Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Another festive Season is nearly over and perhaps you are a little bogged down with unwanted gifts or surplus pointless gadgetry. Well before you reach for the bin or wander down to the dump remember “there is no AWAY!” and besides you could divert this stuff to the future of eco-friendly space travel. Who knows, that executive golf ball shooter could contain a nifty little launch circuit, your old bluetooth mobile phone could be the basis for a remote control device.
I have just been busy commandeering a plastic wok protector as a mould for the next prototype of the ufocopter. A mould for what you might ask? Well paper mache could be a good solution. Paper Mache and pasta circuit boards. Now we are talking!
Pasta Circuitboards
Last summer I went to see the Pixar Exhibition at the Science Museum in London. While there, apart from some fantastic examples of early flying machines as well as some newer novel space vehicles, there was a small section called Dead Ringers which was warning about the growing mobile phone mountain. It had a novel solution that was being used in Japan on new mobile phones, one of using pasta circuit boards.
http://www.ituniv.se/~klang/wrote/2006/09/04/edible-computers/
I thought this could be a greener solution for OPSA. So I just went out and got some lasagne. Its a bit wonky and my soldering skils are also a little spidery but what the hell. I’m game.
Watch this space and I’ll try something simple from Teach yourself Electronics.
First Launch Success
First Launch Success
On Sunday July 3rd 2005, we launched our first vehicle spaceward. It was an Estes Code Red Model Rocket which has acheived an average altitude over three flights of 157.86m (517.91 ft)
This is a new personal record. Congratulations to the team on their first steps on a long and interesting journey into space.
Jon Bobbins O.P.S.A Director
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