Here we travelled to the most epic italian Mountain peaks - and as soon as the clouds moved aside just a little bit, my drone was up there. Actually the clouds made these flights so much more interesting!
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Monport GA30W Fibre Laser: Speed & POWER… Once You Fix the DRIVERS! (LightBurn Setup Guide)
Key Specs of the MONPORT GA30w:
Powerful 30 watt 1064nm Laser! 💪 Engrave speed: 10.000 mm/s 600.000 mm/min (36kph!) Frequency range: 30~60kHz Working area: 150×150 mm Device dims: 35 x 42 x 62 cm max Z.height (lens to working area): 41 cm max height of object: 18 cm engraver accuracy: 0.01 mm pos accuracy: ±0.1 µm
Sunday, March 16, 2025
FPV Meet 3/25: Fixedwing chases, 2 rescue missions and RC car madness
This was a great FPV meet with my friends at our fav spot. Locals are nice there, space to land plenty, great mountain wall and lots of dive lines, mountain is also kind of accessible - although this doesn't always help - as you see in the 2 rescue missions (hint: if you see me using DVR footy, something went horribly wrong ;)
Massive thanks to Markus for the mountain run efforts!
...and thanks to my buddies for uploading their best shots onto my google drive!
Maxi, TJay, Luigi and Puffi - you're awesome!
My Arrma wasn't ready at this meet since I have an cool conversion planned - hopefully next time!
Monday, March 3, 2025
FPV Meet Shenenigangs, Fixedwing formation, Car bashing in the woods (Jan,Feb 25)
RC / FPV Friends and I met a few times in Jan/Feb and these are the highlights.
Thanks for all the pilots - those FPV action sessions were great!
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
LIDAR Scanning, Gaussian splatting, Photogrammetry and the Unreal engine!
LIDAR Basics
LIDAR Scanning - as shown in my review about the 3DMakerPro Eagle Pro - is measuring millions of dots with LASER and creating 3D landscapes with 2cm accuracy. Additional use of cameras can help colorize these scans to make them look even better. Find out if this is something for you!
"Gaussian splatting" takes it to another level and create even more impressive landscapes!
Learned all of this while researching for my review - covered a lot of topics - so the limits of a youtube description box were reached swiftley ;)
LINKS:
JimuMeta (3DMaker): https://scene.jimumeta.com
https://gauss.jimumeta.com Demo scene Lake
(online platform starts March 2025)
3DMakerPro "RAY-Studio" Software: (usage guid and tips below!)
early alpha tool, not very polished
Download my "monument" pointcloud sample data for your own tests!
Cloud Compare (open source! - best pointcloud tool I found during research)
my FINDINGS:
- micro SD slot: Scans are automatically stored there - so you don't have to export using the (slow) USB Stick export method
- Size of internal memory: 32gb
- SD slot should be accesible even if grip-base part ist attached
- Button on grip: used to take Panoramic pics - not used in scan mode
- Calculations in Software (RayStudio 1.01) are slow - they don't use all of your CPU and almost none of your GPU power. My i9-9900K CPU was around 14% - and there was no core at 100% usage (aka singlecore usage).
SCANNING TIPS:
- stay below 20kph
- below 4.5 minutes (to keep the filesize low)
- check exposure for good textures
- move steady and slow and make multiple runs (with different angles)
- "look behind stuff" to fill unknown areas
- Combine multiple scans into one scenery?
yes, but only manually aligning is available (I used Cloud Compare)
TECH SPECS:
SMA connector on top (antenna, GPS?)
Lidar Dome in front
Accuracy 2cm for 10 meters, 3cm for 20 meters, 5cm for 40 meters
Scan radius 40-70 meters (>10% reflectivity or >80% reflectivity)
Scan range 10-140 meters
Scan angle Horizontal 360°, Vertical 59°
Point cloud frequency 200,000 points/second
Laser light source 905 nm
Eye safety level Class 1 (IEC60825-1:2014) Eye Safety
Color texture 48MP 4-camera system, 360° x 300° support 16K panoramic
photo output
4x 48MP cams (180°, F2.0) but pics seem to be 12mp (4000x3000 super wideagle) (Front, 120° left and right, top)
HDR mode Support (3-5 exposure values)
USB C interface x 2
Data: here you PLUGIN your USBc NTFS stick - not a cable to your PC!
Power: for charging or power during use
Built-in battery 12000 mah, supports 1 hour of work, supports external
Network support Wi-Fi 5
Screen size 3.5”
Output format 3D Color Point Cloud PLY
3D Gaussian Splatting PLY
3D Colored Polygonal Model OBJ
3D Panoramic Tour Data (OBJ)
Volume 115mm x 181mm x 107mm
Weight 1.5 kg
Configuration 8 Cores 2.4GHz 32GB
MicroSD Card slot on bottom (card must be NTFS!)
Battery indicator
Competions products:
Leica BLK2GO 30k€?
FJD Trion P1 LiDAR 3D Scanner ~ 10k€
Sunday, January 26, 2025
DJI O4 - Worth the upgrade? How does it look with SCENIC DIVES?
In case you haven't seen enough comparison videos - here is my honest take on the new DJI DIY drone video link.
It's a nice step up and again makes O3 footage look old now 
Flew with Chimera7 (O3) and Aura7 (O4) copters up to my nicely accessible snowy mountain top "RAX" for some example dives
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DJI O4: Foxeer Aura7, 658g (all except battery)
DJI O3: iFlight Chimera7 676g (-"-)
Filmed with: Pana G9II, DJI Mic2, Oneplus 12, edited with Premiere Pro, Gyroflow
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Waste My Love - Henyao
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Most "Dive-able" mountain I ever saw!
...this was last year, on our way home from the epic Italy vacation where I filmed a lot of stunning mountains - my own country gave me this better looking side of it and we were just there at the right time! Enjoy! Greets, Mario
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Filmed with: Chimera7, DJI O3, ND16, Gyroflow, edited with Premiere Pro
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Not Blue - Kylie Dailey
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Insane Formation DIVES, pure FPV fun and PANIC with TX16s Emergency mode!
Here we met on one of my favourite spots. It's a dead end street, not a lot of people passing by, friendly farmers and no one complaining about our flying (even tho we were there the whole day) - great FPV day!
One of the last days of 2024 - and I had so much luck (with my ARWingpro). My friends were not so lucky:
one destroyed RCCar (see the spectacular crash in my last short or here in the long form: https://youtu.be/K4gr_OThsE4
one missing Ranger T1, a few broken props, motormounts, ...
Even tho it was subzero temps there - the sun warmed us up and besides the high and turbulent winds higher up near the cliffs, the weather was great.
For me the star of this video is the MFD plane from Ritchie - it's the "Mothership" and it's been thru a lot as he told me. Fantastic slow flyer - but man - this speedy formation dive is the best I've seen in a long time. Most epic scenes in this video involved his plane ;) only few of the clips here were flown by myself :)
Happ 2025, Mario and Crew!
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Flew with: ARWing, Dolphin and DJI Air3
Filmed with: DJI O3 (footage stabilized with Gyroflow plugin directly in Premiere Pro)
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Hypercell, Atlas 17, Headphones - Ooyy
Future Is Now - FLYIN
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Monday, December 16, 2024
The Truth About the xTool S1 After 7 Months
Been using this fine #lasercutter from #xTool now since 7 Months - see how I liked it in my honest, longterm review:
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✅RISER:
official (recommended) xToolS1 Riser kit
or the DIY 💡 route: 3D Part "Riser feet" as 3D Print
Competition:
✅LaserPecker 4
✅Creality Falcon 2 pro 40Watt! (1149€ for the 40w version!!!)
or go crazy 💪 with the 60W 🔥
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ZimaCube Pro - NAS / PC / Laptop?
ZimaCube
Pro
📋TECH SPECS:
Efficient Laptop CPU (Intel I5 1235U) in a miniPC case, lots of drive bays:
6 SATA disk bays (3.5 or 2.5" HDDs)
4 M2 SSDs on 7th bay
2 M2 SSDs on mainboard (if you sacrifice that 10GB NIC)
or you can install 2? more PCIe Cards that hold M2 SSDs!
2x 2.5GB NICs
1x 10GB NIC (via an internal M2 slot)
2x Thunderbolt 4 ⚡ (20GB speed if your PC/Laptop supports it!)
4x USB3 A, 1x USBc
DP, HDMI, Audio connector
🔥Cooling still bad (even after revision of their first CPU cooler)
loud and inefficient, but replace a few fans and this one downside is gone!
I designed a custom Back Cover for a super silent 14cm FAN!
Link into ONSHAPE or get the STL File
✅SOFTWARE - ZimaOS FINDINGS:
- Old hdds with data on it can be easily enabled! (but some they are sometimes READ ONLY)
- Attached ext. USB drives can be shared (no change of share names...) and they are READ and WRITE!
- Software UPDATE function via WebUI super easy (there's also the manual USB stick method which is OK, but involves some additional steps)
- HDDs might not always go to sleep mode - which can cost 5-10W per HDD!
+ very easy UI, complex tasks (like setup RAID, shares...) are made very user friendly
- limited functionality
Alternatives: many options (if you like to tinker)
TrueNas Scale (free, mighty, many options, also confusing)
Proxmox, Unraid,...
OR... Windows11 / Windows server...
which is what I chose in the end
✅POWER CONSUMPTION / PERFORMANCE:
Geekbench 6:
Single-Core: 2147 (2051 in Energy saver mode)
Multi-Core: 7704 (7440 ="=)
my current QNAP TS431p takes 12w idle, and 42w with 4x 3.5" HDDs active
ZimaCube with ZimaOS: no hdds 28.7w
7w standby (If Nas is off! comes from WOL NIC?)
ZimaCube with Win11 as NAS ~ 38w idle power (so it has a bit more overhead, but way more features and convenience)
💡 TIP: Jumper power on setting on mb!
💡LED customization
✅ 💡TrueNAS guide for ZIMACUBE Pro
- Download TrueNAS Scale ISO!
(first I tried TrueNAS core - but it's outdated)
https://www.truenas.com/download-truenas-scale/
- flash it onto an USB stick using https://rufus.ie/de/
- put the Stick into your Nas and boot from it
- (you might have to enter BIOS - with BACKSP. or DEL to setup the BOOT order)
german article about setting up PLEX on TrueNAS
✅Windows 11 as NAS
Ghost Spectre Windows 11 24H2
Use compact version not superlite
LTSC: https://bit.ly/40NFysq PW: 24h2
https://ghostclouds.xyz/wp/w11-24h2-entltsc/
make Windows network discoverable!
!Use stream deck as status display
setup auto login (for Stream deck monitoring after a reboot)
Drivers for Windows:
10gbe port the driver I am using is marvel AQtion 10Gbit
https://community.zimaspace.com/t/how-to-run-windows-11-on-zimacube-pro/4063
💡 FIX if needed: Storagepool interleave size vs. allocation unit size - SLOW writes: https://wasteofserver.com/storage-spaces-with-parity-very-slow-writes-solved/
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