I don’t enjoy writing reviews. I’ve tried reviewing products on more than one occasion. Every now and then, a company will send me something to review. Usually those products are just fine, and every now and then they are also...
Read the post →I enjoy [flying 3” micros][l3]. In fact, the first quadcopter frame I designed was a [3D-printed nylon frame][145] sized for 3” props. I would have enjoyed trying 4” props, but [my 3D printer][3d] isn’t big enough to print that style...
Read the post →I’ve been interested in owning a CNC machine for a long, long time. When I was building my arcade cabinet, I thought it would be awesome to have a machine that could quickly carve new cabinets out of 4x8’ sheets...
Read the post →In December of 2016, I helped folks out at a quadcopter build event at TheLab.ms makerspace. They were building 450mm quads to fly by line of sight. My friends tried to talk me into building one, too, but it didn’t...
Read the post →I built the first of my 2018 quadcopters in October of 2017. It was an OwlRC Dragon frame with individual Wraith32 ESCs, a Kakute F4 flight controller, Holybro AtlAtl VTX, and a Runcam Eagle 2 with a set of T-Motor...
Read the post →I’ve had my Hover-1 XLS Scooter for somewhere around seven months now, and I’ve put over 200 miles on it. I mostly take it on short trips to the park–most of the time I take a round trip shorter than...
Read the post →Back in March, I ordered a Ryze Tello photography drone. Why on Earth would I buy a toy drone for photography or video purposes?
Read the post →Six months ago, we moved into a new house. Plano, TX has some amazing parks, and my friends and I make good use of them–we regularly fly our FPV racing quadcopters at these parks. There are miles of bike trails...
Read the post →Back in December, I bought a Leader 120 micro quad. It was a fantastic deal. It was on sale for $85 at the time, and I just couldn’t pass it up. It had a few shortcomings–an under-powered 25mw VTX, and...
Read the post →My NAS is a virtual machine hosted on my home KVM server. My KVM server has a RAID 10 array composed of two 4 TB drives. This gives me a measly 4 TB of usable disk space, and I can...
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