One of my favorite hobbies is to fly remote control airplanes. I normally fly electric planes so I am always having to charge batteries. I use LiPo batteries for my planes and I have heard that they have the potential to be dangerous if not monitored well. I read that if something goes wrong in the […]
I had a few projects that I could have wrote about for today, but I thought I’d give an update on some past projects and a few new things that have to do with the website. ; Website I don’t know if any of ya’ll have noticed, but over on the right of the webpage […]
I have been building an RC plane recently (I will post it when it’s complete) and when I went to hook up the ailerons I realized I didn’t have Y-connector to plug the servos into one channel. It was too late in the day to go to a hobby shop and I didn’t want to […]
My RC boat is almost finished! I got the rudder installed and I just finished installing the stuffing tube, shaft, and motor. I now just have to get a battery to use and then I’ll try ‘er out! To mount the stuffing tube to the boat I drilled two holes in the center of the […]
Time to build a rudder for the boat. I made the rudder out of some brass sheet I got at the hardware store. To start I took my brass sheet and I drew on it the dimensions of the rudder. I made the rudder 1-1/4″ wide at the top and 1″ at the bottom. The […]
So I already have a boat prop, but now it’s time to build a boat for it. My plan is to build a very basic boat I can use in my pool. I will use a cheap toy boat from Wal-Mart as the hull, a DC motor that I saved from my destroyed RC helicopter, […]
As I was sitting bored at my desk surfing the web on RC boats, in particular homemade RC boats, I stumbled across a how-to on making your own brass propellers. When I have fooled around with making RC boats in the past, I’ve always had trouble when it came to making props. I once made […]
This is a new ‘segment’ I’m going to have on my blog. For now I will call it “Cool Tools” (unless I come up with a better name). It will just be where I tell about a tool that I find to be very handy, interesting, or just plain awesome. I don’t know how frequent […]
So I’ve built my Firecracker Dispenser out of wood and with tighter tolerances. This version, version 2, is better constructed than version 1, but I am still having problems with jamming. This version is made out of 1/8″ balsa wood. It’s the exact same design as the first version, it is now just made out […]
It has been by goal for a few years to design and build a machine that will hold multiple firecrackers, dispense them one by one, and then light them. Not only would this be really cool to just set on the ground and let it run, but my end goal with this idea will be […]