Multicopter FPV
I just did my first flight with my Multicopter FPV setup and it was AWESOME! I’ve flown planes and gliders via FPV before, but one of the main reasons for building my Multicopter was to do FPV. My final goal is to attach a stabilized DSLR onto my multicopter rig and shoot some high quality […]
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Tags: Arduino, brushless, brushless motor, camera, CNC, DIY, drone, Electronics, FPV, multicopter, Photos, Radio Control, Video
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
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
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
My Arduino AtmoLight/Ambilight Clone Project
I was researching a project online the other day when I came across a project on Blogspot about how to make your own Atmolight/Ambilight television type setup using an Arduino Duemilanove , a ShiftBrite Shield and ShiftBar modules from Macetech and some 12v LED RGB lighting strips. It was kind of amazing as I had […]
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Tags: Arduino, Electronics, Light Art, ShiftBrite, Video