A 10 minute change that has taken 3 days I needed to change a time delay in a 8-pin PIC12F675 project started 4 years ago but has been updated since. No problem I thought, change the time, recompile, save a new output file and program some chips. But the chips […]
Conclusion – Resolved Keep enough stock on hand – but how much is enough. Don’t rely on suppliers to come through if you are caught short. Mouser did resolve the issue and release the order. But we will have a 4-5 day gap in production. Not Always Quicker Being a […]
History Several years ago this site was created as www2.pmb.co.nz to use WordPress to replace our much older html only pmb.co.nz site. When rcbeacon.com was introduced 2-3 years ago, the site contained a lot of content. Fully converting from www2… to rcbeacon was going to be a big job. The […]
Caught in the USB lead I received a large DJI camera gimbal to repair, from a big Hex milti-rotor. The mini-USB connector was broken when the lead was accidentally caught and pulled. Removing the old connector The first step was to remove the circuit board from the gimbal without damaging […]
What’s the plan and why A few years back I was looking at building a larger (about 2M) flying wing for FPV. Since then I have been playing with multi-rotors. Not the 250 racing size but rather 350-400 FPV types. Considering the short flight times, relatively high accident cost in […]
68HC11 and 68HC05 During the later 1980s I started using the Motorola MC68HC11E9 single chip micro. Problem back then was that you couldn’t get Flash memory, so the single chip micros were one time programmable (OTP). That was a real pain because the OTP chips cost about $40 each and […]
I had a cheap IP camera running to check out the weather from the TV (computer). It’s getting a bit unreliable and the picture is now crap. So I decided to revamp with either a cheap 4 channel DVR from China for about $100 or a re-purposed older PC and […]
Down the Western side of the Hutt River from Moonshine to Avalon Park and back up the Eastern side through Trentham Memorial Park. [map maptype=satellite kml=”http://rcbeacon.com/blog/ftp-shared/upload/Track-011712-42219.kml”]