Fabian's Outdoor Blog

In this blog post, I summarise my experience with FPV drones in reverse chronological order.

2026-11-08, Sunday

I flew my drone in fairly cold (5 deg C), humid, and foggy autumn conditions. Given the excessive cold, I could only fly three LiPo batteries before I had to abandon my trip …

I just upgraded the JavaScript library we use to display image carousels from Lightbox2 to Lightbox3, written by the same author. This was mainly motivated by an issue on (Android) phones in horizontal mode, where the photos would be displayed smaller than the available screen space allowed.

The new version …

I have made a few technical changes to the blog and the website over the last few days. The most visible ones are that the access to the website is encrypted by default now, i.e. you will see in the address bar that the URL starts with https and …

Over the last few days, I have played around with ways to project three dimensional GPS track data onto photographs. My primary motivation was to use GPS track data that I had recorded on one of our recent scrambles to visualise the route that we had taken across a mountain …

Over the last few weeks, I have done a general cleanup of the blog. It mostly dealt with layout changes and improvements to the way content is presented. The aim was to make it easier to discover all the content, to browse and to read it.

For example, I have …

Personal locator beacons (PLBs) are satellite devices that transmit a distress signal to search and rescue organisations once they are activated. Because they transmit the signal via satellites, they can be used in remote locations, where no cell phone access is available. Here I explain how they operate and why they are important to have in remote wilderness areas.

In the last few days, I moved the blog over from the Perl-based blogging software blosxom, for which I had written various plugins to add missing functionality, to the Python-based static site generator pelican.

The decision was mainly motivated by the fact that I do most of my …

I have been quite busy in the last couple of days with setting up this blog, but now it is finally online!

It will contain my writings, mostly about photography, various outdoor activities and travel in general. I have long thought about creating a central place for my writings, photos …