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Highlights of recent developments on the MiniSShot Project
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-Alberto has updated the Gallery page with images of the nosecone
fabrication:
http://www.sugarshot.org/gallery/minisshot_nosecone.html
- Knut has updated the Donor page with some of the recent donor names:
http://www.sugarshot.org/sponsors.html
- Hans has submitted photos of the completed chute controller s/n 02:
http://www.sugarshot.org/downloads/img_2193.jpg
http://www.sugarshot.org/downloads/img_2196.jpg
http://www.sugarshot.org/downloads/img_2199.jpg
-Richard, Hans & Ed Mallory held a Skype call yesterday to discuss
avionics. Action items resulted for Ed relating to the prototype booster
avionics & reseaching a transmitter/receiver for Craig's DTMF unit. Hans
will be investigating the possibility of interfacing the chute
controller to the R-DAS flight computer via the R-DAS serial port.
- Richard has made progress with regard to the application of the
ablative layer on the midbulkhead ( ablative serves as a thermal
insulator to minimize heat transfer to the fibreglass casing, and
consists of epoxy filled with glass microballoons). A special casting
mould was fabricated and a "vibrating table" (usually used for
propellant casting) used to coax the thick mixture into the narrow flow
channels:
http://sugarshot.org/downloads/mould1.jpg
http://sugarshot.org/downloads/mould2.jpg
http://sugarshot.org/downloads/mould-vibtable.jpg
http://sugarshot.org/downloads/mouldfilled.jpg
http://sugarshot.org/downloads/midbulkhead_assembly.pdf
- Cliff Bates has donated $100 to the Sugar Shot project and Dustin
Brown has contributed another $25. Thanks, gents for your generosity and
your continued faith in the Sugar Shot program....!
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