This last week was SEFF, a week of electric-powered remote-controlled aircraft above 1700 feet of Bermuda grass in the middle of Georgia. [Damon Atwood] has been bringing his 16-foot-wingspan Emmaselle to SEFF for a few years now, as well as this year we’re getting a excellent video of the flight. This is, or was at one time, the 3rd largest electric RC on the planet. It’s flying on 11S, as well as is absolutely lovely in the air.
Speaking of electric RC meetups, Flite Fest West is going on right now. Flite Fest east will be July 13th with the 16th. Here’s the link to the appropriate YouTube channel.
One of the extremely low-cost 3D printers revealed at CES by Monoprice is now on sale. It’s the improved $200 Cartesian, not the $150 delta. As I saw at CES last January, this is a slight enhancement over the already amazing V1 version of this printer. enhancements include an all metal hot end (an E3D clone) as well as working WiFi on the primary board. Still waiting on the $150 delta printer? The only thing I can tell you is that it’s coming out soon.
StippleGen is an application from Evil mad Scientists Labs to produce stippled drawings. Stippling is dots, however not halftone. [HEXceramic] is utilizing StippleGen to produce laser cut molds for making ceramic tiles. The results look awesome, as well as I can’t wait to see one of these fired.
Hackaday has been voted, ‘The Hacker news of Hardware‘ by the Hacker news community. I would have included this in the links publish last week, however feared that would be seen as manipulating the upvote system on Hacker News. This is great, however of program you already understand Hackaday is seen as a credible source of hardware as well as embedded news!
As a rule, Hackaday is nonpartisan as well as not political at all. In fact, two of my headlines have been shot down so far this year for utilizing the word ‘trump’ as a verb. You’re welcome. This job is as well cool, so we’re going to bend a few rules. This is a Trump gummi. It’s the rarest gummi of them all. It was carved by gummi artisans who work solely in the medium of gummi.
[Michael Welling] designed the PocketBone Mini in KiCad. It’s developed around the Octavo Systems OSD3358, as well as is really, truly small while designed to be as capable as a full size BeagleBone. He’s doing an rate of interest check to gauge the community’s rate of interest in this tiny, small single board computer.