The station is being refurbished and remodeled by Ford Motor Company for use as office space.
A beautiful new copper roof is being installed over the front entrance.
Grand Central Station in Detroit.
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Detroit’s Historic Fort Wayne
I took the drone into Detroit to capture some points of interest. I have never been to Fort Wayne before. Well, not true I guess. I HAVE been to Fort Wayne, but in Fort Wayne Indiana. The one in Indiana seems to be an older version, as it is made of wood, and was completed on October 20, 1794. The Detroit Fort Wayne was constructed starting in 1840.
Aerial 360° view of Detroit’s Fort Wayne.
I suggest you definitely use the “Full Screen” 
button at the bottom of the panorama to see the details of the fort.
Uniroyal Tire in Allen Park Michigan
Took the drone on a small road trip to photograph a few locations around Detroit Michigan. One was the large Uniroyal Tire alongside I-94 in Allen Park Michigan. You can look up the history of it, but basically it was originally a Ferris Wheel.
For years the tire had a very large “nail” stuck in the top of it advertising Uniroyal Run Flat tires. It has been removed, and other repairs have been made.
Playing with Maps
I have been wanting to change the way I display the nature preserves where I volunteer. I was using an image with “hot spots” added. It works, but I sorta wanted to do more.
I found a plugin that helps to easily construct and customize Google Maps.
The basic, free, WP Go Maps plugin produced the following map.
Filter by
You can see it’s pretty limited. The pop up justs shows the coordinates of a location. Actually when you enter an address it will show the address in the popup. BUT, many of the pins need moved to actually sit on the parking lot, trail head, etc. and when you move the pin. . . it no longer knows the address so it puts the GPS coordinates in the pop up, Not so useful since you cannot tell which of the preserves you are looking at, or any information about them.
I am thinking about “going Pro” with the plugin so I can do a lot of other fancy customization’s. One PRO feature is also being able to provide directions to the preserve to the user. Will also sort a list by distance away, and other fun things! It’s not expensive, but need to think if it is something that I am really going to spend time on, and why.
I shall go and ponder this for awhile and come to a decision.
Flat picture with Video Introduction using iPanorama.
The above window uses “Shortcode” to put on post.
The following window uses iframe settings to display. Both use the exact same iPanorama tour.
<iframe width="780" height="555" src="https://www.kasdorf.name/wordpress/ipanorama/virtualtour/23" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>For fun, I saw the code to add a movie “Splash Screen” at the beginning of the tour. I need a better video to use though, I just grabbed the first one I came to!
Either way works, but using iframe allows you to easily adjust the size of your window.
Mantis Chipmate Info
A question was asked about the capacitor to start the motor. I pulled the cover off mine, which wasn’t as easy as I thought.
There are only three small Phillips head screws, which normally would not be an issue. However the units are stored in an outdoor shed. Seems like the wasps like to find small holes to fill with mud to make “nests”. I had to loosen all the mud, then scratch around in the screw slots to get the mud out of them so the screwdriver would get down into them and actually grip enough to turn them! I did get them cleaned and removed.
I took a few pictures of the capacitor and put everything back together.
Hope this helps!