Zeitgeisty Aphorisms#Artemis dies when #OpenRocket is born.
#Artemis dies when #OpenRocket is born.
Anthony HortonFor anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about but is interested anyway, almost 3 years ago I starting trying to design from scratch 3D printed model rockets to carry a small video camera and altitude logger while remaining as small and light a possible.
I spent quite a bit of time fiddling around in FreeCAD and OpenRocket and 3D printing prototype parts trying to come up with something that could carry the payload while being both light enough to fly well and tough enough to survive the flight. Eventually this resulted in a series of lights in late 2022, and here are the results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4I2bufpGQc
3D printed rockets - first flights
concretedogHad a great session last night teaching #rocket design to 11 interested people of all ages! Showing off #opensource tools #Openrocket and the fabulous @FreeCAD rocket workbench. #FreeCAD
Just had my talk confirmed for #fosdem in the new year... of course it's all things #opensource #rocketry with heavy lashings of #freecad and #openrocket :) You can preview the talk
outline here... https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/talk/review/WA3SVS9KASW7UUZTEJPMMSTFWPAZFCZS
outline here... https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/talk/review/WA3SVS9KASW7UUZTEJPMMSTFWPAZFCZS
Opensource Rocketry and Tools, FreeCAD and beyond. FOSDEM 2025
Rocketry has its challenges but there are numerous open source tools available to enable the design, simulation and manufacture of amateur, high power and experimental air frames. In this talk Jo will show some of these tools and usage highlighting along the way how it’s only open source community development that could possibly enable such interesting and interoperable tools to be developed. Jo is a technical author, maker, and community developer who has an interest in space. Jo has developed and flown numerous open source rocket designs and has pushed the development of opensource rocketry tools. Jo has worked with Libre Space Foundation who built and launched a completely opensource satellite off the international space station as well as other on orbit opensource space projects. Jo has a wide range of clients he writes for and is the author of “FreeCAD for Makers” available for free download from the Raspberry Pi Press and also wrote "Design an RP2040 board with KiCad".
Ω 🌍 Gus PoseyJust in case no one told you, the new version of #OpenRocket has an .OBJ export feature.
Enjoy your life more now.
I've just blogged about @FreeCAD rocketry workbench and how beautifully interoperable it is in many ways with the equally fabulous #openrocket If you are into #rocketry there are so many unique and interesting workflows for part creation that I hint at in this blog!
https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2023/10/freecad-and-openrocket-fabulous.html
https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2023/10/freecad-and-openrocket-fabulous.html
app4soft🚀🌍 #OpenRocket 22.xx (test) build with a built-in Dark (& Light) theme: https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket/pull/2261
💡 #2d #3d #cad #freecad #rocketworkbench #fc3d #rocket #rocketry #diy #engineering
💡 #2d #3d #cad #freecad #rocketworkbench #fc3d #rocket #rocketry #diy #engineering
[#1089] Add dark mode theme & custom UI font size by SiboVG · Pull Request #2261 · openrocket/openrocket
This PR fixes #1089 and implements a dark mode theme to OR using the Darklaf library (which looks a bit better than the FlatLaf dark mode theme). Additionally, you can also change the UI font size ...
@DavesRocketShop vNARCON-2023 Presentation, #OpenRocket Update — What’s new, by Billy Olsen and Joe Pfeiffer (video) https://youtu.be/o0fXF_Sj7QQ
OpenRocket Update—What’s new!
🚀🌍 #OpenRocket 22.02 released - https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket/releases/tag/release-22.02
Dave Cook's (@DavesRocketShop) extensive component library now is built-in.
For
#FreeCAD Dave Cook is developing the #RocketWorkbench - https://github.com/davesrocketshop/Rocket
Latest version of the #Rocket Workbench supports import OpenRocket (.ork) assembly files into FreeCAD - https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?p=652444#p652444
💡 #2d #3d #cad #fc3d #rocketry #diy #engineering
Dave Cook's (@DavesRocketShop) extensive component library now is built-in.
For
#FreeCAD Dave Cook is developing the #RocketWorkbench - https://github.com/davesrocketshop/RocketLatest version of the #Rocket Workbench supports import OpenRocket (.ork) assembly files into FreeCAD - https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?p=652444#p652444
💡 #2d #3d #cad #fc3d #rocketry #diy #engineering
