For 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
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".
Just in case no one told you, the new version of #OpenRocket has an .OBJ export feature.
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