dharak1

Shouldn't this be in the science labs?

I am attempting to get past Gigameters. The next unit appears to be M, anyone have any idea what that could mean? m = 1 k = 1000 M = 1000000 G = 1000000000 M = ? trillion? EDIT: It turns out it is T and T = 1000000000000. Time for Y!

How will we merge saves?

Sounds like a good plan to me. I might steal it. I still need to order stuff like accelerometers, urethane and other things.

A project you might want to look into is one called KCBP where we build stations and bases, you can find it under the thread in the spirit of cooperation and competition. We just finished our first two stations and I think we have imbalanced teams.

If you look down at the center if the system from kerbin's north pole and with the mun at the bottom of the screen to go straight up and go to kerbin you would have to be on the left side of the mun. I think.

No, This is still in question. I think the largest possibility is I am getting signals from the ghost world and they are attempting to possess my arduino.

So it was picking up random signals? Problem solved. No idea what I can do now...

So would that urethane work? I would love to get a working engine by new years.

I am a total noob when it comes to anything electronic. I saw a TX pin on the arduino and my mind popped to radio. I had the servo taking 5V power from the arduino and A curled up 2 foot length of wore on each end as antennas. Obviously not this easy as now I see there are whole shields for wireless. I have no idea what the servo could have been doing. Could it have been power changes? I noticed when you plug in a servo it twitches a bit. This was making full rotations in one go. EDIT: Ok i lied, I didn't want to admit it but i used some meccano parts for the transmitter and receiver. I think they worked better than wire. EDIT2: A quick video I made of what i have going on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwNOrYnN0k&feature=youtu.be

I was playing with an arduino trying to transmit signals to a servo. I put together an antenna for the servo and one for the arduino to transmit. I wrote some code and uploaded it. It made the servo sweep. I plugged it in and all of a sudden the servo was picking up signals from pin 14 for communications on the arduino. When I made full contact between the two antennas the movement as smooth and when separated the movement jittered. One problem, the servo didn't sweep. I thought this was just because I didn't put a delay at the end of the loop. Now a few minutes ago I was testing antennas and I found out the smoothest ones. Then I noticed when I made contact between the two antennas that the transmitting one wasn't plugged in. Keep in mind that the arduino couldn't be controlling it because the signal cable on the servo wasn't plugged in to a pin just hooked up to an antenna. It worked much better when it was put to the unplugged transmit antenna, the larger one. Was my servo picking up random signals? Is that even possible? Was it radio or someone else on a micro-controller?

I found some urethane mixes not sure they are meant to be burned. Here they are: http://www.smooth-on.com/Urethane-Rubber-an/c6_1117/index.html Would any of these work? If they do I am one step closer to a rocket. If they don't where do you buy yours? While I wait to find urethane I need to sak the construction teacher at my school if I can use the metal lathe at school to thread some pipes and make a nozzle.

I see. I will for sure read that when I get home from school. The people in the video used polyurethane but in the clear hoses you can buy. EDIT: Read the page and looked at a few rockets like Baby heat and Heat 1x. I want you guys to know you are my inspiration and I doubt I will ever do anything as amazing as you. I hope this rocket works and if it does I will keep going. You will be the first people I mention if I ever get anything to space proper.

I wouldn't expect one too soon I need to do testing with this stuff.

Swimming on Titan would be the most horrifying things ever to happen. Especially in a spacesuit. Restricted movement slow reactions and the fact if you are alone you would probably drown and sink until you ran out of oxygen. At the bottom of a -270c lake with no waves under a dark orange sky.

I never though about gas giant orbits... being on Ganymede or Io would be cool seeing the other moons.

Of course there are a few things like guaranteed return and no radiation. I just thought it would be fun to see where people want to go! I couldn't do a poll because there are hundreds of things in the solar system. I would personally go to Titan.

I feel so special getting help on rockets from Copenhagen Suborbitals! I know paraffin is weak but not that weak! I guess I will use rubber. Keep in mind initial tests with stationary rockets will be done on my grandparents acreage until I can buy some super cheap land near Drumheller AB. I hear it can get as cheap as 250$ an acre. What kind of rubber were you talking about that starts liquid? Is it some supersaturated thing I can make or should I just order it?

I checked graphite prices. Around 1.50$ a pound. I have no idea where to buy it by the pound though. How would i make the plates out of it? Do I just cut up blocks?

By ring do you mean something like an engine bell? I might take that route now. I could cool it with LOX before and during flight. I can also make it using liquid nitrogen. What would you recommend I make it out of? I was thinking steel or something.

How funny, I was looking at some accelerometers for arduino a few days ago. I found one with no Z axis that could be used for guidance then I could have another one with a Z to avoid mistakes in coding. http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Memsic2125?from=Tutorial.AccelerometerMemsic2125 That's the accelerometer I was looking at. I want this rocket to be safe. If I use the plates for diverting thrust would tungsten be a good start? It has the highest melting point of any element I know. I don't think it's very expensive either. EDIT: Tungsten can get as low as 35$ a kilo for industrial use. I might end up using around 500 grams but it's always good to have extra.

That's what I forgot to say, Asia and Africa. In poor and underdeveloped countries it's difficult to control birth rates. Based on my family I can already tell the 3 child family is an exception. My grandparents had 5 kids the last one was born in 1983. They have 9 grandchildren. Less than 2 grandchildren per child. Its the same with my other grandparents. 2 kids and 2 grandchildren. Then you have my great aunt who has like 3 kids and 4 grandchildren. You can see how older families have more than 2 children but now have 2 or less. Most of the world population is in Asia and Africa.

I ca put together something with an arduino for that. How would I control the flight with it though? I was going to use fins but that's probably not going to be enough. Would I have to use something like Copenhagen suborbitals with the little servo controlled plates to divert thrust?

For all we know portals are only light speed travel. In the game the farthest you go using them is only a few hundred meters at most. There could be a strange ether state that you stay in for a split second in between transport. For portal it would be the time it takes to travel from wall to wall at the speed of light. Say you were going to proxima centauri. You would enter the portal and stay in that state for more than 4 years.

Pretty cool! What happens to the sun? I would imagine it to look like a hole in the sun spilling out tons of hydrogen. Would this not result in a MASSIVE explosion in space if used on the sun? If it was on Venus it might work.