Thanks for the patience :) (Patreon)

Hi all! I wanted to thank you for the patience while updates and videos are more sparse than usual. Things are going quite well, there's just lots of boring work going on. Over the next month or two, I'd like to focus on higher quality edited videos for the BPS channel instead of live streams, and to do this I've been working hard to bring Thoomp and Sprite online.

Thoomp is the silo-ejected model rocket. I provided some details on it a while ago, you can find those here: https://youtu.be/OUbYZPGv7ho Right now, both the tube and launch vehicle are about ready to go! I've got a few flights planned for the system, and those should begin next week. Most of the boring work is just me running cables and pneumatic tubing up and down the launch tube. That, and a billion hours of cable harnessing CAD work :)

As for Sprite... oooof.... get ready for some super cool flights this fall. Sprite is the EDF/Butane powered hopper/lander vehicle I'm building. We're still a little ways away from flying Sprite, but just about all the parts needed to build it are here! We've got a fancy IMU, a CNC router for the high-precision TVC gearing, the massive flight batteries, the flight computers, the EDF, and lots of other fun things. 

There's so much more to come, and very soon, but I felt bad that I hadn't posted an update in a bit so this is just a quick one before I can get a proper sit-down Patreon update video next week! OH, and we should have a new landing test pretty soon too ;)

Blue skies,

Joe