Make: High-Power Rockets by Mike Westerfield
After a long wait, we now have a new book on rocketry by author Mike Westerfield. He wrote a book I often talk about here ... [Read More]
Click here for Part 1 The Big Dog is looking really good at this point.
Now it's time to attach the rail buttons and take care of a few final details. If you're just tuning in , rail buttons ... [Read More]
My schedule is all over the place. Sometimes I work late at night; sometimes early, early in the morning. All this back and forth has left me with less time than I'd like for rocket building or ... [Read More]
This post is about a current project I'm working on. Pictures of current projects will mostly appear on The Rocket N00b Facebook page , so I can focus the blog more on informative stuff for ... [Read More]
If you build your rockets well and prepare them carefully for launch, most of your flights will go well. Sometimes, however, you will have flights which do not go as planned. Any number of things can ... [Read More]
You can generate an image of your rocket in flight in the Photo Studio in OpenRocket. Now that we've run a first simulation using Estes C6-5 motors, let's try a couple things. What if I'd built the ... [Read More]
I was trying to illustrate the next post on the N00b T00b last night, with a screenshot from OpenRocket, on the MacBook Air I use for The Rocketry Show podcast. But the 3D image of designs in ... [Read More]
Jim Parsons' OpenRocket sim of the Estes Cineroc and Omega The latest episode of The Model Rocket Show podcast is up, and I'm talking with Jim Parsons. You may know Jim by the username K'Tesh on The ... [Read More]