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The Camera module’s new look

January 28th, 2010 No comments

Painted to match

Taking advantage of the crummy weather, I decided to paint the camera module to match my plane.  I didn’t just do it for the aesthetics, no really, I swear. :)  Actually, the real reason I painted it was to prevent stray light from making annoying reflections on the inside of the window.

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Kadet video downlink

January 23rd, 2010 No comments

Camera installed with Transmitter

I’ve just finished building a camera module for my Kadet.  When I was building the plane I knew that I was going to try and put a camera and transmitter approximately where the pilot’s head would be in a real plane.   Read more…

Hacking Documentary

May 26th, 2009 No comments

I find myself posting something someone else did again. I found this via Hack-a-Day, and it is an astonishingly well-done documentary about the culture that I value, and for which this blog is related. Enjoy.

Adding a serial port to the Netgear WGR614L

March 15th, 2009 No comments

Netgear Serial Port

I added a serial port to my wireless router so it could monitor the weather.  I know, why does a router care what the weather is like?  Well, it doesn’t, but I do.  Actually, I want to add a weather widget to this blog and also upload it to weather underground (not the one with Bill Ayers ;) ).  << Correction! I’ve finished the weather station, and I’m not using the netgear router or weather underground.  See this post for details. >> I haven’t finished any of that yet, but it came in handy later when I bricked it!
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