Author Archives: Nathan

I grew up in North Carolina as an only child (read: lonely). After an unremarkable childhood I went to Appalachian State University where I studied Physics, Astronomy, and other people. Shortly after graduating in 2006 I moved to Portland Ore. for no particular reason. Ever since I have been working as a consultant and living it up on the internet. I enjoy a large number of hobbies from working on advanced amateur rockets to blogging and designing websites. I love meeting new people and try to attend as many tech events as I can. If you live in the Portland come hang out and look for me.

Science Hack Days – Ideas to Things

By Nathan | June 22, 2011

Where do ideas come from? I know I can’t be the first person to think about making lights turn on when something happens. Actually there are tons of projects like that. But I was disappointed that none of them (that I could find) focused on space. So much happens in space that we don’t notice [...]

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ISS Notify

By Nathan | June 8, 2011

Update, August 19:The kickstarter project was a huge success!! Now I have to figure out how to make hundreds of them. In the meantime I hosted a site about the project: open-notify.org. Update, June 13:Thanks everyone for their comments and feedback! For everyone who is interested in buying one, check out my kickstater page! If [...]

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A Year From Space

By Nathan | April 1, 2011

NASA has a couple of very awesome satellites called Aqua and Terra. They constantly orbit us building up a photo of the entire surface of the Earth about once per day. The data is used by scientists worldwide to measure climate change, fight forest fires and all sorts of awesome things. Both of the satellites [...]

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Watching a Shuttle Launch

By Nathan | March 8, 2011

This past week I was part of one of the most amazing events that happens on this planet—a space shuttle launch. I can’t even wrap my head around how lucky I am to not only get a chance to see a space shuttle in person, but to watch the very last launch of Discovery and [...]

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Aquila Glass School

By Nathan | January 25, 2011

A couple few weeks ago I found a neat place in North Portland: Aquila Glass School. It’s a small studio that lets people work on glass fusing and torchwork. They also teach classes so Kate and I signed up for a glass fusing class where you make a couple of dishes and some pendants and [...]

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