JohnOfOsgiliath
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Woah! We are fortunate to be able to interact with such interesting people. I don't suppose it would be a little cheeky if I asked if you knew anybody I could ask for work experience.
I'm curious, do you work at NASA?
That may be right. In future, I think we will use a more unasumming watermark.
That's fair enough, but for me, it was just a really procedural way to think through the process. All the work we did, summarised in one document felt kind of good.
To be fair, we probably should have mentioned that. We simply chose PLA because it is easy to manufacture with. Possibly, things could have gone south pretty quickly. If we do something similar again, we could use some fancy machined metal for the housing.
Yeah, I can definitely relate. Fortunately, we had a team who was kind of interested at the start, so we could work from there. To be honest, I've learned so much from this, it's definitly worth the time I put in.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
I get you were just showing support, but as the guy who co-wrote the document, could I drop you an email about work experience?
Yeah, that would be cool. Also, are you an actual aerospace engineer? That's awesome!
I can't speak for my whole team, but as the programmer/electrical guy/writer I have spent a few years teaching myself skills using the internet. I used YouTube tutorials to learn to code, and use blender, and that sort of thing.
Also, to be fair, we didn't quite build the rocket, we just built the probe.
I'm really grateful for the kindness. That sort of attitude is great to hear, and I'll keep you in the loop about money ;)
I really appreciate that. I just really enjoy being a part of this community, and I'm glad we can represent the younger generation.
Thanks so much. I think we just really wanted to explain our plan on social media (and our outreach person didn't have much to do).
Yeah. I can't tell you how much time we spent typing in the library. We spent so much time on risk assesment, that we nearly forgot to write about electronics.
Thanks so much for the kind words. I really enjoyed writing the documentation.
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JohnOfOsgiliath on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:48AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9V6lBTIfDsPdKCohQBc5Ed5UzDbnsrI/view?usp=sharing
Me and a few friends made this design document as part of our entry to the UK CanSat competition where a high school team is required to build a probe to be launched. The probe must serve some purpose, and ours was to map the temperature and pressure of the air at different altitudes.We had the opportunity to launch it a week ago and you can find the video of our launch here:...
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JohnOfOsgiliath on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:13AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9V6lBTIfDsPdKCohQBc5Ed5UzDbnsrI/view?usp=sharing
Me and a few friends made this design document as part of our entry to the UK CanSat competition where a high school team is required to build a probe to be launched. The probe must serve some purpose, and ours was to map the temperature and pressure of the air at different altitudes.We had the opportunity to launch it a week ago and you can find the video of our launch here:...