Make: High-Power Rockets - Print
{"id":46670839828,"title":"Make: High-Power Rockets - Print","handle":"make-high-power-rockets","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eMake: High-Power Rockets\u003c\/em\u003e is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. 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As the personal computer revolution got going he sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer. He wanted to write a chess program but couldn't find a good assembler, so he took a summer off to write his own. Two years later he finished ORCA\/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn the same year as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Mike made the mistake of getting an education instead of getting rich. A slow learner, he graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1977 with a degree in Physics, earned an M.S. in Physics from the University of Denver, and was working on a Ph.D. when he started making more money from his sideline software company than from the Air Force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm. 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As the personal computer revolution got going he sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer. He wanted to write a chess program but couldn't find a good assembler, so he took a summer off to write his own. Two years later he finished ORCA\/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn the same year as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Mike made the mistake of getting an education instead of getting rich. A slow learner, he graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1977 with a degree in Physics, earned an M.S. in Physics from the University of Denver, and was working on a Ph.D. when he started making more money from his sideline software company than from the Air Force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm. He is a PADI scuba instructor who lives in Albuquerque with his wife and cat, enjoying being an empty nester and spoiling his grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
