Flying Toaster Is Ready
After fiddling with why two motors were problematic I decided to remap them to different ports. This required the use of Cleanflight’s CLI, and the details provided by Joshua Bardwell …
Flying Toaster Gets Components
Finally found a great place to mount the VTX, and a decent place to mount the flight controller. The receiver and two of the ESC’s are soldered in, but I’ll …
Flying Toaster Gets Arms
I was able to cut away at the plastic in a way that aligns the carbon fiber arms with the natural screw holes used by the toaster case itself. With …
RFID/HID Card Explorations
Going through my collection of random circuit boards I came across a 125KHz RFID reader that I had forgotten about, so I started playing with it. At first I wired …
The Toaster Flies
As a quick and very hackish test I’ve strapped my existing 4S quad to a toaster with rope and gave it a go. This is certainly not ideal nor efficient, …
Flying Toaster
Remember the flying toasters screensaver from After Dark? Let’s make a real one: I may end up needing a 6S setup with 6″ blades to provide enough lift to be …
Maxine’s Pi
By adding a cheap OBD-to-Bluetooth adapter to my Jeep (affectionately named Maxine. I’m building it out with a Mad Max theme), I am able to toss a Raspberry Pi in …