Low Cost Digital Microscope
With some of my other projects I’m working with fairly small electronics components so I ordered a low-cost digital microscope off of eBay. I paid about $40 for a 0-500x digital microscope. It’s really 0-400x with ‘digital zoom’, a worthless feature but otherwise it’s a pretty cool tool and toy for what it is. The […]
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Tags: Arduino, camera, Digital Microscope, Electronics, led, Photography, Photos
Neat Fair 2011 Photographs
I just got back from NEAT Fair 2011 and took quite a few photographs to share. Just as last years there were lots of great aircraft and pilots to be seen. I was only able to be there on Saturday but there was a lot going on. There were several FPV rigs setup on octo-copters, […]
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Tags: event, Helicopter, NEAT Fair 2011, Plane, Radio Control
Making Night Blades for R/C Helicopter
I’ve been thinking of making night blades for my R/C helicopter. Back in 2003 I made a set of wooden night blades for my Raptor 60 using RGB (Red-Green-Blue) LEDs and an Atmel AVR micro-controller to make them change colors and shift patterns. The blades were pretty simple but they worked. I even slapped together […]
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Tags: Arduino, Atmel, Electronics, Helicopter, led, mini-titan, Night Flying
Replace the Bearings in A Scorpion Motor
Over the weekend I had to Replace the bearings in a Scorpion motor and made a video. The Scorpion HKII-2221-8 motor on my Mini-Titan 450 was making some weird and unhappy noises so I ordered up a new set of ceramic bearings from Boca Bearings. The bearings were pretty easy to replace. There is a […]
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Tags: Radio Control