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  • Contrast (PC Full)
    24:22
  • Halo 2 (Legendary Full)
    3:26:17
  • Half-Life 2
    2:20:53
  • Metroid Prime
    2:30:20
  • Quake (Easy Full)
    29:52
  • Squirrel With A Gun
    58:17

Current Cerebrations

Apple II Saturn Reborn

Recently got around to doing something that's been in the back of my head for decades. Read more about it here.

A blast from the past
Monday, June 2nd, 2025

Rutan Long EZ Flight Video

Check out the latest flight video on the Rutan Long EZ page.

Monday, May 26th, 2025

Goblin Amongst The Clouds

Beautiful day today, albeit slightly chilly for this time of year. The sky was very pretty. See the latest video on the Pico Goblin page.

Beautiful Sky
Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Cheetah Painted

Finally got around to designing a nice...well, design, for the Cheetah. I thought it turned out quite well. I was originally going to airbrush it completely, but after the first layer of green shapes, I noticed that the paint was easily being pulled from the foam, meaning the next vinyl decal masks of the other colors would just completely pull them off. So instead I opted to just cut them out of vinyl as well with the Silhouette and stick them on.

Only took about a year to get around to painting it
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025

Pico Goblin FPV Maiden

The weather has finally gotten nice enough to use the FPV goggles again, and with the sunlight quickly fading, I grabbed the Pico Goblin and set out to fly it first-person for the first time. See the latest video on the Pico Goblin page.

My first fixed-wing FPV flight
Friday, May 9th, 2025

Scratch Built Tiny Whoop

For my second FPV drone, I wanted to try the smallest version possible so I could fly it indoors, as well as without much fear of crashing.The Tiny Whoop scratches that itch.

COMMENCING ASSIMILATION SCANNING
Saturday, April 26th, 2025

DIY Anemometer

This was a project I had started last year after getting into RC flying, but never got around to following it through. With the weather not being so great, I found some time to finally finish the project, and it turned out quite well.

Anemometer, favored over the original name, windspeedometer
Friday, April 18th, 2025

Cheetah v2

The Cheetah RC conversion wasn't a complete success. I was having issues flying it, and I almost went mad trying to get to the bottom of the problem. Read about the v2 update here.

"50% less swole"
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025

3D Drone Camera

Electronic cameras are getting smaller and cheaper, and being installed in just about everything you can think of. Pretty soon your ice cube tray will have one - for every cube.

Which means it's easier to put them on things like RC planes and quads, which I've already done. But then I had the bright idea: what if I had TWO cameras - I could make a 3D video! Behold my latest creation.

"Fairisle Electronics presents it's new model: The M.A.R.K-13"
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

The Batwing RC Plane

That's right, the Batwing. A childhood dream come true to be able to fly this through the skies (as cold as they might have been).
Batman's plane of choice. Robin flies a Cessna.
Thursday, February 20th, 2025

Menards Foam Jet Part Deux

Though the Menard's Foam Jet RC Conversion to EDF was a success, it was still a bit under-powered. I was thinking I might be able to change that after seeing an impossibly small prop motor on sale for cheap on AliExpress. Read on to find out how it went.
Now With 100% More Prop!
Friday, January 10th, 2025

Pico Goblin Foamboard FPV

After flying the drone FPV, I wanted to dip my toes into RC Plane FPV flying. Not wanting to spend a bunch of something I might crash on the first try, I decided to build one from foamboard. Turns out, it turned out a tad smaller than I expected...
Same wingspan as a large bat!
Wednesday, January 1st, 2025

Rutan Long EZ 3D Printed RC Plane

Ran across this very cool looking plane and had to print one out for myself. Using my airbrush and my Silhouette I thought I did a pretty decent job of giving it a bit of polish. Read more here.
Rest In Peace John Denver
Saturday, December 28th, 2024

3D Printing an RC Plane

After hearing about something called Lightweight PLA and that you could use it to print airplanes since it was so light, I had to try it for myself.
Such Green. Much Sparkles.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

Railroad Swing Bridge FPV

There's a railroad swing bridge on a trail in the city, which is very old and quite scenic. I got some really good footage (in the video section of the First FPV Drone page) and was lucky enough to be there when it was moving into position to let a train go across the water.
Railroad swing bridge in transition
Monday, October 21st, 2024

111 Miles Per Hour

Finally got around to putting a GPS module on the 5 inch quad, and was able to see what kinds of speeds it was capable of. Check out the video 'Speed Test' on the First FPV Drone page.

Saturday, September 7th, 2024

Cheetah RC Conversion

Another video was an inspiration to try to make a smaller throw glider into a prop-pushed RC plane. This was something new to me - using pitcheron controls, which utilizes the entire wings as control surfaces for both pitch and roll of the aircraft. Details and videos here.
Cheetah RC Conversion
Monday, August 19th, 2024

Mini Foamboard RC Wing

After building the Chiroptera flying wing, I wanted to build something a little bit smaller I could fly in a smaller field close by. Behold, the Mini Chiroptera.
Second version
Wednesday, August 14th, 2024

FPV Over Water

Decided to take the plunge (actually quite the opposite) and try to fly the drone over water. I can't stress enough how nerve racking it is to do this for the first time - one mistake and all that work and money is gone in a splash. Check out the video "Two if By Sea" in the video section of the First FPV page.
A beautiful summer day
Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Mini Solius Glider RC Conversion

Watching a YouTube video of omeone flying a mini Solius glider using a 30mm EDF motor really made me want to make one for myself (and was also partly the inspiration for creating the Mini Foam Jet Conversion). I was able to replicate one using some ultra-tiny servos. Check out the information here.
A very small RC glider
Monday, July 8th, 2024

Foamboard F22 Jet

After seeing videos of someone flying an RC jet made from cardboard, I found some good plans to make one from foamboard instead. This thing is fast!
F22 Raptor made from military grade foamboard
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024

Menards Mini Foam Jet RC Conversion

A little bit after seeing the Sonic Flyer, I saw Menard's was selling just foam throwing planes of the exact same jet model. I got the idea to try to make it an RC jet using a 30mm EDF motor. How did it go? Tune in here to find out!
Friday, June 21st, 2024

Foamboard Flying Wing Build

Following plans from Flite Test's "Mighty Mini Arrow Build", I decided to try to make my own RC plane from parts and foamboard. Go here to see it in action.
The Red Bat
Monday, June 17th, 2024

Airwing Glider LED Mod

Created a circuit incorporating an Arduino Nano that will both output the correct voltage for 12v LED light strips as well as blink the lights when the battery voltage drops below a certain threshold. See details here.
Saturday, April 27th, 2024

Scratch Built 5 inch Quad

Decided to dive head first into FPV drone flying, by buying some FPV Goggles and building a drone completely from scratch. Go here for details.
Pretty in Purple
Saturday, April 6th, 2024

Mari0 1.6 Rail Gun 1.2

I always felt Mario was missing something. And that something was...being able to fire off aluminum bolts at close to light speed. This is the first iteration of my mod; I have some other ideas I may or may not do as my time is limited. Haven't tested this on multiplayer, or every single cheat mode, or even very heavily at all, so caveat emptor.

Use the cheat by changing the MODE from 'portal' to 'railgun'. It uses coins as ammo. If you also turn on 'goomba attack', you get unlimited ammo as well as the firing rate being twice as fast. My previous 'bullet-time remap mod' is already incorporated in this mod. Turn the bullet-time cheat on as well to really make it feel and sound Matrix-li...Read More

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Mari0 Bullet-Time Remap Mod

Here is a mod I made for Mari0 1.6. For some reason, bullet-time isn't allowed to be mapped to anything but the mousewheel. With this mod you can now map joystick buttons or keyboard keys. It works by going full bullet-time when a key is down, and stops when the key is released. Grab it here. You will need to install the latest unstable build of LOVE for this to work - Get the latest build for Windows here. Before running the mod tho, make sure you remove the current options.txt file, as it has settings that will not be read correctly with this new mod - find it on Windows 7/Vista in %AppData%\Roaming\LOVE\Mari0. (You can add the "gamefinished;" setting back in after running the mod and creating a new file if you want.)

Thursday, March 8th, 2012