Dawn on the Raygun Gothic Rocket
Alan, originally uploaded by dav1d. Hey all — I’m still in the process of acclimating to Earth after several weeks cruising the outer systems of Nebulous 9 aboard the Raygun Gothic. I’ll have a full report as soon as my primary systems are back online (reentry is a bitch) and […]
Uira Engine High Voltage Test
It’s ALIVE!!!!
The Raygun Gothic Rocket, Uira Engine and Almost Scientific on Cnet!
Check out this Cnet article on the RGR, featuring a very garbled explanation of the Uira Engines drive mechanism. I had no idea this guy was shooting video with his DSLR. This video starts pretty much right after I finally got it all working. There is also a shot of […]
Incoming Transmission – Moon Lab 42
Here is one of the videos that will be playing insider The Raygun Gotic Rocket. It was written and directed by Ben Carpenter, Edited by Wendy Rolon and preformed by Me and David Shulman.
Uira Engine — Arms installed!
My accomplice Nathanial Taylor over at Radio Robot who has been cnc’ing all my parts for the Uira Engine dropped off the arms the other day. Check out this video of the engine with the arms — you can really see the counter-rotation at work:
Meet Paul Doherty
Paul Doherty is one of the worlds best science teacher and communicator I know, and as one of the senior scientists here he is also my adviser at the Exploratorium. Here is Paul in his element, showing off one of his fun, cool physics toys and teaching about Newtons laws […]
Toms S.C.O.U.T rover
Also be sure to check out Tom Sepe and his S.C.O.U.T. rover, which will be running critical missions for the Raygun Gothic Rocket!:
Grants Raygun Gothic Rocketship Rayguns
My friend Grant Diffendaffer has made some really cool rayguns for the rocket:
Uira Engine — sketch
While I love to post my CAD models I also like to give some love to the original hand sketches that usually precede the CAD models. Here is the initial sketch I did of the Uira Engines counter rotation mechanism:
Uira Engine — Video of the core kinetic system
Here is a quick video showing the first test of the Uira Engine core kinetic system. Right now it’s still hand powered, but you can basically see how it works. Turning the drive shaft, which is attached to the top tube, drives a set of chained sprockets on the bottom […]
Uira Engine and RGR Awesomeness
Here are some photos of the Uira Engine starting to come together as well as some shots of the Raygun Gothic Rocket looking awesome. Machining the slip ring. Slip ring close up Cutting the phenolic discs for the slip rings. Nasty business — phenolic smells like formaldehyde when its being […]
Uira Engine Controls
I’ve started working on the Uira Engine Controls. The upper yellow box will be the primary set of controls. The silver box below will house the transformer, varac and other odds and end. On the front of the silver box will be some switches, buttons and lights for people to […]
New Work: The Raygun Gothic Rocket Uira Engine
Over the past few months we’ve been getting allot of questions about what exactly is going to power the Raygun Gothic Rocket. Until now we’ve been been engaged in a massive misinformation campaign to keep our revolutionary engine design a secrete. However, now that we are moving out of the […]
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Almost Scientific appearing at Black Rock Arts Foundation Elemental Interactions
Our good friends over at the Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF) have invited Almost Scientific to preform some of our high voltage experiments for their Elemental Interactions event. Every year the event has a different elemental based theme and this year it’s ELECTRICITY! Expounding upon our wildly successful Elemental Interactions […]