Aaron DeVries

@Aaron_DeVries
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He/him, DIY Aerospace, game dev, 3D modeling, 3Dprinting, writer, Terran 🌎
I make things.

I needed a fantasy map maker I could use to make a background texture for the dungeon crawler game I've been working on, and I found this neat little open source one. It has a bunch of tools to draw land, sea, terrain, roads ECT. It works remarkably well and I want to share this with anyone else who may find it interesting.

https://jandjheydorn.com/nortantis

#fantasy #art

Nortantis Fantasy Map Creator — J. and J. Heydorn

Nortantis is a free, open-source fantasy map generator and editor, created by an author for authors. With it, you can quickly generate a random world, then fine tune it to match the world for your story.

J. and J. Heydorn

I might start selling wood cubesat frames on my shop. The frame is still experimental, but it's easily customizable, lightweight and cheaper then other cubesat frames (aluminum ones are $1000+ where I can sell this for $400 - $500). Can also work with balloons or as a test frame for a conventional build. So if someone wants to take a chance on it why not?

I highly doubt I'll ever sell one but hey, you never know.

#space #science #tech

My last custom model order was for a 7 foot tall minuteman I ICBM. I love seeing the finished models fully painted and with decals. Like the Dyna-Soar, I just made the model, the client printed and painted it.

Although I mostly sell miniatures, I do offer a selection of 1:1 scale items, such as a full size M388 Davy Crockett nuclear bomb, A Soviet Prop-M Mars rover, Soviet mag fed laser pistol (fully articulated) and STL files to print your very own Demon Core!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ADMiniatures

#etsy #nuclear #space #science #3dprinting #3dmodeling

Awesome image from Artemis.
Big!

This is so real, Before it's launch I thought I didn't care about Artemis. But turns out when spaceflight is devoid of SpaceX it's actually cool again and makes me feel that wonder I thought I lost. I now actually care about this mission a lot.

Also excited for China's moon missions, Spaceflight is so much better without tech bros.

Beautiful shot & beautiful metaphor. The "Man in the Moon" drifting off at right. The lunar farside coming into view at left. (Processing: Damian Peach)

From the evolution of the eye, ~500 million years ago, until October 7, 1959, no creature on Earth had ever seen the far side of the Moon. #space #science #artemis #technology

In the 1957 Disney feature "Mars and Beyond" there is this little segment about media depictions of Mars including the war of the Worlds. The animation is silly but the martian fighting machine walk cycle is fun and interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7fFJ-hIIs0

Cool War of the Worlds Segment from Disneys “Mars and Beyond”

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I'm thinking of getting a small used cargo van and filling it with astronomy stuff. Make it a mobile observatory/camper.