Who Owns Your Drone?

Preorder and live funding goals: https://opendrone.be/?ref=yt-launch All hardware on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw Discord:   / discord   ▶ THE HARDWARE OpenFC Lite, Betaflight flight controller on the RP2350, 30x30 and 20x20 Shop: https://opendrone.be/products/openfc-... Design: https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw/OpenF... Design (20x20): https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw/OpenF... OpenESC, 4-in-1 AM32 ESC, 30x30 and 20x20 Shop: https://opendrone.be/products/openesc... Design: https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw/OpenE... Design (20x20): https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw/OpenE... OpenRX, ExpressLRS receivers: Lite, Lite-UFL, Mono, Gemini Shop: https://opendrone.be/products/openrx?... Design: https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw/OpenRX OpenFrame, 3 and 5 inch carbon freestyle frames Shop: https://opendrone.be/products/openfra... CAD: https://github.com/OpenDrone-hw/OpenF... OpenMotor, 1604 and 2306 motors Shop: https://opendrone.be/products/openmot... Board designs are CERN-OHL-S: build them, change them, sell them, but share your changes. Batch 1 of OpenFC Lite and OpenESC ships from Belgium to the EU in early November 2026. Everything else is a preorder: each product has a funding goal that closes on 15 December 2026. Goal reached: it ships by 31 March 2027. Goal missed: you choose a refund or to keep waiting. ▶ CHAPTERS 0:00 Open source software, closed hardware 0:31 2009: the Wii MotionPlus gyro 0:53 MultiWii: the first cheap quadcopter 1:06 Team BlackSheep and the birth of FPV 1:18 Baseflight, the Naze32 and the fork 1:43 Cleanflight and Betaflight 2:36 Racing and freestyle: MultiGP, Charpu, Rotor Riot 3:04 KISS: great hardware, closed source 3:21 Joshua Bardwell 3:42 DJI goes digital 4:17 Remote ID 4:48 Ukraine and dual use 5:42 BLHeli_32 goes dark 6:42 AM32 and ExpressLRS 7:41 OpenIPC and open video 8:00 Open software, closed hardware 8:11 OpenDrone 8:58 Why open hardware needs a company 9:37 The lineup: FC, ESC, RX, motors, frames 10:33 How the preorder works 11:51 Made in China, for now 12:10 Who owns your drone? 12:30 HighTechLab Leuven tour ▶ MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO Joshua Bardwell:    / @joshuabardwell   Betaflight: https://betaflight.com ExpressLRS: https://www.expresslrs.org AM32: https://github.com/am32-firmware/AM32 Bluejay: https://github.com/bird-sanctuary/blu... OpenIPC: https://openipc.org Our OpenRX video:    • How LoRa (ExpressLRS) Drone Receivers Work   Our flight controller video:    • How Flight Controllers Work (so I built my...   Maakleerplek and the HighTechLab Leuven, open Thursday evenings and Saturdays: https://maakleerplek.be ▶ CREDITS Clips used with credit, not relicensed: Team BlackSheep, New York City:    • New York City   Alexinparis, MultiWii microquad:    • MultiWii microquad   Rotor Riot, Game of KWAD:    • Game of KWAD   Rotor Riot, Sunken City FPV Freestyle:    • Sunken City FPV Freestyle   Rotor Riot, Questions May 2016:    • Questions - May 2016   ROTORSPORTS, Love Letter from Charpu:    • Love Letter from Charpu | 2015 National Dr...   Mr Steele, Origins of FPV:    • Drone Racing League Before the Racing | Or...   Stroke of Genius, Flowstate trailer:    • Flowstate : The FPV Drone Documentary (Ful...   Felix Niessen, KISS ESC soldering:    • KISS ESC soldering   Joshua Bardwell:    • HOW TO BUILD A QUADCOPTER | AllCarbonRC Co...      • Pro drone racer shares his secrets. Can he...      • Betaflight 4.5 GPS Rescue Setup Guide      • Betaflight 2026.6 Is Here! What's new? Wha...   Chris Rosser, AM32 and ExpressLRS interviews:    • Interview with the Lead Developer of AM32 ...      • An Interview with Alessandro, the founder ...   WIRED, Meet One of the Best Drone Pilots in the World:    • Meet One of the Best Drone Pilots in the W...   Drone Sweden, Analog vs Digital:    • Analog vs Digital (FPV-signal)   Nintendo Wii footage: trevorh07, devyl96, CivilizedGamers FPV strike footage: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chris Anderson photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Archived web pages: Internet Archive Wayback Machine Made by Incutec BV, Leuven, Belgium. #FPV #OpenSource #Drone