Built a Skew Planar and Cloverleaf Antenna for my 900Mhz FPV Setup
I was flying in an industrial are the other day with my FPV setup and even when the picture was clear it would go all rainbow colored which was very distracting, additionally my range seemed to be shortened quite a bit. It looked something like the photo below which has been photoshopped since I wasn’t […]
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Repairing Turnigy X900 Tricopter – Motor Mounts
Posted on April 10th, 2014 in Custom Projects, DIY CNC, Multicopter, Radio Control, Technology, Video
I’ve been working on a tricopter using a Turnigy X900 frame for some FPV fun-flying this year and having some fun putting that together. Unfortunately I had a bad motor and during my first test I damaged one of the fiberglass motor mounts beyond actual repair. I could (and still may) have made a home […]
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Notes on Raspberry Pi Crashing or Locking Up Often
I’ve been working on a remote weather station project but after dealing with some problems communicating consistently with the weather station hardware I ran into a problem with the Raspberry Pi crashing or locking up fairly often. Sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes every couple of days. as you can imagine this started to drive […]
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Installing a Huawei e353 Cell Modem on Raspberry Pi with Tmobile
I have a situation where I need to install a cellular modem, from the console, in a remote weather station which is being powered by a Rapsberry Pi. I did a bit of shopping and bought an UNLOCKED Huawei e353 GSM device from Amazon. The e353 works with T-Mobile and AT&T in the United States […]
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Building a 3D Printer for a Friend
Posted on April 5th, 2013 in 3D Printing, Custom Projects, DIY Anodizing, DIY CNC, Science, Technology, Video
Partway through building my own 3D Printer my friend Addidis no (Google+) expressed interest in having his own so I offered to put a hardware kit together for him as long as he covered the material costs and thus began the process of cloning my OB1.4 3D printer (designed by Wired1 on Thingiverse) in black […]
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