Model boat fleet fun

Glorious model warships pounding at each another with cannons, and in the midst of all that is my ‘floating camera’ contraption that didn’t work too well but worked…it floated, it took photos…it lived up to its name…madox Floating Camera…

That's no battleship...

Nice sunny day, perfectly still water, a lunch box floats with one thruster on to skew it to the 'right'...

The results weren’t too bad from the onboard video recording, just a few issues with camera alignment and disconnections when using my friend’s laptop (mine ran out of juice).  Here’s a sample clip of the captured footage :-

And one more super nice video courtesy of Andy (aka not me) :-

Read on for more photos and videos

EDIT : PHOTO GALLERY UPDATED, NEW VIDEOS ADDED! CAPS LOCK IS EVIL!

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This is one of those posts where the sole purpose is for me to upload a few photos for a forum

I was shopping the other day and came across these cut tin can lolly containers in the shape of a fridge…”That’ll be a great Chumby shell!  All I’ll need to do is make a cutout at the front and a couple of holes at the back!”

Just thought I’ll do a quick test tonight with a chisel and a hammer… wasn’t too bad but I did it in a rush so there was an uncoordinated side cut…need to file it a bit…

Chumby in a fridge!

Ooops I had my USB memory stuck in...

The idea is to put a USB hard-drive in the ‘fridge’ as well and voila home media/web server