The STEM Power of Rocketry
Rocketry, at the high-power level, really offers lots of opportunities for STEM learning. I have been involved with L1 and L2 rocketry for more than a decade and the DeArmond Makerspace in Price Science...
Category: Rocketry
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...
Building Directional Antennas
In my last post I wrote about using radio beacons connected to the APRS or Automatic Packet Reporting Service for some of our DeArmond MakerSpace student’s projects. This is where a radio broadcasts data...
Pacific Northwest Aerospace Expo – 2019
Saturday September 28th, Portland State University hosted the first local Pacific Northwest Aerospace expo/conference. It is planned to be an annual event and is particularly interesting to us here at the University of Oregon...
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...
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...
NARCON – 2019
The National Association of Rocketry annual meeting was at the Kennedy Space Center this year. It’s a chance to meet up with educators and hobbyist involved with space related projects. This year was extra...
ARLISS and Rockets
This last fall members of the UO ARLISS Robotics team were extremely lucky to have ARLISS Director, Becky Green, come to the University of Oregon to give a workshop on building L1 and L2...