April 25, 2005

New hobby?

I think my brother turned me on to a new hobby. Remote control airplanes... He bought one on Ebay over the weekend and was kind of bummed with it when it didn't work (which is one of the reasons why i was over there). I helped him take it apart and we found that a wire was loose and that was it. Held the connection and everything worked fine. A little solder and twisting of cables fixed it and we were very impressed.

I didn't know a little circuitry, styrofoam, and some damn strong but tiny motors could put out so much power. If you weren't hold the plane tighly enough, it would pull away and turn in your hand... Plus, he didn't break the bank if he ever crashes it. I'm seriously looking to get into it just so we'd have something to do together again...

Plus, Totem always says we never go to the park enough. ;)

UPDATE: Bidding on a low end, cheaper, dual engine plane. Something to get me started if I ever do get into this...

Posted by Geek at April 25, 2005 11:21 AM

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