Put all robot project stuff here
Interested in developing tech to provide the (eventual) humans the food they will need once they follow robots into space. Here are a couple of recent items related to this interest:
Providing food from space for the Earth:
https://www.space.com/space-greenhouses-nanoracks-food-crisis
Deep Space Food Challenge, a NASA Centennial Challenge:
https://questforblue.saberastro.com/
Joining in the “Quest for Blue”! Goal of this new competition out of Australia’s Saber is to design and simulate a space mission within the limits of the hypothetical seed money (US$10M) for a new startup with the end goal for the competition to kickstart a new community of space entrepreneurs. As the space industry grows around the world Saber has a goal to make the Quest series a playground of virtual exploration for smart people to propose the business concepts for #newspace projects of tomorrow.
“Quest For Blue” is a Saber Astronautics initiative that is part of their mission to lower the barriers to space flight and democratize the industry. Saber has a long history of public engagement and support, training space engineers from undergraduate through to graduate level.
2017 Chattanooga and 2019 Asheville Maker Faire Booths! In association with All 50 States Tour Group that can be found on Facebook at:
Been while since I posted but have done a bit of robot work that is out there on my new Twitch.tv channel here:
https://www.twitch.tv/ajbieee/videos
in relation to my work with the Australian Space Pioneers group:
http://spacepioneers.com.au/index.html
More coming as we prepare for the first ever Maker Faire in Asheville!
Looking to add Laser Light Detection and Ranging to my drones with a couple of the nice LIDAR units that can fit on them these days…
CHINA LAKE, CA, UNITED STATES
10.26.2016
On Oct. 26, 2016, a pair of Hornets flying above an empty part of California opened their bellies and released a robotic swarm.
Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs
After a year or two of flying some small hobby-grade drones (Syma X-11, X-5) including solar charging, I have moved on up to a mid-range drone – the Cheerson CX-20 (white drone below). This larger quadcopter drone is capable to lift Go-Pro sized high quality cameras and I have acquired a Go-Pro clone camera that is HD (1080p), 2.7K and 4K video capable to continue my adventures with aerial imaging, GPS navigation and remote operational testing.
Concept here looks good…
Shipyard 1 Diagram: This construction platform integrates a large scalable 3D printer system, enabling construction of cutting edge in-orbit, which could one day lead to thousands of people living in space as a result of the enormous lightweight pressurized volumes that could be eventually produced utilizing returned asteroid materials from a vibrant asteroid mining industry. Products fabricated include cubesats, paneling, trusses, telescope arrays, vessel furniture and domicile products, and more. Perhaps the most important capability, the production of lightweight paneling and shielding, which can be transformed into large open volumes for LEO colonization, will drive demand for asteroid returned resource materials in the 21st century.
Introducing the latest rendering concept diagram. All Rights Reserved. 2015. (c)(TM).
So a couple years back I took a online System Engineering course taught by NASA and others (SSE101: Survey of Systems Engineering) and the topic of the end of course project was a robotic Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. Here is a concept we used derived from SpaceX. I will see if I can find the project research files and final paper for download, if you are interested in more details than just the graphic just post a reply on my WordPress blog and let me know.
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