My personal adventures in amateur experimental rocketry
Development and testing of exploratory parachute systems, also known as me chucking stuff from a balcony
What goes up must come down
Gravity
Making something go down is quite easy, you just let it go from some height and it will swiftly hit the ground
Making something go down slowly however is quite a challenge
To … Read More
A spiritual successor to the January 2021 Report, featuring a flame resistant STTS and radio gizmo’s
The first version of a prototype flight computer, which seems to have been doomed from the start and will possibly never fly
After 3 days of coding, 2 days of construction and 2 months of procrastinating the first version of my Flight Computer is finished
… Read MoreThe only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down
Adam Savage (Quoting Alex Jason
A small cannon to shoot out parachutes.
a Rocket Cannon.
Rocket. Cannon.
The small brother of the main ICBM system, developed to allow for low current igniters, for in flight use
After the purchase of some hair thin (0.1mm) nichrome wire for low current igniters, I realized I would need a system to test said igniters
Thus the ICBM-Micro was created
What it lacks in safety, it makes up for in … Read More
As the title implies, some projects and preparations made during January
After getting a 3d printer and not having anything major to work on, alot of small QOL improvements have been made over the month, most of these are compiled here
I printed a small phone clamp to mount my phone … Read More
Third test of Casing 2.0, this time with cast gypsum nozzles
After some consideration and experimentation it was decided that a cast concrete nozzle might be better than a bare washer going forward
R-8 was made to test our cast gypsum nozzles, and is the first test to be conducted in … Read More
A in depth explanation of the first casing 2.0 design
A more detailed explanation of the new Casing 2.0 design
The objective of this new design is to reduce nozzle blowout and thus increase thrust, and improve structural integrity
This is (hopefully) achieved by having 2 different sizes of pipes, … Read More
Details regarding the first iteration of the STTS system
I have been working on a way to measure thrust over time of my rockets for a while now
After a good friend of mine got me a 5kg load cell and alot of procrastinating I put it together
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