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Thanks for sharing! Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see the Security Director role listed on the careers page? I do see an Eng Director role listed under the R&D: Security sectio…

Hey everyone! I wrote an in-depth article about a project I've been working on -- the Open Trickler! In this article, I describe how I built it, how it works, and how you can build…

Author here, thanks for sharing! Happy to answer any questions!

Hey folks, This is an article I've been meaning to write for years. I finally found the time to do it and am happy with how it turned out. Enjoy!

Hey everyone! I wrote a quick article to give an update on the incredible progress that's been made to the DIY accelerometer project I shared before[1]. Most notably, it's nearly s…

Hey, thanks for looking!

Fair enough! I don't have the budget for a machine pistol, but maybe someone who does can try that idea out.

Hi! I see a lot of "you could" in your reply, but I'd like to point out that I released this as an open-source DIY project so that anyone could do whatever tests they wanted. I enc…

Nice! I have that board as well, but only played with it briefly. Do you have any data from your use of it on the pistol that you'd like to share? I've love to see how it turned ou…

Thanks for the feedback! The Feather board I'm using actually has Bluetooth, but I have not explored using it yet. If it's faster to send data over BLE to an app, then that would m…

You definitely could! I chose not to simply because I wanted to make it smaller. The Feather boards are a bit smaller than the Pi Zero.

Based on the feedback from my previous experiment[1], I wrote an in-depth article about the accelerometer unit I built. In this article, I describe how I built it, how it works, an…

I believe I provided both imperial and metric units for every equation. Maybe I missed one? I'd be happy to correct it if you can point me to the specific instance!

Thank you for taking the time to read it!

Thank you! Yes, as merlincorey correctly mentioned, they're called "violin plots".

[shameless plug] I hope I can convince you to subscribe for when I tackle this topic in a future article! ;)

Thanks for the question! Keep in mind that a huge explosion (with 40,000 PSI) is happening inside the chamber of the gun. Some of that energy pushes the bullet forward and the rest…

Thanks for the feedback! I've heard this suggestion a few times, and it is an interesting thought. I believe that the calculations I did which show that the bullet has left long be…

Thank you! As I mentioned in the Next Steps section of the article, measuring the effects of bullet sorting by weight & length is definitely a topic for a future article.

There are several physics equations (some I linked to in the article) which discuss this topic. One of the main takeaways I learned from running this experiment and doing some of t…

I shoot with it all the time and haven't noticed any variation because of it (though I admit I have not tested this directly). FWIW, I was able to earn my F-Class Mid-Range High Ma…