RaygunWizzle

I was just poking around and noticed a lot of stuff has come back in stock at the website.

Lord Felthius kit, Bloat Drones, Daemon Princes in particular.

Good time to scoop some stuff up if you have been looking for it.

So I posted a video of the powerplant I built for it a few weeks back. The past couple of weeks I have dived into programming the brain for it using a Raspberry Pi 5.

I also created a full UI website that will be used for controls. The Pi hosts the server, I used a Cloudflare tunnel for access over internet, and the site will read input from an Xbox360 controller connected to the PC via Bluetooth.

The site hosts the live video stream from the webcam plugged into the pi, and you can turn the audio stream on or off. There are buttons to control the various circuits I programmed, like switching between open throttle/auto, Radiator fans on/auto, engine kill (also has an auto), hull vent fans o

https://streamable.com/hsjet5

So this is where I am at on my Despoiler build. LED's in the eyes and exhaust. I embedded an electric motor in each of the gatling cannons to get them to spin. Problem is.. I can get it to spin up once or twice, then no go.

So I am a novice when it comes to electronics, but not afraid of a soldering iron. My next theory was to try wiring a capacitor inline with each motor to help with the startup energy draw. From my research, a 5-20 uF capacitor should be good (5v, .0069 HP).

2 red leds on one circuit, 3 on the other. Everything is being powered by the single 9v battery as shown.

I dont think voltage is an issue, as everything comes in under 9v volts and it

This new mode sucks. I cant get through any of the onslaught, salvage or arena matches cause of these damn things.

So I was just thinking about this and curious what people do. Cause even if you are living the cruising life, you will need somewhere for mail from your home country. I was thinking here in the US you could get a PO box, but how would you go about retrieving the mail from it? Will they let it just build up indefinitely? How do you know if something important came in? Etc

So I am at a point where I want to work on going single handed in my Catalina 27 and build my confidence in that (and not be reliant on someone being free to go with me). The actual sailing part doesnt bother me at all, I have an auto pilot and all lines run to cockpit so not worried about handling once out.

I have been sailing on this boat for 2 years now, and started sailing a year before buying it so 3 years experience, just for note. Also, this boat has an outboard engine, which is the bane of my existence. Its mounted awkwardly outside of my stern pulpit and so I have to turn around and kind of lean through the bars to mess with it.

Its getting out of my slip that I am most concerned

So this happened a few months ago and I have been trying to figure out what I did wrong. We approached an anchorage that is made by a man made artificial island in a crescent shape (Redfish Island in Galveston Bay) and wanted to anchor. There was already a boat anchored there, a larger vessel than ours and he was at a very leeward position in the anchorage. As I recalled from my training the correct thing to do was go far upwind of him to clear his possible swing area. He was far enough leeward that trying to go astern of him would have put us aground. So we went to the opposite side of the anchorage and dropped anchor and backed down. The dude starting yelling at us. He motored forward and

Hey yall, I posted a couple months ago about planning our sailing trip in the San Juans this July. Got some great feedback, and am working on a new sail plan based on that.

So far what I have is leave morning of the 3rd and sail up to Orcas Island and anchor west of Madronas Point. Spend about 2 days here, letting the fam explore the island, do some tourist stuff.

Sail to Friday Harbor, going the direct route through 'Upright Channel', but I admit, that passage on the northern side of Shaw Island looks more fun (marked as high current and gets a little narrow). Will try to get a transient slip at one of the marinas there for say, 2 days again. With shore power and water this will be a go

Hey so I am running the latest version of Braiins OS on my S17 Pro's but it wont allow me to change the power settings for overclocking. On my S17+ and my old T17 its no problem. On the Pro's the mouse cursor turns into a crossed out circle while anywhere in that field.

Any suggestions? Tried googling and found nothing helpful.