Notes From ShotokuTech

Sunday: Mind blown! Managed to pull off the maiden flight of Project X, or Rocket X. Rocket X carried Spacecraft X equipped with an FPV camera, TX and battery. I had awesome help from my lovely wife. 4 cameras to juggle, an FPV station to set up. A rocket to launch. This was a big production for two people. We got it done in one take. In and out in 39 minutes. Video to be release soon.

Saturday: Review channel analytics. Pay the bills. Check off a topic on the video todo list. Mobile password manager video is done and uploaded for later release. Got to trial a mobile screen capture app too, bonus! #PasswordManager #KeePass2Android #SuperScreenRecorder

This looks awesome! @AmyShiraTeitel #apollo11 https://twitter.com/AmyShiraTeitel/status/1141887186398138368

Friday: Lots more work on the secondary 3D printer. The thermistor lead broke of the solder pad on the heat bed on my Reprapguru Prusa i3. I upgraded to the all aluminum bed support previously, so I needed to come up with a new wire support as I have been running without one for a while. So if you have one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Gulfcoast-Robotics-Aluminum-Carriage-Upgrade/dp/B07B2B7777/ You could use one of these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3719019

Busy week working on Project X. Wednesday night I was in a spot where I had no 3D printers working and needed one bad. Back on track by Thursday. Phew! ShotokuTech Update June 2019

Monday: New rocketry projects video in the works. Just released NSL2019 impressions video that seems to be well received. Printing prototypes of project x now. Looks promising.

Sunday: Wore myself out Saturday cleaning the house. Lots to do today. Banking, bills, Project X and more. Still looking for that inspiration in the fruit of my labor.

Come hang out! http://bit.ly/shotokuwhatwhat #ModelRocketry #HPR #ActionCamera

 Saturday: Downloaded a CSV of the YouTube analytics of the videos on my channel. Interesting details come out when you sort on the various columns. The video that is doing the best overall may not be the one you think it is.

Friday, a mix of excitement and the usual mundane. Future projects becoming clearer. Oh our team at work got an award! Yeah! More later.

Thursday was exhausting. Still produced a video for the channel in the evening. Publish later in due time. Grappling with dimly light concepts of the next videos and projects. Fatigue is an interesting opponent. Working on analytics across all the platforms to see where success lies.

Wednesday: Having gone through all the NSL2019 videos and stills, I find myself creatively exhausted. Then I remember I have a new 3D printer still in the box and there is Project X out on the horizon.

Tuesday. Another work day. Then another video produced from the NSL2019 footage from a couple of weekends ago. I've been playing with Image Composite Editor from Microsoft. Obviously you can stitch panoramas with it. But this is another interesting effect you can do with the right frames: Mirage IV

Monday night. A lot of forward movement at work with concerted effort. Then I checked on general contractors for home improvement. Finished another video to be posted soon. A few more GIFs created. Cooked dinner too! A day well spent.

Monday. Back to the day job. Dreams of 2 or 3 videos to make next. Still have some video frames to comb through. Also working on the scratch building of a 150 scale Saturn V. Tubes are hand rolled. Need to cut some centering rings on the laser etcher. Need to validate the printing of the thrust structure.

You can print: Apollo Saturn V Doodles. I'm entertaining the notion of 3" to 2" to standard 29mm tubing for a 150 scale Saturn V model. Just printing rev 1 right now. I'll update if there are any changes. #Apollo11 #ModelRocketry Saturn thrust structure and Apollo spacecraft

Sunday morning I finished another video from NSL2019. I have two videos held back for later release. It's good to be ahead of release schedule. I continued looking through still frames from the videos. If yesterday's assumption is correct then I am thinking this sequence of frames also reveals a small object nearby. I'm thinking the small red spot in these three frames is the ejection charge cap.

I spent Saturday morning going through thousands of individual frames from the National Sport Launch 2019. These frames come from seven videos shot from cameras that are mounted to model rockets. These two frames caught my eye: What is that little black circle? (ShotokuTech on Twitter)