Haven’t been doing too much on the electronics front lately, hence the lack of posts.  I did go and pick myself up a $12 cable tester and associated punchdown tools (Krone and 110/88).  I discovered that some of the ethernet ports in my house were nonfunctional, so with those tools in hand I was able to fix them all up.  Annoyingly, the wall sockets require a 110 tool, but the main patch panel is Krone.  Most of the failures appear to be related to the conductors being nicked when installed or excessive strain during installation pulling them loose from the punchdown terminal.  Aggravating, but at least the cabling in the wall is fine.

Many games appear to do horrible things with the viewport when you are using a display with a strange aspect ratio - such as a triple head setup.  The aspect ratio of my setup is 48:9, which plays merry hell with viewports in flight sims that are designed to look ‘normal’ with a 16:9 setup.  The usual result is that views are horrendously thin vertically.

I’ve recently been learning to fly in DCS: A-10c Warthog, deciding to stick to just one flight sim until I get good at it.  What I’ve been interested in is whether a head tracking system would be useful, and whether I’d like it.  The TrackIR 5 head tracking system runs about $200, which is a bit costly for an experiment - particularly if I didn’t like it.

Got to take the HT-FPV out to the park today, finally there wasn’t any rain to put a stop to proceedings.  This is the first full-range test I got to do.

Had the first flight of my HT-FPV based quad on Saturday.  No tuning, just went with factory default PIDs.  I installed the sonar under the frame - potentially too close to the power distribution, but it appears to be OK.

Got the last (yeah, right) order of parts in for the new quadcopter!  As such I’ve finished assembly, up to the point where I’m ready to attach props and start the testing process (in these photos the props are just sitting on the adapters and not actually bolted on).