LED Wiring and Current Check for Battery Power LED Circuits

This entry is part 8 of 11 in the series Night Flying  Let’s wire up ALL eight LED circuits we’ve made so far all together in parallel and check how much current the full circuit pulls, examine Continue Reading →

SMD LED Circuit Wiring LED Circuits

This entry is part 7 of 11 in the series Night Flying  Reference our earlier articles for sources of these LEDs as well as our web calculator links to figure out resistance values. They’re tiny, they’re awesome. Surface Continue Reading →

Wiring Standard Bulb LEDs LED Circuits

This entry is part 6 of 11 in the series Night Flying  We’ll use 3 White LEDs from Radio Shack, wired in series. Two pairs of this circuit will be created, one for each side of the craft. Continue Reading →

LED Circuit Tools and LED Strip Kits LED Circuits

This entry is part 5 of 11 in the series Night Flying  If you’re building your own circuits, chances are you’ll need a lot of these tools or equivalents. If you’re not, well, then skip down to Continue Reading →

Parallel LED Circuits LED Circuits

This entry is part 4 of 11 in the series Night Flying  Parallel LED Circuits     Keep in mind… A single series circuit has limits Remember your LED calculators from the last article! LED Wizard LED Calculator HB LED Calc If you Continue Reading →

More Series LED Circuits LED Circuits

This entry is part 3 of 11 in the series Night Flying  So, last time we introduced the simple LED circuit. A power supply (your battery), anLED (the light), and a resistor (to limit current). We introduced all the math Continue Reading →

LED Characteristics LED Circuits

LED Characteristics and The Simple LED Circuit

This entry is part 2 of 11 in the series Night Flying  Let’s continue with a look at LED characteristics and a little introduction to your most simple LED circuit, a single LED with and without a resistor (without is bad if you’re Continue Reading →

Mach One Combat Flyer For Night Flying LED Circuits

Types of LEDS and Power Sources

This entry is part 1 of 11 in the series Night Flying  Welcome to the first article and video in our LED Night Flying Series! I hope you find the series educational and entertaining as we build up our Continue Reading →

H-Frame and Combat Hits Foamies

H-Frame and Combat Hits

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Combat      Here we have a very scruffy me introducing some footage of our latest Combat! adventure. We finally hit each other, too!… Correction, Chameleon hit Continue Reading →

Semi Great Moments In Parent To Child Attempted RC Decapitation History Journal

Semi Great Moments In Parent To Child Attempted RC Decapitation History

I think RC is fun. Dad thinks RC is fun. Dad and I think RC is fun. I like flying. Dad likes flying. We like Continue Reading →