While working on two multicopter drone related projects, I was distracted by the idea of an ultra endurance drone build, inspired by this discussion. There are really three steps to drone efficiency/endurance 1) keeping everything as light as possible 2) using high efficiency power regulators, motor controllers, and motors 3) highly efficient propellers (which is
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I would have never thought of visiting Puerto Rico if my sister wasn’t currently living there for a year now. I decided to stop by, visit her and generally explore the island for a month while working and cycling as I like to do. It proved to be a great digital nomad winter escape, and
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Lithuania is not a very popular destination for digital nomads. I think the reason is pretty clear: Poland and Ukraine are cheaper, and Estonia is the more touristy destination of the Baltics. Estonia also wins in some regards by offering a digital nomad visa allowing a year’s stay. Still, I was very happy that I
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I don’t think most people can really form a picture of New Zealand in their minds, excepting the rare and endangered kiwi bird, which is hardly representative since few even of the locals have seen one in the wild. New Zealand is largely a mystical sheep-filled underbelly of the world possibly containing El Dorado or
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For fun, I had the Raspberry Pi take pictures for a year with a PS3 Eye camera, and I then put them together into a little time lapse video. It’s really not that interesting, but easy enough to do: plugged in USB camera, cronjob to take the photo using the following script, in a .sh
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Attack the Seagulls The elaborate structure beneath is a park in Oshkosh, WI. I might be living here (or rather, in the next city just to the north) Because I just got a job offer in Appleton, which I am leaning towards taking. Minneapolis Night Flight I was trying to shoot fireworks, but couldn’t get
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While cleaning to move, an old PS3Eye – a webcam for the PS3, was found. Turns out this little device has a 640*480 camera and 4-microphone array that have made it popular for DIY’ers for making motion trackers, virtual Alexa-style assitants, and so on with Raspberry Pi’s. It’s pretty much plug and play. I’ve got
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My first Youtube video in 4K! Flying a high quality drone is wicked fun. It’s fast, responsive, and really quite easy to do. I got into drones for the photography, but now I can also see the allure of drone racing and hobbyist RC pilots -it’s just so fun to fly. I started flying drones
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