Guest: Peter Platzer Every once in a while, something revolutionary comes along. It's not something announced as "paradigm shifting" from some marketing department, but usually something that slides in under the radar. Ardusat is not a fully funded Kickstarter project. We talk with Peter about what cheap experiments in space mean, and what it takes... Continue Reading →
Evadot Podcast #97 – MoonExpress: Express ticket to the moon?
Guest: James Crawford Dr James Crawford, the new CTO of Google Lunar X PRIZE team MoonExpress joins us to talk about progress they are making and technologies. Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot Podcast via iTunes and all other podcast players
Evadot Podcast #96 – Your DNA on the Moon
Guest: Ruben Nunez Ruben, the team leader of Google Lunar X PRIZE team Omega Envoy joins us to talk about progress they are making, their Kickstater project, and other cool stuff. Also, there's a 5 gallon bucket of Duck sauce. Just because. Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe... Continue Reading →
Evadot Podcast #95 – The edge of the box with the NewSpace conference
Guest: Marimikel Charrier Marimikel joins us today to talk about realistic exploration and settlement plans for space, the NewSpace conference, and how someone who started in music ended up in the space industry. You can still sign up to attend the NewSpace conference which is in Silicon Valley July 26-28. Sorry in advance about the... Continue Reading →
You may look back at this as the beginning of the robots taking over the world
Evadot has tried a lot of things over the last 3 years. Long time readers may remember that we had a short lived comic featuring our in house lunar rover "HAL". In the middle of HAL's journey, he gets a package. Today, I opened my front door at home to a box with German and... Continue Reading →
Getting to where we’re going means something new
I've spent the last few days reading the Omni Magazines from 1978 and 1979. All of them in fact. I'm struck by something: we're still talking about most of these same ideas as things for the future... In those magazines, there are spaceships in your garage. Critisisms of NASA's inability to attract a younger crowd. Ray... Continue Reading →
Evadot Podcast #94 – MAKERFAIRE NC
Guest: Jonathan Danforth There are MAKERS in North Carolina, for real! Join many of them on June 16 in Raleigh NC for MAKERFAIRE, NC! Every year at Maker Faire North Carolina Makers, Crafters, Inventors, Evil Geniuses, Scientists and Artists come together for a day of family-friendly fun and inspiration. From home-made cookies to home-made robots,... Continue Reading →
Evadot and Kentucky Space think YOU can hack space
In just a little while, when the Umpa Lumpas finish manufacturing the first batch, we're going to start offering CubeSat prototype kits for a fraction of what it costs today. Meet Firefly Firefly is a flexible-use printed circuit board that can serve as the basis for the brains, fuel and voice for many different applications... Continue Reading →
Evadot Podcast #90 – Apollo 13 was the first big Hackathon
Guests: Sean Herron Project Website: Open NASA Sean Herron from Open NASA joins us today to talk about Hacking Space, Participatory Exploration, HackAThons, and what to do with 10TB of data collected by NASA every day. Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot Podcast... Continue Reading →
Review: The Rocket City Space Pioneers iPad Game
The Rocket City Space Pioneers are a competitor in the 30 million dollar Google Lunar X PRIZE and they've just released an iPad game. You can download the game here and try it out for yourself. We were going to post a lengthy review, but we've decieded to hold off until they work on the... Continue Reading →