Happy New Year! This is the first update of 2020!
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. I certainly did. I took the time to work on some planning for the website, project planning, and visiting with family. Hopefully there will be some new and exciting content for this upcoming year.
2020 SHOT Show is right around the corner and there has already been some interesting new developments with new cartridges being rumored. As details emerge we will be sure to take a closer look.
In the meantime we did do a few site updates prior to leaving for the break. Most of the work has been centered on the Photogrammetry Drone. We worked through the initial CAD modeling of the Drone and then started using some basic Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), offered by Solidworks to begin to see how the drone will glide through the air. You can read the write up on this at the link below.
Photogrammetry Drone: CAD Modeling
We also go the official go ahead to do an initial parts order for the drone. So here is the parts we’re going with and an explanation as to why I decided to go with these parts. The write up can be found at the link below.
Photogrammetry Drone: Initial Parts Ordering
In the next few weeks we will have several write ups on more fundamentals of cartridges, their design and their manufacture. With Sig Sauers announcement of the 277 Sig Fury, it will be important to understand the strengths and weakness of existing cartridge technology before we can appreciate what Sig is trying to accomplish here. Hopefully it will be adopted by SAAMI soon so we can have an industry standard spec, if not we may need to go to CIP.
As always if you have questions, concerns or general feedback you are more then welcome to reach out to me directly at jayandrew338@gmail.com or to check out our Facebook page, The Ballistic Assistant.
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