Hi and welcome to the new look Trev's Place. It's my place designed specifically
for me to publish thoughts, hobbies, and what ever information comes to mind
including:
Video's I found amusing.
Remote Control flight, both helicopter and jet propelled aircraft
We're off on a roadtrip to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria over the next few weeks. You can follow our adventures including live GPS tracking at my travellog blog
Posted by trevor on Monday, September 26 @ 15:03:43 EST (311 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0)
Rudder pedal controller using USB (part number 204-TV-B). This board will interface your home made DIY Rudder Pedals to Flight Simulator using USB. It’s inputs will be 3 x 10k ohm pots, one for the rudder and one each for the left and right toe brakes which connect with provided Molex connectors. USB is via a B type connector which also provides the required power for the interface board. The prototype board is about 52mm (2inch) x 35mm (1.4inch) x aprox 20mm (0.8inch) high with the Rudder/Toe brake connectors connected. It will be available pre-built and tested with or without pots. It uses the standard Human Interface Device (HID) USB specifications for a Rudder Pedal Control meaning it should work on any operating system using this specification (Windows, Linux and MAC).
The interface is in final testing and tuning at the moment and is expected to be ready March 2011.
Posted by trevor on Sunday, January 09 @ 17:04:15 EST (2377 reads) (Read More... | News | Score: 5)
Are you interested in Electronics? Or embedded electronics? Or any of the Microchip PIC microcontrollers like the PIC18, PIC24, the dsPIC33 or the latest PIC32? So am I so I'm writing about my adventures with these devices in my blog called Trevor's Electronics Blog. The drive to do this was my adventure in learning the PIC24 and doing it using the Explorer 16 board. I got a book that uses different chip and board configuration so I've added to the book for others the steps needed to run the excersises in the book on the Explorer16.
It looks like the US government has figured out how to get itself out of the financial problems it's in. Watch the Onion News Network cover as Ronald Schuler, treasury spokesman announces the recal at a press conference. :)
Posted by trevor on Saturday, April 25 @ 02:15:24 EST (1896 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0)
This speed test will test you're internet connection between you're machine and our server
in Sydney. One thing to keep in mind, to get to the Server in Sydney you need to go through a
few other servers first so the reading you get is of the whole internet, not just your provider
or our server at the other end.
I don't have the applet on the main page as it's a Flash movie which consumes a lot of your CPU when its on the screen.
To run, click on the 'read more' link below.
Posted by trevor on Thursday, March 05 @ 06:49:53 EST (2224 reads) (Read More... | 1504 bytes more | Score: 0)
Hi all. Came across this video on YouTube the other day discussing what the blood type terminology is. Is it ‘type O’ or is it ‘type zero’? Have a look for yourself.
Posted by trevor on Saturday, October 11 @ 10:38:54 EST (2478 reads) (Read More... | 783 bytes more | Score: 0)
General topics : Plane crashes on landing at Adelaide Airport, South Australia
Adelaide, South Australia – Saturday 27th September 2008
In front of about a thousand spectators, the King Air B200 Twin Engine Corporate Charter VH-URU on a charter flight from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island crash landed on Runway 30 (South East to North North West runway). No-one was injured with passengers praising the work of the pilot.
The large crowd was at the airport to see the new Qantas A380 Airbus arrive for the first time at Adelaide and where treated to a perfectly executed crash landing of the twin engine King Air.
It circled the airport for some 30 minutes to burn of fuel before doing a low level pass along the runway to steady in the gusty winds before landing on its belly skidding to a very quick stop.
The video shows the approach and crash followed by the passengers escaping and emergency services quickly approaching. Sorry for the slightly bumpy footage. It was really an opportunistic shoot with no time to set up with tripod etc as I’m sure you can imagine.
Posted by trevor on Saturday, September 27 @ 17:56:49 EST (2435 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0)
Trev's Hobbies : New version of Banksia Park Weather online!
Finally got around to changing the Banksia Park Weather Station site to its new version moving the Flash movie off to a sub page and using JavaScript to keep the 'static' page updated every 25 seconds. It's got more features and more useful areas including a longer range forecast from Weather Underground, access to radar, warnings from the BOM, and will allow me to grow the informational part of the site that explains weather in simple terms. The version on-line now is just the start.
So if you're living in any of the following suburbs, it's probably the closest site to get temperature, humidity, barometer or pressure, wind direction and speed, and a whole host of other information on the weather :
Workshop manual for the 2003 Ford Falcon BA. This is what seems a very extensive workshop manual at 2,089 pages, however it does not include the electrical diagrams. It goes into fault diagnosis of most of the electrical though. It does cover in great depth all the other parts of the 2003 model Ford Falcon.
It’s a big PDF file at 148MB so it will take some time to download.
Sections covered:
Note:This file downloaded of the Internet does not include any indication of copyright notices. As is is the way I downloaded it. If however it does and there is a restriction on posting it here, then please contact me and I will happily remove. You can find me at -
If you happen to have the electrical schematics especially showing the colour coding of the wiring and the fuse box detail, please let me know. It would be very much appreciated.
Posted by trevor on Monday, August 18 @ 19:13:18 EST (14656 reads) (Read More... | 2105 bytes more | Score: 4.66)
My Gallery
rudder Pedals - Stage 1 - Bulding the Toe Brakes - Prototype
