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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 22, 2018, 09:53:25 pm ---So 5 minutes on youtube and I have discovered FPV drone racing. And there goes the rest of my money
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I know Gil... he's a good guy. Spoke with him many times in the RaceFlight boards, before the big breakup.
I'm more of a freestyle guy myself; at least when I'm not crashing. This is one of my old acro rigs; kindof dated now, but it was the first build I did that turned out looking the way I wanted, and it took good pics. Haven't had too many since that looked near as nice, and the ones that turned out decent didn't stay nice long enough for a proper shoot. Most of my builds are either quick & dirty rebuilds or evolution type things that can take a while before I'm happy with the results.
https://youtu.be/joMRkTfhMAI
SkitzoFPV is the guy who got me into freestyle (and away from the ass-hat magnets known as DJI Phantom ;) ); you wanna subscribe to him (he knows EVERYBODY) and to Joshua Bardwell to get a crash course in pretty much everything Acro FPV.
I have a few planks, and I fly them FPV too... but that is just sport flying. The whole point for me is to BE the bird; not to watch some noisy speck in the sky.
mnem
Don't even get me started on CCPM Helis...
bd139:
Excellent. Will look into that. I’m surprised at how much progress there is since drones first hit the market. I wrote them off a few years back as slow and expensive. Both of those are optional now :)
I’m good with the speed side of things. You can train your brain to think very fast with practice. Just don’t let it bitch slap you down at the first step. Most skill based persuits I have been involved in get boring once your brain gets used to them so I move on.
When I was going LAN parties years ago, our best Q3A player was 76 so there’s no excuse. He just had to stuff some pills down with his red bull and pizza.
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on May 22, 2018, 11:49:29 am ---
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on May 22, 2018, 02:25:42 am ---That there box behind your head looks to be the sort in which seven segment displays made from sand reside, too... Just sayin'. ;)
-Pat
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oooooops. ya' caught me again. hp 3466.
my excuse is........ it has a 12v lead acid battery and is good for jobs in the field.
will be careful to pixelate non nixie units in the future lest you change my name to "7segmentfreq".
am watching an old cop show from the 80's on utube. its called "the bill". strange show. they wear unusual uniforms, drive little clown cars, and never seem to get down to the job of slinging lead. never saw philly cops behave like this back in the day.
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LOL - no worries. I have things with glowing red sand in them too. Hell, in a few years I'll probably get nostalgic for seven segment LEDs (doubtless about the time they become nixie-like in their rarity) and start hunting for gear with them in it. As far as LEDs go, my current soft spot is for the dot-style ones HP used in some things. (The fluke in the first picture belongs to work, unfortunately - it's not mine... :( )
HP 3490A
HP 8662A
-Pat
Berni:
Id say displays made out of individual LED dies are pretty rare to see.
The one piece of gear i got them is a Gogatronics 7100 Synthesizer. Not only are they individual LEDs but they are a full matrix and in green too. I would have guessed the little 8 character modules that build up this 16x2 display cost a pretty penny back in the day (On the lower model 6100 they removed one row to make it 16x1). I think they look amazing.
Oh and the blue 7 segment ones up there are VFD since back then blue LEDs have not been invented yet. Gigatronics used a deep blue color as there trademark so a lot of there gear has blue displays.
And i take no credit for the photo. Its not mine, just googled a good shot of the display on it.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 22, 2018, 09:42:13 pm ---I wonder if I can use one of those to drop revenge dog shit on the guy who lets his great dane carpet bomb the local area.
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I would have thought a catapault was "more appropriate" technology.
Personally I'd like cat owners to clean up after their Toxoplasmosis Gondii dispersal machines. (T. Gondii has some interesting affects in living brains)
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