Category: Planetary Status Reports

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"If it doesn't work, we don't give up, we try something else." - Dr. Freckles (or someone he ripped off that said the same thing)

I’ll get this out of the way – the ideas presented below are not SPECIAL or even original … I dunno … I don’t think I’m a dummy, but I’m certain many dummies don’t think they are … I don’t think I’m special, I’m just tired of the LEARNED HELPLESSNESS. I think we have a right to dream and do, as we have a right to breathe.

We support RIGHT-TO-REPAIR at RADENGINEERING.TECH, everything we design, we document, software or hardware, will be OPEN … we can’t control our suppliers … but we can foster NEW freedom friendly suppliers …

What you see below is not our companies vision in any complete or limited form … we reserve the right, as we succeed or fail, to add new dreams to our list.

Is it possible others are working on now or have solved the problems listed below? – I HOPE THEY HAVE … and if they have, they should consider the open source and right-to-repair philosophy … it isn’t communism, it is human understanding. You can’t enforce this philosophy, but that’s ok … there will always be assholes. We want to make money, but we also want to change the world.

… finally …

We reserve the right to fail and try again.

We reserve the right to dream.

Here is what we dream of doing:

1. THE RAD TERMINAL: this will begin as a home-brew movement, but we have the goal of building a ruggedized all-in-one terminal, with antenna deployment pack and DC battery power, within 1 year – version ONE of the RAD TERMINAL … RT-1. This system will be designed with right-to-repair features, to include simple, swappable, modules for components that have high variability within radio or computer design. As of this writing, 2/25/22, we are still in home brew phase.
2. We talked about RTR (right-to-repair) already in terms of all our component designs and documentation.
3. Rad TRUCK: this will be a self-sufficient (as possible given power features) communications node that would be useful in connection with WiFi based MESH networks AND as a local internet hub for folks that want their own local game nets, email, etc … and they don’t need to be connected ANYWHERE else.
4. Project RTR #1: Local source all non-cpu, non-ram electronic components.
5. Project RTR #2: Design and build a 3D printing system for CPU and RAM.
6. We want to do #1 and #2 simultaneously, and that leads to project FREEDOM.
7. Project Freedom: a project to build a 100% local sourced (within a few hundred miles, up to 2,000 miles) computer that is capable of running LINUX. It would be 100% right-to-repair friendly, to include a PDF describing how YOU TOO can build a system for 3D printing CPUs … and as much useful knowledge as we can share.
8. Project Freedom has a sister project: Project RADIO: to design and build a 100% local sourced right-to-repair friendly radio system. We want to optimize component layout to make some parts of the radio optimized, stationary on the board (still repairable), and other parts in RTR-friendly component boxes that fold out, from a cube or cube-like module, where anyone can work on those parts too … but, perhaps certain intrinsically different radio components can be placed in a swap module component box – and that would mean switching bands/frequencies/wavelengths, event to include WiFi, would be as simple as swapping out a plastic plug, with an easy pop button.
9. Project Tesla: a remotely controlled drone for radio-repeater operations. This will allow the use of microwave technology for data exchange, at high altitudes, and this system LINKED to ground RAD TERMINAL devices for even higher rates of no-nonsense communication.
10. Project Space Diver: this will be our first foray into aerospace and tourism/entertainment/travel. We will run a “you can jump from the edge of space” business, where we design a very safe “pod” that is lifted to 20 miles, and has a velocity reduction/control multi-stage parachute system. Plus, we want to design a reusable/rechargeable balloon system, for hydrogen at first … the dangers from combustion are vastly reduced as you go up in altitude. This will be a way for people to see the “curve”, and I think we can reach a price point of around $1000.00 per dive. Again – they will be in an aerodynamically sound pod, with a pressure suit on in case of decompression. We will have as many safeguards against accidental harm as is feasible – but we’re talking about 20 miles up … so it’s dangerous, no matter the pod.
11. Project S’klider: this will be our second foray into aerospace. This will be a tourism/entertainment like “Space Diver”, but we’re hoping ordinary people will be able to buy them, here’s the concept: design a lightweight glider, for high altitudes, that can fold into a gondola for a blimp type hydrogen balloon system. At say, 15 miles up, the balloon deflates and is pulled back into the glider, and the glider can then proceed, folding out its wings, like a well designed glider for high/medium altitudes. The S’klider should be able to repeat this maneuver, even in mid air, but slowly filling the balloon back up with stored hydrogen. The idea: you could glide a LONG WAYS, especially if you have atmospheric thermal mapping hardware and software, with a well designed glider … perhaps thousands of miles with AI computer assistance for optimal thermal altitude gain.
12. Project FAST: quantum radio … I think IBM has been sitting on this … it would be hyper-bandwidth powerful, hyper-de-centralized, hyper-liberating … the internet would be dead after this … pretty much everyone would use a quantum radio … and encryption? – that gets fun using synchronized noise for message embedding … or quantum steganography …. fun …
13. Project View: a high altitude array of dirigible micro-observatories … astronomical in nature. We would like to take high resolution pictures by combining many smaller high altitude drones into one large array optical telescope. You could have these all around the globe. They could assist in the early detection of dangerous near earth objects.
14. Project Vacuum: the design and construction of a vacuum ship using magnetic field engineering to create an inner structure of force, whereby creating mass-free structure that can encapsulate a vacuum. This kind of ship would be “lighter than air” but in a very powerful way and it could allow for single-stage-to-orbit rocket ships.
15. Project Orbit: if Project Vacuum is successful, build a convertible vacuum ship dirigible system, with a gondola system designed like a lifting body glider, so that in case of vacuum envelope failure, the gondola itself could breakaway and the passengers could land safely. This ship would use a standard chemical rocket engine to achieve orbit, but would be lifted by its vacuum envelopes to an optimal altitude. The ship would be capable of maneuvering around the planet, at 20 miles, to find an optimal launch location for orbit.
16. Project D.B. Cooper: a jacket/pant system that, if worn onto a plane, would allow a person to have a better chance of surviving a catastrophic failure of a passenger airliner. The system would be designed with carbon fiber and kevlar structuring to ensure protection against shrapnel, and an easy to deploy parachute system. For more money? – you get the 20 lb raft/radio combo … not sure about the sharks though.
17. Project Mars: Orbit + synthetic gravity drive
18. Project Stellar: Mars + focal synthetic gravity => space time cavitation => low density space time => mole drive, basically a mole drive using synthetic, projected, moments of synthetic gravity. This would reduce space time distance, the same way a mole, tunneling through the earth does it … little bits at a time … but the attraction principles would become nonlinear as speed increased, and this is an interesting area of research. Bottom line: worm holes work, but are very dangerous … this usese Einstein-Rosen Bridge concepts, but on a micro basis
19. G-Ray: Build a gamma ray laser …
20. We want to sponsor an expedition to Antarctica … Justin might not want to go, that’s ok, I might want him to man our base station repeater system as I read AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS … from fucking Antarctica … over shortwave radio with repeaters. But we also want to map the continent, and explore it.
21. Freeze Ray: discover a useful and non-hazardous quantum endothermic particle that would cancel out the effects of photons
22. New ZTuff: design a means of constructing useful synthetic matter from pure energy …
23. OPEN PHP: if there isn’t an open php initiative, I want to start one … easy custom builds … transparent module viewing AND swapping for custom builds … and an ALL IN ONE deployable PHP friendly web server … other languages/APIs will work with it, but the most advanced, easy to control, PHP language and server will always be the best. We will also develop a simplified serialization and storage system that installs with the system, you can set how much memory you want it to use, both RAM and hard drive …
24. Temperature tolerant cheap and durable super conductive material, with the same malleability features of copper.
25. We want to foster the mentoring of young people in technology, sciences, math, so that our lives, though never perfect, can be far more kind and at peace and joy filled.

(we won’t be doing time travel – that’s crap)