Author: Scott

1/ how do you inspect for AFB…what are you looking at that tells you there is a problem? Ahhhh this involves shaking the bees off and inspecting each and every frame and cell in the hive. There are 22 double sided frames in each (two box) hive. I’m looking at each brood cell to see…

Well, Terry has expressed interest in bee stuff and I thought I’d update you all on what is going on. This weekend I caught three swarms. I’ll put some picture up in the gallery for you to look at (Ian, insert link here) but the gist is that I have a bunch of important things…

So Scott building a 3 m UAV did not generate much in the way of discussion. So what do I need to do? First I do think we need to mark T and V’s wedding anniversery! 31 years. I have very distant memeories of being in Bala sitting in Terry’s 1970’s ford pinto (green), it…

What do people do for fun? Well to keep my brain interested I’ve been designing and building a smallish Unmanned Aerial Vehical (UAV). The plan is to make a big RC plane with 3 m wingspan, a weedeater engine and then put a camera in it … and then put a GPS based auto pilot…

Just a quick update for you northerners. Sam and I had a rush of blood to the head and sunday morning decided to go skiing at Rainbow! It was perfect spring skiing conditions with HOT weather, sun and slushy snow. While the snow could be better you cannnnot beat a day in the mountains, good…