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A Rocket Telemetry System
In preparation for competing in Battle of the Rockets 2024 with my university rocket club, I was tasked with creating a telemetry system to meet the requirements for the Deployable Sensor Payload event. In this eve...
Embedded Rust is cool!
I've started to work on modifying an old CCTV camera pan-tilt mount to use as a satellite tracking device for receiving radio signals (and maybe for a telescope?), and during this process I have needed to write som...
Bad Apple on a MiniDisc Player
So... I got Bad Apple!! to play on a MiniDisc player. The process was interesting, so I'll write about what I did, but before that, check it out!! Now that you've seen it, the basic premise behind how it works is...
Satellite Imagery Update
I spent some more time receiving images from various weather satellites, not limited to the NOAA ones but also including the Meteor satellites from Russia. I made some more attempt...
Software Defined Fun
Over Christmas, I received an RTL-SDR USB dongle which is totally awesome! It's a little USB dongle radio that can receive on a very wide range of frequencies, all the way from dow...
A Really Retro TV (and a Cyberdeck?)
When I saw the TV on Ebay, I knew I had to have it. When browsing Ebay for an unrelated reason, I found a listing for a TV, claiming to be from JCPenney in 1978. I did some more...
Adventures in Photography, c. 1998 - 2001
I recently received an old Sony Mavica digital camera for my birthday... The camera is the MVC-FD75, a digital camera from 2001 that writes to 3.5" floppy disks. I had only he...
Space Images
I used my cellphone for most of the pictures, a Galaxy S10. For the shot of Jupiter I used a DSLR, a Pentax K-3. Most of the images only had light post-processing. I had trouble ge...