Jon's Hobbies

I received the new 2.2KW spindle motor for my DIY CNC router today. It looks pretty nice so far. I was using a De-Walt handheld router for the spindle, but I wanted something that didn’t blow the dust and shavings all over the place. The spindle is one of the many available on eBay in [...]

Continue Reading New 2.2kw Spindle Motor for CNC Router Arrived

Tags: brushless, brushless motor, CNC, DIY

I was having a glitch with my GoPro Hero 2 where the photos would come out with 1/3 or 2/3rds of the image corrupted and darker than the rest of the image. This occurred while I was shooting 5mp time-lapse with spot metering enabled. You can see a couple of corrupt photographs below. Since this [...]

Continue Reading GoPro Hero 2 Snapshot Glitch

Tags: GoPro, Photography, Video

Hey I hope everyone has been having a good holiday season. I haven’t been posting much lately as I’ve been keeping pretty busy with work and playing Battlefield 3.  I picked up a GoPro Hero 2 HD camera a couple of weeks ago and have been having some fun with it. I’ve been wanting one [...]

Continue Reading GoPro Hero 2 Aerial R/C Videos

Tags: FPV, Helicopter, model aircraft, Photography, Plane, Radio Control, rc, Video

I’ve always wanted to play with a thermal imaging camera, they open up a whole different hidden world at the far end of the infra-red spectrum so last week I finally got a chance to do that and take some photos. With winter on the way I needed to find out where my house was [...]

Continue Reading Fun with a FLIR Thermal Imaging Camera

Tags: Energy, Photography, Technology

This weekend has had beautiful weather so I pulled out the FPV rig for a couple of days to get some flying in. On Saturday I was down at our big field and set up the FPV and let quite a few other guys look through it while I flew. I let my friend Ollie [...]

Continue Reading FPV Rig, Friend Flying FPV the First Time and Chasing Other Planes with FPV

Tags: camera, FPV, glider, Radio Control, rc, Spirit, Video