I spent a couple evenings a week or so working on an updated design for WordPress. I just wanted to see where I could go with it. There’s no current plan to implement it (other than maybe spinning up another MP6 and fiddling with things). It’s far from feature complete, but I think it’s at a… Continue reading WordPress Dark Admin concept
Author: Michael Arestad
How to unfuck permissions
When working with npm (Node Package Manager), I picked up the horrible habit of throwing a sudo in front of npm install or npm up. Usually, I only did it when I got an error. This is bad. It becomes a headache at some point. Here’s how to unfuck the permissions of any folder: Do… Continue reading How to unfuck permissions
Busted chassis
It took about a month of dozens of pretty hard crashes to do it. there was a slow increase in the amount of cracks around the arms. The biggest cracks were on the front right arm. I noticed how bad it was a few days ago and figured it was only a matter of time… Continue reading Busted chassis
Why Robotic Sports Will One Day Rival The NFL
Meet Ripley
This is Ripley. Named after the protagonist in Aliens. This little thing is tough and super duper incredibly insanely fast. It’s got some X4 guts and some dark edition motors. Oh, and a super freakin light 110mm 7 gram carbon fiber body. The thing defies gravity. Here are some shots of the build. I ended up… Continue reading Meet Ripley
X4 propellers and more!
I got these ladybird props and the clear props after some killer recommendations from the Hubsan X4 FB group. I also got some anti vibration gel to hopefully improve my video from the 808. Tomorrow, I have some more fun things arriving (I hope) and I’ll definitely post the results.
Dancing Zuul and Fun Cub
The whole video is pretty fun, but the shot around 1:44 is wonderful.