Tricopter "Mechanical Fuse"

Last Summer, I hastily cut a tricopter frame from carbon fiber + foam laminate.  The stock I'd found wasn't large enough to make the whole thing, so I attached the arms with 4-40 nylon cap screws.

Nice Things Tricopter

Up until now, I've made all of my tricopters out of cheap materials like golf club shafts, bamboo, and balsa.

Canon Hacker Development Kit

Last week, I saw a discarded Canon point and shoot camera in the killzone.

  I snapped it up, because I'd read that there were cool software hacks for the cheaper Canon cameras.
The software I'd read about is called CHDK, which stands for Canon Hacker Development Kit.