To compete in a drone racing event or just to go fly at the park for fun, you need some equipment. I am not the best drone racer, I just enjoy the experience of flying and building my own drones. In this article I will go over the basic equipment needed to get started. Yes… Continue reading Drone Racing Equipment and Hardware Overview
Can a Violin be created not of wood but of plastic and, instead of being injection molded, be built up layer by layer by a 3D printer. A designer named Brian Chan from FormLabs took on the challenge. He used a FormLabs 2 SLA printer to design, iterate, and create a 3D printed Violin. My… Continue reading 3D Printed Violin
Project Motivations The introduction of digital radios to the RC community brought accessibility and freedom from interference. Before digital radio was the norm a frequency manager was necessary to allocate a channel to a single user as people using the same frequency would end up trying to control the same plane, boat or car. This… Continue reading Automatic Frequency Management System for FPV Drone Races Part 1
One Strap to rule them all! Camera strap preference is a personal choice but it is never trivial to take a strap on and off your camera. Usually you have to loop the strap through multiple tiny holes and fiddle with it to get it to the correct length. If you want to change it… Continue reading Peak Design Camera Strap Review
The Hadley Pro is probably the most understated and sophisticated camera bag on the market. Made in England, it is stylish, comfortable, quiet, and dead simple to use. I have had this bag for over six years and it is still the perfect camera bag despite all the new crowdfunded bags on the market today.… Continue reading Billingham Hadley Pro Review
3D printing is in essence adding a 3rd dimension to a traditional printer to create objects. This is where we can now make the assumption that given how finicky and frustrating a normal paper printer can be, the 3D printer is therefore a nightmare! Hence the Office Space clip below! Copy Kick GIF from Copymachine… Continue reading My Thoughts on Home 3D Printing
The TinyWhoop is a tiny quadcopter that can be flown via FPV (First Person Viewer) and it enables you to fly anywhere. The quadcopter is great for flying around the house and even small outdoor areas. There are some limitations, the flight time is around two minutes and it cannot be flown in any amount… Continue reading How to TinyWhoop It Up!
GRCon stands for GNU Radio Conference. It is a conference dedicated to the GNU Radio software and it is in its 8th year. It was held in Henderson, Nevada from September 17-21st. The conference program was packed full of talks, workshops, a small expo section, and lots of time to collaborate with others in the… Continue reading GRCon 2018
Drone racing is an emerging new sport that pits multiple drone pilots against each other in timed heats around a set course of obstacles, the winner being the fastest or the last one in the air. This sport became a reality through a culmination of technology becoming cheaper and smaller. The drones themselves are built… Continue reading What is Drone Racing?
The invisible world of Radio Frequency (RF) drives the modern world of communications. Without it there would be no cell phones, wifi, GPS, FM radio, I could go on and on. It is often described as black magic that we are able to transmit and receive wireless data streams with amazing accuracy but it is… Continue reading Software Defined Radio
