Hey I'm Nick
I'm a young programmer, ham radio operator, networks enthusiast, and crafter. Feel free to snoop around or check out some of my socials!
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How this blog is made
How this blog is made
read articleMy Homelab
A tour of my colocated homelab complete with running an AS and 40+ docker services.
read articleHey, is this thing on?
Pst, hey. You. Yeah you. This is my first ham radio blog post. I'll get better as I go, amateur radio seems to be one of those hobbies that grows with you for a long, long, long time. How long 'till I made a QSO? Too long. I had to wait...
read articleUniversity of Waterloo Orbital
We're building a satellite! 34x10x10, that's what we've got. Not meters, feet, nor inches, but centimeters. It really ain't that much if you want to fit everything. 4kg max too. The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge > Competition for teams of university students to design and build a small science research satellite...
read articleUniversity of Waterloo Rocketry
The University of Waterloo Rocketry team utilizes amateur radio in the form of APRS for telemetry and tracking of the rocket! You'd think we went with a good ol' off the shelf APRS transceiver, and you would be partially correct! So far, we've been using an OTS APRS module that...
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