Which is why he decided to implement the real time clock using the micro-controller itself, instead of using an external RTC module. was taking an Embedded systems class, and needed to build an MSP430G2553 microcontroller based final project.

He admits an earlier Voltmeter Clock we featured a while back inspired him to build his version. This isn’t the first of its type, but ’s MSP430 based Analog Gauge Clock certainly ticks off the “hack” quotient.

And it ends with a spaceship that was arguably even more capable than its American twin.Ĭontinue reading “Stolen Tech: The Soviet Shuttle” → Posted in classic hacks, Featured Tagged Buran, cold war, energia, nasa, shuttle, Soviet Union, space, space flight, USSR While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as successful as its American counterpart - the single completed craft would only fly once, unmanned - the story of this spaceplane is one of the greatest tales of espionage ever told. The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. The Space Shuttle was a product of the cold war, and although the orbiters themselves were never purely military craft, the choices made during the design of the Space Shuttle were heavily influenced by the US Air Force. Yes, some of the hardware and technology will be reused for NASA’s next generation of heavy launch vehicles, but the orbiter – a beautiful brick of a space plane – is forever grounded. The launch pads used by the shuttles over a career of 135 launches are being repurposed for vehicles from SpaceX and the Space Launch System. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center.

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried.

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