Two years after the Parrot AR.Drone, I discovered a brand that was just starting out and had released its first consumer drone: the DJI Phantom V1. The jump from Parrot to DJI was impressive from a technical standpoint.
It was also in 2014 that I began my FPV journey with the FatShark brand, where I discovered helical antennas.
Just for fun, I once tried tracking a car driving at 30 km/h over several meters while filming in mid-air.
Funny times ๐ช
nico04/11/2025
Back in February 2013, I modified the Wi-Fi radio on the first-generation Parrot AR.Drone. Its original range was about 20 to 30 meters, and I managed to push it to 800 meters in line-of-sight conditions.
I also used a TP-Link router and a Nexus 7 tablet released in 2012, where I replaced the internal Wi-Fi antenna with a UFL connector in order to attach a 9 dBi TP-Link directional antenna. Later, I upgraded to a 19 dBi antenna from the Polish brand ITElite, and I was able to reach a range of 1,500 meters.
With a fairly active community in the United States, I also met Garrock, a radio-frequency engineer who kindly sent me his 2.4 GHz antenna prototype, designed specifically for the AR.Drone.
Back in 2007, using my PlayStation 3, I was able to take part in a research system focused on proteins and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinsonโs and Alzheimerโs. The PS3โs CPU power could be used for calculations, and the results were then sent to the Folding@home cloud. Looking back, the project was incredibly ahead of its time.
PS3 specs :
CPU : Cell Broadband Engine 3,2 GHz (90 nm) Single PS3 calcul power : 200 GFLOPS Network : 1 million consoles connected to the grid PS3 grid power : ~650 TFLOPSย
nico02/11/2025
Sayaka's channel features videos documenting the restoration of computers and consoles Sheโs Italian and super talented, youโve got to check her out!
I wanted to test the implementation of theย llms.txt file at the root of my website, and apparently, it (maybe?) paid off. ChatGPT 5 is able to mention my site regarding the setup of Incus on Arch Linux with ZFS. Thereโs a good understanding of what this LLMS.TXT file is and why it might become important in the not-so-distant future. Apparently, the name would be GEO.
In any case, I coded a Python script that converts all my articles into Markdown and uploads them as follows:**
A good article written by the Publii team about llms.txt. I like their approach to the web โ itโs done by the book, with excellent optimization, etc.
I created a video for the 150th anniversary of the Granville Carnival, using Blender and rendering on a cloud GPU (lambda.ai) setup with five Nvidia A10 cards in parallel.
nico26/10/2025
My Config PC 2026
CPU : AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE Motherboard : MSI B650 Gaming Plus Memory : Crucial Pro RAM DDR5 32Go Kit (2x16Go) 6000MHz CL36 Storage : Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVME Solid State Drive GPU : NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB - Blender Score 4311 Power : Corsair RM750e (2025) 750 W Case : Fractal Design Focus 2 Black Solid
nico24/10/2025
Strudel in the hands of someone talented is just awesome
My agentic workflow in October 2025. Iโve got two windows open with the adorably cute Windows Terminalโhonestly, I just love staring at it! ๐
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 tackles the heavy stuff: backend logic, deep reasoning, the big brain work.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 handles the light and fun tasks: CSS touch-ups, small frontend JS tweaks, and text wrangling. Plus, itโs super fast and uses way fewer credits, which is awesome.
1 PFLOP (FP4) ARM 240 W LLM 200B quantized 15x15x5 cm 1.2kg
nico17/10/2025
TV in the 90s: - Tou turn it on, you watch.
TV 2025: - Turn on, wait for it to load - Popup: TV wants to update, 1.5GB. No. - Scroll sideways, find prime video app or etc - Popup: now app wants to update, 500MB. No!! - App launching... App loadingโฆ - Select account screen - ...
nico17/10/2025
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Claude team is starting to forget
nico14/10/2025
September 2025 DNS over HTTPS (DoH) server 623k hits
I was incredibly lucky that my small town of Granville hosted a manga-themed night at the local cinema. If you get the chance, go see Akira in theaters โ itโs absolutely mind-blowing. I have it in 4K Ultra HD, but the cinema experience is truly something else.
nico14/10/2025
Selection of 4 frameworks for creating TUIs (Terminal User Interfaces)
Claude Code uses Ink, which is responsible for the annoying flicker :' |