Super Sonic Car, tuning network cameras, and upgrading a KK flight controller.

The Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car)

Back in 1997, the "ThrustSSC", run by a British team, broke the sound barrier and his 763 MPH
Now another British team has built the "Bloodhound SSC" which they say will hit 1000mph in 2016!

Just to get a car up to 1000mph is an incredible engineering feet, but to keep it SAFELY at 1000mph for the two-way journey required to set the land-speed record is UNBELIEVABLY difficult.

The Wheels need to rotate at more than 10,000 rpm, so they're built out of solid aluminum
It uses THREE engines!

It has a 5-liter 800hp V8 engine that ONLY pressurizes high-test peroxide fuel to the Rocket engine
It has the Rolls-Royce EJ200 that's normally found in a Typhoon fighter. It can generate 20,000 pounds of thrust
At higher speeds, the jet engine isn't efficient, so they also have THREE rocket engines, each producing 27,500 lbs of thrust.

It has a specially designed air-intake for the jet engine in order to slow the air down from 1000mph to 400mph to feed the Jet engine.
It has a computer-controlled set of wings that make the Bloodhound SSC lift-neutral, keeping her 3.1 inches above the ground.
It has THREE braking systems!

The aerodynamics of the car itself become a brake: When they cut the engine at 1000mph, those aerodynamics will generate 3g of breaking
Air brakes are deployed at 700mph 3. Hydraulic brakes are used below 200mph

Unlike the ThrustSSC, which was rear-wheel steering, BloodhoundSSC is front-wheel steering, which will make it horribly touchy at speeds.
They're doing a 200mph test run this summer
A 800mph later this year that should break the ThrustSSC record
A 1000mph run in 2016
All driving is to happen at the "Hakseen Pan" -- (Salt Flat in South Africa) -- Same pilot as the one who drove ThrustSSC (RAF Wing Commander Andy Green)

These are the steps that Padre takes when he deploys network cameras:

Gather Network Information
- We need a few pieces of information from your router: -- Default Gateway (Router's Address) -- Subnet Mask It's easy to get this information if you have a computer connected to the router. If you're using Windows, just drop into a command shell and type, "ipconfig" In our case, the default gateway is 192.168.150.1 and our subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
- This means that it will send all requests for off-segment access (i.e. the Internet) to the gateway
- It also means that and device with this data will know that there are 255 usable IP addresses in its network segment (256-1)
Configure the Router
- We want to define the range that the DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) server built into the router can use when assigning addresses to devices that request a DHCP address.
  1. Login to your router
  2. Find the settings for the Network Setup
  3. Look for the settings for the DHCP server
  4. Look for the starting address and the maximum number of DHCP clients -- This is what determines where in the 254 addresses availible to the router (255-1) the DHCP server will start serving out addresses. -- It also determines how many addresses it will hand out. (It's consective)
    - For example: If I set a start address of "192.168.150.50" and allow for 50 DHCP users, it will allocate all the addresses between 192.168.150.50 and

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