Building Your Own

For builders, makers and DIY folks, I've been writing about building Calliope since the start. I've built an index of all the Project Calliope columns by topic, so you can read the full story (so far). This index is current as of April 28, 2011. You can always get the freshest blog posts from the sidebar on the right, hosted by Science2.0. Periodically I bring over each column and index them into this ebook-like index. Enjoy!

Underlying Principals

• What's In Calliope For You?
• If Interorbital Fails (Tubesat2Cubesat)
• Revisiting Sonification
• The Big Picture: Science and Social Media (AAS 215) (and The Bloggy satellite at the Winter AAS lead-in ) (the entire project plan, laid out)
• Justifying Solar Sonification (or why Calliope is useful)
• The Sound of the Ionosphere (and related podcast, Music on a Planetary Scale ) (what sounds to expect)
• How High Up is Space? (a primer on where space begins)
• Labor Pains (how much does my labor cost to build this?)
• Spacepunk: A Wooden Satellite? (looking at engineering limits for what you could launch)

How To Construct (and Problems)

(in chronological order, as things happened)

Project Calliope test build actual size, with cat for scale

• 200 Grams
• How to Design a Detector, Part One
• DIY Ethos & Magnetometers
• DIY Clean Rooms
• Anatomy of a Satellite
• Tubey the Satellite Kit
• Arduino vs BasicX: Crunchy Boring Tech Series #3
• Autonymous Satellites (some what-if on designing picosatellites)
• Picosatellite To-Do List
• DIY Vacuum Chamber and Sex Gadget
• DIY Guide to PCB Fabricators (and the earlier Utter Fabrication )
• Black Market Satellite Electronics (or what to do if you can't find a part)
• Getting A Satellite Through Airport Security
• Cramming For HAM
• Soldering Hero
• Solar cells are fragile
• Mission Lifetimes
• Satellite Radio Requirements, FCC, IARU and its associated Boring project writeup

Progress Reports

(in chronological order, as things happened)

• Music from Space (first post!)
• Traceback for August (other people's comments on Calliope's debut)
• I now own half a satellite (commitment!)
• Calliope Art Attack (logo work)
• Calliope Launch (Artist Rendition)
• Late is the New Early (on launch timetables)
• Calliope, Wired, and You (some media coverage)
• Changing Y our Workflow Sucks (dealing with computer woes)
• Picosatellites Are Cute (skeleton assembled)
DIY Satellite Builder's Guide, V0.5
• Featured on Universe Today
• The Science 2.0 Satellite: Where It Started

Side Issues in Satellite Building

• Flip Mental Switch And Find The Zone
• Fundraising For Science
• Doom from Space (how much damage can you do from orbit with a picosatellite)
• Enough with the Space Junk Mania!
• Space Citizen Science: Who Assumes the Risk?
• Solid Space, Private Space, and Open Space (project management)

Other People and "Maker" Culture

(in reverse chronological order: most recent are listed first)

• Music In A Rational Universe (the Scopes Monkey Choir podcasters)
• Urgent-- help find 'lost' solar sail via radio
• Bracket blowup for Etsy/NASA contest
• Flattery? (post-Calliope evolutions by others)
• The Floating (Dolby) City
• Geeks, Tweeks and Innovation (thoughts on who really innovates)
• Pre-Made CubeSats (a look at other vendors)
• DIY NASA Crafts for $$$
• IOS Launch Rail Photos
• InterOrbital Rocket Sneak Peeks
• Edge Learning and SpaceUpDC
• Copenhagen Suborbital: World's Largest Amateur Space Rocket
• Space Policy Wonks Rejoice!
• Rocket Scientist or Supervillian! (link to podcast interview with Randa Milliron at IOS)
• Swing It! Tristan's swing music hack for songs
• Anti-spacejunk-Satellite
• Wild Musical Inventions from Berlin Hackday
• Going to Space Cheaper than Me (on high altitude balloons)
• Science != Hard? (feedback on whether I'm brilliant or not)

Other Space Programs

• Book Your 1-Way Trip To Mars!
• The Biggest and Smallest Satellites (from NROL-32 to FASTSAT to, well, me)
• Galaxy 15 Wasn't My Satellite, Officer!
• Chinese Eat Our Moon Lunch
• We Survive an Asteroid (Again)

Silly and/or Poignant

• 100% No Zombies (we promise Calliope will not raise the dead)
• Who are your heroes? (inspirations)
• The First Galaxy Builder (about Beatrice Tinsley)
• Woman Owns the Sun, Asks You to Pay Up (ludicrious but true tale of space property rights)
• Dr Pepper Throwdown (an aside on fizzy drinks)
• Spartans At Agincourt (Writing Proposals)