re heartsintheskyblimp: today i engaged it a little bit, helped by lilac plant energy. what if we could grow a lilac in the sky some day? who knows? earlier a recent day i fixed the broken servo configuration after getting a screwdriver (bought with lilac) that could undo the servo assembly. one of the horns was connected wrong such that the gymbal stall and smack into itself. the wrong horns were available for the top of the gymabl too, and i trimmed a horn with diagonal cutters so that it fit anyway, and screwed it in. that got the gymbal all looking nice and working well! it also left a mount at the top. i did a combination of lashing and rubber-banding to jerry-rig a motor to the top of the gymbal in the right orientation so that he gymbal could aim it in any direction (with a 2 axis gymbal and a fan you want to get the fain aligned so that it spins around the missing 3rd axis, and then you have a 360x360 degree directional wind source) (actually more like 180x180 with these servos not certain but i did recenter) so today, i resoldered broken wires and connected up the motor on the gymbal to plug into the fan board ... and looked into making the usb hub work, see chat in other thread. oh i'll attach the missing transcript ... [attached]. well what i found out when i realized i had _two_ phones i could try, was the problem was associated with the phone i was using. the new hubs work fine with FRS with my other phone that i was not planning on sending into the sky! so that's interesting, as well as inspiring. i also thought in a pinch i could use an actuator or whatnot to redirect the usb lines on a timer via the arduino (which i would plug into the battery to keep it on) and then it wouldn't need "the right phone" or "the right usb hub" -- it wouldn't even need a usb hub, it would just reroute power to charge for a while and disconnect from the ardui--