Here's a thread of my recent projects, starting with the most recent and working backwards until I get tired of it. 😀 Most of these will be #rocketry related.
St. Louis Rocketry Association has a night launch around Halloween. This year I brought "Ghost Goblin," an #Estes Goblin with an #LED lit skull in place of a nose cone. Unfortunately, the wind carried it into the trees far out of reach of the Poking Stick. (Second photo by Carmelo Turdo, The Aero Experience Blog.)
This is my other Halloween night #rocket, the one in the background of the first photo in the previous post. "Swamp Gas" is a scratch built saucer rocket with a two-meter strand of #Adafruit #NeoPixels around its outer rim. The lights are driven by an Adafruit Trinket on a carrier #PCB I designed to add a DIP switch and the necessary connectors.
Last year's flight on an F26 motor: https://youtu.be/KtkhaTuiWWw
This year's flight on a G79 motor: https://youtu.be/YqoUX-9hGzY
https://github.com/DanCrank/swamp-gas
This is my most recent #HighPowerRocket build, from last year. This is my first attempt at a two-stage rocket - a Wildman Shapeshifter Jr. named "Gravity's Just a Habit" after the OK Go lyric.
The first flight was underpowered and under-stable, and thus the second stage did not ignite. I'm hoping to get another chance to fly it soon, with a higher-thrust booster motor and some added nose weight.
First flight: https://youtu.be/51VxrD8TOVA
I've already messed up my reverse-chronological-order idea, so here's today's #highPowerRocketry #project post: Buster, my level 3 certification build from 2016. It's named after the crash test dummy from Mythbusters. This is the biggest rocket I've built, and the biggest one I'm likely to build. It's a lot of work (and expense) to fly! The launch photo was taken by my L3CC's wife, and unfortunately I don't know her name to give her proper credit.
More info on my wiki at https://danno.org/RocketWiki/index.php/Buster
Dan Crank