The Benefit of HAM Radio
A set of 2-meter / 70-cm Handheld radios with some other functions including GPS, temperature, FM Radio, and APRS tracking, a 10-meter radio, a 2-meter radio beacon, a remote camera and other odds and...
Category: Robotics
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...
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...
RoboSub International Competition – San Diego
Arizona State University Polytechnic It was fun to check out the RoboSub competition at NIWC Pacific TRANSDEC, in San Diego this week. The event challenges students to build a submersible vehicle that can autonomously...
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”...
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. ...
Matt Anderson – Learning Glass
It was very cool to have past UO PhD Physics student and now SDSU professor, Matt Anderson, speak last Friday on his work with Learning Glass, a system he developed for teaching, so that...
Sheldon Engineering
One recent partnership that has really taken off recently is our new engineering club at Sheldon High School here in Lane County, Oregon. In existence since October of 2018, we believe it is the...
Building Autonomously Navigating UAVs
It is great to see efforts pay off. Another colleague and I helped get a student building the quadcopter in this picture. The student ran with the project, finished the drone, and is now...