Alcohol Torch

  I was talking to one of my friends the other day and she was telling me about this torch she has. She said it was fueled with denatured alcohol and you just squeeze the bottle to make it work. I googled the torch later in the week and watched a YouTube video of one […]

Posted in Fire/Pyrotechnics, Tools Tagged alcohol, back, backroom, build, denatured, diy, fire, flame, heat, home, homemade, how, made, make, to, torch, work, workdesk

Circuit Board Reamer 2.0

I was working on a project the other day, and while trying to make a hole just a little bit bigger, one of my most used tools broke on me! My Harbor Freight Circuit Board Reamer handle broke in half. Now you’re probably thinking something along the lines of, “Well you must’ve really been using […]

Posted in Tools Tagged 2, 2.0, board, build, circuit, Fix, freight, glue, harbor, lathe, reamer

Steerable Tail Wheel

I’ve been working on my balsa airplane and I’m almost finished! I still have quite a bit of ‘finishing touches’ to do, but I’m getting pretty close to flying it. One thing I built for the plane was a steerable tail-wheel. The steerable tail-wheel was easier than I thought it’d be, and I think it […]

Posted in Airplanes Tagged airplane, build, diy, how, plane, RC, steer, steerable, tail, to, wheel

Ping Pong Ball Launcher ver.2

  I was able to find time this week to perfect my ping pong launcher a bit more. I updated the launching wheel, motor mount, I built a ‘ball limiter’, and I found a hopper to use. It’s still needs more work, but it’s a start. The old motor mount was big and bulky. Although […]

Posted in Just For Fun Tagged 2, back, backroom, ball, build, desk, diy, home, homemade, launch, launcher, limit, limiter, made, Ping, pong, robot, room, server, sling, table, tennis, ver, version, work, workdesk

DIY BEC

  On my Minnie Mambo build thread over on RCGroups.com, we were discussing what kind of battery that should go into the plane to power the receiver and servos. A normal sized flight pack is way too heavy for this size of plane, so one guy suggested using a BEC and a 2s Lipo battery. […]

Posted in Electronics, Tools Tagged 5, 5v, 7805, amp, ampere, amperes, amps, B, back, backroom, backroomworkdesk, battery, bec, build, c, circuit, d, desk, e, eliminating, five, flight, home, homemade, i, made, pack, regulator, room, schematic, solder, voltage, volts, work, workdesk, y

Minnie Mambo Balsa Build

For Christmas I got a box of balsa and I am currently in the process of building an airplane with it. I started building the airplane about a week ago and I have got quite a bit of work done on it. This is my very first balsa scratchbuilt airplane and I am learning a […]

Posted in Airplanes Tagged /, 1, 12a, 2, a, air, airplane, back, backroom, Balsa, build, c, control, d, diy, engine, fly, flying, home, homemade, Line, made, mambo, mini, minnie, mod, plane, RC, remote, room, sterling, work, workdesk

Ping Pong Robot ver.1

For Christmas my siblings and I got a ping pong table. Now we don’t have it setup as a ping pong table, instead we have the playing surface resting on the kitchen table. This kind of turns our kitchen into a rec-room :P. Most people when they get a ping pong table might think “Awesome! […]

Posted in Just For Fun Tagged back, backroom, ball, build, c, control, d, dc, desk, diy, home, homemade, i, joola, launch, launcher, machine, made, motor, Ping, pingpong, play, pong, practice, robot, room, self, serve, servo, shoot, shooter, spin, stiga, table, tennis, throw, thrower, work, workdesk, y

Broken Light Fixture

This past week I discovered that the light fixture in our bathroom was coming apart at the seams. Since it appeared that it could completely break and fall on someone, I decided to fix it. After getting the fixture down I began to work on it. There were two places where the glass frames were […]

Posted in Miscellaneous Tagged back, backroom, Bathroom, build, c, Epoxy, Fix, Fixture, glue, Hang, home, homemade, i, light, made, room, work, workdesk, y

JR Radio to USB – FAIL

This week’s post is different than all of my other blog posts. Normally I show you something that I have made that worked like I had hoped. . . .well not this week. I planned on showing you what I had been working on at the end of last week and over the weekend but […]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Remote Control Tagged 8103, back, backroom, build, c, cable, computer, control, d, disconnect, diy, esky, fly, home, homemade, i, JR, made, pinout, plane, plug, quick, r, radio, RC, rca, remote, room, sim, simulator, trainer, transmitter, tx, usb, work, workdesk, y

Tip: X-Acto Blade Disposal

This is something that I made about a year ago and I have used it just about everyday since. I go through quite a bit of exacto knife blades but throwing them away used to be a problem. I can’t throw them straight into the garbage because first of all it would/could cut the garbage […]

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