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Project Build Session – DIY Space Exploration

Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Chapter Updates on November 4, 2010

Sat, Dec 18, 2010

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Location:
Space Travelers Emporium (map)
1947 30th St. San Diego, CA 92102

Interested in building something? Get together with other SD Space members to work on space-related projects.

This month’s Saturday build session includes a special DIY Space workshop.

What is DIY Space?

If Space 1.0 was a “one-size-fits-all” approach with NASA controlling everything, then Space 2.0 depends upon “massive participation,” harnessing enthusiasm and expertise in places around the globe.

Space 2.0 represents the open sourcing of space exploration, a new model that could lead to faster, cheaper ways to develop space technologies.

It’s also a call for makers to participate in research and development. Just as we’re seeing amateurs play a role in astronomy and other fields, amateurs will be undertaking projects in support of a next-generation space program.

We’ll take a page from Make magazine’s “DIY Space” issue and build one of the projects listed inside. The options include how to build your own homebrew satellites that take payloads into near-space and even into orbit, building fast, cheap gadgets to analyze galactic spectra or eavesdrop on the space station, plus a variety of space-related projects seeking the participation of makers like you, from smartphone satellites to lunar mining robots.

We’ll have a shortened meeting to decide what Space project we’ll build, then plan it out – from defining the team, obtaining materials, determining constructions sessions, to testing and finally using our completed project! Then we’ll gather again in January and build our space project! Here’s your chance to join in and do some DYI Space.

Members and the public are welcome to attend, but please register by Dec. 16th. RSVP to events@sdspace.org to participate.

Note: We recommend that parents participate with their children; children
under 10 must have a parent present for the entire workshop.

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