Apologies for no updates for a few years I haven’t gone far…still sat at the same keyboard, but got completely distracted by a device that I introduced into my life 3D printing… It started with one inexpensive machine to dip my toes into the deep deep waters….now the robots outnumber the humans in this house …
Continue reading 3D Printing….With the new firmware released by JYE for their excellent little DSO Shell scope (v110) they added a neat little feature – being able to download data from the unit I asked on their forum if they were planning to make some software available so it would be used for graphing, and unfortunately they said …
Continue reading DSO Shell software!So the eve of the last day of 2017… In summary – kit car is about to go back on the road after a 6 year (?) layup, hoping its going to back roadworthy (and more importantly reliable) by spring – looking forward to taking the lad out in it Tinkered with a few electric …
Continue reading The end of 2017….Just a quickie Been flying RC sims for a while now – and breaking away from the PC desk whilst doing it was always on the cards My solution works quite nicely I can crash heli’s planes and quadopters from anywhere in the local area 🙂 (RF signal allowing!!)
Continue reading Flying a sim remotely?Pow! just checking into this creaky old blog It has been a while! UPS batts died (and was a drama to get working replacements) Printer died (and was also a VERY stressful experience) At least I have found 3 or 4 companies I will NEVER use again…sigh Not really played with the servers for a …
Continue reading Pow! just checking into this creaky old blogNew HP Microserver running Bit faster than the PI Head nearly exploded from tech hitches migrating…but if your reading this its a good thing
Continue reading test from microserverWell, the Raspberry PI has done a stirling job of hosting this website and blog – along with all the other back end stuff I have thrust upon it, but its time to go back to traditional fan cooled hardware with proper physical disks I have just unwrapped a HP Proliant N54L and am going …
Continue reading New serverJust to let you know I haven’t died…just not had time to update the blog or website 2015 came and went The 250 and 450 heli’s have had their moments and have taken their fair share of dirt naps but thankfully the incident rate is getting less – looking forward to calmer weather and dryer …
Continue reading Long overdue updateA HK450 just landed – bought second hand it required a new elevator servo RX and setting up I have stuck a K-Bar on it and am awaiting some Emax ES08MD II cyclic servos an Emax ES9258 and a flybarless head to arrive from eHirobo Its a fair bit bigger than the 250 Pics to …
Continue reading CopterX250 just got a bigger brotherA fresh set of 3 Emax ES08MD II servo’s landed – along with a new FBL head as the original servo (Emax ES08DE) got trashed when the elevator servo let go – I went with the slightly different model of Emax servo’s for a few reasons – The originals I got second hand …possibly 3rd …
Continue reading New servo’s for the CopterX 250 FBL