Track /etc/ changes with git
Imagine system configuration diagnostics with the help of git logs. Or forensic investigations where you can see each change of each file with timestamps. Yeah, good times. Obvious approach here …
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 …
Halloween Zombie Projector
Starting with a fresh installation of Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 2 B, I had to modify /boot/config.txt to force composite mode instead of HDMI since neither of my projectors …
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 …
De-docker Grafana Installation
While docker is a fantastically powerful tool, as it turns it out, it’s not perfect for everything everywhere. I ran into this recently and needed to move my Grafana setup …
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 …
Drone / Quadcopter
This started off as a DIY kit from Amazon, with the final assembly photographed here: Since then I’ve crashed. A lot. As the motto goes, “build, fly, crash, repeat”. Here’s …