Analyzing Your Radio Controlled Helicopters Current Consumption
Posted on September 13th, 2010 in Electronics, Radio Control
I’ve been flying quite a bit and not paying much attention to the load I’ve been putting on my speed controller. Today I plugged my CC50 ICE into the computer via the Castle Link to check out my last few flights on my Thunder Tiger Mini-Titan e325. I was quite surprised as most of my […]
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Luxeon Star V 5-Watt Royal Blue LED Video Demo
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 in Electronics, LEDs
I’m a big fan of LED lighting which is why when I ordered a bunch of parts from SparkFun the other day I ordered a 5 watt Royal Blue LED by Luxeon. These 1 Watt Luxeon LEDs are discontinued and brighter stuff is available now. Up to 100 Watts or more! This LED is quite […]
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Li-Poly Battery Burns down Lawn and Distrupts Time/Space
I’ve intentionally blown a few Lithium Polymer R/C battery packs when they have reached their end of life. Unfortunately while my Outrage XP25 2200mAh packs still power my rc helicopter, they are beginning to puff and I don’t trust the pack to not burst into flames while I’m in mid-air. To alleviate the temptation I […]
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My Arduino AtmoLight/Ambilight Clone Project
I was researching a project online the other day when I came across a project on Blogspot about how to make your own Atmolight/Ambilight television type setup using an Arduino Duemilanove , a ShiftBrite Shield and ShiftBar modules from Macetech and some 12v LED RGB lighting strips. It was kind of amazing as I had […]
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Replacing the SAW Filter in a 900Mhz A/V Receiver for FPV
I received some more components in the mail today. Most of them were base station equipment, all from DPCAV.COM. The items I received were the 900Mhz patch panel antenna, a dipole 900Mhz omnidirectional antenna, 2 900Mhz receivers, some Kapton tape, a bunch of batteries I ordered for my Aiptek 8800 digital camcorder and A/V input […]
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