HeboCon - The Robot Festival for Dummies!

Two notes:

• I'm wrapping up a bunch of stuff, will be posting more over the holidays!

• I so want to compete in HeboCon!

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Two Flying Boxes!

Ran across these on RCG.  They look like an easy and fun thing to try, and might be an interesting testbed for a stabilization system.

My Main Circuit Board Was Changed

Interesting!  I'm told this writing on my Turnigy 9xr says "the main board has been replaced."  I wonder what that means?

BTW, I confirmed it's an ATMega 128, and OpenTx puts 30 models in the menu.  Sweet!

Update: contacted HobbyKing, they offered $20 compensation which was fine by me.  Everything seems fine, and that will be plenty to order a replacement motherboard if this one ever dies.

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What you need to know about ESD

This is great.  There's more at http://www.electroboom.com

Humor Break

I think a lot of readers will identify with this!

"One day, son, all of these perfectly good A.C. adapters, which have long outlived teh products they were originally designed for, will be yours."


Not sure of the source, somebody sent it to me...

Flight Rules

From the Champ Thread:

1. Try to stay in the middle of the air - do not go near the edges of it.

2. The edges of the air include the ground, buildings, water, trees and people.
3. It is very difficult to fly near the edges.