hobby #10

RC Light-Trace Calligraphy

Mount a programmable LED strip on a foam RC aircraft, fly preplanned patterns at dusk, and capture long-exposure photos that turn the flight path into glowing sky calligraphy.

Jan 11 8:19 PM #10 4 min

Teaching a Foam Wing to Sign the Dusk

RC Light-Trace Calligraphy

The aircraft vanishes in the long exposure; only its glowing path remains. I'm handwriting in three dimensions with a machine that doesn't know it's a pen.

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