EastBay RC

RCGroups user midelic has a DIY FrSky D8 compatible receiver, porting PhracturedBlue's Deviation work. Canonical information page here...

EastBay RC went officially crazy at the HobbyKing Black Friday sale.  First up, the Wingnetic! Notes: Build was simple, just glue on ...

 If you've been involved in drones for any length of time, you're probably already familiar with Eric Cheng's Aerial Photograp...

Micron Wings is a great resource for all things involving small models.   This page  describes the battery and servo connectors to small...

Here's a photo by Concord Model Engineer Lynn Price of a participant at one of the recent Free Flight contests. Sometimes low tech i...

The first challenge in using Intelligent Navigation is finding the menu! Have the unit flying in the air.  If the unit is not in the a...

From an RCGroups post by blade strike of DJI Support, a pretty serious upgrade is coming. "Intelligent Flight Mode", with the...

So Eric Cheng really is the coolest pilot in the world!  Look at the back of this Inspire , where he mounted a GoPro on a gimbal.  Eric wr...

 Now that we've got the Apple power supply running, we need to hook it up to the charger.  It turns out that standard 110V blades fit ...

 I got an old Mac Pro power supply to replace my puny old Dell.  The thing is massive!  79A of 12V power, that's over 900 watts!! Bu...

CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, August 11, 2015 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 pm ATTENDEES: 16     GUESTS:  0 MEETING...

Andrew Newton has a nifty video showing how to use heat gun to construct things from PVC pipe. You can get a flat piece of PVC for fabrica...

Walt Grant, RIP Aeromodeller and Friend CONCORD MODEL ENGINEERS MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, June 9, 2015 CALL TO ORDER:  7:30 ...

OpenRCForums user Myckey has a nice pair of posts on upgrading the 9xr Pro with Taranis gimbals. I'm preparing to try it.  I'll m...

Here's a nice mini-keyboard that I've gotten for my multimedia PC.  It's wireless, comes with a dongle, has a lipo battery, an...

...and the robots will take over,     but this is not that day! actual interesting commentary here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automa...

These are the connectors on E-Flight 1S batteries. The official name is Molex PicoBlade . It's often referred to as a Pico, UMX co...

Be careful when connecting coax SMA connectors.  It's possible to physically hook up a pair of connectors that fit perfectly but have ...

Need some rechargables AA and AAA batteries?  These seem to be a good deal.  The Internet believes they're manufactured by Sanyo and are...

Saw this here ... GoldGuy is the designer of the NutBall, and apparently a student of Philosophy! On NutBall. Don't add anything ...

RCGroups member UniversalRC shows his external video setup.  It runs on 12V and has a beefy tripod mount.  He uses it so his aerial video c...

Upgraded the Inspire 1 firmware, everything went OK.  Took the unit out, and was impressed with its stability in the breeze. I'm terri...

I was talking with a friend, and it turned out we both had workbenches made from Ikea tables!  Here's my setup, which is both small and ...

"DIY" is one of the watchwords here at EastBay RC, so you can imagine it's going to be an interesting experience to deal wit...

Rather sweet, and not crazy expensive like so many DLGs. "There are few experiences in model aviation more satisfying to the soul t...

WooHoo, EastBay-RC has bitten the apple and obtained a DJI Inspire 1.  Prepare yourself (we hope!) for some eye-poppingly gorgeous scenic im...

Here's what you need for Taranis D-Series telemetry setup.  This is the lightning version, focuses on battery voltage and skips what you...

Our friends over at GearBest sent us one of the new Hubsan H111 Q4 MicroQuads for review.   They've got it up for presale: http://w...