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Pajamas
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Wilderness, Home
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Aug 12, 2012 - 11:32am PT
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In process. 1/12 roof inside the parapets, guttered for underground cistern later. Durarock rain screen outside, and in, why not?
Yup eKat, Marfa. Trippy, hippy, artsy fun. Alien;) landing lights. Even a little granite.
I think the reclaimed cedar and mahogany accents give it life!
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Pajamas
climber
Wilderness, Home
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Aug 12, 2012 - 04:22pm PT
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Reclaimed ham can office!
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Pajamas
climber
Wilderness, Home
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Aug 12, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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Oh no eKat, built it out for a friend a couple months ago. Super fun unique once ever kinda building things. Fun to play with materials in new ways. Have van/house/workshopmobile, will travel, so I get into cool projects.
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jopay
climber
so.il
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Aug 13, 2012 - 06:21pm PT
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The nearly completed stone path, dug and laid in the mid west heat wave.[photo
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jopay
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so.il
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Aug 13, 2012 - 06:28pm PT
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Pajamas
climber
Wilderness, Home
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Aug 13, 2012 - 07:03pm PT
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Jopay I like... that's looks like it was excellent training for the burl
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Aug 19, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
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Build, destroy, build......and the walls;...come tumbling down;....wall down, put in a door;....my son Beck has a new room accessed from the house and not from the outside...
This was the Jim Angione room...then the Bill Russell Room, then the Grant Hiskes room, then the guest room, then the Jim Bridwell storage unit;...soon it will be Beck Gordon's room........things are ever changing..
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Aug 19, 2012 - 07:42pm PT
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Pajamas - I really do like the work you did for the RV park. Simple materials made beautiful through an artist touch.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Aug 20, 2012 - 10:59am PT
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Well I didn't personally build them, but I taught a drum making class yesterday for three women. The drums were made of elk rawhide, 15" round maple frame, and leather, along with individualized beaters made from found sticks, cotton batting, leather, and sinew.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 20, 2012 - 11:16am PT
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Are they steamed? The drums, that is.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Aug 20, 2012 - 11:34am PT
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Reilly, for the classes I buy pre-made glue laminated drum frames. For all of the drums I craft personally I make octagonal frames from western red cedar.
The hides were cut out dry and then soaked for about 2 1/2 hours in lukewarm water.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Aug 20, 2012 - 11:48am PT
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FPV quad-copter rocks! Did you build from a kit or scratch?
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Aug 21, 2012 - 04:36am PT
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It's sort of a copy of a kit, the DJI 450, you can get cheap clone parts from RCTimer, but the rest is a hodge podge of parts that are not suppose to work together...it's really just a frame, four brushless motors and a battery, but what makes it go is what is interesting...
The quad is controlled by a Naza controller, basically a computer with three gyros, three accelerometers and a barometer. It also has a GPS radio and calculates that with the rest of the data, it will remember where it took off and when in failsafe (major error or lack of signal) it will fly home and land autonomously..all handled by the Naza flight controller...
Then there is the hard part of putting a video transmitter in it with enough range to match the control, now that's the hard part. Control is sent to the quad via 2.4ghz frequency hopping, just like off the shelf RC airplane stuff, when you place a strong 5.8ghz video transmitter (same one cops use to spy on people and such) near the control receiver all kinds of things happen and then the GPS won't lock in as well, so you have to build custom power filtering and I had to learn a lot about antennas (the quad has seven) and fresnel zones. There's also an on screen display hooked up to another GPS which shows my altitude, speed, heading and battery life so I can just look on the screen for all my info while flying. It's was not easy and it took lots of trial and error to get it right, things like lock-tight come to mind. I could not have done it alone, there's a large community of FPV (first person flight) hobbists now, all working out these problems. I even flashed the speed controller with a program written by a guy I met in some forum, took the buffers out and now the thing is super stable for shooting video...
I fly it from a tri-pod with a 9' screen on top in a sun shade, the base station, as we call them, is also equipped with a video recorder and does not go to blue screen like most TV's do, I wouldn't be able to see playboy through the fuzz when I get bad signal if it did.
I also strap an HD Contour camera on the bottom because the video feed is low def, most guys use gopros.
My long range UHF control transmitter comes next month, it will extend my range from 1 kilometer to 15, I will easily run out of battery before flying out of my range (my flight times are around 10 minutes right now)...I will also be equipping my FPV airplanes with this long range ability.
Of course you guys can see the potential of this and I am planning to deploy and get some video in the valley. The FAA is still working out the regulations but you can see the potential problems hobbists face in the future as our technology allows what is basically a personal UAV, I could have spent another 500 on the control and it would have flown way points in auto mode, like you just sit there and click google maps on a laptop and it flies there, but that's no fun...
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It currently looks like this, repaired with some wine corks after it fell 948 feet upside down and crashed (long story, video is in my channel) and I used some swimming noodles for landing gear to raise it and fit the HD camera, maybe they will allow it to float long enough to jump in and get it just in case, lol.
I took it up to loon lake last weekend and filled the memory cards...I have tons of video to edit as it is...
If anyone is truly interested, I can help you get into it or build you one for about 3 grand...no flight experience necessary, it goes where you point it...
oh and my second one is sitting on the coffee table, got the motors mounted and have everything to finish it, it's going to be an aerobatic version so it can do things like this...
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Aug 21, 2012 - 07:56am PT
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squishy, ever consider flying one of these FPVs up the side of El Cap? Would be neat video, particularly if you could do multiple flights over a number of days (weeks for PTPP) and record an ascent. It's wouldn't be any more bothersome than BASE jumpers ripping by, which scare the crap out of me every time. However, I'd imagine the Yos cops might have something to say about that ;) Cool stuff.
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Aug 21, 2012 - 11:25am PT
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no way man, that would be against the law and would hurt the hobby as a whole shutting down areas and creating more laws and restrictions...lol
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skamoto
Mountain climber
coalinga ca
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Aug 27, 2012 - 07:19am PT
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This is what I'm working on.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Aug 28, 2012 - 07:26pm PT
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That's some nice looking work, Warbler!
Here's my latest. It's a tiny house, built really cheaply. I dislike working on projects like this, as they are cookie cutter, bottom line structures.
I've already refused to side it, as it's going to be vinyl. I've got principles, ya know?
Regardless, it's work, albeit at a rock bottom wage, but it's work. I like to work.
This morning;
This afternoon;
In all, it was pretty fun for two of us to build staging, cut the rafters, and install them in a day.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 28, 2012 - 08:00pm PT
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