The New Arduino Mega 2560
I was just looking at Twitter again, trying to decide if it was worthwhile to create an account or not and typed in ‘Arduino’ to the search box and found out that Arduino has release 2 new boards, the Ardunio Uno and the Ardunio Mega 2560. I checked out the specs and they both look […]
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Tags: Arduino, New Product
Mini-Titan e325 Night Flying LED Lights Setup Progress
I am working to convert my ACE Mini-Titan e325 to a night-flying setup. Since Winter is on the way, the only time I’ll be able to fly is later on in the day when the sun is low, or gone, so this is a perfect excuse to play with LED lights. LED Technology had come […]
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Tags: Electronics, Helicopter, led, LEDs, mini-titan, Night Flying, Soldering
NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos
There are quite a few photos that I’ve uploaded and they’re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well. The helicopter section […]
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Tags: drone, FPV, Helicopter, Octacopter, Photography, Plane, Radio Control
Analyzing Your Radio Controlled Helicopters Current Consumption
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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Tags: e325, Electronics, heli, Helicopter, mini-titan, Radio Control, rc
Trying Out Some Low Cost Outrunner Brushless Motors from eBay
These outrunner brushless motors were shipped straight from China and took about two weeks to arrive and cost about $12 each shipped. Here are a couple of high resolution photos of these motors, they have a nice flat gold color to the ends and the bell is chromed a good overall appearance at first look. […]
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Tags: brushless motor, Helicopter, model, outrunner brushless motor, Plane, Radio Control, rc