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Time to put up the Christmas lights - with a difference.

Fred27

I've not been as active as I'd have liked on E14 over the last year or so. That's something I hope to change. I've mainly been busy with a new job (with lots to learn), but also the change from Jive to Verint at the same time didn't help. Nothing felt quite in the same place.

Anyway, I feel it's time for something Christmassy. Something silly. Something fun. Something likely to fail, but that doesn't really matter.

I'm really not a fan of putting up Christmas light. We tens to hang then along the roofline of our house. It looks good, but it's high. I always end up standing at the very top of a long ladder, often with the top rung about knee height and my hand against the wall. It feels dangerous. Frankly, it is dangerous. Each year I swear I'm not doing it again. Time to get smart about it.

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  • Ok - so maybe some of you are wondering how it went.

    My first attempt was pretty close. I managed to get the string over the hook, but it was doubled over and came off again when I pulled the end I could reach.

    I was encouraged, and so I tried again. Unfortunately, this time a gust of wind blew the drone just slightly forward into the house. The hook caught and it pitched forward a little. Maybe one prop touched the roof, becuase it lost control, got tangled in its own string and fell 2 stories to the ground. Grimacing

    Also, my 8-year-old camera had forgotten to start recoding and I'd forgotten to start the drome filming too, so I have no footage of the event itself. However, here's the aftermath.

    Luckily, the drone still flies fine and the camera and gimbal seem undamaged. All I can see is a crack in the plastic that doesn't seem to affect it too much.

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  • Ok - so maybe some of you are wondering how it went.

    My first attempt was pretty close. I managed to get the string over the hook, but it was doubled over and came off again when I pulled the end I could reach.

    I was encouraged, and so I tried again. Unfortunately, this time a gust of wind blew the drone just slightly forward into the house. The hook caught and it pitched forward a little. Maybe one prop touched the roof, becuase it lost control, got tangled in its own string and fell 2 stories to the ground. Grimacing

    Also, my 8-year-old camera had forgotten to start recoding and I'd forgotten to start the drome filming too, so I have no footage of the event itself. However, here's the aftermath.

    Luckily, the drone still flies fine and the camera and gimbal seem undamaged. All I can see is a crack in the plastic that doesn't seem to affect it too much.

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