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Split Stik – The Plan Is Here

February 1st, 2010 at 9:46 pm » Comments (6)

The Split Stik is my latest design and it is featured in the current issue (Winter 2010) of Park Pilot Magazine. For those of you looking for an electronic copy of the plan,  here it is for you to download.
I had a lot of fun with this design.  It started as a quick sketch and [...]





Black Friday Shopping Ads Not Needed for Control Freeks

November 22nd, 2008 at 7:14 am » Comments (0)

With everyone gearing up for the largest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, I figured I would do my part save those of us sane enough to not participate. I decided to launch my line of Control Freek Apparel this week. The best part – no getting up at 3 am to shop for [...]





RC Star Wars X-Wing

November 9th, 2008 at 8:16 am » Comments (0)

As an avid Star Wars fan I have always wanted to build a Radio Control  flying X-Wing. Well, hasn’t everyone?
I haven’t yet, but here ares some vids of some folks who have:





TheHobbyGuy’s World Records Finally Recognized – NOT!

September 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am » Comments (1)

Hi All. It has been a since I have been in my Wordpress admin panel and when I opened it I noticed an incoming link entitled “Oh bugger, if I only had some laptop space.”  That title seemed odd to me so I figured I better check it out.  Turns out that my blog entry [...]





New Projects on the Horizon

November 30th, 2007 at 9:31 pm » Comments (0)

I may have a problem, I think I am addicted to R/C. Ok, not just R/C, model railroading too, and robotics, and computers. I better stop listing them all before I really do think I have a problem. For many people, just having one or two projects going at a time is good [...]