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Indeed. I suspect it has to do with the mental gymnastics required to hold both sane and really silly ideas in your head at the same time.

Indeed. That is my drive home ;)

I'm with Merc on this one. Or at the very least that expose on him (mea maxima culpa) is getting ready to take another swing. Fun fact: he doesn't have a drivers license, but has a helicopter license.

Seconding the seconding. Don't use more than one router at once, it is a bad idea. 5GHz would be nice, and if you want to do it you should convert your E2000 to an access point (or get something that can be an access point out of the box). Go here. Type in "E2000" and choose the version you...

What Mercutio proposes will work, but you won't be able to use any of the ports on the Actiontec router for anything else. Any device connected to it will not be visible to devices plugged into the linksys.

So you only want the Linksys for the better wireless? You want to configure it as an Access Point. Not sure if the stock software allows that (I did a quick Google and it was vague). Otherwise look at one of the aftermarket ROMs.

Did 65 miles this weekend. Ow.

That looks pretty cool, though I didn't have any sound?

Sweet. Really looking forward to that one.

The heat in my office has been going crazy the last few weeks (85F+) and my system isn't stable while folding. I haven't been there, but when I am I reboot the thing and start it again.

Have you checked to see if your TV has an analog out already? Some do.

We can only do Texas when they want to, when we agree they get all feisty. And I would like to keep Austin; that place is pretty cool.

It has worked for me in the past; when I was 17 my fiancee was 32. She was also my PA. Hint: the age part wasn't what killed it.

If you were going to buy one at this point, where would you purchase it from?

The only thing I had delivered to the house lately was a new toilet (ordered from Amazon, Prime is awesome). If I didn't have an office with a receptionist to sign for everything, I would absolutely have a PO box at a facility for such things.

Mostly $1500+, but this one is pretty nice for $350. I always buy them from B&H. I do have one of their 7MP+ units, and it is awesome, but dealing with the higher-res video is cumbersome.

Sweet. Not as critical as the 17-18 transition or the 20-21 transition, but significant nonetheless.

Very true. And if something even half that awesome had beat the iPad to market, Apple would have gone bust. But MS isn't an innovator anymore, so there you are. I might have to get one of those as the ground station for my drone projects.

Turns out that it didn't come down on the hill, but nearly a mile away in a cattle field, 45-degrees off what I thought my last heading was. Confirmed that the video transmitter failed due to overheating (next to the ESC). I'll be mounting the whole transmitter on the surface of the plane from...

I've used quite a few Axis IP HD cameras. They work great but cost a fortune. Depending on how many you are after, you can get the ones with SD cards internally and not worry about a server at all. I'm looking into the IP Camera add-on for the Synology Diskstations that I have, that might make...

IIRC, most of the commercials are on YouTube already.

Indeed. I'm bummed I wasn't able to find the props I wanted to use in any color but black. Painting is one option, but I really like the carbon fiber look. I've purchased some EL Ribbon in different colors to play with; White for the front, Red for the back, Blue for the bottom. Still need to...

I'm betting to participate in the comradery with co-workers, while simultaneously boosting my geek cred by being able to mention that I won't be watching the game.

Yup. All the free IT support to the neighborhood paid off in one big chunk.

Probably $1k. Way cheaper than the pilot's training I was doing before. Oh, and after writing the last post, I walk down to my car and the missing plane is sitting right next to it. One of the kind souls on the hill had located it and brought it down to me. I'll be hand delivering some beer to...

Scratch one airplane. I had my computer control stuff on one airframe and decided to play with the FPV stuff on another. Without warning the video cut out, and my spotter had lost sight of the airplane without telling me. Even though it was still in the air and I likely had control, we couldn't...

The 5.8GHz receiver for the video feed arrived today, and the system works great. I did however get motion sick after playing with them for less than 10 minutes. Perhaps a screen instead of the goggles would be better for me. Also, my Carbon Fiber for the quad copter arrived, though they messed...

Today the flights were going great until I pulled a Google. Transitioned through "Stabilize" mode (gyro assisted manual control), "Circle" mode (maintain altitude and bank angle; will drift with the wind), "Loiter" mode (circle over a fixed point on the ground), and "Auto" (fly the mission as...

Wow that sucks. Surely USPS/UPS holds some responsibility if they left the packages in the open? And if they left them because their stated value was too low, then it rests with the seller for misrepresenting the package. I suspect a nice letter on some legal stationary might help in this regard.

I was under the impression that MSE was integrated into Win8?

This is why my house is insulated 3x better than the others in my area and my heater more efficient. We had what would have been considered a nasty cold snap last month and my energy usage barely moved.

The Radian now has all the bits needed for autonomous operation. Added an airspeed sensor (pitot tube) and programmed a 3-way switch on the controller to toggle between "gyro-assisted manual flight", "circle in place", and "fly mission". I don't think a mission is on the menu for tomorrow, but...

I have Tasker and was playing with it alongside some RFID tags. Of course, having the RFID reader active was a power drain and potential security vulnerability. Doing this stuff based on WiFi state is pretty clever.

Owning your own domain is ~$7/yr. That is permanent; you own the whole thing and can do whatever you want with it. I've even set this up for non-geeky individuals that are tired of changing their e-mail address every few years.

The accidental coverage Verizon offered to us was hundreds of dollars a year with a deductible also in the hundreds. Per handset. 100+ phones. Worth it for us to take our chances and pay as needed.

The Epson 5010 is dead. Time to explore their warranty policy. In the meantime I put a JVC DLAX3. The contrast and colors on this thing are awesome.

Awesome. Thanks. Wouldn't have thought to look to Wikipedia for sports scores ;)

Warmer there than here. 5:50PM and it is 54F.

All you need is a gigabit network switch. This will keep your current router and just get you more ports. This is my current favorite: Netgear GS105 Just run a short network cable from one of the ports on your router to one of the ports here and you are golden.

And only 65MB? Really? Downloading now.

That is the current plan. Do they often post the scores quarter by quarter after the fact?

I find myself in a number of super bowl betting pools. They seem to be based on the scores at the end of each quarter and the final. I don't think I'll be watching the game. Is there an app for that? Any other suggestions?

Interesting. I just updated my T410 to Windows 8 Pro. It has nVidia NVS 3100M; not sure if that is switchable graphics or just dedicated.

It is, but you need to change the default photo handler in the OS (right-click on an image file, choose "Open with...", etc)

Yes it does. Pretending Metro doesn't exist is my preferred method as well. The only time I run into it is when I'm previewing pictures and haven't changed the default program yet. Anyone else notice that the default Metro picture viewer doesn't support left/right arrows to switch to other...

Yeah, I'm not that paranoid or reckless yet. Still operating over open fields in private property where I've received permission. Once I've logged more hours and have a better reliability record I'd feel comfortable operating elsewhere.

Nope. I don't plan on putting explosives on-board (unless you are speaking of the LiPo?). And I don't have enough money in it to worry about my losses yet.

No signal boosters, but using aftermarket circularly polarized antennas. I'm investigating an antenna tracking system and panel antennas for additional range, but that still requires LOS.

I haven't tested it, but according to most reports, 3-5 miles. Fortunatly I'll be running autonomously most of the time, so signal strength doesn't matter. The link that I care about most is the telemetry link (915MHz) that should be good for 5 miles. Next is video (5.8GHz, 600mA) that should...

Nope. I'm only at 140GFlops with the CPU. Probably quite a bit more if GPU power could be factored in.