Opensource Rocketry and Tools, FreeCAD and beyond.

Rocketry has its challenges but there are numerous open source tools available to enable the design, simulation and manufacture of amateur, high power and experimental air frames. In this talk Jo will show some of these tools and usage highlighting along the way how it’s only open source community development that could possibly enable such interesting and interoperable tools to be developed.

Jo is a technical author, maker, and community developer who has an interest in space. Jo has developed and flown numerous open source rocket designs and has pushed the development of opensource rocketry tools. Jo has worked with Libre Space Foundation who built and launched a completely opensource satellite off the international space station as well as other on orbit opensource space projects. Jo has a wide range of clients he writes for and is the author of “FreeCAD for Makers” available for free download from the Raspberry Pi Press and also wrote "Design an RP2040 board with KiCad".