It'll happen when it happens...

My local hobby shop (Power Hobbies) called to say the plastic sheets I'd ordered last week, had come in. I now have 10 sheets of 0.25mm, 10 of 0.5mm and one of the thicker 2mm (all approx. A4 size), so I can go ahead and create the fuselage, in theory.

Damn meerkats have hogged my time recently, on top of my studies, but I'm determined to break this gear issue and make some progress. A friend said they've given up worrying over progress of their projects but I can't help beating myself up over how long it takes me to get anything done.

I had a little time!

A couple of weeks ago I managed to get some time (at a SHDC meet) to hack together some bit-banging code on a PIC to control a RC servo. This crude code, in theory, will allow me to control the servos for the landing gear, nacelle steering and of course the EDF thrust.

I had a little time over Christmas to discover my planned landing gear redesign was halted by my inability to mill a tidy slot in some aluminium channel with my tiny little lathe/mill combo. I need to come up with a simpler mechanism, get the gear done and put some kind of external skin on the airframe, then I can get to the control system!