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I built the fauxtato a while back; a small capsule to simulate a potato but with a 32g accelerometer (8g is wildly insufficient) and WiFi to be able to log data and make basic analyses about different cannon & fuel usage.

Really interested run some tests based on things in this thread, like different propellants.

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Correction: it was a ADXL375 200g sensor

That is amazing. Can you tell us if the potato referred to in this comment [0] could have done serious damage?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798939#40812811

That’s really interesting, I haven’t spent much time looking at the data from the landing impact.

I’m also not confident in my skills to translate G-forces into velocities or such. I guess it depends largely on what type of surface it lands on?

You’ve definitely got me thinking now. There’s a bunch of ways I could roughly come up with a model for this.

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