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The RC Truck Part 1: Design and Parts

In lieu of a decent name at present for the rock-crawler slash 4x4 slash thing with wheels, I'm going to call it the "Truck". I can see this turning into a long series of posts, to get enough detail and ramblings in for the whole design...

RC Bits

Things are hotting up a little more on the project front. Okay, that massively oversells the projects more than is most likely due. But nonetheless, I've got some bits on order, and hopefully will start seeing them arrive next week. The bits include: * FlySky FS-GT3B (2.4Ghz transmitter/...

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Aluminium!!

After a quick supplies trip this evening, I've stocked up on some extruded aluminium profiles for projects and general fabrication. Won't go so far as to list them, but as I publish projects I'll include the component specifications and a couple of suppliers for...

RC Fun

Two weeks of car boot sales (I do love them) have resulted in a multitude of treasures (see life-long debate of "one man's crap vs other man's treasure")... In homage to the generation game: * one vintage Polaroid camera (complete with old film cartridge) * a...

Sunday Inspiration

In an attempt to work on Ms R's website (Stall21 [http://www.stall21.com/]), I've been looking for inspiration to get me focused and so have been distracting myself with some great blogs: * Swiss Miss [http://www.swiss-miss.com/] * Visual Diary [http://elsvisualdiary.tumblr.com/] * Creative...

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Japanese Stainless Steel

We popped into our local kitchen shop this morning to buy Ms. R a cat apron (or rather, an apron with cats on it, not an apron for cats), and ended up spending far too much on some really high-quality utensils. First a ludicrously heavy griddle pan, perfect for tonight&...

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