I noticed a lot of interest in my sprinkler timer review post and I wanted to expand on that a bit. In this post I’ll tear apart the Vigoro 3015V Sprinkler Timer and see what inside of it and makes it work.  This timer has worked reliably for me, but I switched to the Orbit [...]

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Your search for a WordPress Mobile Theme is over! Well, at least mine is I added the WPtouch-Pro plugin from BraveNewCode also known as BNC into WordPress to make this site more readable on mobile devices. It should now load pretty quick and look nice on devices such as the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and so [...]

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I’ve been working on the Spirit 100 glider to convert it to an FPV platform for the last couple of weeks.  Today I finally was able to get the plane up with the First Person View gear and the results were awesome. Having so much wing area is a huge bonus when flying FPV because [...]

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I was sitting here and my Nexus started going off like I was receiving a billion emails, and (After clicking on gmail on my PC to look) I checked the phone. Oh.. right! My evening got a bit more exciting as Astrid was reminding me that the new series ‘Bad Universe‘ was showing on Discovery. [...]

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Yesterday I began the process of learning to hover my RC helicopter inverted and made a video of the good parts of the 4 flights. I’ve been getting a lot more flying in lately with my Ace R/C Mini-Titan. About a month ago I was flying a bit late and lost orientation of the heli [...]

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