Tucker Carlson – A Clear and Present Danger
May 5, 2021 @ 9:16 pm
Pond at low light – days end …
March 27, 2021 @ 7:34 pm
No More Facebook for Me
March 4, 2021 @ 8:44 amI quit facebook a couple weeks ago. Triggered by FB banning me for 7 days for swearing. (Fuck facebook, eh?) No warning. Just a ban. For something I’d done before, without any issue. So – that told me it wasn’t really my FB page at all – it was FB’s.
Also – the friends. They aren’t really friends.
And the judging – all that liking, and disliking. Passing my judgements on others … through with that too. Whew that!!!!
FB was such a time consuming habit – but – life goes on. Without it.

Snowing outside …
February 15, 2021 @ 4:29 pm
FPV – A Faster Cut
September 20, 2020 @ 7:44 pm
Seasons
July 14, 2020 @ 10:08 am
Does Paradise Exist?
June 12, 2020 @ 2:16 pm
Planking the Pinta
February 29, 2020 @ 9:01 am
A Simple 3″ HD Drone (DJI FPV)
February 26, 2020 @ 10:34 amThis is the tale of a newly built drone, arising from a broken arm on an actual new DJI FPV HD drone, and the fact that I had on hand an analog 3″ drone I was no longer interested in flying.
I had an iFlight Titan DC2 that I got a month back. A nice flying quad …

Which met an untimely end after colliding with a basketball backboard while indoor flying this week. It dropped 15′ to the hard floor, and …
now it’s parts.
After examining the frame – I decided to use the frame from a quad I had on hand – that I no longer liked to fly (analog FPV and jerky flight from old beat up gear and motors with too much history in em). Because the Loki-X3 frame simply had stronger arms. The Loki with analog gear …

So – I stripped the AU, CRSF Nano Rx and SX F4 AIO FC from the DC2.
And stripped all the gear off of the Loki frame. Used a Dremel to remove old glue. Looks shiny now.
And proceeded with the new build …
The new quad is so simple. There’s the main FC AIO 4in1 40A ESC board. Which has a DJI FPV conn, and an Rx cable with conn. Almost no soldering. Also a tiny TBS CRSF Nano Rx (with its big antenna) – with ant mounted like so …

All resulting in this clean small build. The only soldering was for the 12 motor wires to the FC AIO board. Gotta confess – I cheated with the Rx, just stuffing it in the back, using some black electrical tape to keep it in place – don’t want anything popping out into the props while cutting through the foliage – eh?
The motors I’d had for two years – in my drawer. Emax 1306/3300kv – and to my surprise – even though over 2 years old – they run as sweet as I could imagine. I guess motor tech hasn’t changed much these last 3 years? (Couldn’t use the new XING NANO 1404 4600KV motors from the DC2 … wrong mounting holes. Besides I know I prefer 3300KV on this frame … been flying em that way for 3 years.)
No vids yet – only ran this thing in the basement to date – no issues. Running BF4.1.3 with RPM filters. Smooth as butter, so they say.