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Here's some good things to get for your OPQ. Batteries .  Both of these are good.  I will usually buy whichever one is (a) in stock ...

Here's an interesting mod by Rick Rademacher .  It makes the UMX Radian fly almost like a Vapor.  I'm going to try it! Main Win...

Here's a heads-up on an interesting new project. We may be getting some prototypes of a flying kite to test.  I've always thought ...

Congratulations to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, andShuji Nakamura for getting this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. “for the invention...

 Not sure where I ran across these, but they've been sitting on my desktop for a while.  A nice simple method of mounting LEDs with sk...

Jack Erbes is one of the modern day geniuses of foamy construction.  Here's his RCG build log of a KFM3 wing for the Blu Baby .  My BB3...

Decalage refers to the angle between a plane's main wings and the elevator, or the two pairs of wings on a biplane.  There's a gre...

DWiskow @ RCGroups posted a nice set of scripts to generate a set of Taranis sound files on a Mac. blogodex = {"idx" : "...

Here's the Concord Model Engineers Logo!  61 years continuously meeting, and we still have a couple of charter members that show up ev...

CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, September 9, 2014 CALL TO ORDER :  7:42 pm ATTENDEES : 16      GUESTS :  0 ...

 We got to the end of the ArrBot class, and 6 ArrBots showed up for the rally!  Sadly, a seventh ArrBot was stuck in a meeting with its dr...

Sigh, Youtube can be annoyingly dumb in its automated content matching.  The KBS video has been disputed twice, so I'm putting the perm...

 Here's the Phase 1 ArrBot and ArrMote, completed and running. I put the ArrMote electronics in a box to keep everything tidy. A pl...

epilot@rcgroups notes a new lipo charging solution over at banggood. 10 pieces for less than $10!  I'm going to get a batch and try ...

Here's how to test a Bluetooth module. Short TX with RX on the module. Power it up with 5V. ("+" and "-"). Bi...

Here's how to set up the Arrmote.  Pictures forthcoming!  This page a Work in Progress! Parts Base Arduino Pro Mini 3.3 Battery,...

This project has been the first one where I've used a 3.3V Pro Mini.  There's some important things to keep in mind regarding power ...

The X8R and most FrSky receivers offer 3 options for failsafe. They default to hold last good command. You can program a set failsafe ...

We inserted an extra class after class 3 to give everybody a chance to catch up.  Here's everybody hard at work.  The goal was t...

Symptom Can't upload, with this output: avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20]  avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20]  avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20]...

Some random notes.  Pay attention to the orientation of this illustration.  The pins are usually on the other side.                     ...

CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, August 12, 2014 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 20     GUESTS:  0 MEETING...

rtfmaero@RCG provides this pointer for stiffening a wing by gluing CF strips to the top and bottom of the wing. Somebody else had made a si...

An interesting discussion regarding Forgues Research 's custom Taranis case. blogodex = {"idx" : ["Taranis", ...

CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, July 8, 2014 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 20     GUESTS:  0 MEETINGS...

My neighbor is moving from San Francisco to join a startup in Chicago.  Weird, right?  and Brrr! But he very kindly gave me this sailboa...

 Often we want to connect a servo-style connector to a breadboard.  It could be a component with such a connector (like a servo!), or perh...