Blue Kae

One of the things that I use the most in flying quadcopters that i didn’t anticipate is zip ties. I was flying over the weekend and towards the beginning of the session I knocked my goggles off...

https://bluekae.com/2020/07/13/zip-ties/

I’m back after taking a little break from the blog. I didn’t quite take a break from flying but I did scale way back. For reference in May I flew 14 sessions and in April I did 19. In June,

https://bluekae.com/2020/07/06/back-in-the-air/

I realized recently I was starting to get a little bored by about my 4th or 5th battery of a session. I’m used to that happening over the winter when I’m stuck flying in-doors, but I’ve not...

https://bluekae.com/2020/06/01/getting-out-of-a-rut/

Wednesday last week we had some good weather and I was able to wrap up work by 5 pm, so I charged up six batteries and headed out to the back deck to fly. I was having a pretty good

https://bluekae.com/2020/05/18/tree-bonk/

It was a nice day and I was flying from my backyard while the kids’ were playing on their trampoline. I’d just started my fourth pack and was flying around the front of the house when my nose...

https://bluekae.com/2020/05/11/stupid-mistakes/

The other day I was charging up some batteries to fly and was surprised when a ground lead snapped off of its XT300 connector when I was pulled it off of the charger. That’s bad because one it ...

https://bluekae.com/2020/05/04/xt30-battery-discharger/

When troubleshooting a quad problem or when getting a new build configured, I’m regularly plugging in a battery to a quad to power the motors, VTX, and receiver, and then unplugging it again. I...

https://bluekae.com/2020/04/27/xt30-switch/

Despite having a couple of projects in mind, I haven’t been doing much over the last two weeks except flying. With everyone stuck at home, I’ve just been sticking to my yard which is kind of ...

https://bluekae.com/2020/04/20/still-flying/

The longer I fly quads, the more comfortable I get, and the more risks I start to take. As a result I end up crashing a fair bit, not as often as when I first started, but these crashes involve

https://bluekae.com/2020/03/30/fly-hard-break-stuff/

When I first got into flying I was using a whoop style quad that flew on a 1S LiPo battery, which means a single celled lithium-ion polymer battery. The kit I bought came with a small USB charger...

https://bluekae.com/2020/03/23/1s-charging-adapter/