Month: May 2023

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I like to watch RC car videos

on the internet. And I was thinking I wonder why I ever stopped driving my hawk and hornet? I don’t remember.

Driving RC cars looks so fan and the little bit of memory I have of driving my rc cars are good. I am sure I had fun driving RC cars.

One reason I must have stopped driving my toy grade RC cars was probably having to buy the batteries for the car and transmitter. I wonder how long the batteries lasted in those cars.

And the reason I probably stopped driving my hawk and hornet was probably batteries. And batteries are probably the reason I did not drive them that much. Both of their transmitters needed 8 AAA batteries. I am not sure how long the receiver batteries lasted until they needed to be replaced.

My hornet since it had a mechanical speed control needed 4 more AAA batteries to power the mechanical speed control. So for the hornet that is 12 AAA batteries right there.

I always wanted to convert my transmitters to be able to use rechargeable battery packs. I don’t think I ever thought gee I can buy rechargeable AAA batteries. But, back then I am sure the rechargeable AAA are not is good as they are today.

I had an electronic speed control in the hawk. For some reason I had to put an electronic speed control in it. But, when I had the original mechanical speed control in it it must have needed 4 AAA batteries to power the speed control also so that is 12 AAA batteries for the hawk.

And I am sure I must have switched AAA between the hawk and hornet instead of buying batteries for each.

And to power the cars I had 2 Nicad battery packs. One was red which was the one I got new with the hornet. And the other one was used which I got with the hawk.

I am not sure if the red pack stopped working and that is why I got the used Nicad with the hawk or if still worked.

Maybe both battery packs stopped working and that is why I stopped driving my RC cars. I bet that is the reason. That must have been in the early or mid 1990’s. And batteries must have been the reason I did not drive my cars all the time.

I can’t remember the last time I drove an RC car. It must be at least 30 years ago since I have driving one. That is a long time.

I hope someday that I drive an RC car again. And maybe also RC planes, drones, tanks, motorcycles. I think driving an RC plane would be fun.

And if I ever do drive an RC vehicle again I hope I drive it everyday and drive it around a track that I build.

Now I would get rechargeable AAA for the receivers and at least 2 battery packs so I could have a lot of drive time instead of when the one pack I had runs out and then have to wait for it to charge up.

And I would also want to track run time on the car and for how long the batteries in the transmitters last.

I also think I wrecked the mechanical speed control I took out of the hawk when I put in the electronic speed control. I wish I had not done that.

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Programming

One of the reasons I wanted to get a computer all those years ago was to learn how to program. Well its been many many years and I still can’t program.

Though I still think I want to learn how to program.

I used to want to learn 20 programming. Why I wanted to do that I am not sure. Probably so I could say that I knew 20 programming languages. Well that did not work out to well.

And every year I hope that this will be the year that I will finally learn to program. That has not happened either.

So maybe I will learn to program. Maybe I won’t. Its not the end of the world if I never learn how to program. Though I wish I were a good programmer.

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Today I worked on the lips and

tongue of the 3d model oh, and I also worked on the mouth. I can’t wait to see the finished product.

I wonder if I will ever get good enough at making humans so that I can make a 3d model of myself. I hope so.

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Yesterday I worked more on the face

of the human I am making in blender. I am following along with a linkedin video course.

I started with a plane and put in all the features of the face. Eyes mouth, nose, etc in the front view and then I used the side view to pull the vertices to make the face 3D.

I thought oh, no my face will not look good. I won’t be able to pull out the vertices to the right spots. The face I made does look human.

Its a different way of modeling a face than the learning blender book had. In the book He started with a cube, smoothed the vertices, and added vertices by using loop cuts and the knife cut tool.

I think I like making vehicles in blender more than I like making characters.

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About two years ago I read a book called Remember it

by Nelson Dellis and I had also read remember it several years before that when it first came out.

I had wanted to try the techniques in the book. I did try the technique to remember names and a shopping list for maybe a week but, then stopped.

The second time I read Remember it I made a PAO for a deck of cards and the numbers 0-99.

And I have tried to go through the cards and memorize my pao for the deck of cards. Its fun all I need to do is keep working at it. And who knows maybe one day I will be able to remember the order of a deck of cards. That would be cool.

So this year I hope to memorize my pao for a deck of cards and be able to remember the order of a deck of cards. And also start memorizing my pao for the numbers 0-99.

I will see what happens.

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Today I worked on a character in blender

Instead of following along with learning blender I decided to watch a character modeling video tutorial. Since the model I tried to make following the book looked so bad. At least the face did since that is as far as I got

I figure it will be easier to follow along with a video.

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I watched a video about screenless computers

To me the computer in the video is something like the starfleet insignia that the characters in startrek use as a communicator.

Before I watched the video I was not sure what the computer would look like. But, how cool would it be to have a computer like that now instead of having to use a phone. I think pretty neat.

I would rather use a computer like the one in the video than a phone or wearing glasses for a computer I can use while I am walking around.

Screenless computing looks pretty exciting to me.

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Yesterday I started working on a human face so I could

follow along with Learning blender. I am trying to make a different face than the author. I don’t think the face I am working on looks that good but, I have to try to make a human character.

I remember one of the first tutorials I did with blender 2.42 was making a 3D human like character. I tried the tutorial several times but, never got it finished. Sadly. I may have never gotten farther than or even finished the face.

So my human character might not look good but, hopefully I get it finished. I will try.

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