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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦
@davesrocketshop.bsky.social
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Amateur rocketeer, FreeCAD developer, government employee, and reluctant runner. Opinions are my own.

I'll follow you back if you're interesting and posts original, unless your feed is in a language I don't understand. I find a lot of things interesting.
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Version 5 of the #FreeCAD Rocket Workbench introduced a new workflow for up scaling or down scaling rocket designs. Read about how it works here: www.davesrocketshop.com/rocket-workb...
Rocket Workbench Scaling Workflow – Dave's Rocket Shop
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December 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
davesrocketshop.bsky.social
Adding tag support to the updated materials editor under development. These will be searchable #FreeCAD
Screenshot of the FreeCAD materials editor showing a new TagWidget for viewing and editing material tags
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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amyraehill.bsky.social
Mars Rover Jewelry coming this Wednesday Dec 10th, 12pm PT ✨

A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry!

To join our mailing list for this project:
sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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theomoudakis.bsky.social
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Forged In #FreeCAD: The Modulathe V2

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Forged In FreeCAD: The Modulathe V2
In an amusing twist, this Forged in FreeCAD story will contain similar words to the last Forged In FreeCAD story, most notably, “concrete” and “lathe”!The last "Forged in FreeCAD" story was the SL-…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
davesrocketshop.bsky.social
Reworking the fin flutter dialog to incorporate improvements described in Peak of Flight Newsletter 615 #FreeCAD #FreeCADFriday #RocketWorkbench
www.apogeerockets.com/education/do...
Screenshot of a graph showing fin flutter and divergence speeds
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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planecrashgirl.bsky.social
Lest We Forget

Wreath laying at the Newfoundland War Memorial, Beaumont-Hamel Park, July 1, 1926

(In Newfoundland and Labrador, we honour those who served on both Remembrance Day and on July 1st, Memorial Day)
From PANL Item A 11-168
A black and white photo of Governor William Lamond Allardyce laying wreath at the Memorial to the Missing. Governor and Lady Allardyce visited Newfoundland Memorial Park in 1926, and laid wreaths at the memorial. Allardyce was governor of Newfoundland (1922 to 1928). The Memorial features large bronze plaques that list the war dead of WWI of Newfoundland and Labrador. The plaques are in a stone wall. Behind the wall is a rocky hill and at the top is a bronze statue of a caribou, the emblem for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. There is a man placing a large Wreath in front of the names of the war dead.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
davesrocketshop.bsky.social
First snow of the year (5-30 cm expected) but I have fresh baked bread and a pork roast in the oven. Not a bad day to be indoors 🙂#CanadianLife
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
davesrocketshop.bsky.social
Um, wait... what!?!
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Nov 6
Alan Arnett Mcleod was a hero.
While seriously wounded, he stood on the wing of his burning plane and flew it back to Allied territory. After he crash-landed, he carried his injured observer to safety while under heavy fire.
This is his amazing story.

🧵 1/11
A black-and-white historical portrait photograph of a young man in military uniform, seated and facing forward with a neutral expression. He wears a peaked cap with insignia, a high-collared jacket with epaulettes and a cross-belt strap, gloves, and holds a sword in his right hand resting on his lap. The background is dark and plain.
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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sculptedreef.com
🪸 Reef Dreams VI ⭐ Ft. Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus and corals made from tiny glass beads. The octopus depicts the species Caribbean Reef Octopus, a bluish teal octopus with a fine brush marked pattern and shimmering bronze gold patches. The reef consists of tiny beads woven on silver wire and is predominantly pink, teal and green. Including colors such as salmon, carnation, hot pink and a variety of cool bluish greens and teal.
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
OROMOCTO, NB - A local man almost lost his home yesterday after his Amazon Alexa smart home device burst into flames. Lloyd Wentworth, 38, says the fire started as he was preparing dinner in his bunga...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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freecad.org
More fixes this week in #FreeCAD
We plan on creating a 1.1 release branch next week with a first Release Candidate version.
There are still around 15 blocker issues which need to be fixed before the stable release.

blog.freecad.org/2025/10/22/w...
WIP Wednesday, 22 October 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher:  PaddleStroke added code to prevent Polar Pattern and Offset from creating reversed arcs and fixed another bug where Ctrl+A would not select points …
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October 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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canvmilitarymuseum.bsky.social
Significant Dates in our Naval History
21OCT 1910
HMCS Niobe arrives in Halifax,1st Canadian warship to arrive at her base in Canada for the nascent Canadian navy

When HMCS Niobe was acquired in 1910,it rushed to arrive in Halifax on Trafalgar Day

2014-This day was changed to Niobe Day by the RCN
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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sculptedreef.com
🙂‍↕️ Blue Ringed Octopus 🐙

🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and 🪸 Patiently woven from tiny glass beads set on silver wire.

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
Blue Ringed Octopus sculpture sitting inside a vintage tea cup that lies on its side on the saucer. The tea set is overgrown with hand crafted corals, made from tiny glass beads.
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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amyraehill.bsky.social
I'm probably not alone as an artist who's a bit burnt out and drained right now. But this. This right here keeps the fire going. Science like Doug's allows my art to exist. We all have to keep working and making and showing up so everybody gets to do what they want to do.
dougellison.bsky.social Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · Oct 16
On Monday I braced for this most recent round of JPL layoffs by looking around my office for what I cared about most to take it home in case I never got to return. I grabbed just one thing - the beautiful bowl by @amyraehill.bsky.social inspired by the false color postcard I took with Curiosity.
A circular bowl decorated with a landscape scene. The inner surface of the bowl is painted to resemble a landscape with mountains. The top portion is a bright, clear blue sky transitioning into a warm yellow-gold sun. The lower portion depicts dark, rugged terrain. The bowl is sitting on a dark surface with a pattern of bright, colorful, geometric dots and lines.
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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deadder.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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estherschindler.bsky.social
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
davesrocketshop.bsky.social
Top 10 Rocket Workbench translations:

sv-SE 98% (0% approved)
pl 90% (11% approved)
es-ES 63% (4% approved)
fr 42% (4% approved)
de 38% (1% approved)
pt-BR 34% (0% approved)
el 24% (0% approved)
pt-PT 21% (0% approved)
ru 19% (0% approved)
it 14% (0% approved)

#FreeCAD

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October 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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amyraehill.bsky.social
It's #Spacetober so I'll try to keep it coming with Amy Rae Hill's Greatest Hits™️
Collage of pottery featuring a tea set with a moonlit desert design, a watering can with a blue green nebula, cups with different captures of Venus, a yarn bowl with an astronaut chasing a tether that leads to the yarn feed, and a vase featuring the Milky Way over Mt Rainier.
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
davesrocketshop.bsky.social
How about OpenRocket exports? #FreeCAD #RocketWorkbench
Side by side visuals of a rocket in the FreeCAD Rocket Workbench and the exported version in OpenRocket
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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freecad.org
Forged in #FreeCAD: XYZ Micro Manipulator for Sub Micron Motion Control

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Forged in FreeCAD: XYZ Micro Manipulator for Sub Micron Motion Control
It's a wonderful thing when you see a very cool opensource hardware project and then a further delight when you see that the toolchain to build the device is also completely open. Using FreeCAD, Ki…
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September 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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canvmilitarymuseum.bsky.social
Topical History at CVMM
Nazis national heroes Blutzeuges “blood witness”

Today we recall how Hitler turned thugs,butchers & hate-speech propagandists into dead martyrs with state funerals fit to enter the Nazi Vallhalla 'Cult of the Dead'

A 'must read'
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September 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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planecrashgirl.bsky.social
I'm turning this presentation into a paper to be published this winter. Details soon.
The presentation about fire in St John's referenced below can be found in the current issue of NQ (Newfoundland Quarterly) as the @nlhistorical.bsky.social Aspects article. It's a great read.
planecrashgirl.bsky.social Dr. Lisa M. Daly, PhD @planecrashgirl.bsky.social · May 2
Had a good session at @can-arch.bsky.social this morning, but had to rush home to help with a broken bathroom pipe.
The other presentations on Beothuk archaeology, fires and evidence for prostitution in St. John's, and an accidentally cemetery disturbance were all amazing. Great work being done.
A picture of a power point cover slide. The background is dark green with a light green band on the right. The title, in light yellow reads Harbour Buffett and the US Navy Hudson Bomber, The Impact of an Aicraft Crash on a Community (I really tried to avoid a pun, but couldn't figure out a better word). By Lisa M. Daly and Neil Burgess. Next to the names, to the left, is a picture of a piece of metal underwater mostly covered by silt.
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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devana.bsky.social
If a snail had left Donetsk on February 24, 2022, by today it would have crossed all of Ukraine and reached Romania. The huge Russian army also left Donetsk on February 24, 2022, but since then it has not managed to advance beyond Donetsk region.
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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freecad.org
We are in feature freeze for the next version of FreeCAD.
Help us iron out the latest bugs for a faster 1.1 release.
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WIP Wednesday, 17 September 2025
The main development branch of FreeCAD entered the hard feature freeze on Monday, so we are now pretty much in bugfix mode until the release of v1.1. There is no schedule for the release other than…
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September 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM