The Assan GA250 is nifty little gyro for $9,99, unfortunately it is very hard (or impossible) to get it to hold the tail in aggressive maneuvers with the original firmware, it just does not have enough adjustments. Don’t worry, there [...]
A perfect companion for your modded Turnigy 9X transmitter is the FrSky RC system with telemetry. FrSky system supports sending telemetry data back to the transmitter module from the actual model you are flying. By default the D8R-II plus receiver [...]
I own a FlySky FS-TH9X RC-transmitter which is the same device as the Turnigy 9X (also sold as Eurgle and Imax). This transmitter has become very popular because it is really cheap (under $60!) compared to all of its features. [...]
I got around setting up a GitHub repository for the driver library for the OLED-displays I did a post about before (this). The library currently supports printing 5×7 font characters and turning single pixels on and clearing the whole display but [...]
I needed a display for a project of mine and was just going to use a regular HD44780 -based text LCD display, until I spotted some very neat looking TINY OLED-displays from eBay. The displays are monochrome 128×32 pixel displays [...]
In the next phase of creating a PCB with KiCad you must connect the components to “modules” (a term KiCad uses to refer to footprints) with cvpcb. You can open cvpcb from the KiCad main window by pressing the second [...]
Recently I have been using KiCad as my one and only EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool and I think it’s surprisingly good. I’m not sure why it is not more widely used (maybe because of the fairly crappy website?) because it [...]
I bought a small aquarium (54l) as an impulse buy and I needed some lights for it, so naturally I wanted to use LEDs. I also needed a timer for the lights. I also wanted the lights to fade in [...]