Category: Modelling

More progress

January 4, 2009 - Land Rover , Modelling , TR6 , Vehicles - by admin - No Comments

It’s been a busy few days, whilst I’ve had some time off. The Land Rover is progressing, slowly but surely. Bill has come up with a list of things that need done and/or purchased, and I’ve started making it happen. The roof has been loosened off all around the Land […]

R/C Cam

April 3, 2007 - Aeroplanes , Cool things , Modelling - by admin - No Comments

This author has set up his model aeroplane in such a way that he now has a gyroscopically controlled camera mounted inside the cockpit. With a decent enough VR headset, and a wireless video system, he’s managed to get a cockpit seat inside the aeroplane, and make it seem like […]

R/C Helicopters

January 14, 2007 - Aeroplanes , Computers , Cool things , Modelling , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

Following my recent attempts at maintaining stable flight with my wee remote controlled helicopter, it occurred to me that it would be significantly easier for a computer to fly it than a human A few minutes on Google returned the ChRoMicro – Cheap Robotic Microhelicopter HOWTO. A great site with […]

Next model

December 25, 2006 - Aeroplanes , Boat , Cool things , Modelling - by admin - No Comments

After many unsuccessful, or just plain disastrous, flights of my new R/C Helicopter, I have finally decided that building, owning, or using a model aircraft will never be for me. I had a glider once, and it crashed spectacularly and often, always after launch, usually resulting in the central wing […]

Boat ESC

December 18, 2006 - Boat , Modelling - by admin - No Comments

It’s about time I made some progress on my model boat, and in the process of looking for some bits for it I stumbled across this homebrew electronic speed controller. It’s tempting to build it for the boat, but I get the feeling that I’d procrastinate even more and never […]