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These are notes to accompany the  Welcome To Taranis  series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 7: Elevon Mixing ...

These are notes to accompany the  Welcome To Taranis  series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 6: Setting Up a F...

These are notes to accompany the  Welcome To Taranis  series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 5: Dual Rates and...

These are notes to accompany the  Welcome To Taranis  series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 4: Mixing the Hea...

These are notes to accompany the  Welcome To Taranis  series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 3: Binding a D Se...

These are notes to accompany the  Welcome To Taranis  series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 2: Binding an X S...

These are notes to accompany the Welcome To Taranis series.  Follow the link to see the videos and other notes. Part 1: Out of the Box ...

Here's a series of videos I did in conjunction with Aloft Hobbies an FrSky RC.  It's is designed to get you up and running on Tara...

CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, March 11, 2014 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 19     GUESTS:  0 MEET...

Stop by Friday, March 7, 7pm - 11pm!  They'll be showing two of our videos as part of the Pixar "behind  the scenes" show. ...

Building on the intuitive model presented in part 1, we take a look at the mathematical model and write a PID control loop based on that mod...

The ever-awesome Springer made the OSW a while back. "It's not like we don't have a plethora of wings on the scratchbuilt f...

So here's my take on explaining this topic.  Light on the math, and heavy on the intuitive (I hope!) understanding. I expect to take a...

Lemon-RX has released their DSMX 7 channel stabilizer, and user reports are coming in.  Backwards compatible with DSM2 it's 4.8 gram...

So Andreas got a HobbyKing Skipper , and has been looking for a chance to fly it off the water.  And what better water to fly off of than ...

Here's some notes on the Mobius Action Cam . Bought mine from elotoponline365 . He carries accessories as well.  Watch out for fa...

"SD Formatter4.0 is official SD memory card format software. It formats SD memory cards, SDHC memory cards and SDXC memory cards. Tr...

Minutes, Concord Model Engineers, February 11, 2014 CALL TO ORDER: 7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 24   GUESTS: 1

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. ...

FrSky products are great, but the names make it easy to jumble them together.  Here's a breakdown of the three main families of produc...

So it turns out that the Flip boards use a SiLabs CP2102 for its serial/USB interface, and I didn't have the drivers on either my Mac ...

If you're coming here for NoodleCopter information, Welcome!  Here's most of the NoodleCopter things pulled together for your conv...

NOTE!  There are a couple of different designs of these servos, even from the same vendor. The written notes below are for a through-...

Daedelus66 notes that these settings work when using a DM9 in a Taranis (and presumably other {er,open}{9x,tx} radios): polarity set to...

Here's my take on the Red Rover. Original article and hackaday .  Kudos to Rick Winscott for such a cute and ingenious design!! ...

Courtesy of RCG user smoothvirus, here's two shots showing the pinout for JR-style modules.  The first is an actual JR radio, the secon...

Concord Model Engineers Monthly Meeting Tuesday, January 14, 2015 CALL TO ORDER: 7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 24 GUESTS: 2

Getting ready to put together another electronics class.  This one will be themed around robots, so I'm looking for likely candidates....

Check out this amazing animated wind map .  You can drag the globe to look at different places.  You can see the air mass flow off of cont...

Bruce has a great video on using different types of batteries in a Taranis. Here's a few notes that I've put together. The il...

Tram has some great advice on tuning a Superfly.  Since RCG posts tend to get buried and lost, I'm copying it here. tl;dr:  1/8 inch ...

Her Dad is a pretty decent pilot, but this young lady is going to be a champ. She's flying the Bixler 2 (zoom the pic and you can s...

Got the PUMQ (Pocket Ultra Micro Quad) put together and flashed.  Here's some notes. Using the Cesco PUMQ V4 build.  Build as Leon...

 Here's a couple of really nice foamy paint jobs over on RCG. 747pilot covered his EPP Skywalker with Krylon Shortcut .  He mention...

RCG User Granted shows a foam carving tool with interchangeable tips and suggests a good power supply . The tips are made from .023"...

"The National Aerospace Library houses one of the world's most extensive collections devoted to the development of aeronautics, a...

I was visiting with APM Developer Jason Short, and he showed me a project he had been working on... His own radio, integrated for use with...

 Concord Model Engineers MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Nov 12, 2013 CALL TO ORDER: 7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 24 GUESTS: 0

And it's here!! Product link 9XR Pro (Mode 2) 9XR Pro (Mode 1) (if you're not sure of the mode, get Mode 2) Videos E...

Concord Model Engineers,  MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES  October 8, 2013 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 pm ATTENDEES:  18  GUESTS:   1

Here's how to mix elevons on Taranis using OpenTX. It's a pretty straightfoward procedure: mix the elevator stick on both cha...

CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES  Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 pm   ATTENDEES:  21  GUESTS:  ...

There's a couple of hovercraft over in the Instructable Remote Control contest.   Here's one  and another that I might give a try...