I have been considering replacing fluorescent tube and compact fluorescent lights with LEDs. So I decided to do a quick test with some LED strip. This picture shows the fluorescent tubes on and the LED strip dimmed to a low setting. The LED strip is stuck to the side of […]
Just sitting there it went poof I was about 3 metes from the quad playing with the Multiwii Android app on the phone. The quad on the floor by the door and powered up with a 2200 3-cell Lipo. The app alarmed and said “no data received”. When I looked […]
More trouble with interference – Jan-2017 Over the last couple of weeks known control issues include: one helicopter crash, three planes crashed, one quad-copter loss of control and one quad-copter lost in the hills. The lost quad was possibly due to interference. This prompted me to have another look at […]
Can the control frequencies be changed to allow more than 2 tanks to operate at the same time? These are supplied in pairs, one on 27MHz and one on 40MHz. Conclusion Not practical; without finding out about the receiver IC, ABERX69A. Google returns no info. Transmitter The transmitter uses a […]
Buying Antennas – the first mistake I got a couple of these TS350 10mW 5.8GHz FPV transmitters from Hobbyking and a set of these circular polarized antennas with SMA connectors (pin centre). These were the wrong antenna connectors, I should have got the RP-SMA (hole in centre) type; these. Because […]
Would I recommend Cubieboard No, probably not. Having one of these reminds me of the early days of the IBM-PC; except these are cheap and the early PCs cost a small fortune. What is the same is that you could spend a lot of time on it and almost but […]
Thermal Hunting Subtle air temperature changes that indicate thermal activity are indicated on a meter or display to be interpreted by the pilot of a RC glider, or to suggest when to launch a free-flight model. Operation Erect the pole and turn it on (or in the other order if […]
Noisy whistle from the back This is a brand new 9.7″ Android tablet purchased via our local New Zealand on-line auction site, Trademe for about NZ$160. 9.7inch Allwinner A20 Dual core \1.5 Ghz, 1GB DDR3, 8GB NANDandroid 4.2 IPS From first power-on it made quite a loud high pitch whistling […]