Kevin

LOL -- I asked Claude to switch gbrain to gpt on the subscription plan, and it refused with FUD and invited me to switch everything to Claude instead

I don't know if it's just me (skill issue?) but the pattern emerging over the past 5-6 weeks is that I spend 2 days shaping the Hermes environment and get 5 days of productive work from it before the various living parts of the stack need two more days of shaping.

Congratulations @pdxaerospace on the launch today! Excited for your success and I hope you get a ton of good data from the flight :)

If anyone at any of these companies needs a fully automated system to fill their prop systems with xenon or krypton, hit me up :)

Thank you. This is the hardware it controls, which we designed, engineered, built, and tested in parallel. If all goes well I'll drive it 10 hrs to the customer site this week after finishing qual tests on Monday.

My software drives 16 actuated valves, 2 MFC’s, a roughing pump, backflow valve, cold cathode gauge, turbopump, and a Residual Gas Analyzer that’s working perfectly. We designed, engineered, built, and tested it ourselves. And it’s nearly ready to ship. Today is a good day

Building control systems

Making software for hardware is fun.

This confirms we're in the Mooniverse. (That's what Lunar Industries was mining, right?)

Hot fire test of the 4-thruster Apollo Fusion prop system on the BCT Saturn bus that will go to the Moon. ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/…

Touching tribute from a 2003 paper describing a xenon/krypton loading cart from Air Liquide. Meaningful to me for personal reasons directly related to my own 2025 system. I wonder what the backstory is.

I have a Hunter too and he's making me proud this week with some badass electrical work. This panel will drive 16 electrically actuated valves and a bunch of other high pressure gear.