{"id":2010,"date":"2009-06-19T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:06","slug":"first-open-water-test-of-the-mfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/first-open-water-test-of-the-mfc\/","title":{"rendered":"First open water test of the MFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Madox<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple weeks ago, I posted<\/a> about Madox<\/a>, who created a floating camera platform based on an Asus WL-520gU wireless router<\/a> and called it the Madox Floating Camera, or MFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Great news – he finished putting the MFC together just in time for the Australian Battle Group<\/a> meet on June 6th and posted some pictures and videos of it in action.\u00a0 Apparently the assembly involved a lot of duct tape and he had a few minor issues<\/a> with the rig, but you can’t tell from the videos!<\/p>\n

For technical details about this project, check out his MFC project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample video of scale warship combat as seen by the MFC:<\/p>\n

(Note: your speakers are not broken, there is no audio!)<\/p>\n

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I really love this project and I hope to keep reading about it as Madox works out the bugs.<\/p>\n

Madox – Keep up the good work!<\/p>\n

Madox.NET \u00bb Australian Battle Group – National Battle Meet 6 June 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago, I posted about Madox, who created a floating camera platform based on an Asus WL-520gU wireless router and called it the Madox Floating Camera, or MFC. Great news – he finished putting the MFC together just in time for the Australian Battle Group meet on June 6th and posted some pictures … Continue reading First open water test of the MFC<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-wl-520gu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1944,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/asus-wireless-router-takes-to-the-high-seas\/","url_meta":{"origin":2010,"position":0},"title":"Asus Wireless Router Takes to the High Seas","author":"Jeff","date":"June 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Madox is building something he calls the MFC or Madox Floating Camera. 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