Cruising home from Catalina island –late fall 2018
We had a great cruise home from our late fall trip to Catalina island. The conditions were amazing. Our old 32 ft. sailboat moves along at only about 6 kts but she gets us…
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Catalina island sailboat trip late fall 2018
We took one last sailboat trip to Catalina island this season in late fall. We lucked out and had perfect weather. It was great and we had the place all to ourselves. Our boat…
Catalina island sailboat trip late fall 2018
We took one last sailboat trip to Catalina island this season in late fall. We lucked out and had perfect weather. It was great and we had the place all to ourselves. Our boat…
A Spruce Goose – built using 2x quadcopter parts
A small 2ft wingspan version of the Howard Hughes H4 Hercules, popularly known as the Spruce Goose. Flying weight is 88g/3.1oz This one uses the parts from 2x mini quadcopters, my own firmware and…
Pure Attraction Motor
This is my ‘Rolling Needle Motor” turned into a pure attraction motor by replacing the rotor magnets with non magnetic machine screw nuts.
Rolling Needle Motor —– Bare Foot Edition
I just had to take this newest motor for a little walk about. On this version the 1.5v battery was replaced with a 2.7v 10 Farad super capacitor filled to 2.5 volts. That gives…
Simple Rolling Needle Motor
This is a simple electric motor that uses the rolling action of the needle rotor shaft in a large diameter upper bearing to switch the motor’s electro magnet on and off
Needle Roller Motor
This is simple electric motor that uses an unusual way to turn the driving electromagnet on and off.
Review – ESP32 OLED WiFi Kit
A test of the HiLetgo Heltec ESP32 unit, with built in 0.96″ OLED screen. ESP32’s are about the strongest performing WiFi microcontrollers of such a size and well suited for Internet Of Things projects….
Review – HiLetgo 3.2" TFT screen
An excellent screen for Arduino projects ! Here is the product page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073R7Q8FF/ref=od_aui_detailpages01 Bodmer’s library: https://github.com/Bodmer/TFT_HX8357