Category: review

  • Introducing Elixir

    I read through Introducing Elixir on Safari Books Online because I had read through a beta edition of Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun through The Pragmatic Bookshelf and wanted to see about getting a slightly different take on Elixir at the same time I was getting caught up with the current…

  • Toy Helicopter Review and Durability Test: Flutterbye Deluxe Fairy

    We’ve bought several cheap toy helicopters that have usually met their demise via the breakage of one of the components that rotates at high speed breaking. Air Hogs has been a favorite brand because they are usually cheap and your face on retail shelves. [The charging port on this doll bears the Air Hogs brand,…

  • Toy Helicopter Review and Durability Test: Sky Rover Aero Spin

    The Sky Rover Aero Spin was a pretty impressive little toy helicopter. It has a hover mode that stabilizes flight a certain distance off of the ground and a “controller” mode which allows you to try controlling the spin rate of the propellers to fly the helicopter.  A good video demonstration is on the rcgroups…