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engineeringisawesome: NASA Successfully Launches Three...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:37:56 -0400

NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

The trio of “PhoneSats” is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. The goal of NASA’s PhoneSat mission is to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite.

Transmissions from all three PhoneSats have been received at multiple ground stations on Earth, indicating they are operating normally. The PhoneSat team at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., will continue to monitor the satellites in the coming days. The satellites are expected to remain in orbit for as long as two weeks.

NASA engineers kept the total cost of the components for the three prototype satellites in the PhoneSat project between $3,500 and $7,000 by using primarily commercial hardware and keeping the design and mission objectives to a minimum. The hardware for this mission is the Google-HTC Nexus One smartphone running the Android operating system.

reagancrew: Floating Ripple Vases (by oodesign) Fill your...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:04:47 -0400

reagancrew:

Floating Ripple Vases (by oodesign)

Fill your favorite container with water and float the vase. According to the movement of the air, the plants change their position within the container.

cnce: Micro 3-D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:21:47 -0400

cnce:

Micro 3-D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds

Faster printing could see the technology move from research labs to industry

Full Story: MIT via emergentfutures

arimaarie: tsuthetiger: thisaintfayou: allsgood: The future,...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:57:08 -0500

arimaarie:

tsuthetiger:

thisaintfayou:

allsgood:

The future, sign me up

What if you flip over?

That’s why you play in Canada so you don’t die in real life.

THE fucking BEST. I’ve always wanted one of these.

I WANT THIS NOW!!!

anything-artsy: gaksdesigns: Luminous Fiber Optics Bed...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:50:03 -0500

anything-artsy:

gaksdesigns:

Luminous Fiber Optics Bed Cover

okay i want this

Thats so sick .. i am totally doing that with my bed sheets

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Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:53:57 -0500

Justified Amplifier

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:58:54 -0500

So I came across a problem the other day when I was working on a project of mine where the output of...

ohteatea: A rocking chair… that knits you a hat too.

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:02:45 -0500

ohteatea:

A rocking chair… that knits you a hat too.

fuckyeahengineeringstudent: Anatomy of a Bridge

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:29:50 -0400

fuckyeahengineeringstudent:

Anatomy of a Bridge

trudymae: iraffiruse: Frozach Submitted haha..insert

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:52:11 -0400

trudymae:

iraffiruse:

Frozach Submitted

haha..insert

Maxwell For the WIN

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:06:46 -0400

Maxwell For the WIN

jtotheizzoe: Extreme Mechanics: Buckling down If you’re an...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:26:35 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Extreme Mechanics: Buckling down

If you’re an engineer, you usually try to design things that don’t collapse. But when it comes to some structures (like car crumple zones), designing instability can be very important. They are studying math, folding, origami and complex geometry. Read above about the engineers who are trying to design the artfully unstable.

Very cool stuff!

(via Nature News)

Open Source Hardware's unwritten rules

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:17:15 -0400

Here is a really awesome vlog by the EEVblog that I thought I would share with you. In this...

was looking at your power supply code, is there a reason you're using encoders and not potentiometers for your input? looks like a lot of extra hassle, and you may miss encoder ticks without pin interrupts.

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:24:52 -0400

is there a reason you’re using encoders and not potentiometers for your input? Encoders are...

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Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:17:21 -0400

Power supply update

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:42:00 -0400

I know I have not blogged about any of my projects in a while so I figured iI would give an update...

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:35:51 -0400

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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:14:16 -0400

fuckyeahengineeringstudent: Pythagorean Theorem...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:58:17 -0400

fuckyeahengineeringstudent:

Pythagorean Theorem proof

Sometimes I just think ~~people~~ everyone should know these things.

yannickbrouwer: This is such a cool project! I immediately get...

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:00:52 -0400

yannickbrouwer:

This is such a cool project! I immediately get a lot of ideas how this could be used in a cool way!