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
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
