Dalton BRobots Moonbots 2014 video

Dear members of the DaltonBRobots team, my name is Daniel Selva, and I am Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Your sheriff Carlos e-mailed sent me the link to your website and video, and asked me for an "expert" opinion. After reading your blog and watching the video, I can only start by saying that these are the kind of experiences that inspire us teachers and aerospace researchers to keep on working.

Not only is your video scientifically enticing and accurate, with references to advanced concepts such as the Gauss Cannon or the Yarkovsky Effect, it is also educational for the general public, and truly fun to watch. I certainly wish the video were longer to be able to see in more detail some of your accomplishments. In any case, the design of the ring-shaped painter spacecraft definitely is a provocative new idea that proposes a new kind of maneuver in space, different from landing and docking, which for lack of a better name I will call "passing through". It is simply amazing to see what a group of kids can put together when their raw talent and motivation are masterfully steered by the right mentors. One can only imagine what they will be able to do in a few years! This is exactly the kind of people we need to make our plans to build a settlement on the Moon come true, be it for protecting us from NEO, for obtaining valuable resources, or simply for learning valuable skills that we will need to colonize other planetary bodies of the solar system, such as Mars. I sincerely hope you will consider a career in aerospace science or engineering, perhaps in our aerospace department at Cornell University, where I would be honored to work with you. In the meanwhile, I can but offer you my humble help - within my possibilities - in whatever endeavor you choose to take in the future. Keep up the good work! Best regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Daniel Selva Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Cornell University 212 Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14850

Although it is hard work, we don't realise it because it is fascinating and charming!!

Watching the first video essay

Time to put all the work together

 

Playing guitar to record Pink Panther

Filming

Video editing

It is time to start filming our video.  

Planning working time.

 

Organizing the video script.

 

Calculating the quantity of paint necessary to paint the asteroid

 We need a "yummy" break.

Now it is time to work at all times.

The rocket is ready to go.

Nearly there!!

 

Eureka!

Studying new ideas.

The visit was fantastic, but we had to go 

to the whiteboard again to rebuilt our project.

Numbers can also be fun.

Lots of discussions again.

We visited Josep Maria Bosch. http://santamariaobservatory.blogspot.com.es/.

Gauss Cannon

We spoke with a physic expert Jordi Prat who gave as the idea to use a coil gun. We contacted José Luís Contreras from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid who showed us how to build it. Online video:

 Cañón de Gauss/Gauss cannon

 

 The little one in the family is building up the Gauss cannon.

Work can be challenging and fun...for the DALTON BRobots

Sometimes the Moon can be puzzling and enigmatic.

 

Crunching numbers can be illuminating.

Start working and discovering ideas

 

To participate to in MoonBots Challenge we need to have a team's name and logo.

Designing DALTON BRobots logo.

We had the chance to meet an incredible robot expert.

In the Intrepid, Dalton Brothers discovered space rockets.

Amazing robots!!!!

We met the most fantastic team: Landroids!!!!!!

Thanks to them we participate in the Moonbots Challenge 2014!!!

 DALTON BRobots team

Training FLL.