Prompted by Andreas M. Antonopoulos' comment regarding the possibility of breaking off the USB connector, I made a strain relieving case that also makes it easy to conveniently mount the module on the back of my laptop.
Details here:
http://eastbay-rc.blogspot.com/2012/04/strain-relief-carrier-for-3dr-ground.html
Comments
@John, I haven't done a lot of comparison, but the signal seems to be strong for my LOS flying so far.
@Veikko: Ryan is correct, I'm using VMWare. I use VMWare for some other things (linux development), so it was convenient to use VMWare for this as well. I think both it and Parallels are fine ways to run the planner on a mac. I haven't tried virtualbox, but I have some friends that run graphics-intensive games with bootcamp, so I think that would work well also.
@ Veikko
Looking at his icons, it seems like he is using VMWare. I use Parallels 7 on my Mac, and I use VMware on PC. Overall I enjoy Parallels tenfold over VMWare, but VMware is better if you plan to move your virtual machines across PCs quite often (as I hadn't tested the parallels for windows, wmware just has more support). I've had a few wierd issues with using full screen mode and Matlab gui's that could be solved by exiting full screen and going back, but besides that Parallels works flawless.
Have you seen any extra noise on the ground side from having the Tx on your laptop?
Thanks. I was wondering about the strength of that connector when I saw the design.
Nice!