proteus-h

Carrizo Plain, California

I visited Carrizo Plain National Monument, a remote valley in California, this past weekend to see the current wildflower show. Unlike last month when I was the...

Cheap FM Radio Transmitter: Teardown

Hello all - it's been awhile since I last posted. Let's get to it. Sitting on my desk for the past month is a small battery powered FM transmitter sold by Strai...

SteemSTEM Distilled #95

Welcome to the 95th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team. Let's try to make distilled great again! Or at least ...

Hazard Reef, central California

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California scrub jay at Montana de Oro, California

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My X-Ray emitter device built from a barbecue lighter

Recently I completed a small project - I created a little X-ray radiation source using a barbecue lighter and a vacuum tube. When you pull the trigger, a short ...

Harmony Headlands, California, from above

I finally licensed my drone so I can use the photos for "commercial" (Steemit) purposes now. Here's a shot of Harmony Headlands, a state park north of Cayucos, ...

NASA's Insight Mars Lander Mission

Early this morning, the Insight mission launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket on a trajectory to the planet Mars. This large machine, weighing almost a ton at takeo...

SteemSTEM Distilled #46

Welcome to the 46th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team. SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks t...

Inside an inexpensive E-reader device

About a month ago I discovered that my e-reader (which I use to store textbooks and a few other books that I occasionally read) had been smashed. It had been in...

What is an orbit? Part 3: Orbital Transfers

In this writeup I'm going to discuss how a spacecraft can go from one orbit to another, and hopefully make it as intuitive as possible. Transferring between two...

What is an orbit? Part 2: Common types of orbits

Today I'd like to briefly discuss various common types of orbital trajectories that many satellites above your head use to complete their missions. Since a give...

Digital Images | Image Acquisition

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What exactly is an orbit? An Introduction

After several very busy weeks and a Physics GRE, I finally have another article. Today I'd like to discuss the basics of (gravitational) orbits - namely, why th...

Looking east from the Laguna mountains near San Diego

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Hoodoo in Bryce Canyon, Utah

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Moonrise over Zion Canyon, Utah

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Say Hello To DBooks: A Book Publishing Platform On STEEM - Publish Your Books And Earn.

Introduction steemit is a social platform, where people share their original contents and get rewarded for them according to the strength of the upvotes gotten ...

Teardown/Explanation of a Bluetooth Selfie-Stick

Another cheap Bluetooth device teardown today. I recently purchased (at my local dollar store of course) a pink wireless selfie-stick. I don't really take selfi...

California Coast North of San Simeon

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