Archive for December, 2009

Drone Lab Faceplate

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I’ve just recently finished building a Casper Electronics’ Drone Lab v2.  I decided to only buy the PCB and source the parts myself and now it is time to work on an enclosure.  I think I’d like to make it from some type of wood but haven’t been able to decide exactly how I want [...]

 

YouTube’s Sense of Humor

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I’ve been uploading a lot of video to YouTube lately for Harford Hackerspace and have been struck by the poor wording, spelling and general slackjawedness of their error messages.  Today I received this message that instructed me to smash my head against my keyboard, run around in circles, wave my hands and scream.  I did [...]

 

Building a Drone Lab in Less Than 7 Minutes

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I bought a Drone Lab v2.0 PCB from Casper Electronics and sourced my own parts from Mouser as well as a few visits to my own parts bins.  Over my Thanksgiving break from work, I assembled and tested the unit.  Since I’m a geek with access to an impressive collection of video and audio equipment, [...]