Sam Dickinson - The Life of Sam

Gemfan Hurricane 51433

After my last freestyle flight, I was left wanting. My beloved Azure LCP 5040 were no longer up to the task of carrying my drone nicely now that I had a much heavier GoPro onboard (74g vs 158g), so time to try something else. Given that I wasn't overly impressed

drones

Freestyle day

Nice to get out and about with my freestyle drone (Armattan Marmotte) today. First flight since being repaired (not the one I fixed in my previous post). A pretty rough flight bonking the ground a couple of times and nicking the trees. One thing I'm noticing with this one is

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Another day, another repaired drone

Just a short post, but sometimes, drones are super quick to repair, this one took all of 10 minutes (even that might be an overestimate of how long it took). 4 motor screws, 2 arm screws & nuts, and some electrical tape. Super simple. Now to wait for good weather

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The curse of the Explorer strikes again!

So yes, my Flywoo Explorer has another issue. Just a minor one this time, the buzzer got stuck on when I was disabling it. Had to rip some wires out with my car keys (was travelling light, so literally only had goggles, radio and drone). Still, had a good flight.

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It flies!

Yes, my bad luck drone flies! A nice windy day today, but I was keen to take the new drone out. I was worried at first because as soon as I plugged the battery in, the warning buzzer started beeping. The video looked fine, and nothing showing there, so played

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My bad luck drone that hasn't even flown

As far as drones go, the Flywoo Explorer is pretty well known, and known as a great drone (even if it had a couple of issues). But I've had the worst luck with mine, and it hasn't even flown yet. For starters, I thought there were only two versions, the

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Another day, another broken drone

Having not flown around trees for a while, and trying out new props (Ethix Peanut Butter & Jelly) means that I'm not so steady on the sticks, gave a little too much throttle and smashed into a branch - something my Marmotte would have survived easily. Still, breaking stuff is

3d printing

A nice surprise

So I tend to upload models to Thingiverse that I think would be useful to others. My latest is a set of brackets to hold a pegboard, so you can use command strips to attach it to the wall. I was checking my stats this morning, and came across this:

programming

NGINX config for Single Page Applications

Whether you're using create-react-app, Next.js or even something non React based (like Angular), you'll come across the case where you write a Single Page Application (SPA) and need to support linking into a particular page. Default webserver config doesn't really support this very well. eg. If you have a

photography

Rebuilding my photography site

So to go along with my 10 year anniversary, I launched the latest version of my website. To the casual observer, not much has changed. Very similar layout, but underneath, it's totally brand new. So why did I change it then? I used to be a HUGE fan of Koken,

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10 years of model photography (NSFW)

So here it is, 10 years of model photography. What a journey it's been and something I've stuck with for the decade! While I'm on hiatus due to family reasons, I thought I'd post the 15 shoots that have influenced me the most. 1. Gotta go with the very first