# OpenDrone: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-28, OpenDrone has 28,200 subscribers, 2,432,636 total views, and 62 videos. It ranks #1,843,069 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [OpenDrone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for OpenDrone is “One carbon fibre is a tenth of a human hair”, a Short published Oct 28, 2026.
- These are OpenDrone’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 1, 2022 and Oct 28, 2026 (12 long-form videos and 36 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 6,576. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “How LoRa (ExpressLRS) Drone Receivers Work” (1,011,363 views, Jul 18, 2026). Least viewed: “Superfit Virtual Tour FPV (4K)” (251 views, May 26, 2022).
- Median length: 8:17 for 12 long-form videos; 0:29 for 36 Shorts.
- In this sample, OpenDrone’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 850 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [One carbon fibre is a tenth of a human hair](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/FwFbEftLS1M/) | 2026-10-28 | Short | 709 | 0:42 | - |
| [Why carbon is not cut like aluminium](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/aSGz9pwaxGs/) | 2026-10-28 | Short | 2,411 | 0:26 | 1.01x |
| [A drone is a vibration machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/_W2_W-9AdMs/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 2,237 | 0:47 | - |
| [Load carbon the wrong way and it loses 70 % of its stiffness](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/EEZxyjjZ-zE/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 1,940 | 0:38 | - |
| [Carbon does not bend, it breaks. So we design around it](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/XvrTk4VX_8k/) | 2026-10-26 | Short | 1,827 | 0:20 | - |
| [Double the thickness, 8 times stiffer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/Bc_l8o0vQo8/) | 2026-10-26 | Short | 18,080 | 0:16 | 2.03x |
| [Aluminium bends, carbon snaps](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/aXoaHu3n5ec/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 4,112 | 0:48 | - |
| [It survived the crash. Would you fly it again?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/Yahl3T3AadM/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 7,134 | 0:26 | - |
| [Why Betaflight still wants a stiff frame](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/Pgdvozoatvk/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 17,479 | 0:42 | 2.61x |
| [Life as a factory worker](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/ANVeowGn2fU/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 6,723 | 0:11 | 1.13x |
| [How a plastic thread becomes carbon fibre](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/ayTyhKbGAiM/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 5,359 | 0:29 | - |
| [Carbon and aluminium are equally stiff. So why carbon?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/GEU8GWMUWM4/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 21,178 | 0:39 | 2.17x |
| [We flew our carbon frame into a concrete pillar](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/-AP3LnqabcE/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 3,235 | 0:46 | - |
| [You could fly it, but you couldn't fork it](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/RarbxyAsr4Y/) | 2026-10-20 | Short | 13,521 | 0:18 | 1.79x |
| [Why 2.4 GHz goes through walls and light doesn't](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/87VIaw4k0Tk/) | 2026-10-19 | Short | 5,743 | 0:34 | - |
| [4S motors on 6S. What could go wrong?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/NhQut-itlHs/) | 2026-10-18 | Short | 24,576 | 0:17 | 2.93x |
| [Why your Wi-Fi gets slow far from the router](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/q081Yj3zFxM/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 3,693 | 0:34 | - |
| [The weekend freestyle FPV was born](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/IrooE46C9wc/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 4,049 | 0:28 | - |
| [Carbon Fibre Is Everywhere](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/ixk-b_OKRMg/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 8,010 | 13:21 | - |
| [This receiver breaks an RF design rule](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/vQYdkmEi4Fg/) | 2026-10-15 | Short | 54,182 | 0:41 | 4.95x |
| [The software is open. The hardware is not.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/aFOQNhCgAA4/) | 2026-10-14 | Short | 20,344 | 0:27 | 2.73x |
| [How LoRa hears a signal below the noise](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/FCjzB3fUhzA/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 3,181 | 0:51 | - |
| [Hobbyists built a radio that beat everyone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/MWn41n3mZ5o/) | 2026-10-12 | Short | 9,949 | 0:30 | 1.2x |
| [Current flows in circles](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/VovytjGNH_k/) | 2026-10-11 | Short | 3,976 | 0:31 | - |
| [How hobby drones became military hardware](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/4WRtTvh3OB8/) | 2026-10-10 | Short | 7,298 | 0:44 | 1.07x |
| [Why everything in RF is 50 ohms](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/pQ51V1KESx4/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 77,835 | 0:33 | 9.67x |
| [Your drone isn't just yours anymore](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/mWCoS3qO0aw/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 9,264 | 0:28 | 1.18x |
| [Kilometres away, a forest in the way, still connected](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/5ZL-MqTjYrM/) | 2026-10-07 | Short | 6,428 | 0:38 | - |
| [How a Wii remote started FPV drones](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/_s8Qh5E33-g/) | 2026-10-06 | Short | 19,828 | 0:26 | 2.5x |
| [The ESC firmware that just switched off](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/7Rb2Z6o04nQ/) | 2026-10-04 | Short | 3,291 | 0:55 | - |
| [OpenDrone is live](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/zo5YV6-SYEY/) | 2026-10-04 | Long-form | 3,149 | 25:51 | - |
| [This is Thomas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/YGhyXuPV-6Q/) | 2026-10-03 | Short | 10,109 | 0:11 | 1.27x |
| [Who Owns Your Drone?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/4xEBHzfRSr0/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 648,689 | 13:23 | 90.18x |
| [Testing and quality control](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/6EwolTpD3AM/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 3,414 | 0:25 | - |
| [How LoRa (ExpressLRS) Drone Receivers Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/ssmQkRkXE84/) | 2026-07-18 | Long-form | 1,011,363 | 14:38 | >100x |
| [ESC Thermal Test #am32 #drone #betaflight #fpv](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/Tz3bZiHob2M/) | 2026-07-05 | Short | 6,874 | 0:25 | - |
| [How Flight Controllers Work (so I built my own)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/XDYZoMRJFeQ/) | 2026-05-25 | Long-form | 116,892 | 9:07 | 56.17x |
| [16 May 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/8i_7TDYUhS4/) | 2026-05-16 | Short | 6,309 | 0:22 | - |
| [#am32 #fpv #betaflight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/XK9gWVYmuno/) | 2026-04-27 | Short | 29,312 | 0:15 | - |
| [6 April 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/Di1x-NVzvaw/) | 2026-04-06 | Short | 36,258 | 0:21 | - |
| [How Drone ESCs Work (so I built my own)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/TwAmmPxOpTM/) | 2026-03-10 | Long-form | 248,035 | 10:27 | >100x |
| [How to unlock a BlHeli32 ESC to AM32 using the unlocker tool](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/2zHAI0lxxYg/) | 2025-07-06 | Long-form | 3,891 | 7:27 | 7.55x |
| [Pushing the FPV Cinelifter to the max!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/Du9Gf8nanqA/) | 2023-03-09 | Short | 932 | 0:46 | - |
| [Remaking My First Video: Retie! - FPV Cinelifter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/lIlciSrdMR4/) | 2023-03-05 | Long-form | 2,076 | 2:32 | 4.33x |
| [Next Level FPV - Building The Cinelifter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/RT4u9mI2bbY/) | 2023-02-08 | Long-form | 10,454 | 3:22 | 22.52x |
| [MTB In The French Alps - Cinematic FPV](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/7ZdMjBgSCT4/) | 2022-07-15 | Long-form | 466 | 1:46 | - |
| [Superfit Virtual Tour FPV (4K)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/BSzZslXgz8A/) | 2022-05-26 | Long-form | 251 | 1:00 | - |
| [Glosso Opening Weekend - FPV](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@opendrone/videos/PxQXi9TNRAc/) | 2022-05-01 | Long-form | 412 | 3:38 | - |

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