


I had a cheap radio controlled model airplane that sucked as such things go for a little idle entertainment, not near as much fun as my radio controlled speed boat. So I gutted it out for the components. It has an electric motor that doesn’t produce much power so was worthless in a breeze. The radio control unit is pretty small as it doesn’t have many functions to perform, just turn the motor on or off and control the rudder servo to make it go left or right.
There is no control to make it go up or down, you’re just at the mercy of what it wants to do in that respect. Sooooo, being useless as a model airplane I’ve decided to try to turn the components into something useful.
I’m going to try to make my new camcorder capable of being remote controlled. Being as I’m most often alone when camping or messing around on beaches and such it would be nice to be able to control when the camcorder starts and stops recording so I can also be in some of the movies I make, without walking into the action and then walking back to stop the camcorder and having to edit those parts out.
I will also be able to use it to take pictures with me in them, it should have a range of about 200 feet if I can do it, I think I can but that remains to be seen. I know from a test that the little rudder servo is not strong enough to push the button but I should be able to make a stronger servo, they are simple to make.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. - MLK Jr.
Well sir, a problem is all the bottom feeders that take advantage of them while never giving anything back to society. I don’t believe in welfare, I believe in workfare.
These idiots with all the political blogs, does it ever occur to them to run for office instead of wasting so much time on their silly blogs? Not that they can fix anything by getting into the thick of it all.
Lawmakers upset over Obama's 2nd anti-Vegas remark.Tough shit, Vegas is a greedy piece of shit town, never mind all the pretty lights and sites and shit like that. I could care less if it dries up and becomes dessert again.
If any questions why we died, tell them because our fathers lied. - Rudyard Kipling, 1918 written after his son died in WW I.
Have a great day, simply and peacefully, hugs….. Billy