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New equipment acquired! [LINKS INCLUDED]
Current haulWhat maker does not like eBay? that magical place where you can buy virtually anything you need at dirt cheap prices to boot! The fact that the costs are so low is a boon for the basement...
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Current collection of dev boards
This is my collection of development boards. From top left they are; Genuine Arduino UNO, Clone MEGA, Parallax Basic Stamp homework board (serial), Sainduino UNO, Arduino Nano (clone), Genuine Arduino...
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Thank you for all 35 great names you have submitted, choosing from the available names has been very difficult. I have decided that I will choose 2 winners, each winner will receive one(1) Arduino Nano...
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Detour projects to fill time until Christmas break
Neopixel microscope detailSorry about the delays between posts, school has been picking up again and some other stuff keeps coming up. I am putting my stabilization system on the back burner at the...
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Christmas break TechShop Day 1 update
Test fitFirst day back at TechShop after 3 months away due to the start of school soaking up the vast majority of my time and preventing me from going into DC every day. After arriving I immediately...
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Fundamentalz PCB review
PCBs sent to me//I apologize for the delays in post frequency, school is soaking up quite a bit of my time as I was applying to colleges and preparing for midterms. As I have a lot planned out for this...
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February rocket stabilization system update
Stabilization system miniaturizationDue to school preventing me from spending days at TechShop to use their printers and CAD workstations (my school lacks a technical education program sadly and my...
View ArticleVideo workshop update (February 2015)
I thought I'd make a video tour of the workshop as I have a decent camera on my phone and it seems that workshops are a point of interest for quite a few makers. Excuse my messy shelves as I do not...
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Workshop evolution and upgrades
In October of 2014 I moved to a new house which included space for a workshop which has been a huge upgrade for me, as I had been working in a sort of foyer at my old house. Â I will be detailing the...
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Spring break TechShop progress
Near-final fin with correct blendingOver this recent spring break, I'd decided to forgo the archetypal partying of the Senior year and continue work on my projects. My primary objective was to redesign...
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ICStation lootbag
Quite a big bag here!Earlier this year I entered my active rocket stabilization system in the 2015 ICStation Arduino electronic design competition on a whim because there was a chance at winning some...
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Combination railgun/coilgun development platform (version .01 craptastic)
Coilgun with projectileWay back in 8th grade summer and freshman year of high school I got bored and decided I wanted to make an electromagnetic accelerator so I went googling and did a ton of...
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A tour of Small Batch Assembly
Company logo on the orange wallsRecently I had met up with Bob Coggeshall at the inaugural National Maker Faire and he invited me to stop by the factory sometime in the future. I wasn't out in the...
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Hackaday DC event recap
Giving a talk to the packed roomAs some of you might have seen, I recently attended the Hackaday DC event and gave a talk on the rocket stabilization system while there in addition to explanations and...
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Rocket stabilization system debugging update
Debugging the system on a cheap logic analyzer clone (review coming up soon)Â Â Â Â Ever since I implemented the new control code this system has been plagued with a pair of bugs that frustrated me to...
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Holiday update and gift exchange postmortem
Happy Hackerdays readers! Since the last update it's been busy with the first semester of school finishing up, finals and the holiday season quickly approaching. In that time I've made a better...
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Q1 2016 Rocket stabilization system update, now with fins, nose cone and a...
With 2016 well underway it's time for the first update on the state of the stabilization system!First off, apologies for the massive delays this post has had, was originally slated for mid-Jan launch...
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How to theme and change the font of the Arduino IDE (Tutorial)
You've probably had this problem before; Writing code late at night trying to get new features to work but the bright white of the default IDE is burning your eyes and giving you a headache even with...
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Side projects update: Optical/radio telescopes, CAD, new rigs and custom...
Apologies for the radio silence on this blog, work has been continually crazy and some projects have been sidelined for temporary holds due to funding reallocation, however the backlog of completed...
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Q3 2016 Rocket active stabilization system update, complete hardware redesign...
The old and new designs, massive improvements to the overall designUpdate time has rolled around again now that a good chunk of progress is completed on the Arduino based rocket stabilization system....
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Holiday season 2016 general update and MAGFest panel announcement
Happy Hackerdays readers! Since the last update I've been absolutely slammed between life and projects which had a drastic balance change that took more time and energy away from the blog than I'd have...
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Prograde burn; I quit my day job to work at NASA
Yes you read that right, as of January 30th I am working at NASA Goddard as a student researcher in the earth sciences wing, specifically on the 4U Laser Hetrodyne Radiometer cubesat as a...
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Q1 2017 Rocket active stabilization system update; Finally have working PID...
After nearly 4 and a half months of late nights, caffeine fueled jam sessions, one livestream(more on that later!) and more frustration than anticipated I FINALLY figured out implementation of PID for...
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Upcoming appearance at DEFCON 25 in Vegas
You read that right, this year I'm going to be at the one and only DEFCON in Las Vegas!!!! Since this year I'd had a mutual friend of W1NST0N and I's offer some space in his penthouse suite, we ran...
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I'm not dead! Updates and teasers.
Radio breaking squelch Is this thing on? Oh good!It's been a LONG time since the last update and that's my fault, apologies for the delays in posts but oh the things that have happened since the last...
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