Saturday, December 30, 2017

Reverse Engineering a DJI Phantom 3 Standard Gimbal

My dad owns a DJI Phantom 3 Standard. For some reason (probably the multiple crashes into trees), the fragile gimbal got the worst of it. Something in it is broken. When you turn the drone on, the gimbal stabilizes, goes weird, and then goes limp. So something isn't right. But I'm not going to try and fix this. I'm going to try and reverse engineer it. I'm fairly certain that this is a single board computer. So let's take it apart, power it up, and see if we can communicate with it.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Designing and Building a File Vault

Actually, make that two file vaults. I'm making a large file vault for myself and a smaller one for my parents. The specs of the machines will be similar, but the biggest difference is the amount of storage each will have. The best part: they'll both go into an almost identical case to the almost complete Game Console (I should really figure out what I need to do to finish that...). The only difference is that these are a little shorter. But I'll still use the power buttons and lights, I'll still remove the display boards (assuming they're still separate from the main logic boards) and I'll do everything very similarly. That's why this probably will be one long post instead of broken up into several posts like it was initially.