The highly anticipated iOS5 was released for the iPhone 4. This is the first major release version that had a working jailbreak from day one. Check out the video I made on how to jailbreak the iPhone. In the video, you get to see the easiest method I came up with to put the iPhone into DFU mode.You' ...

Fabricated a carbon fiber main shaft for the 9958. Here's the stock 9958 weight before and after the carbon fiber shaft upgrade.The stock weight without the battery is above. The carbon fiber upgrade 9958 is the photo below.The main motor has a lift of about 42g. So shaving a gram off the flight wei ...

Someone on the RC Groups forum wanted to know the gear ratio of the Blade mSR so they can possibly use them on another RC vehicle. I took a picture and figured I'd share here. ...

A project I have been putting off until tonight. Switched out the aluminum 9958 main shaft to a carbon fiber one to shave off some weight. Just sharing some dimensions in case someone else is thinking of making a carbon fiber main shaft for the Xieda 9958.First I took a Bravo III carbon fiber main s ...

A couple of comparison pictures of popular 1s LiPo's for micro helicopters.Here's the relative heights. The Nano-Tech is not puffy. They all look like that for some reason, and as you can see...are thicker than the other 1s cells. ...

Just a public service announcement regarding E-Flite's Blade mSR 5-in-1 RX board. I learn the hard way that E-Flite has at least two revision of the 5-in-1. And between revisions, they also reversed the polarity of the battery plug. I didn't realized this when I had to replace a fray battery plug on ...