For anyone else intrested in the moon landings, here is a really great site 🙂
We Choose the Moon
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
Wechoosethemoon.org is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time. Once where only three men made the trip, now millions can. Live event begins 9:32 AM EDT July 16, 2009. Exactly 40 years after Apollo 11 lifted off.
This latest robot looks a lot like the ones in the I Robot film huh?
Can you imagine what these will be like in another 10 years time? Must be so interesting to be working in this technology!
Just as a test a while back I downloaded the RC version of Windows 7 and done a upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, to see how it would go.
If you do try this, be prepared for a long install! It takes much much longer than a fresh install for sure.
And after running it for a while now, it really has made little difference that I can see to the performance, and still takes ages to load and lots of disk thrashing.
I was curious how it would perform with a fully installed Vista system with loads of apps on a upgrade.
My advice when it ships in October this year, is do a fresh install!
As doing a upgrade over the top seems to make little difference to performance.
On a fresh install it def runs better than Vista , but what happens in time will be intresting, after installing loads of apps, how much will it slow down….
The Xp mode is a intresting idea, although you need a powerful CPU to use it at a decent speed.
Shall be intresting when the final ships and can then see some benchmarks on it all.
I think Windows 7 will be a good upograde, but to me its really like Vista mark 2, rather than anything mega new.
Well done to Brawn GP , Virgin , Jenson and Rubens!
You have to hand it to Richard Branson, he sure knows how to pick a winner!
Although the front wings on the all the 2009 cars looked totally crap, it was great to watch the qualifying and racing on the first race of the new season and worth getting up early to watch it live and even better that as the BBC are now covering it again, no more adverts and missing anything that went on during the ad breaks itv had.
I am glad that the bbc brought over Martin Brundell, his knowledge and skills would have been sorely missed if he was not there again.
Great win Jenson and nice to have a more interesting character and team winning 😉
Right I have now been using this Micro heli more, so will update on how I have found it so far. First off as others over the net have said it looks great in box and impressive when you first get it out and the size etc of it. But it seems quality and setup varies from one heli to another and in my case it was also not ready to fly out of box. In fact within 3 flights I had broken the blades and broke the tail blade, so had to order more spares. Once fixed, it was still a pig to keep in air stable, for sure I am faily new to radio controlled heli’s, but I do have experience of flying Model aircraft etc and on flight sims with helis. But this model just seemed too hard to fly, and reminded me that helicopter flying is in a much harder league! Anyway with more practise I could hover pretty stable, but after 10 flights the main motor started to fail! So had to order a new main motor and also I got a new tail motor to be on safe side and a spare battery. Fitted the new motor and it was much easier to fly than before, but then after another 2 good flights the rear tail motor also failed! and so I am now at a stage where I need to fit that and solder in the wires. Also on my last flight I noticed I was only getting about 2 mins flight time, popping in new battery increased that and then it spun to the ground as the rear tail motor gave up. So within 12 flights it has got through 1 x main motor , 1 x battery 1 x rear tail motor. So as others have mentioned some of these helis are not all good quality and sadly and all this starts to push the cost up to where I was thinking maybe a Align T-Rex 250 would have been a better buy? And for anyone thinking of getting one of these, I would def get the brushless version which is out very soon I hear. So my feelings so far? Disapointed to be honest, the flight time is short and these models seem to vary greatly in quality and you def have to invest in spare Main motors and tail motors and batteries and the normal parts like blades, also if you are new to these, you need more room than you might think! For experts and all the videos of people you see flying them, it looks easy in small rooms, but trust me its not! Also there are small training kits that fix onto the skid, although this does add a bit of weight and also as I found out the rubber grommets break the ends of the skids off. I am now going to strip it down and slighty oil beariings again and fit the new tail motors and new blades all round and see if it flys like I had hoped. So more updates soon, stay tuned , Gray.
