Learning to fly: a radio and a simulator
Two new arrivals this week, and they belong together. A RadioMaster Boxer Crush radio and a VelociDrone licence. I want to learn how to fly a drone, and this pair is all it takes to start. No aircraft required.
RadioMaster Boxer Crush
Every control, port and button on the front panel. From the official RadioMaster Boxer Quick Start Guide.
Local LLM@Heggli
My own LLM, at home
I have a GPU box in the homelab. An RTX 3080 with 10 GB of VRAM and a Core Ultra 7 265KF. For a long time it was mostly there to be a GPU box.
Now it runs a local LLM, and it is live right now. The model and the chats run on my own hardware.
It is all in one Git repo, if you want to run it yourself: github.com/JEA666/local_LLM
Test drive with the wrong plough
Wrong plough!
This plough is obviously not made for breaking new ground. It is probably best for working soil that has already been worked up a bit.
So all I can do here is be patient and wait for the next plough.
Not very effective at breaking new land!
Jansen@Heggli
A story like no other about a little red tractor.
Then the day was here, almost like May Day.
The two-wheel tractor has finally arrived, and it went almost like clockwork.
The first challenge, after unpacking it and finding out I had been sent the wrong plough, was getting it to start.
That turned out to be difficult. After a while with a bit of swearing, and with help from a friend, it finally started. The problem turned out to be that the fuel tap had been left open during transport. That had left the engine full of petrol. After unscrewing the spark plug and standing there staring at the tractor for about thirty minutes, I tried starting the engine with a dry plug! It started on the first try, to the great relief of young and old.