I think you would do better with hard TPUs than ABS. 98A is really indestructible, while also holding its shape. My lab uses it heavily on drones. 75D is more like the hardness of ABS, but also much more robust. The disadvantage is just heat deflection. Extremely cool actuation system though.
How about making a system for the drone you use to drop this, where it detects the beam from an IR laser embedded inside of a stratagem ball (complete with 455nm laser for realism, of course), flies to it, and releases the pod at that spot? That's a 20 million view video, right there. lol
For close to a decade I have thought that Space Stations in LEO like the ISS should have pods like this for emergency evacuations. essentially drop pod lifeboats. (for clarity more akin to the ODST drop pods from Halo.)
Technically systems engineer 3 lol but my degree is in Aerospace Engineering. But many of my coworkers are titled in Manufacturing Engineering or Mechanical. Where I went to school, we had AE be inclusive of both of those but that varies by place. Operations Engineer is technically what i do but at Sierra that rolls up under Systems Engineering as kind of a catch all for some stuff!
very cool project. I´m realy interessted in the real project "deploy stuff from orbit" that you are working on. Is there any way to learn about that project? Also since I was a kid and read the novel "starship troopers" i´m somewhat hopeing for a "human cannon" to bring personal back to the planet from orbit. In todays world i imagine a "realistic" envoirement would be some sort of emergency capsule on the ISS or any future spacestation. You just enter the capsule, and get "shot" back to earth in case of an emergency that requires immideate abandon of the station. the Person in the capsule would either land like with a "helldiver droppod", or (my personal favorite because its closer to the book) - the capsule would desintegrate in the atmosphere, and the person would go down the rest of the way by parachute. Felix Baumgartner and others showed that veryhighaltitudeparachuteing is possible, so i don´t think that a "rescue pod system" like this is "to far fetched" from reality. What are your thoughts on this?
Been following closely on Instagram, such an awesome project. I think working on a real spacecraft (and such an awesome one) is a higher priority though 😅
just a small tipp: You seem to be using brass heatset inserts that are designed for injection molding. The ones designed to be pushed it are designed differently, usually with "herringbone" teeth. They do bond quite a bit better to the plastic than the ones for injection molding.
That means a lot coming from the master!! Thanks man! I hope it delivers on things. The SLA printing for all the like 16x repeated parts was a game changer.
I think we can all let being a little late in the zeitgeist slide on the count of you actually making orbital drop pods IRL 🤣 also glad to know the actual term for cosine throttling, I've been wanting to try something like that after watching Joes landing saga
this design requires spherical construction like a tiny planetarium and glass blown features or mould cast steel, possibly magnetic to allow a light to move over the plants from a 'created east point' to a 'created west point' changing the angle daily to mimic seasonal changes found in the natural earth environment.
