A coreless motor and a popsicle stick: Beginner Life's bottle helicopter short
The materials list behind the week's two helicopter builds runs from a 3.7-volt battery to a pencil and some glue.
Beginner LifeStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
How to Build a Helicopter at Home #helicopter #toys #diy #shortvideo
Two uploads went up on Beginner Life this week, and both are the same helicopter seen from different distances. The longer one, "How to Build RC Helicopter using Plastic Bottle at Home | Step by Step," walks through the build. Its description lists the parts: a plastic bottle, a 3.7-volt battery, an on/off switch, a coreless motor and a DC motor, a popsicle stick, a pencil and glue. The short, "How to Build a Helicopter at Home," squeezes the same idea into a few seconds.
The short is the one moving. It is approaching 28,000 views and picks up far more each day than the step-by-step version, which has gone quiet after a decent start. An older bottle-helicopter short from ten days ago is still collecting a few views of its own, so the channel has now spent close to two weeks on rotors.
The comments under the short are few. The one that stands out, written in Urdu, asks for the method of making it. The answer is in the longer video, for anyone who goes looking.
The channel as a whole is a little below its usual pace, and its subscriber count held at 1.08 million. In the DIY and building group, the attention is elsewhere: BAS Renovations is far ahead on views, and Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek is having a very busy stretch, well above his normal days. Beginner Life sits in the middle of the group, closest to Woodworking Tools TV on views this week. The about text still records the date the channel reached a million subscribers: December 20, 2024.
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The videos drawing views on Beginner Life right now
- Channel
- Beginner Life
- Subscribers
- 1,080,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 304,162
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 27,740
- Views on its first day
- 2,368
The numbers
Here are the week's figures for Beginner Life.
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What do pilots call the main rotor that lifts a helicopter?
The circle swept by the spinning main rotor blades is called the rotor disc. The fuselage is the body, ailerons are airplane wing surfaces, and the empennage is an airplane's tail assembly.
