1/87 RC coach

Static model to fully proportional radio control.

Around twevle years ago, when the infrered helcopter craze took off, pun not intended, I didn't have the funds to buy my self "new toys" so to speak. I bought several spares or repairs/for parts models. Through fixing and modifying them into things I could use, I learned a lot about thier construction and decided I want to try a scratch build. What you can see in the video is a static trackside model of a Mercedes coach made by Wiking, Rc equipment was a fair bit larger and more expensive back them so I used a standard 27Mhz receiver, the propshaft and gears of a PicooZ helcopter for the rear axle and motor which was driven by the PCB from a small servo and the steering was made with a Faller car system steering rack connected to a 1.5g linear servo made for micro Rc planes. Now that parts have become smaller and cheaper, I plan to make a new version which can be controlled over wifi and have a first person view video feed on the phone or computer that is controlling the model.

• Date: Mar 2011
• Category: Hardware

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DIY navigation lights

Code was created to allow night flying

While trying to teach myself the basics of Arudino, I assmbled a Mega328 and supporting components to a breadboard along with LEDs to form a simple navigation light setup. This was quite a basic with a lot of delay (); lines to create the sequence. the baisc code was created by experimenting with the Blink sketch and expanding upon it.

• Date: July 2013
• Category: Coding

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Internet conrollerd Rc car

Rc car, Parallel port and a laptop, FUN!

Back in early 2000s, I was fastinated by the concept of contrilling items around the home over the internet. Parallell port was the way to go, there was not much I could find for connecting the computer to external items. Based of code I found online I was able to create a Visual Basic program that would allow me to connect an Rc car remote to the computer, to view the car for testing I simply the laptop built in webcam.

More information on this project including diagrams can be found My old Blog.

• Date: November 2009
• Category: Hardware & Coding

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• Date: January 2017
• Client: Lines
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• Client: Southwest
• Category: Website Design

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• Date: January 2017
• Client: Window
• Category: Photography

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