Astronomy, Near Space, and Robotics

I'm teaching 15 Idaho teachers how to make and use BalloonSats. The class is called iSTEM and for the class, I am creating BalloonSat ki...

NearSys has been developing (slowly) a new pressure sensor kit to replace the Weather Station kit that it sold back in 2009. The NearSys Pre...

One of the neatest toys on the market today is the quadcopter. These flying machines basically fly themselves - just point them and they g...

We don't need no stinking wheels. NearSys is expanding its robotic offerings with a walking robot kit. You can see a short video of the ...

There are new updates on the website. First, data from mission NearSys 04A was located and moved to the website. You can find this data at h...

NearSys is experimenting with ion chambers as an affordable radiation detector for robots and near space. The designs under experiment can...

NearSys is testing an application based on the work of Forest Mims. In thre early 1990's. Mr. Mims published on an interesting effect, L...