A couple of weeks back mid evening I noticed that our fridge was a bit warmer than usual. A few tests showed that the thermostat was off and the control knob inside the fridge had no effect. I wired a lead to the compressor and ran it for a while […]
The first one This is my experience with this T tail 2 meter span balsa/ply ARF electric glider kit from TopRC. I flew it for probably 3 or 4 months before the wing joint failed in flight and it fell onto the golf course. I didn’t want to repair it […]
For about 4 years I have been using a simple 6-channel Dynam 35MHz RC transmitter. I have recently setup my Turnigy 9X transmitter for 35MHz, so now I can use the programmable features. Some time ago I modified the 9X to operate at 433MHz, fitting a antenna socket in place […]
I’ve noticed recently that my 35MHz RC range is down to about 300-400 meters. I thought this can’t be right as I’ve had this same kit out over 800 meters. At least with 35MHz it’s easy to tell when it’s going bad, you can hold the transmitter up and turn […]
FPV HawkSky close call from PMB-NZ on Vimeo.
Problem Using the laptop instead of the main PC I needed to refer to an email attachment. No problem, open Thunderbird and find the email. The attachment is a.bmp file; no worries, double click to open it. Problem; Thunderbird doesn’t know how and offers 2 options, “open with”and “save file”. […]
Running Kubuntu on a laptop that I occasionally dual-boot to Windoze XP. Over time the GRUB menu had filled up with old Linux kernal versions. A search revealed that cleaning it out was a bit more complex than I was hoping for but not too tricky and it worked. There […]
It’s been a long time since I did anything technical with an original XBox. I have a spare and now someone wants it so thought I had better check it out. It’s been chipped and at one point had a large HD installed. I found it had an original 10GB […]