've turned the LEDs off now you can turn back on again all right reboots all right the LEDs will not be on but it is on now isn't that weird I just told it not to be on so let's see if we can just go into in here anyway in Inaf and just switch those off because remembering the configuration tab there was a setting down here to keep it on to enable the LED strip and here it says well it's got the multi-strip support and I'm pretty sure I saved and rebooted but it didn't want to do that weird isn't it let's just have a look see if it switches them off now yeah it has oh my gosh all right then so let's see if we can go in here then and switch them off and we can put them on a switch that is not a problem and I'll show you how to do that in a second so they're on there all right so we can turn switch them on after but if we go into the modes like you can even switch these on and off from modes so a bit different setup so I wouldn't mind that loiter change I'm gonna put that on a switch I quite like the idea of it turning itself around getting the way my LEDs off look so now we just had a range for LEDs off so we can put LEDs on we're gonna armed and disarmed we could just for the sake that put them on there so now by the way it's the LED should go off no they won't don't stay on they'll go off in a second now because we moved this in here because it's LEDs off remember and now I just saved up so it's off just to show that we're still controlling that you don't even need to be using a dedicated a dedicated switch for it you might find yourself just having a particularly use for the LEDs on and you will be able to go into the programming side and configure that particular scenario that you want the LEDs to be on or off given the position of that bar in the modes tab so yeah it's very very good it's very very good software it's a very very good and flight controller and even though I really do love this I am still gonna be looking at audio pilot and it's gonna be happening soon as well because I have the H743 ring version 2 and this is great for audio pilot and I really want to play with that I really want to play with it as well right up until you know really go for a flight there's not a great deal to do here now I'm could probably just gonna trim up maybe the movement on my I'm not even gonna bother it you know I didn't bother before I didn't bother when I was learning how to fly I didn't bother trimming all these down to the maximum movement areas or anything it's all the recommendations I just I did what I would hope that others can do he's basically just take this he's basically just take this as the setup and then be able to just fly with it rather than thinking alright I've got to get this as long as you as long as you get these these few things right like make sure you get these these servos centered right and we've gone over a little device you can use that no more than ten bucks make sure you get centered make sure that you've got it so if anything it's going to be slightly nose heavy than tail heavy nose heavy is a lot easier to control than tail heavy tail heavy is a pain in the backside and so you're always better with that because you can always pull back a little bit it's quite hard trying to push the nose down when it's trying to bind up on everything heavy just to bear that comes at it it's trying to rise too much because the back ends too heavy yeah that's that's there's there's not a great deal to it and even if you even if and in your radio when you said to me don't change anything you know don't change it just do the default setup and then everything gets changed within the software of your iNav that's it oh yeah and the one best bit of advice I ever saw written that's when I was reading a manual for the TBS transmitter the standard transmitter and down the bottom there's a whole bunch of hints and tips type thing and the one I found to be the most useful and ever since then it's changed it changed how I went about setting these things up and doing and that tip was to be your own support always rely on yourself because if you rely on yourself all the time and you'll get on and do it you'll research what you need to to get on and do you won't have to wait for others you won't be disgruntled as well some people out there be helpful some people just tell you good luck with that and you go join it in a circle and stuff like that to get any of the little bits of help that really would be positive useful and get your pass some of this stuff but the best one you can do is that one where you just help yourself you just research it get it learned into your head do it the learning way and it will stay in there and you know you'll be laughing once you get hang of it and then I just think yeah I'm so glad I went down the path of being my own research researcher so yeah that's it that's it this is ready to go up in the air I'm gonna tweak around probably a little bit with the OSD just over time just by watching it having it on there thinking yeah can I live with that can I live with that I probably might make everything a little bit smaller on there just for instance for me just because it's that's these characters and such are taking a quad a bit of the screen as you can see there look but still there's still some some decent usage there some decent air in the middle and I quite like that but I might just make those there this font size a bit smaller I could say there we go right just for that for now guys I might do another video on something completely different before this goes out for a flight that's just because I've got to do things as my concentration allows thanks for watching I hope you found some of this stuff useful and then I will catch you in the next one


10 straight years in the Otago Classic Rally, Peter and Cherie Fredham with me here and Peter, you're a great campaigner You've got the trusty Toyota Starlet here in for a good day. Well, I hope so. Yeah, it's been good to us every other year So I don't see why it should be any different. And I think it's fantastic husband and wife rallying Take the wife out there. Does she tell you where to go? Always, but yeah No, it's great when both get involved because it's quite a selfish sport of only the husband's doing it I think when you're both involved, she realizes the costs are evolved and she never queries, but I need some money to We're fed on the car. There's no hesitations. It just gets spent And obviously a lot of trust in the relationship. Cherie, you enjoy sitting in the passenger seat? Absolutely. It's a pleasure to sit beside him. It's the only time he does listen to me That's pretty good in a relationship. And the Toyota Starlet, as I said earlier, you've run at 10 straight years in a row Never seems to let you down, Peter. It must be great preparation Yeah, I've got two guys at Omer who are Toyota Gurus I've got Ninja Builder, Andrew Neal and Sheldon Rush. It does all the car preparation. They've got a great eye for detail They know Starlet's back to front. That's why I'm running one Peter and Cherie Fred


My fellow Americans, as we begin this Memorial Day weekend, I'd like to take a moment to consider one of the wellsprings of our greatness as a nation, our willingness to serve each other. When the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across our country more than a century and a half ago, he was struck by the volunteer spirit that he encountered. The Americans, he wrote, make associations to found seminaries, to build ins, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the ends of the earth. In large part, because of this concern for their fellow men that he saw in the American people, de Tocqueville concluded that America is great because she is good. Today, our nation remains great and good, and the spirit of private sector initiative has become a major part of American life. Indeed, just yesterday it was my honor to sign a proclamation requested by Congress that proclaims tomorrow, May 25th, Hands Across America Day. My family and I plan to join in the line as it passes through the White House grounds. Hands Across America represents a nationwide effort to help the poor and homeless who live in our country. Tomorrow, millions will join in that ancient gesture of goodwill and friendship, the linking of hands, in a demonstration of concern for the less fortunate. Do all those participating? Good luck. I can wish you nothing finer than the satisfaction of knowing that you've given of yourselves to help others. In the past few years, we've witnessed an unprecedented outpouring of charity and goodwill, a reassertion of good old-fashioned neighborliness now that our country has regained its self-confidence. The figures tell the story. Last year alone, individuals, corporations, bequests, and foundations gave nearly $80 billion to good causes. That amount marked an all-time high and came to over $6.5 billion more than the amount donated in 1984. And, according to recent study, some 89 million Americans perform volunteer work every year. I think we're entitled to feel pretty good about that. In a way, though, the individual stories are even more impressive than the figures. This past Thursday, Nancy hosted the first international Just Say No Walk here at the White House. Just Say No is an organization teaching children around the world to say no to drugs. Indeed, this week was Just Say No to Drugs Week, and the White House rally involved 2,300 youngsters from Just Say No clubs throughout our nation's capital. As you might expect, these clubs require school officials, teachers, and especially parents to give a great deal of time. Nancy told me everyone she spoke to at the White House rally was absolutely convinced that it's truly vital. Then there's an organization called HOPE for Help Other People Everywhere, founded in Northfield, Minnesota by Verona Devney, a legal secretary who decided to help the needy by sewing and donating clothes. Today, HOPE distributes clothes to some 5,000 families a year. In San Antonio, Texas, Nick Monriall founded Teach the Children, and this organization has raised tens of thousands of dollars to provide school supplies to thousands of children from economically disadvantaged families. And in Philadelphia, a group called HEALS has been providing transportation for the sick and handicapped to and from hospitals and doctor's offices since 1959. There is no charge and no reliance on government funds. One private sector initiative I find most moving is called Christmas in April. Founded by Bobby Trimble of Midland, Texas, Christmas in April organizes volunteers across the country to repair the homes of needy, older, and handicapped Americans. Right here in Washington, Christmas in April helped a woman named Deloas Ruffing. Deloas ran a home for the elderly that bad had needed repairs. The ceiling was virtually falling down around her. With her permission, early one April day, more than a dozen volunteers, attorneys, journalists, housewives, even a judge, arrived to do what was needed. Ten hours later, the plumbing and ceiling had been fixed and the walls were gleaming. And today, Deloas is a Christmas in April volunteer herself. As these and so many other organizations prove, the generosity and character of the American people that Detokeville observed more than 150 years ago remain a powerful and life-giving force. So let us reflect this Memorial Day weekend upon the unselfish millions who are improving the quality of life for all Americans in so many wonderful ways. And as always, let us remember those who gave the greatest gift of all, the gift of their lives so that we today might live in a nation of freedom. Until next week, thanks for listening. God bless you.


Five years ago, I became an anarchist, and I've never looked back. My political philosophy now runs through my veins. But this wasn't always the case. I used to be a young, apathetic conservative. Then I was introduced to libertarianism, which slowly turned me into an anarchist. This might sound crazy, but I assure you it is quite reasonable and many people share my same story. It all started in 2007. I was casually aware of politics at the time. My parents were conservative, so I was conservative. YouTube was still relatively new at the time, and I remember one day stumbling across a video of Ron Paul. I was immediately intrigued. Here was this funny old man saying the opposite of all his fellow Republicans on stage, and he called himself a constitutional conservative. This sounded appealing. He would say all these fascinating things I'd never heard before, and the more videos I'd watch, the more excited I became. After only a few weeks, I was fully on board with the platform of this Ron Paul guy.  If you know anything about Ron Paul, you know he's an exception to the rule. He was a politician, yes, but only in title. Politicians are rightly known as slimy, spineless, unprincipled folks whose political ambition overrules any shred of integrity that they possess. Ron Paul is the exact opposite. He defies the oxymoron of a principled politician. He's been called the one exception to the gang of 535, and it shows when he talks. He doesn't appeal to rhetorical flourishes or woo the crowd with empty platitudes. He really believes what he says and he speaks out of conviction, something which is virtually non-existent among politicians. But to me, ultimately, Ron Paul is a charming and principled nerd. He's extremely well educated in every area of political thought, especially economics. He puts philosophic ideas above politics or elections. In fact, he used his presidential campaigns as educational platforms. Ron didn't actually think he could win, but he knew more people would discover the power of free-market ideas if he ran for president. But as he would tell you, Ron Paul's ideas are more important than his person. Millions of people were swayed by the philosophy of freedom, not just his charming personality. The core principles of limited government resonated through all political upbringings, whether you identified as a liberal, conservative, or apathetic. Given my conservative ideology, I knew that lots of people gave lip service to the Constitution, but rarely did they defend it consistently. They supported military intervention overseas, but bulked at the idea of requiring Congress to formally declare war. They complained about the Department of Education, but would only support very gentle budget cuts at most. Ron said what conservatives were too afraid to say, get the government out of education altogether. We don't need a 10% budget reduction, and we need to abolish the whole thing department. Conservatives say they support individual responsibility, and they don't want a nanny state. Well, then how can they support the war on drugs? If an adult decides to peacefully smoke pot in his basement and not hurt anybody, we don't need a nanny state to micromanage his life in Thurmond Jail. Conservatives supposedly want you to be free to make bad decisions as long as you pay the consequences for them. But probably the most controversial position Ron held was on the US military. He thought, as old school conservatives did, that we should be extremely cautious before intervening in foreign affairs. He also thought the Pentagon wasn't infallible. They too are prone to the same egregious waste and mismanagement as the Department of Education. Now this ruffled a lot of feathers, but it shouldn't have. Ron simply applied the same principles across the whole spectrum of government. He was consistent, and he kept coming back to the following question. What is the proper role of government? Before we argue about cutting 10% of the Department of Education's budget, shouldn't we discuss whether or not it should exist in the first place? Is it appropriate, or even constitutional, for the executive branch to send troops into foreign countries for an extended amount of time without congressional declaration? Before we nibble around the edges of government spending, we need to talk about what the government should do in the first place. To me, he was precisely correct, but it revealed an unsavory truth. Republicans and Democrats aren't actually so different from each other. One party might want to raise spending 5%, the other might want to cut spending 5%, but both favor the status quo, and they support big government in their own respective areas. Liberals and conservatives are like two sides of the same coin. Ron's constitutional conservatism, I thought, represented a real alternative. But my journey didn't stop there, because Ron implanted a little seed in my head. When he spoke, he often mentioned the Austrian School of Economics. I had never heard of it, but eventually I got up the curiosity and decided to Google around. What I discovered changed my life. I came across the Mises Institute, which had a number of free books and lectures online about Austrian economics, and I was immediately enamored. The explanatory power of economics was breathtaking. After diving into the literature, I didn't simply believe government was inefficient. I understood why. This had an enormous impact on my political philosophy, and it started my transition to radical libertarianism. I now believe it's literally impossible to have a clear understanding about how the world works without an understanding of economics. The coordination of prices, profits, and losses in a market is awe-inspiring. No exaggeration, it's almost miraculous. Economic truths became a pillar around which I would develop my other political beliefs. The further I learned, the further I went down the rabbit hole of Austrian economics, the more radical I became. Not only was government inefficient at delivering the mail, but they were inefficient everywhere they intervened. The same economic principles apply to the post office as apply to the patent office. Of course, this wasn't radicalism for the sake of radicalism, it was just consistency. And if you apply economic principles consistently across the board, you're left with a very grim perspective of government. However, I was no anarchist. I firmly believed in small government libertarianism. Markets could handle everything except for a few core services, the courts, the military, and the police. Of course, achieving this would be considered wildly limited government compared to today's standards. My first interaction with an anarchist, ironically enough, was as an intern in Ron Paul's congressional office. I was given the opportunity to be his intern in DC for a semester, and one of his staffers considered himself an anarchist. He was a nice guy, but I didn't take his ideas too seriously. All of that changed in the summer of 2010. I was fortunate enough to attend a conference for students at the Mises Institute, the organization I held in such high regard. The conference was called Mises University, and it would be one week long focusing solely on Austrian economics. I was elated to attend, and it turned out to be one of the most intellectually stimulating weeks of my entire life.  A few of the lectures hinted at the possibility of complete statelessness, the idea that private entrepreneurs could better provide all of the services of government, including the courts, the military, and the police. Supposedly, for the same reasons we don't want the government to monopolize the production of shoes, we don't want them to monopolize the court system, or the production of national defense. But I wasn't convinced. By the middle of the week I was forced to adjust my beliefs a little bit, so I made up a term and called myself a secessionist for a few days. But I was no anarchist. I agreed with some core ideas that taxation is fundamentally coercive and is therefore theft, and I agreed that markets were based on voluntary, peaceful human interaction, while governments were necessarily based on violence or threats of violence. And I agreed that in a perfect world we might not need any coercion whatsoever, that voluntary decisions could reign supreme. But I thought we don't live in a perfect world, and surely in some circumstances large groups of people wouldn't care about the rights of an individual. Statelessness might sound nice in theory, but in practice people wouldn't respect property rights of a lone anarchist who declares his own independence in the middle of a city, for example, until one night. When I was challenged by a fellow student named Dan. Dan was a pretty burly guy, former Air Force I think, and we were hanging out at one of the local bars after the lectures. Of course, hanging out at the bar at Mises University really meant talking loudly about nerdy ideas in public places. I remember some locals dancing at the bar, but they were outnumbered three to one by sweaty geeks who were talking about monetary history. I told Dan about my hesitations with anarchism and he said he understood. But he said, let me ask you this. If I want to opt out of government services, should I be able to? It's a very simple question, but I didn't quite know how to respond. I mean, I wanted to say, of course you should be able to opt out of government services. If you don't want to pay, you don't have to, but then you don't get to use the services. But alas, such an admission would be tantamount to anarchism. After all, government services are by definition tied to taxation, and you can't opt out of taxation. Doing so would be opting out of government, which is precisely what these anarchists were talking about. On the other hand, I couldn't say with a straight face that, indeed, Dan should never be able to opt out of government services. I'd have to be willing to put him in jail if he tried. Even if his decision to opt out was poor, if he'd be better off by using the services but he made a bad decision, I couldn't justify forcing him to pay for something he didn't want. So I was perplexed. I didn't have a good response. And I remember slowly responding, I think I might be an anarchist now. So I wrestled with that question for the next few months, and I kept trying to justify the existence of involuntary government. And then I read a book called Chaos Theory by Bob Murphy, which has an excellent section on the private production of law. My list of necessary government services dwindled. And then it happened. I became a closet anarchist. After playing devil's advocate so much with myself, I became convinced of my counterarguments. I couldn't find a proper response to my critiques of limited government. I was shocked. I couldn't believe I had ended up so far away from where I'd started. I thought originally that anarchists were bomb-throwing hooligans who smashed windows for recreation. But this type of anarchism was about private property and peaceful, voluntary cooperation. I saw the contradictions and inconsistencies in popular conservatism, and I just couldn't stomach it any longer. By the end of 2010, I came out of the closet, but I didn't know what to call myself. Anarchists seem too dramatic and hot-button. Believe it or not, people dismiss you rather quickly upon identifying as an anarchist. I toyed around with labels like anti-statist or some other nonsense. But I've recently settled on the term I find most appropriate, market anarchism. You can sum up market anarchism succinctly. All of the services, which are currently provided by governments, can be more efficiently and ethically provided by private entrepreneurs. Granted, there's a million different ways to phrase this, but that's how I prefer. It's really not so radical, is it? Five years later, and my conviction has become stronger. The explanatory power of market anarchism is unparalleled. Politics finally makes sense when you throw out the romance surrounding government and patriotism. What's surprising to me is how my own justification for anarchism has changed. I still wholly subscribe to the Austrian economic theories, but now I'm even more compelled by the ethical and philosophic arguments for anarchism. To an anarchist, it's clear as day. Taxation is theft. Theft is immoral. Therefore, taxation is immoral. Which condemns government as immoral. It's simple and it's profound. After taking the leap to anarchism, it's preposterous and naive to try to manage the lives of 100 million people from a central planning board. Social problems that involve 300 million people aren't resolvable by one tiny little group that forces everybody to act a certain way and threatens them with jail time if they don't comply. It seems pretty clear. On a philosophic level, proponents for government run into trouble. What exactly is a government anyway? Upon inspection, governments are only grandiose and harmful abstractions. They have no tangible reality. We live in a world inhabited by individual humans. Not governments or countries. Now, I realize this might sound absurd and crazy, and I won't defend the claims right now, but I intend to give rigorous explanations for all of these ideas in the future. The anarchist worldview is radically individualist. Not because it views people as isolated decision makers that never interact with each other, but because individualism is the most philosophically critical way of viewing the world. It helps us avoid dramatic abstractions, and it opens up the world of economic thinking. And at this point, I just can't imagine turning back. Anarchism has gone to my very core. If anybody is intrigued by this story, I only ask that you pursue the topic sincerely. Hold on to your objections as long as you can, and see if your beliefs can withstand the criticism of market anarchist arguments. I humbly suggest starting with Austrian economics and see where it leads. I, for one, sought political truths as a young conservative, and I believe I've found them in market anarchism.


This study examined the factors affecting the quality of antinatal care, ANC, services being used in Bawawalpur district. Data was collected from 1650 married women of reproductive age, 15 to 49 years, who had given birth to at least one child in four preceding years. The women's socioeconomic status, knowledge about complications of pregnancy, prior history of neonatal mortality, and their empowerment were also assessed. Multivariate ordered logistic regression analysis showed that longer birth intervals, female gender of the eldest child, birth order of the child as first or second child, number of living sons, and the woman's knowledge about complications of pregnancy were associated with better quality of ANC services. Additionally, the woman's socioeconomic empowerment and prior history of neonatal mortality were found to be significant predictors of higher quality of ANC services. This article was authored by Rana Ajaz Ali Khan, Tuzawar Iftikar Ahmad, Sara Noreen, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Why is it black people's hands are so light on the inside and then dark on the house? Y'all never look at your hands like that and be like, what's going on? No, you mean like why did they make our palms white?  I don't, this is what you used to, you know what I'm saying? I didn't want you to think about the white man jerking you off every time you mess with him.  All black everything. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah.


Hello and welcome to this session in which we would look at an exercise or a CPA simulation that illustrate the modified basis. In the prior session we explained the modified basis. We explained the theoretical framework behind the modified basis, why government entities, certain government entities use the modified basis. In this session we're going to work few journal entries that illustrate the modified basis. We're going to compare the modified basis to the cash basis. We're going to compare the modified basis to the full accrual basis. So it's very important to see how would you book a transaction under the modified basis versus the other basis. And in this session we're going to be working at four, we're going to be looking at four different transactions. And what I'm going to do as well, compute the profitability under each method, whether it's the cash basis, modified basis or full accrual basis. What I'm going to do at this point, switch to the Excel sheet and prepare the journal entries under the various accounting basis. Before we proceed any further, I have a public announcement about my company, farhatlectures.com. Farhat Accounting Lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's going to help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam, Miles. My accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses, broken down by chapter and topics. My resources consist of lectures, multiple choice questions, true-false questions as well as exercises. Go ahead, start your free trial today. Let's start by looking at the first transaction. A donor pledged half a million dollars given the organization illegally enforceable 60-day note for the amount. So the first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to work the cash basis. So what entry do we have to make under the cash basis for a pledge made to an organization? And the answer is for using the cash basis, we don't have to do anything because no cash exchange hand as of yet. Remember, the cash basis focuses on the cash. Cash in, cash out. Transaction one, we would say no entry because no cash exchange hands. Transaction two, the donor paid 200,000 of the amount pledged. Well, guess what? If the donor paid 200,000, I know for sure I am going to have some sort of a cash. Why? Because if I received cash, I am going to debit cash and this is the cash basis. What do I credit? Cash in, I'm going to credit some sort of a revenue.  It's contribution or pledge revenue for 200,000. So this is for transaction number two, transaction number two. Let's look at transaction number three. The entity purchased a building for 400,000, paying 125,000 and given a 30-year mortgage for the balance. Building useful life is 30 years. What do we have to do for transaction three? Well, one thing I'm going to start with paying cash because I did pay cash for how much? For 125,000. I can't run away from that. I have to credit cash because I paid cash. If it says paying cash, I can't deny that. Now, the question is, what do I debit under the cash basis? Well, under the cash basis, what do I care about? I care about expenditure.  It's not called an expense because full accrual use the term expense. So what do I debit? So if I credited cash, what do I debit? I debit an account called building expenditure or expenditure-building. So it's an expenditure for 125,000. What about the long-term note? The remainder, which is the remainder is what? 300 and 275. I don't record the remainder. I don't have long-term notes. I don't have long-term assets. What I have under the cash basis, I have revenues and expenditure. And how do I determine my revenues and expenditure when I receive cash and when I pay cash? Therefore, this is the entry. So what is expenditure? An expenditure is a decrease in net asset. It's going to reduce your income for cash purposes. That's a reduction in your income. It's a decrease in net asset, reduce your income. So that's what an expenditure. Transaction for the entity hire employees by the end of the period should be a period. By the end of the period, they have earned $6,000 in wages, but not yet paid. What do we do for cash basis? Nothing. If we did not pay the employees yet, we don't have an expenditure. We don't have an expenditure. Why? Because we are using the cash basis. Therefore, no entry. Now, at the end of the period, if I ask you to prepare the income statement under the cash basis, what would you say? Well, for the income statement, I have revenues and I have expenditure. What's my revenues? My revenues are $200,000 from the contribution and my expenditure is $125. My profit is $75,000. And obviously the balance sheet, I have $75,000 in cash and my fund balance will be $75,000. I received $200,000. I paid $125,000. My cash is $100,000 and my profit is my fund balance of $75,000. That's on the balance sheet. Now, I'm going to go ahead and prepare the journal entries for the same transaction, however, using the modified accrual, modified accrual. And this is the new method that we learned about and the new method you're going to be using for a certain governmental fund, a modified accrual. Starting with the first entry, a donor pledged half a million dollars giving the organization a legally enforceable 60-day note. Well, now, what do modified accrual focuses on? Modified accrual focuses on, this is what you have to keep in mind, current assets and current liabilities. This is what they focus on. Remember, the focus is the current economic resources. Well, if somebody pledged money and it's enforceable within 60 days, do I have a receivable? Yes, I do. It's within 60 days. I would say I do have a receivable and I'm going to call this notes receivable or pledge receivable for how much? For the amount and the amount happens to be, how much was the amount? The amount is half a million. Therefore, the amount is half a million, not 200,000. The amount is half a million. So I have a note or pledge receivable for half a million. So I do notice the difference between cash and modified accrual. Again, I said we can call modified cash as modified accrual or modified cash. But under the modified accrual, I have a receivable. Transaction to, well, I did receive the 200,000. Great. I debit cash and I credit the notes receivable for 100,000. This is actually 200,000. 200,000. I debit cash credit notes receivable 200,000. That's transaction to, well, if I receive the cash, I have to debit the cash and it goes against my receivable. Now transaction three, the entity purchased a building. So notice those are different than the cash. The entity purchased a building for 400,000 paying 125,000 in cash. Well, I can't run away from my cash. I have to credit cash. How much I have to credit cash? 125,000. The question is, what do I debit? Well, under modified accrual, I'm only focusing on current assets. The building is a long-term asset. So I cannot record the building on my books. What do I record? I record an expenditure. Well, this sounds like the cash basis. Indeed. It's just like the cash basis. I would record the transaction at 125. Because under the modified accrual, my focus is the current resources. My current resources are current assets and current liabilities. Therefore, that's what I would do. Transaction four, we hired employees. By the end of the period, they earned 6,000. That amount is not yet paid. Do I record this under modified accrual? Let me ask myself, what is modified accrual? Focusing on current assets and current liabilities. My current resources. How about wages? Are they a current liability? And the answer is yes. My wages are current liabilities. Because I have to pay those wages in the near future. Well, if that's the case, I have to record some sort of an expenditure. Remember, I'm calling it an expenditure because modified accrual. And I have to credit some sort of a liability. Because I do record my current liabilities under modified accrual. Therefore, I debit salaries expenditure. And I credit wages payable. And this is how I would record this transaction. So notice, all what I'm focusing on is receivables, current receivables, current payables. That's different than the cash basis where you have no, nothing other than cash transaction. Now, if I'm asked to prepare the income statement under the modified accrual, my revenue will be half a million expenditure of 125. And I have wages expenditure of 6,000. My profit will be 396,000. Now let's take a look if I have to prepare these journal entries under the full accrual, which is the method that we are comfortable with, should be most comfortable with. Starting with a donor pledged half a million. If the donor pledged half a million, I have a receivable. Under the full accrual, I record my receivable of half a million. And I have some sort of a contribution revenue. And notice this transaction is the same as modified accrual because I have a receivable. Well, full accrual do record the receivables. Same thing with the cash. I received cash from previously promised contribution. It's 200,000 in cash. And this is pledged receivable. I debit my cash, credit my receivable. Again, the same thing as modified accrual. Now I purchased the building. I purchased the building for 400,000. I paid 125 and the remainder is a note. Full accrual. Remember, what's the measurement focus on full accrual?  So what do I have to do? Let's start with the easy part. The easy part is I paid cash. How much cash did I pay? I paid 125. Do I put the building on the books? For sure I put the building on the books. This is full accrual. 400,000. Well, the difference is what? The difference is note spable. Do I include the note spable? Of course I do. This is full accrual. So full accrual, you would record long-term assets, long-term liabilities. We should not be surprised here. This is the method that we know. So now you can compare, for example, how we treated a building under the full accrual. The full accrual versus how we treated the expenditure of the building under modified accrual and cash basis. And last but not least, we need to accrue $6,000 of wages. Well, hopefully we all know how to accrue an expense. We debit an expense, credit wages, spable. Notice I'm emphasizing the word expense to reflect it's an accrual versus it was called an expenditure for modified accrual. The terms are different, expense versus expenditure. I will talk about that later on a little bit more, the difference. But basically expenditure is different than expenses. Expenditure is a modified accrual term. And let's take a look at the income statement based on the accrual method. We have revenues. Now we have the building. We have to book depreciation expense on the building. I took just the building, divided it by 30 years. And we have wages expense of $600,000. This is an expense, not expenditure. Our profit will be $480,667. So notice what we did. We looked at the various component of cash basis, modified accrual and full accrual. What should you do now? Go to Farhat Lectures. Go to Farhat Lectures. Look at additional resources, lectures, MCQs, true, false. Look at the notes to help you understand modified basis of accounting. This is a governmental accounting course. You want to do good in that course. You want to do good on your CPA exam. Good luck. Study hard, invest in yourself.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to Tips and Tricks, a boom, lockdown edition. We're at the end of week four, and I know it's been tough on us all. We've had to cobble together workstations and make do with whatever we can get our hands on. I know I could have never made it this far, if not for my new invisible friends who crawl out of the electrical sockets at night and make stop frame animations on my kitchen table. But I'm sure we all have had similar heartwarming experiences, so let's just get on with it. Today I'm going to share with you a couple of expressions that do two different things, but they're both based on the formula that describes the basic attributes of a camera. It takes into account the relationship between the camera aperture, which in our case will be the size of the action render, the focal length, and the field of view. As we can see, our field of view changes as we move our lens, changing our focal length. This is best defined with the formula tangent of one-half the field of view equals the focal length over one-half the aperture. So what might we do with this formula besides make this snazzy interactive graphic? Well, our first expression will use this formula to adjust the scale of our image in relation to the distance from the camera. To demonstrate, we have our three socially responsible helpers here. We have our go-getter, our middleman who is supporting his favorite local essential business, and the slacker holding up a lamppost. As we can see, they're all maintaining proper social distancing. But when we dolly our camera back and forth, it's obvious that they're all on the same image plane. To change this but still maintain the same visual size of each of the characters, we will copy the image and add a G-mask that isolates each and in the scale for each axis enter this expression. Notice the number 540 denotes one-half the height of the HD raster. Now in a side view, we can see the image fitting into the camera's field of view as I move it in z-space. But on the right, there's no apparent change because our visual size remains the same. We'll move our helpers back in space and when we dolly our camera back and forth, we see that they now move in perspective. Good one. When this is over, I'm going to get that guy one of those t-shirts that says it's always five o'clock somewhere in the world. Thanks, fellas. For our second example, we'll use the formula to lock our image to the camera. The inspiration for this one comes from a practical effect in which the camera and the stage are locked together on a gimbal. And I'm told we have a visual aid for this. Is it working? Yes. Yes, we do. Let's cut over to the props department. And here we have a recreation of the famous stage used to create the effect of Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling in the movie The Royal Wedding. We have the camera, lights and stage all connected together and the talent remains gravity-bound as the unit is rotated. And we can see from the point of view of the camera that our talent defies gravity. To do this in the flame, we parent our image to the camera and in the axis position Z, we enter this expression. Again, 540 is one half the size of our camera aperture of 1080. This expression is useful if we need to make our background an image in order to take advantage of certain attributes like masking or making it a bicubic or a bilinear. We can change the parameters of the camera in either target or free mode, including the field of view and the image will remain fixed. As you can see here, we're swinging the camera around with the abandon of a wild monkey, but the image remains unchanged. So that's our tip for the day. Before we go, I'd like to give a special shout out. Is it still up? Can we cut back to it? Yes? Yes, okay. Let's give a shout out to our friends at Isolation Miniatures. They really came through for us on short notice and of course a very special thanks to our dear friend Mr. Moybridge for the generous donation of his cat for the evening. This seems like a metaphor for how we're all feeling about now. I'm Tim Farrell. You can call me any time. Just dial YTF at LostPlanet.com. Stay healthy, stay creative, and we'll see you next time.