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 …
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 …