If you’ve had 2 or more flights on an RC airplane, you know the joy of making your airplane soar and swoop, and the agony of watching it break into pieces with an unplanned landing. Wouldn’t it be great if they could just bounce? Well, now there is a whole category of foam airplanes designed [...]
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Backyard RC Combat – By Mark Schoenrock
31 years ago when I took my first solo flight, I never thought I could ever duplicate the intense excitement that comes with that experience. All you RC pilots know exactly what I’m talking about. And then, in the late 1980s I was introduced to RC combat.
Combat of the ‘80’s was basically a flying wing [...]
Instructables features my How To Make a Holiday Window Display
Merry Christmas to All! I just received an email that Instructables is featuring my How To Make a Holiday Window Display. Very cool. As an update – here is my 2007 Window display. We added buildings, lights and some mountains to give a little more interest to the scene. Enjoy.
Merry Christmas.
Live, Robots in Tokyo
One of my flying buddies, Wahgo, is working in Tokyo, Japan for a few months (yes, I am jealous!) and he sent me these pictures from his trip to The National Science Museum. The National Science Museum is running an exhibit on robots. The walking robot is Asimo built by Honda and the second [...]





