Astronomy, Near Space, and Robotics

(Click on image to see a larger image) This is my first attempt to limb sound from near s...

Today I'm planning to solder the antenna for the ChepaBot radio controller. I purchases a SMA to SMA extension cable from Jameco for th...

I'm soldering a test board for a robot radio. To use it, you program a robot to respond to one of eight messages sent by the hand contr...

I'm working on a simple robotic arm design for the CheapBot robots. It uses two servos, one to lift the arm and the second to pul a wir...

Here are some images taken on last Saturday's mission. This one was taken shortly after balloon burst. From around 80,000 feet, we'...

I've started posting updates from the last near space mission. I'll massage some of the student Balloonsat data, but want to let th...

I helped launch two weather balloons this weekend. They were for Univeristy of Kansas and Kansas Wesylan University students. Some of thes...