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Blue Origin First Flight

9/23/2021

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We received a very nice thank you note today from Blue Origin for our involvement with the New Shepard program that made it's first human flight in July.

​Congratulations to Blue Origin, and thanks to the S5 Solutions team and all their effort, especially Tony Kuiper, the project lead on the S5 side.

​We are proud to have been part of such an historic event.

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Remote Working During COVID

8/28/2020

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COVID-19 has brought us all some interesting challenges. Out is the old daily routine, replaced with new ways of working and communicating.

Fortunately, for most engineers, we can do much of our work with just a computer. 
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One of the biggest challenges is that sometimes we need access to hardware. Having direct access to an ATE system, or other device used to be as easy as walking into a lab. Working remotely has made us come up with other methods.

At S5, we embraced the shift to remote work. We upgraded our VPN system to improve remote connection to hardware at the office. I turns out that a lot of times walking to the lab wasn't necessarily required, it was just convenient.

We have done plenty of work remotely for many years. However, customers often seemed to regard that as second best and still wanted us on site frequently. We have been pleased to see once reluctant customers embracing remote work. We are no longer the "outside team" to employees working on-site; we are just all part of "the team." In an odd way, being distant has brought some of the teams closer.

How have you coped with the challenges during this time? Has it changed your view of work?

Here is a great blog post from NI with some tips for working remotely.
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Publishing to Kindle

8/18/2020

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​Kindle has removed one of the impediments or excuses for not writing that novel or theoretical engineering (is there such a thing?) treatise. Never again can we use the fear of rejection from publishers, the long-involved publishing process or the hidden cost of publishing as reasons not to write,
because with Kindle, it’s easy and free.
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​Once you have that prize-winning book written and edited, just follow the wizard. You’ll need an
Amazon account (very easy to accomplish) and your banking information (so you can get paid). Watch
this video and get started. Now, you’re on the way to joining Stephen King and Stephen Hawking (even if
your name isn’t Stephen) as an author.

Go forth and write...
Related:
  • When Pigs Fly - the Kindle story written by the S5 Solutions Business Development Manager.
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When Pigs Fly

8/11/2020

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The COVID pandemic has made us all discover new ways of getting by. Eric Frederick, the S5 Solutions Business Development Manager, decided to flex his writing muscles. He has released his story, which is available on Kindle.

The author's own review:
"It ain't Shakespeare but it might cure your insomnia.  It's just 56 pages, just so you know before you invest 99 cents."

​Similar to "I hear You Paint Houses", the basis for the crime film "The Irishman", When Pigs Fly explores how a young man becomes a criminal and is then involved in the Kennedy assassination and cover-up. Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and David Ferrie are central to this fictitious account which is bound to entertain anyone interested in the JFK conspiracy. If you like to speculate about what happened on 11/22/63, you’ll like When Pigs Fly.
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Related:
  • Publishing to Kindle - how you can publish your book on Kindle
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Masks Ready!

6/25/2020

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The S5 office is ready for mask compliance, even the Cylon.
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Making COVID Masks with Glowforge

6/23/2020

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By Mike Wynn, Engineer
As the COVID-19 epidemic broke out and people were looking for masks, my wife wanted to help. She began making masks using a pattern she found online which she then printed on cardstock to use to cut the fabric.

As she continued making more masks, I reminded her we had a Glowforge at work and I could make her some acrylic templates. We’d spoken previously about doing this for quilting templates, a commodity that’s pretty readily available in the quilting community, though they do tend to come at significant cost. I also pointed out that I could etch the pattern information on the templates to minimize confusion and wasted materials caused by using the wrong template and cutting out fabric in the wrong size.
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