Passive Heat Design – Revisited
One of the really cool hands-on projects that allows students to explore, test their design skills, and challenge their understanding of materials science is a solar hotbox project. I have blogged on these before,...
Category: MakerSpaces
High School Engineering
One of my fun outreach programs is an engineering club at a local high school, Sheldon. We have built robots, rockets, and radios. Now students are building remote control airplanes. These are relatively cheap...
Bio-engineering and Prosthetic Design
In conjunction with the Bio-engineering club out of Mike Hahn’s group in Human Physiology, The DeArmond MakerSpace helped with the creation of a prosthesis for a local young man. The mid-arm section was...
ARLISS Autonomous Navigating Robots 2019 – Trekking Across the Desert
The UOregon Rover Once again our ARLISS (A Rocket Launch for international Student Satellites) team from the University of Oregon competed in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. This annual event is inspirational for...
Visualizing Proteins – SAIL
In conjunction with Raghu Parthasarathy’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL) class on biophysics, we worked with the students in the Price Science Common’s VizLab to get them to review and visually analyze...
SCGIS & Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station
OK, so the only part of this entry that is related to me is that I worked to schedule this behind-the-scenes tour with colleagues that work at the Marine Station. It’s not much...
Eugene 4J WISE Symposium – Women in Science & Engineering
We at the DeArmond Makerspace were very happy to have an invite to speak at the Women In Science & Engineering (WISE) Symposium this year. Our talented programming, robotic, and rocketry “engineer in training”...
High Powered Rocketry – L1 Style
Our intrepid High Powered Level 1 Rocketeers. All passed the L1 certification and are now members of an elite group. The UO Rocketry team traveled to Brothers, Oregon for the OROC Spring Thunder public...
ORESAT – Oregon’s CubeSat MicroSatellite Project
In the late summer or early fall of 2020, the ORESAT satellite, with the help of NASA’s cubesat program, will be loaded onto what we believe will be a SpaceX Dragon rocket and...
What is Technology? – UO
Just back from the “What is Technology?” Conference up in Portland, Oregon this Weekend. What a trip. The conference was wonderful, and I met some very interesting folks and had some great conversations. ...