Motorcycles & Photography

how to flash hobbyking quadcontroller board

The HobbyKing QuadController board v1 and HK QuadController board v2 retails for about $30 USD. You can save a few bucks by checking for a buddy code on the swarm page. The board forms the...

Body Shell upgrade 1/18 4WD stadium truck

Anyone who doesn’t like this ugly truck body shell the otherwise fine 1:18 4WD Stadium truck comes with? The alternative shell looks like the following picture. You can find it cheap on...

Very cheap quadcopter frame configuration

I’m getting all the pieces together for my ever so cheap quadcopter. I’ve been working on a multiwiicopter for some time using components I had laying around. It never got stable enough...

Recover broken sdcard

When playing with sdcards they sometimes turn up broken. If inserted in my macbook ‘s sdcard slot I get a message saying the card is not properly initialised. If I do try...

My Graupner Bellanca is finally fine

I had some trouble with it on the first flights but now it’s really performing just fine. I still have some casualties from time to time but that is due to pilot...

Flight 4 Graupner Bellanca balsa decathlon

And yes I got it up without real damage for the 4th time in a row. This time I tackled to lack of power using a 3 cell 2200 mah lipo instead...

Graupner Bellanca super decathlon third flight

Well the weather has been very bad here lately. I found a spot when the rain was soft enough to get the plane through to test the updates I made to the...

Arduino on Ubuntu bug with recently used files

Don’t open a sketch in Arduino on Ubuntu using the Recently Used Files link. On my machine this blocks the Arduino IDE with a java error! Same sketch can be opened from...

Graupner Bellanca build log

Since this is an ARF I don’t have that much information to share. Some tips or just how I did it: Basically you need to glue the tail fins in and install...

Graupner Bellanca second flight

This time I took the TowerPro 40A ESC that already proved itself to work on 2 cell lipo’s (get it now since that price is increasing really fast now). Since the maiden...