Talking to Qt Threads

I wrote about multi-threading in Qt a while back, and how to use QThread to wrap a blocking function call “lock free”. Today we’ll talk about how to pass data into your thread. This approach can be used, for example, to tell your QThread to stop. There are two ways to use QThread, with and […]

First Person Video on a Shoestring

Today my friend Cliff showed me his first-person video R/C airplane: This thing has every feature imaginable, which means it packs a lot of wires: Here’s a video tour of all its features, which include the following: Auto fly-home if control is lost (uses GPS) Heads up video display of altitude, heading, and pitch RF […]