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Miscellaneous, Tello by DJI

First Week Back

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Last week was the first back after my Vacation back home in Seattle. Started off with greater than 400 emails to look through. I had a Microsoft Flow set up to forward all work emails to my Gmail account enabling me to address important emails as they came in but I wasn’t online constantly so I still had a bunch to read when I got back.

Supply Chain again is going to miss a cut in point and all indications show the components (Aileron) was tree’d into the bill of materials last April. For a couple of days during the week we (Manufacturing Engineering) was being asked to drive demand for the old part numbers. Needless to say I told them to pound sand (not those exact words) but we did find another solution which accommodates all of those involved in this fiasco.

This particular issue resulted in many emails with some quite high level people making some very stupid suggestions. In the end my boss thanked me for the support I gave and let me know how valuable I am to the organization. The final meeting I had was with our manager and the Program manager hashing out what we needed to do to get things workings. That meeting went very well and made the week fantastic.

Elton John Concert 2-9-2019

I purchased my tickets for the Elton John concert on Saturday 2-9-2019 this weekend and looking forward to that. After I purchased my tickets I realized that his album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ was the first album I played on my stereo.

T. G. Vacation

One of the guys here at work is on vacation for a week. Dan went first with two weeks, I went second with two weeks and he is the last to go for a week. It will be a quiet week thank goodness.

Osmo Pocket Testing

I did some testing with the Osmo Pocket last Friday and it was perfectly timed with the latest firmware update from DJI. I set the Osmo pocket up on a tripod with the iPhone wanting to test the object tracking function. I placed my Tello drone at my front door, started it up and had the Osmo Pocket tracking its flight around the living room. Looking fantastic then realized I forgotten to start the freaking recording. I was also having problems getting the drone pared with the remote controller. Having said that everything worked great while I got the recording started while I was flying using the phone interface instead of the controller. This Friday I’ll get the remote working again and do some more testing.

Tax return is in!

I filed my taxes Monday afternoon, the soonest I have ever filed and on Friday the first of February my federal taxes were deposited into my account. Now the question is… what toys do I want to buy or am I going to use this as part of a down payment on a house. Decisions decisions….

Angela, DJI Spark, Tello by DJI

I hope it is finally over

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I have spent the last 21 months trying to get Angie over the “I want $X.XX and I want it now”. I went ahead like I said and gave her 8,500.00 to pay off her car and all the stupid loans she had plus pay for her fathers tomb stone and let her know she can’t ask for anymore. Well since then she has gone off the deep end and every time she asks (yes, she has not stopped), she asks for four to five hundred at a freaking pop. Finally I just told her I’m not paying you anymore, stop asking. Her next response was “Would you turn this phone off please”. Wow a please out of her and needless to say I said ‘No, I have to pay for it anyway’ and her response was ‘Well I most likely will turn it off’. Go ahead I say. Now, the next time she talks to me in a couple years she can not say I turned off her phone. She also can’t get married to get another phone because she never got the divorce she said she would get. I have not heard from her in a few days and that is still not enough.

Now, Vitals this week, better than last:

  • Resting Heart Rate: 69
  • Blood Pressure: 128/78 (No bike last week)
  • Weight: 241 (Going down)

I have been on a non exercising trend lately and I think Angie had put me in a depressed state. I didn’t want to do anything but buy toys and lay around. Specifically I did not want to get on the bike. Last week screwed up my streak for the year which upsets me a bit however this week I’m back on the bike and will be getting out of this depression.

I was completely out of my routine for the last month at least and now have started again and adjusted a bit. Getting up earlier, around 2:00 to 2:10 in the morning instead of 2:30. Last week and so far this week it has made a big difference.

New toys:

I purchased a DJI Osmo gimbal camera which takes great buttery smooth shots, a GoPro Hero5 which is leaps and bounds over my other GoPro and I will receive a new label maker Friday to attach my FAA registration number on the spark.

The remote controller for my Tello arrived and it makes a huge difference, much easier to control. The last three of four flights I have made I have not crashed at all and I finally received my 15″ landing pad.

All of that should make me all set to go fly! I have a flight plan set up for Sunday barring any weather changes.

Mavic, Tello by DJI

Horrible vitals

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Before get into the vitals statement let me tell you I had a great albeit short time flying my new DJI Spark this weekend. I could not fly at the park I wanted to because of weather but I did fly outside my apartment and just a bit Saturday morning before the rain started again. Flying the Spark is so much easier than the first Parrot drone I purchased years ago. The Tello is great and easy to fly but the Spark is a dream, getting the Mavic-2 Pro will be even better. Pictures will be next with all of the accessories I have purchased for my Spark

Vitals

  • Resting Heart Rate: 76 (I had pizza last night)
  • Blood Pressure: 127/70 (I had pizza last night)
  • Weight: 244 (I had pizza last night)

The statement about pizza lets me know I failed this weekend but also that the pounds that are there are most likely water.

DJI Spark, Drones, Tello by DJI

DJI Spark

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My vitals checking batteries need replacing so back to that next week.

On to the good stuff!

I added Drone number two to my collection and it is the DJI Spark. A nice compact drone, great for learning the larger size drones. My Tello has been great for learning to control the drones especially muscle memory for the left and right controls. Moving the little guy around inside the apartment teaches you quite well, lots of crashes but the little guy is rough and tough, no damage to the drone or anything around the apartment.

The Spark will be a different story, no flying indoors until I am very used to flying. It looks like I may have found the perfect spot near my place, Jackson Park which seems to be outside any restricted areas, close by with flat and open areas to fly.

I purchased the Spark on eBay getting what was supposed to be the fly more combo but missing the DJI Spark bag and extra propellers but did get a hard case two extra batteries and parabolic range extenders for the controller. After purchasing the bag, extra propellers, landing pad, gimbal, joystick protection and OTG (On the Go) cables I still saved 300.00 over the regular fly more combo. I did not get any manuals but downloaded them from DJI’s website. Now I think I will be ready for my first flight this weekend.

Edit: Probably won’t fly this weekend, the weather forecast is looking to prevent that – it is what it is.