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What cool stuff do you do outside of Rc?

Post your various creations, jobs, etc that you do outside of RC.

Recently installed a electronic induction charger into my blackberry.

Ripped out of my best friends's sister's Palm Pixi.

Puts out 5v of power, wired right into the usb port in my phone and can use any induction charging base.

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I also work with Action Packed Productions and entertainment As a dj and lighting designer.

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Im all the way on the right.:whistle::whistle:

We were recently contracted to my (ex) high school to do a Lighting install in the Performing Arts Center

We ended up getting close to 60 thousand dollars in lighting just to do one show.

We got six of these big moving lights, along with a hazer, strobes, high intensity LED lights and more. Took us 4 days to install, and a week and a half to program them all.

Link to video :
http://www.facebook.com/video/video....50384650905615

Sound system includes 6 18inch subwoofers, 10 15inch midbass drivers, 24 8inch mid/upper units, 24 6in tweeters, plus the countless monitor speakers for backstage.

Our lighting dimmer rack consumes about 66,000 watts during a show- Mind you they are mostly LED's. and the sound system is about 40,000 watts.:gasp:

And of course when we dont feel like working in the school, we go out in the parking lot and have some fun.:intello:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9cEE4F3qI

Sounds like alot of fun, save for the week and a half of programming...

Brunette in the front is cute (the female), I am sure Harold or Mike (hippie) will prefer the other two brunettes...

I am currently remodeling my house. Purchased last March, we did the kitchen 1st, and I have 4 more bathrooms do, and open up 1 closet into some unused attic space. The kitchen was the major project, as I had to remove a large section of a wall, reinforce the opening with a 15" sttel I beam and 3 3" tubular steel pillars. All welded in place, and it is very strong. Then I had to reroute gas and electric, do a bunch of drywall work, paint and finish all of the wood trim. And reinstall the cabinets, plumb the sink, dishwasher and garbage disposal.

Keep in mind My father and I did all of this, only thing done by a "professional" was the counter install. The backsplash was installed by my wife and her mother, they are the tile experts!! It has been a job, but I am almost done.

Before shot, see the giant brick pillar, about 1200lbs of bricks, all broken and moved by hand. This part sucked the most.

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Some afters, you can see one of the steel pillars, that has been cased in wood and I just need to put 1 final coat of paint on.

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I also have all kinds of smaller projects going on. Recently re-did a few 4 wheelers and painted my motorcycle, 99 honda cbr1100xx.

I play darts (electronic soft-tip), and I'm actually pretty good if I do say so myself. Usually just play in the local leagues for fun, but I have been to regional tournaments in Green Bay and the big Bullshooter International tournament in Chicago.

As fate would have it, every year at the Chicago tournament there is a gigantic bondage convention at the same hotel. That's definitely a sight to behold, all really nice folks though. I think Linc and Harold just took up an interest in darts... :whip:

I'm with Linc, the girl is pretty good looking! Besides RC I like to shoot guns, both for fun and competitively. I'm not great at it but it's in my blood and I really enjoy it. I have beat a local SWAT officer in a pistol shoot though so that counts for something. I also enjoy cooking. I have worked in a pizza shop for most of the last 10 years as a part time job and I also enjoy cooking at home. Until 3 years ago I was also a big snowmobiler, I lost interest because of rising costs and dwindling trail availability.

I was dabbling in ornamental iron art a few years ago, I was only doing it for a few months when I had to start taking care of Dad. Well, Dad passed a couple weeks ago and now I have the time to think about starting it and other stuff back up again. I really like the idea of working out of home and tax free :whistle:

Linc, The kitchen is PIMP ! My wife would go nuts with all that space.

I don't do much. Odd electronics design, programming, disc golf, reading. My wife wishes I would take more interest in fixing up the house (she would love that kitchen linc), but I see no sense in spending time/money in something that may float away in the next flood...

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Originally Posted by BrianG (Post 396333)

Yeah, my house took in 18" of water during katrina. Before I bought it, but it could happen again. I just figure what the hell, that is what i pay ins for, and the kitchen is really nice so I will enjoy it while I can. We stayed uder 10k for the whole thing, inc all of the appliances and the counter. And we have some good stuff, power in/out microwave drawer, top end gas oven with a warming drawer and the quitest dishwasher I have ever heard (or not heard in this case!). Well worth the 2 months of evenings and weekends.

I would probably do more to the house, but for some reason, any bigger project I do never turns out right. Either I mess something up, or the way it was built causes all kinds of difficulty (and lots of me swearing). I do much better with small projects, hence the R/C hobby. Progress is faster and mistakes are a LOT cheaper to fix. lol.

I do have flood insurance now (didn't have it prior to last year's incident since I didn't realize my house became part of the flood plain at some point), but regardless, I have a hard time putting time and money into something that has a very high chance of getting wrecked. It just seems too inefficient and wasteful no matter who pays for it.

JetSki, TaeKwonDo, Urban Climbing, Bonsai, and soon will be autocrossing my RX8. :)

Other than RC trucks I like drag racing my 92 GMC Typhoon.

I really only get to go a few times a year but it's a ton of fun.

The truck has been a best of 11.6@118 and I'm hoping for a high 10 second past this year.

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Nick

That typhoon is sick!!! It and the syclone are a couple of my favorite ever vehicles.

Since becoming paralyzed whenever I'm out of bed and healthy it's all about r/c.

Before I was cripplyzed I loved to wrench on foreign and domestic autos. My first car was a '72 chevelle and my last was an '84 crx.

I loved snowmobiling, averaging 2-3000 miles a year.

I installed car audio for a while, I got into high end home audio for awhile (b&w, krell)

Mostly I chased the poon and partied. One might say my accident was God's way of slowing me down. I just say I hit the back of a semi going 90mph with an '84 CRX.:na:

I'm into my home audio system, guns, and enjoying having my feet up in my favorite chair LOL.
We do camping in the summer, have a 4 wheeler for the kids, I've got my project 71' suburban, but mostly in the winter it's 1080p movies at reference level volume and preparing my RC stuff.

Well armed wife :-) Custom DPMS LR-308B (AR10 .308win)
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Hobbies and more.

God was not trying to slow you down. He said stop the BS and get real. We all go through those stages in life, and unfortunately someone pays the price. All I can say about that is that we wish there was something we could do to reverse your situation Harold. I could not imagine being in your shoes, but I bet your kid is glad to have you no matter what.

Well my efforts in R/C only started 4 years ago after my wife gave me a 3906 E-Maxx for my 44th B-Day, so I have a long way to go from what I hope to achieve in this hobby. I love to cook, and I can do anything that looks & tastes good. The best part for me is to see the expressions on my family and friends faces when I get to share some of my dishes with them. It is great to put a smile on the faces of those you love.

My dad always told me not to put all of my efforts into one thing, and to diversify my skills. Jack of all trades always came to mind, and I have tried to excell on that path. I have driven truck, operated all kinds of heavy equipment, been an auto mechnic, and an industrial mechanic, as well as a rollercoaster and ride technician/mechanic at Universal Studios in Orlando for six years. I have been a welder, poured cement for a while, installed roofing, siding, stuco, done home wiring, plumming, and done just about everything in regards to home construction. I was part of a team that built homes from the foundation to completion, and even final sale. My last project some of you have read about, which was completely remodeling our rental home in California in a two month period. That was some seriously hard work, but man did I have a great time doing it. The final product was worth every minute, and we finally have renters living in the house who are very happy with our efforts.

Besides pouring myself into work I have always loved waterskiing, motocross, basketball, hiking and camping, and runing marathons in my younger life. Now as I am about to turn 52 life has slowed me down somewhat. I spent a couple of hours out back yesterday splitting wood for our fireplace so we can have a few more fires before moving to Prague. Of course I spent a couple of hours at the Spa last night trying to recover from the pounding. I am an expert pistol and rifleman, but do not keep any wepons in our home. I also used to DJ back in the 80's and was really into audio and video electronics, which are still evolving in ways the are just amazing to me, but I try to keep up with things. I think overall woodworking is my favorite field of choice, because I love creating something amazing from a hunk of wood. Fabricating anything is like doing drugs for me. I get hooked once a project starts.

OH yea I forgot about four wheelin. While living in Hawaii for nearly 6 years I took up four wheelin and spent a lot of time out on the West coast of Oahu playin in the mud pits and quarrie area. It is the one place on that Island that has no roads or easy access, and in fact if you try to enter from the south the only way to get in is to drive over a path that sports a cliff on one side that drops about 50' to the ocean, and on the other side is a boulder about the size of a cement truck. The path is just wide enough for the average 4X4 and if you look over the edge there are several vehicles smashed on the rocks below being pounded by the surf. I would never do that now. It is amazing how fearless we are in our younger years thinking that we are invinceble or that we are always going to be the lucky ones. I watched guys trash brand new $40K SUV's crying about how their wives were going to kill them for being so stupid. Still it was a lot of fun for me while it lasted. Life is good.

These days it is all about International travel for me. Taking trips to Bejieng, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam, Germany, Austria, Korea, Thiland, and a few others have been a real highlight in my life over teh last 6 years, and we hope to take quite a few more before we are done. We have also taken a few road trips accross the USA in our first few years together, and we have both gotten to experience places neither of us has ever been before. Seeing the world is a true blessing.