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1/2 scale rocket pics and Kickbox presentation

A project log for Amateur Rockets

Progress of Elon University's Rocket Team on making a rocket fly to 10,000 ft.

keeley-collinsKeeley Collins 08/05/2016 at 16:420 Comments

I'll start out with posting some of our pictures and videos from the 1/2 scale rocket launch, and then I'll detail what happened at the Kickbox presentation.

The rocket at the workshop once we finished it:

Liam attempting to look professional with the rocket:

The team at the field:

Left to right is Adam with his dog Angus, Michael, me (Keeley), Julia, Liam, and Alex

Us, setting up the rocket:

And finally, the rocket launching:

Here are videos of the launch including the one from our on board camera:

As for the kickbox presentation, I basically gave a presentation on what I've been telling all of you in front of a small group of people in the school (which was mostly just the kickboxers themselves and maybe a few friends and family) along with the other people who also did kickboxes. The event was video taped and pictures were taken, but I don't think either have been released yet (and I'm not sure they will be), but I'll keep an eye out for them on the school website and try to post a link to there when I can. I'll put up a copy of the brochure I made on this page; it's outdated at this point, but that's ok. I'll also see what I can do about putting details about our arduino altimeter and parachute up on the site.

I do actually have access to the pictures taken at the kickbox presentation, so I'll put up the ones involving my project; I don't have permission from the other kickbox people to put their faces online, so I wont:

As you can see, I'm always doing something weird with my face and hands, and in the later picture you can see our improvement to our parachute (basically the hole + the cross of fabric).

Another fun fact, I accidentally included a video in the presentation where I cuss (oops), but fortunately it wasn't too bad of a cuss word and everyone got to laugh. I learned fairly early on that I should keep my mouth shut during videos of rocket launches, or else I say stupid things.

I should also mention that I finally have a picture of our arduino altimeter. It sort of works in that it can read the altitude, but the display on it doesn't work and the battery wont power it (we're not sure why, it may not be charged and we're not sure how to charge it).

The back of the altimeter:

The front along with it's battery, switch (not attached), and the display that it was supposed to have (the little red piece below it):

The arduino has a 7 segment led display on it and it's supposed to have the little red bubble display. The code was written for the bubble display, so that's probably the reason our display doesn't work. So why doesn't the altimeter have the right display? Well, the bubble display took 4 months to ship. I just got it this summer. I was not happy. Maybe we can get it to work now though.

As a fair warning, I probably won't post anything too soon after this because we'll be busy starting up for the new school year, recruiting members, ect. Once we get started though, I'll write something about our plan for the new year.

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