Category Archives: Thoughts

The Ultimate Open Source

Safely tucked away in every manned spacecraft that leaves Earth for other places should be a very important book. A book that will tell people how to go from pounding stones to building their own spacecraft. Every step and option in between will be covered. A how-to of all that humanity has done since it […]

Neon Lamps as Sensors

I have no idea how I found them. I remember browsing the Mouser catalog. At some point between finding screw terminal blocks and supercapacitors, they just caught my attention. Neon Lamps! They just grabbed my attention. It’s coming back to me now. I was looking at gas discharge tubes for some pretty straight-forward oscillators. With […]

Projects I am Working On

I have to put this down somewhere. I need a list of things that I want to be working on. Some of these are in various stages of completeness. Heat Transfer Project controller. One of my old DemoSAT buddies needs me to put together a controller for his heat transfer project that is going up […]

My Own Blog

Alright, here it is, my very own blog. I have written for Hack a Day, but this is my very own, just for and about me blog. I expect to be writing about my electronics work, my MakerBot operations, my thoughts, the music I listen to, and life. I have this blog setup on my […]