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Painting With Flight! We go over a few last minute tips before your first night flight, and some open shutter photo experiments, yielding trails of Continue Reading →
Control your LED Circuits with your receiver – using simple components like brushed ESCs or remote controlled relays. Add some mixing and you can not Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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
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
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 and The Simple LED Circuit
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 →
DIY LED Helicopter Blades
Make your own LED Helicopter blades for night flying! I love LEDs. It’s the mini-electronics geek in me. Needless to say, it was one of Continue Reading →
