After working on the Lunar Flashlight mission for about 2 years, I’m excited to have a paper in this year’s Small Satellite Conference proceedings. It details the propulsion system’s controller development including design and test campaigns, and is accessible here.
As I graduated this month, Georgia Tech’s school of Aerospace Engineering interviewed me about my time at Georgia Tech including my work over the past 16 months on JPL’s Lunar Flashlight mission. It is available here as well as below.
As a user of EAGLE for a number of years, I’ve often run into its limitations. This summer, I was trying to design an odd-shaped board and I realized there was no good way to do so within EAGLE.
I was hoping for some way of drawing bezier curves, but EAGLE only offers straight lines and arcs for drawing board outlines. I looked into EAGLE User Language Programs (ULPs) and ended up writing a program capable of drawing complicated shapes within EAGLE, utilizing EAGLE’s built-in bitmap ULP.
This week I purchased a 2015 MacBook Pro. After it arrived yesterday, I opened it up to check the internal components. The heatsink stood out; it was obvious too much thermal paste had been applied. I’ve never seen this much thermal paste on a Mac before, so I assume it was done by a careless third party.
I was specifically concerned that the extra paste could flake off over time and short out components in the laptop. With this in mind, I removed the thermal paste and applied a much more modest amount.
Ever since creating my original LED Matrix, I knew there were ways to make it better. The most obvious upgrade was to fit it on a printed circuit board, but my work on this PCB design stalled as I was busy with other things. In Summer 2018 I began working on this project again, finishing the design and manufacturing a few boards as a proof of concept.