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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,…
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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…
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Using jquery us map to Create a Map of States That Can Be Toggled
The us-map plugin was already in use elsewhere and I wanted to create a clickable map that would display an anchor state and allow for configuration of related states. Also in use is the gon gem to allow passing of data directly into Javascript, included in a Rails 4.1 project. Controller code: # assume @state is…