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“Amount to Words” and a Revival for a twenty year old book

May

2013

Other than in my home country Germany, Cheques still play a big role here in Malaysia. Its been a pain to fill them out and frequently there’s an error and trouble with the bank. An idea was born, I need to write a software doing that job for us. Well I am more into PHP ...

Cheap DIY FPV Goggles

Mar

2013

The prices of FPV goggles are insane. Why do we have to pay more than $250, for two tiny screens in a piece of plastic? I have no idea. There are some cheap goggles out there, for around $120, but they are using low resolution screens. So for a decent solution, you need to spend ...

Brief test flight with GoPro 3 onboard of my DJI F450

Jan

2013

Here a video of a test flight using my DIY camera mount.

GoPro 3 mounting made from its packaging

Jan

2013

As soon as I got my GoPro 3 I wanted it to be mounted on my DJI F450 frame. Thats the multicopter I am using most of the time, it just flies so beautiful and never gave me any headache. The way I assembled the frame, was a bit unfortunate. The extended space from the ...

Got today a GoPro Hero 3 White – here a little review

Jan

2013

Since I started with multicopters I was looking for the GoPro Hero. At that time it was the GoPro Hero 2. In the meantime we got the Hero 3 in three different “tastes”: * GoPro Hero 3 White $199 * GoPro Hero 3 Silver $299 * GoPro Hero 3 Black $399 The Black Edition is ...

RaspberryPi arrived (or my new XBOX)

Jan

2013

Already in October 2011 I became aware of the RaspberryPi. I waited eagerly (like many others) for it, to become available before the end of 2011. But that didn’t happen. And when it was available, it was immediately sold out due to pre-orders. I hate to pre order. Finally I was able to buy the ...

X550 Quadcopter build – Part 4 (final) 3

Oct

2012

Fixing the ESCs Time to get the ESCs fixed to the frame and install the flight controller and propellers. The ESCs are just held onto the frame with a little bit of double sided tape and some wire straps. Simple but effective. Nice and tidy! But later we have to touch the connections of two ...

X550 Quadcopter build – Part 3 / ESC flashing

Oct

2012

Faulty Parts We are now at the final part with the ESCs. After that they are ready to be mounted on the arms, with some double sided tape and wire straps. Before I do any changes to the ESC I check all of them. So I connect one by one to the powert distribution port, ...

X550 Quadcopter build – Part 2

Oct

2012

So its time for the next part of the Quadcopter project. After being done with the rather mechnical stuff, its time to give the ESCs some attention. We got 4 of them, each motor will have its own and they will be mounted on each of the arms. The ESCs will source the power from ...

X550 Quadcopter build – Part 1 5

Oct

2012

First time in my blog I am writing about a RC project. I am building my third quadcopter and thought its a good idea to document that here. It might help others who are new to multicopters, especially because I am doing a step-by-step guide with many many pictures. So lets get our hand dirty ...