I Built My Own Mars Rover in the Spirit of Simplicity
How I built a Centennial Challenge robot using the cheapest materials I could find.
Continue ReadingHow I built a Centennial Challenge robot using the cheapest materials I could find.
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Continue ReadingThe Balloongineers had quite the adventure sending up and recovering their high altitude balloon for the Global Space Ballooning Challenge.
Continue ReadingA group of Florida hobbyists have created a monstrous version of the classic Estes Gyroc. But will it fly?
Continue ReadingHere are five great ham radio projects from the Make: archive.
Continue ReadingThis Portland State Aerospace Society’s (PSAS) L-12 launch in mid-July is beautiful and impressive. PSAS is a student-based open source rocketry group out of Portland State University. They make all of their design files, flight data, documentation, launch procedures, etc. available on GitHub. PSAS has a history of pushing the envelope in amateur rocketry and […]
Continue ReadingWhen I was a teen, I did an astronomy (and archeology) summer camp one year. As part of it, we got to spend some nights operating the telescope in the teacher’s backyard observatory. He had turned a Sears metal garden shed into an impressive little observatory, complete with a motorized roof that opened to raise […]
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