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Rocket Engine Test Rig

Kitchen scales make thrust measurement a piece of cake

Published in issue 388, April 2009

Electronic kitchen scales are now reasonably priced and are good for accurately measuring cake ingredients but add this ATmega8 equipped interface card and you have a model rocket engine test rig which displays the engine’s static thrust profile on a PC.

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