I’m always boggled by the number of things that exist under the open source umbrella. Recently, thanks to twitter @chrisindallas, I came across an open source rocket project, YikStik.

YikStik is the labor of love of Bdale Garbee who is HP’s Linux CTO and acting secretary of the Debian project.

YikStick is licensed Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0, so get going if you have your own 3-axis CNC milling machine.

Speaking of CNC milling machines, and carrying on the rich open source tradition of bad naming, check out the open source CNC, cupcake. Cupcake is another in the line of machines that can make machines like Reprap.

Finally, if you haven’t already seen it, check out the world’s largest model rocket launched by Steve Eves. It is a 1:10 scale Saturn V – 36 foot tall model rocket. Boggles my mind what people can accomplish in their “spare” time.

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