From: thatmachineboy	Date: February 2nd, 2011 03:45 am (UTC)		(Link)

“Yep,” Casey answered quickly as he watched the bird lift itself into the air, glancing down at the remote a few times. “If I can get it to work as I want it to, it’ll be able to replace actual owls for long distance flights. Makes it easier on the birds. All you’d need is to lock in an address as it doesn’t have the mental capacity to locate a single person like our owls do.”

Carefully he pushed forward on the stick, causing the mechanical bird to do the same. Slowly Bubo 2.0 began to move in circles at his command.

	From: soleada	Date: February 4th, 2011 10:23 am (UTC)		(Link)

"You should get like the wizard equivalent of the noble prize," she grinned, watching the bird fly. "All wizarding families should have one." She said firmly.

"Nice!" she said excitedly watching Bubo 2.0 begin flying circles. "Can it do flips?" she asked, only half joking.

	From: thatmachineboy	Date: February 5th, 2011 11:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"I should," Casey said with a bit of a smug grin. Well, once the thing was completed and working correctly, anyway. "If the whole thing works when it's done, I'm going to see what I can do about patents and all that. However it works on the wizarding end of things."

Casey glanced over at Sunny, then back at the owl. "I... well, if I had a better controller it might." He had borrowed one from a remote control car, and those weren't really equipped with a flip command.

	From: soleada	Date: February 6th, 2011 08:04 am (UTC)		(Link)

"That's a good idea, don't want anyone stealing it," she nodded. "Dude you're going to be a millionaire," she laughed. "Well... at the very least you'll be able to pay for college."

"Oooh!" she said looking at the controller. "We probably have an extra toy helicopter remote laying around the house if you ever want to try it out some time," she offered. "With twins in the family it's like double everything."

	From: thatmachineboy	Date: February 6th, 2011 06:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"Here's hoping," Casey gave Sunny a small wink and turned his eyes back to the owl.

He pushed the right buttons to make the bird begin climbing to test that out. He was out there to test the thing, and not just to be social. "I'll let you know if I need it. If this thing passes this test, I may not need it. I'm only using the controller to test the flight for now, and if it goes well, then it won't need a controller at all as it will operate off of a GPS system and battery power."

	From: soleada	Date: February 6th, 2011 10:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)

She nodded and a big grin and her eyes flew back to the owl as she watched him maneuver it. "Looking good so far!" she said brightly.

"Are you going to use rechargeable batteries?" she asked. "Alternative energy is kinda the only thing I know about when it comes to technical things," she grinned.

	From: thatmachineboy	Date: February 7th, 2011 12:01 am (UTC)		(Link)

Higher and higher the owl went, and it was at this point last time that it faltered. So far it went well, and so Casey kept having the bird climb. "Yup. Want something long lasting so that it can make the trip, but rechargeable."

He let out a little sigh. "It sucks that magic doesn't really work on electronics. It would make things so much easier."

	From: soleada	Date: February 7th, 2011 06:35 am (UTC)		(Link)

"Awesome!" she said brightly.

"Right?" she asked. "It's like the man is just trying to make it harder on you," she grinned.

"So what's he made out of?" she asked still watching the metal bird.

	From: thatmachineboy	Date: February 11th, 2011 04:12 am (UTC)		(Link)

His eyes remained on Bubo as it climbed, though he snickered at Sunny. "Always so easy to blame it on the man. But yea, I suppose. Never makes anything easy."

Casey's eyes did shift to her for a second before going down to the controller, seeming to check something before he looked back up towards the bird. At his command, it began a slow decline. "Bronze. It was a statue I found at some antique shop near home. It was hollow and I just altered it to make it work."