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What are your hobbies?

Postby TonyB » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:24 pm

In my spare time i fly RC helicopters.

Im not to sure if you guys know anything about these, but i have 1 x Trex600, 2 x trex500, and 1 trex450.

Here are some pics:
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All my helicopters are electric. They use Lithium Polymer batteries capable of delivering 150Amp bursts, and Brushless DC motors.

So what do you do in your spare time??
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby Redlands » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:34 pm

Looks very nice Tony!

I'm into motorsport, aviation and running!
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby TonyB » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:57 pm

Forgot to mention i also enjoy embedded C programming.
Any other programmers out there??

What sort of motor sport you into Redlands? I like the f1. Have you heard of KERS?
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby Redlands » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:59 pm

Yes F1 is my series of choice. I found KERS interesting but was disappointed that only Ferrari, McLaren and BMW tried it.
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby unussapiens » Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:17 am

In my spare time I build solar cars! Apart from that I enjoy 3D modelling, programming (I've been playing with OpenGL recently, I've also just started playing with USB interfacing and plan on moving on to lower level microcontroller programming soon), singing and playing the piano.

I also have a small RC helicopter, but it's nowhere near as nice as Tony's. One of my plans for the summer is to see if I can get the controller interfaced to my computer. Ought to keep me occupied for quite a while.
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby TonyB » Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:49 am

Unussapiens, i take it you program in C++. If you do you will pickup low level C pretty easily.
What sort of USB interfacing are you doing? More detail please in currently doing this stuff too :).
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby PWK » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:50 am

Current hobbies? Playing Baseball, Solar Car (I'll be going back next year to help out BHHS) and PC building/overclocking. Pretty boring really, but it keeps me going.
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby TonyB » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:17 am

PWK wrote:Current hobbies? Playing Baseball, Solar Car (I'll be going back next year to help out BHHS) and PC building/overclocking. Pretty boring really, but it keeps me going.


I also enjoy overclocking. I got an e8400 @ 4.0 and stock xfx 8800gt. Old but still does the job.
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby PWK » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:39 am

E6750 @ 3.0 GHz (Stock cooler, not willing to go higher atm) and a Gigabyte 8800GT. I can't really touch the 8800GT atm, the cooler has enough troubles keeping it cool at stock. Wasn't too bad for a comp I built myself 2 years ago. I'll be in the market for a replacement soon, I might even build my own case. Rotated ATX form factor (see SilverStone Raven RV-01 case) looks really good for cooling :D .
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby TonyB » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:55 am

Not sure if your an ati fan, but get one of these :D
http://techreport.com/articles.x/17986
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby PWK » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:06 am

Personally I'm waiting for Nvidia's Fermi/GT300 first to see how that goes. Next comp will be a LAN rig, so a huge 5970 may not be the best card :P
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby TonyB » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:18 am

When is Fermi due to hit the market?? i thought its heaps far away.
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby PWK » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:28 am

late Q1 2010, so about 3-4 moths. I've got plenty of time, fiscal issues atm are slightly tight for this project.
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby Conitsiotis » Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:18 am

Classy Thread :) It is good to see what all you others get up to in your spare time.

Personally i'm interested in aviation (and flying), sport (esp Tennis and Cross Country), motorsport and of course building Model Solar Cars. Guess the key elements in all these kinda add up too AIMSCC :P
Keeps me occupied I guess :)
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Re: What are your hobbies?

Postby venergy » Tue May 18, 2010 10:33 pm

hobbies ?

hmm , mine is playing freebies .. i do love it ! but sometimes i do scrapbooking and knitting on rainy days just to get myself busy .... :mrgreen:
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