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Von Braun's Space Station

Von Braun's Space Station

Bruce Ediger

Space flight historian Michael J. Neufeld wrote an article about Wernher von Braun’s advocacy of space stations, Wernher von Braun’s Ultimate Weapon, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2007.

An expanded version of that article appeared as ‘‘Space superiority’’: Wernher von Braun’s campaign for a nuclear-armed space station, 1946–1956 in a journal, Space Policy, 22 (2006) 52-62

Avoid DHT-11 sensors

Bruce Ediger

A few years ago, I realized I had a shoe box with several Raspberry Pi single-board computers just sitting around.

I came across an article saying that interfacing something called a “DHT-11” is a rite of passage for Raspberry Pi users.