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ADOR wrote:

kode-niner wrote:
Seriously, though. I used the CF-29 and now the CF-30 for controlling small UAVs.

I have seriously considered getting a small drone like the parrot drone and using one of my 30/19's with it. What type are you using? Helicopter type or aircraft type? What software are you using? We had a electrician on the rig that was very deep into the DIYDRONES site and had a plane he could fly from the rig in Saudi while it was in Arkansas. So I have checked back and read up on the latest there every now and then.

Quad copters. We've tried a Coptercontrol platform for a while with some success then we lost the unit last year. We decided to go simpler with the DJI Phantom II setup this year. We have it with a Zenmuse gimbal with Gopro setup but are slowly investing in a Vision +, video downlink and ground station hookup.

my friend and myself use our CF-30s as wheel chocks on a cessna 310 .

I bring my CF-31 with me everywhere. I use it daily for presentations, checking email on the road, doing reports, etc.

My dealers are always impressed when I whip it out. I tell them I have the launch codes and they always look at me funny! LOL

I sometimes need to use it outside. It is funny when it might be raining a little or snowing and I pop the Toughbook on the glass roof of my car and start using it... Someone always tells me I shouldn't open it outside and to bring it inside. I laugh and keep going. The display works great even in the brightest sunlight and I usually only have the brightness turned up halfway. The glass sunroof has a few scratches where I have pulled it off at an angle or put it down on an angle.

The new thing I use it for is to keep track of the SD cards I pull from my game cameras on my new property. I have 12+ acres and have cameras posted where people and animals are likely to go. So far... A ton of deer, turkey, possums, raccoons and I think 1 coyote. (Looked like it but it might have been a dog... Haven't seen it since.) I also caught hunters passing through which immediately had me posting signs.

I shoot a lot out there... The last time was last weekend. I left 2 of my best targets up in place on a dead tree for people to see. Hopefully this will be a deterrent. lol

You left the hunters tied to a tree after shooting practice?

Let me jump in here...

Shawn wrote:You left the hunters tied to a tree after shooting practice?

No you use Acers and Gateways on the hunters, instead of cement overshoes. Sure does save on cement!

zedulon wrote:Let me jump in here...

Shawn wrote:You left the hunters tied to a tree after shooting practice?

No you use Acers and Gateways on the hunters, instead of cement overshoes. Sure does save on cement!

Nope... You use older Toughbooks!

When I say that Acers and Gateways are good for nothing... I mean that.

Toughbook wrote: Nope... You use older Toughbooks!

When I say that Acers and Gateways are good for nothing... I mean that.

Define "older", please

My CF-30 accompanies me to college every day and does everything I ask of it and more. Gotta say all the other students in my classes give me admiring looks, probably because they haven't seen a real man's laptop before!

The main use for my Toughbook"s" is to surf the net to BUY more Toughbooks and parts for Toughbooks.
It's a perpetual motion machine...

Hello, My name is Shawn and I am an addict..

Shawn wrote:The main use for my Toughbook"s" is to surf the net to BUY more Toughbooks and parts for Toughbooks.
It's a perpetual motion machine...

Hello, My name is Shawn and I am an addict..

True story lol