Hello,
This website is meant to act as a showcase of projects that I have worked on. As I am studying Aerospace Engineering most of my projects are tangentially related to it. I’m hoping to structure this website in the following way
- Project pages – These are pages dedicated to the overview of a project. They will mainly answer the questions of what the project is and why am I working on it.
- Subject pages – These are pages dedicated to specific topics in the project if I feel I need a large amount of space to adequately expand on the topic. In general these pages will answer the question of how or dive into the background of the project in greater detail.
- Posts – These will be less structured but will often act as a more real time supplemental to the project pages and cover individual events or attempts at trying to do something. For example an astrophotography subject page may cover how to take photos of the moon while a blog post tagged with astrophotography may be about a single night I went out to take photos of the moon. There may be some crossover in content and I will most likely double dip in using photos. Blog posts may also be completely extraneous to the projects and contain things like my opinion of a new IDE I tried out or a topic I just think is cool but cant really be fit in any project.
The projects that I’m planning on covering right now are the following (In no particular order)
- Astrophotography – I haven’t actually started this project but I’ve been wanting to and may finally have access to a good telescope, camera, and most importantly the free time to actually do it. I’ll share techniques, basic theory, and definitely photos taken.
- Nanosatellites – For the last 3 years I worked on GLADOS, a space debris detecting nanosatellite being built for the Air Force Research Lab. I’ve gone from starting on the integration and testing subsystem to being the Science lead for satellite. I’ll talk about my experiences with building a nanosat.
- Research – I’m involved in several current research projects. They range from estimation methods to non-invasive biomedical sensors. I’ll probably give a 10,000 foot overview of it and wont post on active research topics until after they have been published or I think they have been fleshed out thoroughly.
- Rocketry – This will be broken up into high power rocketry (HPR) and experimental rocketry. High power rocketry are like model rockets just bigger, much bigger. If you want a more exact definition see this page from NAR. Experimental rocketry is a little harder to define but I will try to define it here as designing and building rocket components and supporting test equipment from scratch. This will be covering things like mixing and testing rocket motors, wrapping my own fiberglass, making my own flight computer, etc …
As time goes on and I work on new projects I plan on adding them to this site so this list is not complete and final. However I don’t plan on updating this post every time I add a new project to this site. This post is just me roughly sketching out what I plan for this site to be.
One side note just before I end this first post. Science and engineering don’t happen in a bubble, they are team sports. Each project that I work on has some interactions with many other people and I’ll try to give credit as credit is due but this I’ll also try to balance out their right to privacy.
Thank you,
Ari Rubinsztejn