Blogs about my passions

Ship (left) and Booster (right) One of the things I've been working on in my free time is a 3D 1:100 scale model of SpaceX's Starship (almost 4 ft tall). I found the design on thingaverse and thought it would be cool to print my own. Printing all of the pieces took a little over the month, as some of the parts took over a day to print. On top of that my 3D printer broke twice while in between prints, and a few of that prints failed due too a clogged extruder, and the part be

For two weeks of the summer I was doing a virtual AI summer course from Inspirit AI where I learned how AI models work and I along with a couple others made our own model that detects exoplanets. If you don't know what exoplanets are, they are any plan et that is outside of our solar system and orbits a star. Exoplanet detection project & training data During the first week of the course, we learned how AI models worked and how to train them in Python. To do this we use kno

My inspiration - Joe Barnard Joe Barnard Every since I became interested to aerospace/rockets, I have watched videos from Joe Barnard on YouTube who runs BPS.Space . For about 8 years, his goal was to propulsively land a model rocket and in 2021 he successfully did it for the first time! Joe was able to do this by using thrust vector control to control the rocket down to land. His goal now to get to space using a rocket completely built by himself. Designing my own Thrust V

Since I still had the supplies for the original science fair model rocket I was going to build from scratch, I decided to go ahead and make it. However I decided for fun that I would add on another body tube which gave the rocket its extra height. In order to secure both tubes together I used a coupler, then added 4 screws on both the top and bottom section to put the two together. This worked well except in order to put the nut on the end of the screw (inside the rocket body

Booster 9 During my family's Christmas trip down to Texas to see our cousins, my mom, dad, and I got the chance to take the long road trip down from San Antonio Texas, to Boca Chica (now Starbase, Texas ). This trip was one I had been wanted to take for a while because I had watched the high altitude test flights from the early days of the Starship program and at the time they were preparing for their second test flight. In fact we had to make sure the road was going to be op

Constructing the rocket I got my first model rocket kit for Christmas in 2020! It was an Estes model rocket which used wings instead of fins to keep itself stabilized during flight. It used and Estes C6-10 engine as its solid rocket motor. After about a month and a half of on and off assembly of the rocket I finished in around mid February of 2021. We had to wait a couple days to launch because of the weather however when we got the chance to I remember making my parents dri