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This is a completely open source rocket that was launched near Bend, Oregon, USA. See psas.pdx.edu for a longer description.

Video from on board our open source rocket. See psas.pdx.edu for more info.

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www.apogeerockets.com This video shows how to use the altimeterTwo altimeter in a model rocket. Just turn it on, zero it out, drop it into the rocket, and launch! By the time you walk over to the ...

Here is the video of three rocket launches MHS Rocketry Club held in May 2011. ARLP v2.0 uses a wireless computer to connect to the launch pad's onboard router which communicates with an ATMEGA88P ...

It took some time but the apogee detector seems to finally have all the bugs worked out of it. One rocket, two beautiful flights in one day.

PSAS successfully launched "Launch Vehicle No. 2.3" (LV2's third airframe) with a roll control module and "spin can" on Sunday October 17th, 2010 at Oregon Rocketry's (OROC) Brothers' launch site. ...

Electronic altimeters are devices that measure the barometric pressure of air surrounding the flying vehicle. This video explains how they work to sense the air pressure and how accurate they are in ...

Effectiveness test of control surfaces. The first part of the fly is made with fins deflected to +9° (to reduce spontaneous rolling), at 0:32 fins were deflected to -9° to see ...

Here's my entry in the challenge. It started out as a PML Miranda from 1994 and is now serving as the base for my lander. Flight was on a Cesaroni H120R Redline motor. I got 950 feet out of it.

A proof of concept for data overlay videos. This was our October 2010 launch from onboard the rocket with graphs and displays of the altitude and velocity from the simulation. An HD version with ...

See psas.pdx.edu for more details.

See psas.pdx.edu for more details

July 31st 2011 we headed to central Oregon to launch our rocket with the same roll control as the previous launch, but this time with much of the full flight computer we have been planning for years ...

July 31st 2011 we headed to central Oregon to launch our rocket with the same roll control as the previous launch, but this time with much of the full flight computer we have been planning for years ...

What we look like behind the scenes during a launch. For more information on the launch see: psas.pdx.edu

On June 27th 2010 Portland State Aerospace Society launched a 12 foot experimental rocket to an altitude of 15600 feet. See psas.pdx.edu for more information.

Arduino compatible radio telemetry and video on board an Estes HeliCat rocket. See part one for water rocket flights.

Flashing LED assembly for Model Rockets at Night

PSAS successfully launched "Launch Vehicle No. 2.3" (LV2's third airframe) with a roll control module and "spin can" on Sunday October 17th, 2010 at Oregon Rocketry's (OROC) Brothers' launch site. ...

This tutorial explains how to modify inexpensive micro-cameras to disable the time/date datestamp overlay feature and get unobstructed video capture. This is the third and final video in this series ...

Portland State Aerospace Society rocket lifting off, captured at 600FPS. To see how fast the liftoff took in real time, watch www.youtube.com . For footage from the camera mounted on the rocket, ...

This is our footage from our rocket mounted camera during the launch of LV2c June 27th, 2010. We went to an altitude of 15600 feet. The control system (the fins you see moving) were attempting to ...

This is the 7th launch of Quad Pod II. It was launch on June 6, 2009 at an AARG club launch. It used an Apogee F10 motor, and reached a height of about 35 feet. Quad Pod II use a gyro chip to ...

This is the fourth launch of the Quad Pod II gyro-controlled rocket. This launch used an Apogee F10 motor.

A quick demo of the spin can on LV2.3 psas.pdx.edu

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See psas.pdx.edu for more details.

Part 1 of 3: This will give you an general overview of the TeleMetrum payload for high-power rocket. It transmits the GPS location of the rocket along with all the flight data (acceleration, ...

The GPS payload for high power rockets, the TeleMetrum, transmits a lot of data back down to the ground. What can you do with it? For one thing, you can export out a KML file that can be opened in ...

More info at: facebook.com Since I wasn't able to buy an altimeter yet, I decided to build a simple electronic delay timer. The video demonstrates how it works in principle. For use in a model ...

Launched at the monthly TTRA launch at the Varn ranch in Plant City, FL. I reconstructed my CINEMA 4.5 rocket to have a 39" long camcorder section with its own altimeter and main chute. Used a 70" ...

Demo of electronics installation and servo control (starting about 1/3 thru video) of GPS controlled rocket glider. Glider is intended as a test bed for a system that will recover a rocket after ...

An experiment with a model rocket that involved putting an accelerometer on board with an embedded microcomputer to record the acceleration data.

Dave Hein's Experimental gimbaled rocket

Modified a model rocket for active control during flight. An accelerometer is in the nose cone that provides an Arduino with X and Y axis measurements. The Arduino converts that to servo positions ...

This was our final project for Mr. Mac's AP Physics class. Our task was to design and build a Rube Goldberg machine of some kind, and we chose to use ours to launch an Estes rocket. After multiple ...

After being damaged from a parachute that failed to deploy, I rebuilt my cluster-capable Estes Shadow (formerly known as "Naked Shadow IV") with an electroni...

New External speaker AND External LEDS for Perfect Flite Stratto logger in use

Parachute line tangle after landing of Thrud on Skyripper H155, Flight #33 CMASS launch, Amesbury MA See nerdfever.com for more info.

2010-11-06 Thrud on Cesaroni H133, flight #33 First partly-successful navigation. CMASS launch, Amesbury MA See nerdfever.com for more info.

Flight #2 of rocket glider "Autonomy", from ground. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

Ejection tests on rocket glider. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

Flight #1 of rocket glider "Autonomy", from onboard camera. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

Flight #2 of rocket glider "Autonomy", from onboard camera. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

Flight #3 of rocket glider "Autonomy", from ground. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

Flight #3 of rocket glider "Autonomy", from onboard camera. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

Last flight of this glider. For more info see: http://nerdfever.com/?p=1576 and http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=23130

This is the third flight using the new German made Klima D9-P rocket engine. In the slow mo you can clearly see the so-called diamond shaped exhaust impulses. My homemade altimeter once again ...

This a run through of the features available on the ARLP system v1.0. The background to this project: Last year a junior in high school I decided to start the rocketry club. After launching our ...

A demonstration of the French version.

Prototype "Guided Payload Recovery" system - servo testing. First test flight scheduled for September 4th, 2011 in Grass Valley, Western Australia (Tripoli WA/ CGN Rocketry Launch).

This is John's lander entry. I hope he will take a few minutes to describe all that was planned to happen. It was by far the most ambitious launch of the weekend.

July 31st 2011 we headed to central Oregon to launch our rocket with the same roll control as the previous launch, but this time with much of the full flight computer we have been planning for years ...

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July 31st 2011 we headed to central Oregon to launch our rocket with the same roll control as the previous launch, but this time with much of the full flight computer we have been planning for years ...

July 31st 2011 we headed to central Oregon to launch our rocket with the same roll control as the previous launch, but this time with much of the full flight computer we have been planning for years ...

This is a view of Portland State Aerospace Society's third generation launch vehicle (LV2) from a hill to the East of the launch site. The rocket was 13 feet tall and ended up going over 15000 feet ...

Liftoff of PSAS rocket, seen from the ground. High-speed camera footage at www.youtube.com . See psas.pdx.edu for a full report of this launch, from Brothers, OR, on 2009-05-31.

first flight of the rockoon. engine was an aerotech f32-6t. system was tethered for safety and recoverability

This is the presentation of a project I worked on for my internship with the NASA/ASU Space Grant Program. I spoke too fast throughout the presentation, I'll take this into consideration for future ...

The Raven Altimeter is from Featherweight Altimeters www.featherweightaltimeters.com. Not shown in the video is the maximum altitude being beeped out, after you pickup and tip the landed rocket.

This is the video of the test flight of the Sparrow mk1 3d printed rocket. as you can see, the initial flight was a success though it sustained damage to several sections due to the heat, several ...

progetto di elettronica esami di maturità: il progetto è basato su logica Arduino electronic project final exams: The project is based on logic Arduino

Testing of the µMAD from Wooshtronics

Today was suppose to be the 31. flight of the ALTDuino altimeter with my "ALTDuino-Rocks!" rocket. Unfortunately things didn't go as planed. Upon ignition the rocket engine blew it's top resulting ...

Doing everything I can before my L1 Cert Flight to be creative with all stages of rocketry. Making wireless launchers is so much fun.

Taped an LED finger Light to shine up inside of an unpainted Estes BT-60 Nose Cone. The video shows how brightly the flashing light makes the nose cone light up. For a real rocket flight, the light ...