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Make: High-Power Rockets
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Make: High-Power Rockets

by Mike Westerfield
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
295 pages
12h 33m
English
Make: Community
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About the Author

Mike Westerfield sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer, then used it to write ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer’s Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS. Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma physics simulations for Z-pinch experiments, multimedia authoring tools for grade schoolers, disease surveillance programs credited with saving lives of Hurricane Katrina refugees, advanced military simulations that protect our nation’s most critical assets, and technical computing software for iOS.

Mike currently works at Stellar Science ...

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