{"id":10535,"date":"2023-06-22T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/06\/22\/another-model-rocket-that-lands-like-spacex-with-a-great-description-of-the-flight-computer-software-and-design\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:23","slug":"another-model-rocket-that-lands-like-spacex-with-a-great-description-of-the-flight-computer-software-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/06\/22\/another-model-rocket-that-lands-like-spacex-with-a-great-description-of-the-flight-computer-software-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Model  Rocket that Lands like SpaceX &#8212; With a Great Description of the Flight Computer, Software, and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GanrexRyVY?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, I have to give the devil his due: this is NOT something that could be accomplished with my beloved discrete (not discreet!) transistors. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>As someone who spent a lot of time as a kid shooting Estes model rockets into the sky, this project really caught my attention. (My simple rockets used parachutes, &#8220;streamers,&#8221; or nothing at all to land.) This guy uses onboard computers, software, and retractable landing gear. Very cool. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Jenny List and <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/06\/21\/how-to-land-a-model-rocket-vertically\/\">Hack-A-Day <\/a>for alerting us to this. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I have to give the devil his due: this is NOT something that could be accomplished with my beloved discrete (not discreet!) transistors. As someone who spent a lot of time as a kid shooting Estes model rockets into the sky, this project really caught my attention. (My simple rockets used parachutes, &#8220;streamers,&#8221; or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/06\/22\/another-model-rocket-that-lands-like-spacex-with-a-great-description-of-the-flight-computer-software-and-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Model  Rocket that Lands like SpaceX &#8212; With a Great Description of the Flight Computer, Software, and Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11288,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions\/11288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}