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	<title>lolife &#187; Rockets</title>
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	<description>blunt observations</description>
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		<title>Lvl 3 Payload Bay</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/04/lvl-3-payload-bay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2010/04/lvl-3-payload-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is my under-construction payload bay. On one side are all the batteries, hooked up in parallel to 2 screws in the center: The screws poke through to bring the voltage to the other side: The other plate slides over the posts holds my flight computers and GPS/downlink: The computers are a G-Wiz Arts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4th flight of Cindy Loo Hoo</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/11/the-4th-flight-of-cindy-loo-hoo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/11/the-4th-flight-of-cindy-loo-hoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday we had the last Tripoli Minnesota launch of the year. It was a beautiful day and we successfully launched and retrieved our rocket. Nice to have no new failures to report. To the right you see a frame grab of the launch and the altitude and velocity plots from the PerfectFlite MAWD altimeter. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned the Hard Way</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/09/lessons-learned-the-hard-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/09/lessons-learned-the-hard-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This list pertains solely to rocketry. I decided I was going to make a list of every mistake I made that resulted in failure of some kind. My goal is to never make the same mistake twice. I&#8217;ll be updating this list every time I make a mistake. Hopefully that will be rarely. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incident Report: Canis Minor</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/08/incident-report-canis-minor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/08/incident-report-canis-minor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vehicle Name: Canis Minor Incident Summary: Total destruction of the vehicle. Incident Date: 2009-08-15 Incident Details: On Saturday, August 15th, 2009 the rocket Canis Minor was launched on 2 occasions from the North Branch launch site of Tripoli Minnesota. The first flight was powered by an Aerotech J350W motor and achieved an altitude of 6554 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy Loo Hoo Flight 2</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/07/cindy-loo-hoo-flight-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/07/cindy-loo-hoo-flight-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tripoli MN had a launch on Saturday and I flew 2 rockets. My successful flight of the day was the second flight of Cindy Loo Hoo, a 54mm minimum diameter rocket 6 feet long and powered by a Kosdon K750W motor. The flight went great! It leapt off the pad and shot straight up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Canis Minor&#8221; Launch 2</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/05/canis-minor-launch-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/05/canis-minor-launch-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 04:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I built a Performance Rocketry Little Dog Dual Deploy. I have a little video which describes the rocket on youtube. The first launch was a disaster which resulted in a cato. (cato is rocket dork slang for a CATOstrophic (sic) failure of the rocket motor.) The 2nd launch was (mostly) a success! I was going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video tour of my rocket</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/04/video-tour-of-my-rocket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/04/video-tour-of-my-rocket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest rocket I&#8217;m working on. It&#8217;s roughly 54mm in diameter and it uses 38mm motors. It should go to about 7000 ft (2134 m) with the biggest motor it will take.]]></description>
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		<title>The ATF hates rocketeers</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/01/the-atf-hates-rocketeers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/01/the-atf-hates-rocketeers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ATF, let&#8217;s just say, does not strike one as the most reasonable organization in the world. They are oh-so-serious and important and protecting us all from something or other THAT IS VERY DANGEROUS. Like, you know, me. I&#8217;m an amateur scientist who enjoys launching high-power model rockets. The ATF, in their infinite wisdom, treats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why rockets?</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/12/why-rockets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/12/why-rockets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface by saying that I really, truly don&#8217;t feel like I need to justify my activities to anyone. My family is very supportive of my random interests and as long as I am learning and enjoying myself, I don&#8217;t beat myself up about opportunity costs. Hedonism, no, enjoying life&#8217;s random byways, yes. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike looking devious</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/12/mike-looking-devious/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/12/mike-looking-devious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike looking devious Originally uploaded by massdistraction massdistraction caught me being a law-abiding pyromaniac.]]></description>
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		<title>More rocket data</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/more-rocket-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/more-rocket-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got out and launched some more rockets. Although it doesn&#8217;t exactly compare apples to apples, you can see on the image to the right that things either went very wrong with my initial iPhone launch or the GPS data I&#8217;m getting is screwed up. The black line is a flight with the red iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone launch videos</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-launch-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-launch-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=817</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, here is video of the 3 launches of my iPhone. The first one is the failed launch due to a motor failure. The 2nd is the one where I got all the data that I&#8217;ve posted. The 3rd one I got almost no data but the motor performed better as the flight seemed much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone rocket interview</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-rocket-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-rocket-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan at MobileOrchard interviewed me about my iPhone rocket and put together a nice video. Here it is: iPhone Rocket Launch and Interview (from MobileOrchard.com) from Mobile Orchard on Vimeo. I&#8217;ve been meaning to put my video stuff together but have had some technical difficulties. I&#8217;ll get that finished up soon! If anyone from Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRA #012058</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/tra-012058/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/tra-012058/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I joined the Tripoli Rocketry Association (TRA). This allows me to get certified to buy and fly bigger and bigger rocket motors. If the weather cooperates I hope to do my Cert 1 flight this Saturday in North Branch, MN. I&#8217;ll fly one or both of my 29mm-motor-capable rockets, first on a &#8220;G&#8221; reload kit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone rocket in 3D</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-rocket-in-3d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-rocket-in-3d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A further update from my previous post on my iPhone rocket launch. This is kind of a cool plot using only the GPS data: Here is a plot of the first few seconds of the launch from the accelerometer: You can see that the data peaks at 3g when I was expecting 12g. The acceleration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone rocket data quicklook</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-rocket-data-quicklook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/iphone-rocket-data-quicklook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s taken me awhile to understand the data I got from the first launch. Using the video, the GPS data, the accelerometer data and my own recollections, I&#8217;ve put together a rough timeline of events. I&#8217;ve notated it on the plot of the altitude. A couple of weird things happened. First of all, with the [...]]]></description>
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