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Quarantine

FPV Drones

FPV drones stand for first person view drones. These drones have a unique ability that other drones don’t have. They can do flips and tricks and stuff but the important thing is that you can see what the drone sees. To see through the drones you will need a certain type of goggles and a Transmitter.

The drone is made up of lots of parts:

  • Motors that spin the props.
  • Props that lift the drone.
  • Flight controllers that’s the brain.
  • The camera is your eyes
  • The ESC or the power house and many other things.

Then you have your goggles that helps you see what the drone sees.

But the goggles have these things that you can attach to it, the antennas. The antennas help you go out farther out from where you are standing.

The Radio transmitter is the controller of the drone but first you have to bind the drone to the transmitter in order to control it.

Then after making sure everything works, you go to a place called Betaflight and make sure nothing explodes into flames and everything is good!

Once you finish that, go out and have fun with your drones and your lipos. Oh I forgot, you need to get your self a lipo battery and a lipo charger with a lipo checker. these guys help out alot.

Ok, not that we have everything, we should be able to plug it in and everything goes nicely.

I hope you enjoyed this post and I’ve inspired you to get into the hobby. See you in the air!

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Cooking Quarantine Uncategorized

Cooking in Quarantine #2: Chickpea Stew with Spinach

Chickpeas. Known by different names such as gram or Bengal gram, garbanzo or garbanzo bean, Egyptian pea, Chana, and Chole, they are filled with protein and can be cooked in many different ways. Such as in cold salads, soups, stews, etc. One of the first names ever given to the grain, was chiche pease, from Middle French, pois chiche. In Old Spanish, It was named garbanzo and has been kept that way. In English it was named garvance during the 17th century. But after many years, it finally came to be known in English as chickpea. Chickpeas date back all the way to late Neolithic (about 3500 BC) in Greece. You can read more about the chickpea where I researched it, on revolvy.com

Today we will make the ancient legume in a stew accompanied by spinach.

Ingredients
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  • Chickpeas
  • Chopped onions (As many chopped onions as you want.)
  • Chopped garlic
  • Ground Pepper
  • Salt
  • Spinach
  • Achiote Powder
  • Cumin Powder
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Credit to healthline.com

Attention

Leave chickpeas in water for 12 hours before the day your expecting to cook them. Don’t put salt when boiling the chickpeas. Don’t use canned spinach, try to use fresh spinach. Depending on how much chickpeas your making, you will need to calculate how much water you’ll be using and how much spice you’ll be using.

Procedure

Step 1: Wash your hands and clean your working space.

Step 2: Get a pot and fill it up with water and leave it to heat up.

Step 3: While your water is heating up, drain and rinse the soaked chickpeas out of the water you left over night, and proceed to put them in the pot covered by fresh water. When you see bubbles starting to develop at the bottom of the pot.

Step 4: Leave the chickpeas to simmer for an hour and a half. Move them every 10 minutes to make sure they don’t stick to the bottom. Add more water if necessary.

Step 5: After they’re done cooking, proceed to take a take a stock pot where we will cook the whole stew. Heat some olive oil or vegetable oil in the pot to medium low. Then proceed to put your chopped up garlic to simmer for about 3 minutes then proceed to put the chopped onion. Constantly move them until the onions are golden.

Step 6: Then add a hint of ground pepper, salt and the amount of spinach you’ll be using. Cook it and move it constantly.

Step 7: While cooking your spinach, add Achiote powder and Cumin powder and let it cook for 10 minutes.

Step 8: When done cooking your spinach, add your Chickpeas and the water it boiled in to add it’s juice and leave to cook for about 15 more minutes.

Step 9: Serve and Enjoy

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Binge Watch Quarantine

Korean baseball: Not just a game

Introducing GreatBigStory: 5-10 minute mini-documentaries about…everything!

Baseball fan? While the Major Leagues have suspended all spring games and delayed the 2020 season, you can still get your baseball fix.

From America to Russia to Japan, baseball is a sport that is played worldwide. The game became popular with its all-star players like Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente and popular movies like The Sandlot and 42. We know all about baseball here in North and South America, but what about the other side of the world? In countries like South Korea, what we may see as a game, is so much more to them.

The Sandlot movie poster
The Sandlot, released in 1993, inspired two sequels in 2005 and 2007.
42: The Jackie Robinson Story, released in 2013

In 1905, baseball was brought to South Korea and the country welcomed the sport with open arms. The country formed the Korean Baseball Organization, or KBO for short. The KBO started with 6 teams, and with time grew to 10 total teams. The city of Busan is known especially for not only their spectacular team but their incredibly passionate fan base. The city of Busan with its bat flips and cheermasters celebrates this sport unlike any other country and it is truly a phenomenon unlike any other.

Still from the Great Big Story minidocumentary, Behold the Unmatched Passion of Korean Baseball Fans
Still from the Great Big Story minidocumentary, Behold the Unmatched Passion of Korean Baseball Fans

To learn more about Busan and its passion for baseball, watch Behold the Unmatched Passion of Korean Baseball Fans, for free on GreatBigStory.

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Cooking Quarantine

Most Creamy Coffee Flan!

My family and some friends asked me to make flan. I said yes, but I wanted to surprise them by making a coffee flavored flan. Because what better way to celebrate Mother鈥檚 Day than with delicious flan?This cake was delicious and my Mom loved it! Hope you love it too!

Careful!!! To make this you will need parental supervision 馃敟馃敟馃敟

(Hot sugar and fire!)

Pros about this recipe

  • Makes more than what is in the picture
  • Creamy
  • Common ingredients

Ingredients

Flan Base

  • 1 can Lecherita
  • 1 can Leche evaporada
  • 6 eggs
  • You can make a smaller batch with 1/2 can of each and 3 eggs

Sugar syrup

  • 3/4 cup of any sugar in a pot
  • 3-4 drops of water

Tools

  • Can opener, whisk attachment, or beater attachment, hand whisk, spatula

Procedure!

Separate your 6 eggs in two bowls: one for yolks and one for whites.

Separating yolks from whites

Then, for a creamy flan…Beat your eggs until you see this…

Ximena approved!

If you don鈥檛 want a super creamy cake move the bowl a little and if the eggs are still sliding it is ready to add in the yolks.

Remember to do it one by one and take 30 seconds in between!

Now it is time to add your leches: first the evaporated milk, then the condensed milk.

Divide what you put in, in two parts don鈥檛 put it all at once.

Finally, put it in the oven at 350-400 degrees and cook until fully done (you know this when your toothpick comes out clean).

Last, you can decorate with cherries and enjoy! 馃崚馃尭

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eBooks Quarantine

驴Tienes libros?

C贸mo registrar para una tarjeta de la Biblioteca P煤blica de Brooklyn (BPL)

驴Qu茅 es una buena cuarentena sin tener una tarjeta gratuita para pedir prestados libros en l铆nea?

Aqu铆 hay un video sobre c贸mo registrar para una tarjeta BPL- 隆GRATIS!

Tutorial para registrar para un tarjeta para la Biblioteca P煤blica de Brooklyn

Esta tarjeta le dar谩 acceso a miles de libros electr贸nicos, audios, y recursos en l铆nea incluso Mango Languages para aprender un nuevo idioma!

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eBooks Quarantine

Abdo Digital Bookshelf

Libros electr贸nicos en espa帽ol

Te gustar铆a aprender m谩s sobre los cristales?

Bueno aqu铆 hay un video donde te ense帽a c贸mo leer un libro en casa, Cristales, por Grace Hansen, y accesar todos los otros libros disponibles en ABDO!

En la 煤ltima p谩gina de cada libro hay un c贸digo que pueden entrar en abdokids.com para descargar actividades, videos, y m谩s relacionado con los temas del libro.

Disfruten!

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eBooks Quarantine

Tumble Books

Online library of books & videos in English and Spanish

Would you like to learn how to read at home using the website Tumble books? I’ll show you how I found the book Bad, Good, And Everything in Between by Tammy White.

Keep scrolling and play the video!!

Hope you enjoy!!


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eBooks Quarantine

Listen to This!

Free audio books all summer long

It’s hard to concentrate lately, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up on reading! SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+. Every Thursday, starting this week and continuing until July 29th,  you can sign up to receive two audiobook downloads a week.

Audiobooks, often read by the authors themselves or professional actors, are a great way to read hands free, and can often be enjoyed while doing other things like folding laundry, picking up your room, or painting your nails.

I know, you’re thinking…what kind of books? I’m pretty picky. You should be! Not all the books will be your thing, but once you register, you get to pick which ones you want to download. Here are this year’s titles:

2020’s Audiobook line up

Sponsored by AudioFile, a magazine that reviews audiobooks, the books have to be read on SORA, the student version of Overdrive (app for reading library eBooks and Audiobooks.)

What are you waiting for?! Visit audiobooksync.com to register.

Registration is as easy as entering your email address

Once registered, you’ll receive instructions for downloading and logging in to SORA. Happy listening!

Click to learn more about SORA and to download for Apple or Android
This tutorial was created by librarian Esther Keller at IS 278 in Marine Park.

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Cooking Quarantine

Baking Brazilian Truffles: Brigadeiros

I made Brazilian truffles just to explore and try something new to make!!! Hope you enjoy this recipe 鉂わ笍

Ingredients for perfect truffles:

  • 2 tablespoons of salted butter and a little more for your plate
  • About half a can of sweetened condensed milk or 14 oz
  • 1/4 of cocoa powder
  • Optional : chocolate sprinkles but I made it with Ice cream!!!馃憣

Procedure:

Step 1: In a pot I put butter and my condensed milk!!

Condensed milk in the pan

Step 2: Now add your cocoa!!

You can use whatever brand

Step 3: Now mix it all together!!!

Step 4: Butter your plate

Step 5: Flatten it out on the plate.

Step 6: Roll it into little balls and let it cool for about 30 minutes in the fridge

Then for the finishing steps

Step 1: Scoop ice cream

Step 2: Make a hole big enough for your truffles, and put the truffles inside!

Enjoy….!! Hope you make it and enjoy it just as much as I did 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍

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Cooking

Cooking in Quarantine #1: Homemade Tortillas

They’re sold in almost every store in NYC and popular among us latinos, usually eaten with tacos, burritos, and traditional Mexican food like barbacoa (steamed goat) or frijoles con cecina y salsa (clack beans with homemade hot sauce and salty beef). Originally named tlaxcalli , Tortillas originated in Mexico by Aztecs before European contact. Ever since then people have known tortillas most commonly in tacos and in other Mexican dishes.

Ingredients
  • Tortilla flour or tamale flour
  • Warm water
  • A tortilla press and two pieces of plastic or by hand
  • A flat cooking pan
Attention

You must only use these types of flours. If you do not have a tortilla press you can do it with the palm of your hands. You must use warm water and you must have the two plastic sheets if your using the press.

Procedure

Step 1: Wash your hands and clean your working space.

Step 2: Pour the amount of flour you will be using in the container you will be using and make a little crater in the middle. Every cup of flour will yield 5 tortillas.

1 cup flour = 5 tortillas
2 cups flour = 10 tortillas
3 cups flour = 15 tortillas
Etc.

Step 3: Warm up your water and pour it in the little crater and mix it with both hands, Until it feels like soft play doh.

Step 4: Grab a portion of your tortilla dough and create a small ball between both of your hands, the size of your ring finger. Do this until all the dough is rolled.

Step 5: One by one put a dough ball between the two plastic sheets in the tortilla press and press down as hard as you can, until it’s flat. While your doing this, heat up your flat pan.

Step 6: Put your tortilla on the heated pan and leave it there for 10 seconds before flipping and leaving the other side for a minute or 2.

After you wait for a minute or 2, flip and you may see that it will start to puff. This is a good sign. Leave it there for a minute before taking it out and leaving to rest.

Step 7: After you finish with all your tortillas leave them to rest for a minute and cover them with a paper towel to contain the warmness.

Step 8: Enjoy them any way you like !!!