Maker and breaker of things. #MakeyMakey & #RaspberryPi CE. (He/Him)

Joined March 2016
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That's it. I'm out. See ya elsewhere.
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Found a @sparkfun #OpenScale board in my parts bin, so I'm making a thing.
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Patrick Ferrell retweeted
9 Jan 2023
Tomorrow Jan 10 at 6:15pm is the next session for the @ISS_Mimic Community Build at @FreemanLib in Houston! Come help us build a 1/100th scale moving model of the International Space Station! New makers are welcome at any or all of the sessions! @harriscountypl
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Hanging out at @TheIonHouston this morning for a #CupOfJoey to learn to be a people person.
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Just a typical "do some soldering while waiting for a space launch" morning. #Artemis1
How to Flash an LED Approach 12: Use a BJT Astable Oscillator (and check out this simulator: falstad.com/circuit/e-multiv…) #99ways #blinken
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@RachelRaygun - I'm also looking for LEDs with extensions like those in this video. Do you have some of these in the stash as well? I can't find them in mine.
Getting ready for @Region4ESC #RaspberryPi training at their STEAM conference on Friday. Still need some HATs and VGA adapters.
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@RachelRaygun - Do you have some of the beepers and push buttons in the JHLIL as shown in this photo? They're some more things I can't find in my stash for RPi classes.
Hey #space Twitter: I see numbers in the $2600/kg range to put a payload into #LEO. Does anyone know how much it costs (will cost) to get into lunar orbit? Maybe @SciGuySpace, @Erdayastronaut, or @jeff_foust has a reference?
Lovin' all the additions and upgrades to the #ISSMimic model. I know there's a lot of love on the Mimic team for the SASA antennas, but I gotta say that they're not as iconic as the Ku-band antennas. It looks like some upgrades to JEM since I last saw it too!
17 Jul 2022
This new addition astronaut to #ISSmimic IS TO SCALE though... Notice the SASA antenna on Mimic?
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If you're at #Comicpalooza2022 this weekend, be sure to check out ISS Mimic and geek out over #NASA and #space.
16 Jul 2022
ISS mimic is live at #comicpalooza come check us out in the robotica section!
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I know we're all here for the #JWST images, but I have to pivot for a moment and say that this here is bullshit. Sorry to see this happening. Clear Creek ISD superintendent hammered by anti-CRT parents announces resignation houstonchronicle.com/news/ho… via @houstonchron
Patrick Ferrell retweeted
13 Jun 2022
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If you were on station (ISS/Gateway/etc), what sort of functional widget would you consider #3Dprinting that you couldn't have brought with you? @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug @astro_ricky @AstroRM @AstroVicGlover @astro_timpeake @AstroSamantha @Astro_Flow @astro_kimbrough @Astro_Boe
About to hang out with 10000 of my #3Dprinting beasties. #RAPIDevent
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Sunday morning experiment trying to cool air with a Peltier. I could improve the design, but the low thermal mass of air is a real killer. I knew that going in, so this was more of a 'for grins and giggles' project.
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Here's a bit about what I've been up to lately...
6 May 2022
Check out our forum for insight into our development of a high-temperature version of Gigabot X that will be able to print with ULTEM and other high temperature polymers. re3d.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/co…
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Unfortunately, I don't know to whom I should attribute this, but I found it in a 2012 #NASA Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop (#TFAWS) presentation, and it rings so true to me:
My phone wanted to automatically tag this as #food instead of #supercoolNASAstuff that might one day be applied to heatshields using specialized #3dprinters for protecting spacecraft during EDL. @re3Dprinting
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You know I'm getting serious about debugging at @re3Dprinting when I haul out the 'scope. Don't mind the spaghetti wires - they got cleaned up once the problem was solved.
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It's just a start and needs tweaking, but here's some non-planar, conformal #3dprinting of thermal protection system materials for a #NASA project at re:3D using @FullControlGCD. @re3Dprinting
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