DC-3 / C-47 Build log
kang, January 21st, 2010
Once upon a time, I decided to try to build my own plane from scratch. That is, from nearly complete scratch, you know. Just deciding on one and making it without externals plans and so on.
I quite like the DC-3 look. It has been converted as a military plane called the C-47 Skytrain (they share the same airframe).
FPV: Starting blocks
kang, January 7th, 2010
Preface
I have decided to start experimenting with a new kind of remote control planes (RC planes), those ones carrying a camera and video transmitter, which you control from the ground like a drone.
Ideally, with a good HD camera, you can make nice artistic movies of your favorite places (as long as you respect the law) from a point of view you couldn’t have before.
However, FPV, or First Person View remote control require assembling, soldering, and basically building up the whole system by yourself. There are a lot of issues which are very sparsely documented and no real effort has been done to document this half decently.
I’ll just report what I have done, and how, for anyone to reproduce if they wish to.
vmware-specific-specific 5.5.x and kernel 2.6.32
kang, December 4th, 2009
Just a small fix to the previous patch was necessary for this one to work.
Remember that you do need to patch your kernel for this to work properly.
See the README inside the archive.
vmware-update-2.6.32-5.5.9.tar.bz2
Edit: there is a more complete patch here for vmware server 2.0.2, i haven’t tested it.