Frogbro battery soldering iron

Posted on 8th November 2025 by graz27

Picked up one of these as I dont have a portable battery soldering iron and wanted something for quick jobs, rather using my Weller gear or other electric soldering irons or small gas ones.

They about £34 on Amazon.

Only thing is it only comes with just the 1 soldering tip, I think for the price it should have come with more than just the one.

Seen a pack of 3 different tips on Amazon for about £11

Not used it yet, and think it should work fine for small joints and thin solder.

Nice addition to one’s tools though.

 

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DJI Neo

Posted on 8th November 2025 by graz27

Picked up one of these back a while with the googles and extra batts

Only really flew it around the house and was intending soon to take it out and see how it is now that I have more time to use.

And also I did not use the googles yet and just using it with my RC 2 controller.

But of course soon the updated DJI Neo 2 is out, which is better but I am wondering is it worth it for me though?

The obstacle avoidance and lidar dont really apply to me as I only fly in open places and like to relie on my own skills to avoid crashing into things.

And not really into the gestures stuff.

New one has 2 axis gimble and slightly better camera, but waiting to see more examples of the videos.

Good thing is it connects to the rc2 and googles, but a shame one cant use the old neo batteries in it.

So if I do get one will wait until the drone and 3 batts combo is available as I guess it will be the full packages available first.

 

 

 

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DJI Osmo Nano

Posted on 25th October 2025 by graz27

Picked up one of these recently and more than happy with it.

Yes there are many videos online about it overheating , but I do wonder how many people out there run it long enough at 4k to overheat it.

Surely if you want to record long 4k videos then get a action camera instead?

I am sure for most people it works fine for what most of us use it for who are not looking for clicks and not hooking people in with click bait titles and pulling stupid face thumbnails.

For what I use it for 2.7k is more than enough for videos I take for myself and teh smaller file sizes to work with.

I took some video at 2.7k and for about 27 mins came out at around 8GB on the internal memory. It was very slightly warm at the end of it and temps here in UK at present are none too great at around 12c /54F.

I got the 128GB version which was out of stock for a couple of weeks on the DJI store, and I guess they sold more than they expected of the 128GB version.

Comes with a decent amount of accessories to get one started.

I used the magnetic lanyard and the car mount and both worked fine.

So I think its a great bit of kit, but do you own research and dont purely relie on online videos.

For me, its small form factor and ease of use is spot on and I am sure I will use it for many things in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi everyone

Posted on 15th October 2025 by graz27

Hi everyone and sorry for no posts over the last 2 and a bit years.

I devoted my time to caring for my mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and got very challenging as anyone who knows of anyone who had this horrible and very sad illness, my heart goes out to anyone who has to care for someone who has this and those that care for them.

Its the hardest thing I ever dealt with.

Sadly my mother’s battle came to a end recently and she is at peace now but left a big hole in my life and also during the last 2 years I was also diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer and which I am eternally grateful to all the Staff who cared for me at London’s St George’s Hospital for the Surgeries and ongoing treatment to keep my on this Planet.

So last couple of years not had any time to update this blog etc.

But hope to try and fill the void for myself by writing on here again and its good therapy for me.

RIP Mum, you was the very best and will miss you forever………………………

 

 

 

 

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Drones in UK

Posted on 13th March 2023 by graz27

Not done hardly any flying with any of my quadcopters/drones for a long while.

Not only due to lack of time, but also new drone rules are making it harder and harder to fly and getting to the stage where one does feel is it worth it anymore?

Its also seems getting a sub 250 gram drone is not as good as it once was, as it seems now you have to be able to work out exact orientation under UK Visual line of sight, and this gets really hard with such a small craft.

With how reliable these are and how good the reception can be through the app on the phone it always seems crazy to me the UK Visual line of sight rules and now one cant fly away until a dot that you can still see cant be used anymore.

Not saying one should be able to fly tens of miles away, but a reasonable distant at least.

So you going to need very good eyesight to be be able to fly even a small distant away, which of course gets much harder with such a small drone as as dji mini etc.

Maybe time to go back to flying at registered fields with rc planes and helis again.

Hope I am wrong but think the boom days in drones and fpv etc is over….

Hope other countries dont follow the UK direction….

 

 

 

 

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