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.
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.