Flite Test’s Bloody Wonder V2
Posted on April 22nd, 2014 in Plane, Radio Control
I’ve recently started following Flite Test on YouTube and enjoy quite a few of their videos, their Dollar Tree based foam plane plans looked cheap and fun which is always a great combination. One plane which looked like a lot of fun was their Bloody Wonder V2 which they released the flight test, build video […]
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First Attempts at CNC Sign Making
I’ve had my home built CNC router machine for a couple of years now, but one thing I’ve not really done with it is to create a sign. It seems like an obvious thing, but I’ve always been more interested in making mechanical parts. I was down at the flying field the other day and […]
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Repairing Turnigy X900 Tricopter – Motor Mounts
Posted on April 10th, 2014 in Custom Projects, DIY CNC, Multicopter, Radio Control, Technology, Video
I’ve been working on a tricopter using a Turnigy X900 frame for some FPV fun-flying this year and having some fun putting that together. Unfortunately I had a bad motor and during my first test I damaged one of the fiberglass motor mounts beyond actual repair. I could (and still may) have made a home […]
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High Density WS2812B Panel Project
Posted on March 16th, 2014 in Arduino, Custom Projects, DIY Equipment, Electronics, LEDs, Lighting, Teensy, Video
The WS2812B RGB LED chip is a wonderful little device. It contains Red, Green and Blue LED elements and also a WS2811 RGB LED driver. The chip has only 4 pins. Power, Ground, Data In and Data Out and can easily be chained to another chip. With enough of these chips chained together your can […]
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Toaster Oven Reflow Controller Project
I had a project I was working on which needed to be reflow soldered because there were too many parts too close to each other to solder by hand. I needed to get a reflow controller up and running quickly. I made the little controller shown below by mixing a few easily available kits and […]
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