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Marathon Debrief & Results

Marathon Debrief & Results

First and foremost, I shattered my goal of a sub-4 hour finish with my time of 3:42:12 . I was really pleased. My best guess was that I would come in somewhere between 3:45:00 and 3:55:00. ( My projection from my last article was 3:39:

Chasing the Sub-4 Hour Marathon

Chasing the Sub-4 Hour Marathon

I'm going to run another marathon on May 21st. This will be my third, and it will also be my last. People seem to think that is a funny thing to say, but I think that I've learned all I'm going to learn. Three times is enough to call it

Time lapse photography with gphoto2, avconv and a little bit of bash

Time lapse photography with gphoto2, avconv and a little bit of bash

For the last two growing seasons, I've experimented with making time lapse videos of my plants sprouting. It's an easy setup to leave in place for several weeks, and being indoors I can control the lighting. The first few attempts were decent, but there were still a few issues. Here

Fly, Crash, Rebuild, Repeat

Fly, Crash, Rebuild, Repeat

I tried to do some nice cinematic flying today. I'm not great at this. Basically I'm trying to keep moving forward and make the turns nice and gradual. I'm also trying to take advantage of the tricopter's natural flight characteristics. I'm also trying to make better use of range in

Canon EOS 300D resurrection - and gphoto2

Canon EOS 300D resurrection - and gphoto2

Back in college (circa 2004) I bought myself a Canon 300D, which I think was the first of the 'digital rebel' line. Digital cameras were still relatively expensive back then, in terms of megapixels per dollar spent. The 300D is only 6.3 megapixels and I remember paying almost $900

Telemetry Project Update

Telemetry Project Update

This has been quite a journey already. More than anything, I'm surprised at how many powerful new tools I've learned about.

Home Baked Telemetry System

Home Baked Telemetry System

I thought that it would be a realistic challenge to build my own telemetry system, considering that I had already worked with most of the components I wanted to use. As I have become a better pilot and experimented with FPV, I'm starting to understand why having some telemetry data

Switching to CC3D & OpenPilot

Switching to CC3D & OpenPilot

I recently picked up a CC3D because I figured that I had tortured myself enough dealing with Arduinos and MPU6050s. At this point I feel no shame in buying an off-the-shelf flight controller. I chose the CC3D because it still runs open source software ( OpenPilot, or alternatives like CleanFlight ), and

Tricopter Buildng Update

Tricopter Buildng Update

Yaw Control Recently I have been having a hard time holding a consistent heading after taking off. The first version of the frame was short lived Yaw is movement along the z-axis, or like turning to the left or the right. If the craft were a camera, it would be

Tricopter Maiden Flight

Tricopter Maiden Flight

It's alive! The scratch, open-source, arduino-powered tricopter has taken to the skies.