Skyler's daily Summer contract requires him to do a science experiment with me on Monday's. After lots of debate, and lots of refusal of many ideas, we came up with one yesterday morning. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) a flyable model rocket! An hour of printing later, we were off to the park to launch it.
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| Directional fins done. Printing the nose cone. |
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| On our way down to the park. He's carrying the launch controller. |
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| Armed on the launchpad. |
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| Ready to fire! |
We didn't expect to recover anything from the launch since the rocket is called "disposable". The sucker went up at least 1,000 feet! Much to our surprise we actually found this:
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| The nosecone was long gone but we found the motor and fins at the very end of the park. The motor was still hot when I picked it up! A little heat damage aside, it's still flyable at least one more time. |
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