Building a Hexacopter
It’s been a while since I last wrote about multirotors and I have learned a lot since then. The DJI Phantom I started with had a few upgrades done to it: Carbon fiber blades were added Body was painted black The mainboard…
Programming an Adafruit LED matrix
The plan For Halloween, I am making costumes that are like discos and for the costume I wanted to create a light setup that would flash colored lights off of the costume. I wanted to support various modes like a beating heart: a…
You will eventually own a smart watch.
Until recently, I was convinced smartwatches are cute gadgets but they are not very useful. I mean, you have a cell phone already. After spending some time with Android Wear, I’m sold, these are going to become very popular. I’ll try and explain why in this blog post.
Multi-rotors, Drones, Quad-copters, oh my!
So…. I recently took the plunge into the hobby of multi-rotor robotics! I purchased a DJI Phantom (pictured during repairs): It’s an amazing piece of machinery and comes ready to fly (RTF). My first flight was a trip, I opened…
Chromecast, wow!
A long time media geek’s initial thoughts on the Chromecast device from Google. I freaking love the device and was completely surprised about these things.
Headphones
I hadn’t really thought of it until a coworker asked, but I’m something of a headphone snob / nerd. I have probably gone through well over a dozen pairs of headphones in the last 5 years. So, since I already…