Eric hails from the great city of St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended the University of Wisconsin - Madison for his undergraduate studies, receiving degrees in Engineering Physics and Mathematics. He is currently a first year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (doing work on MEMS and NEMS fabrication).
Outside of the lab, he is an avid outdoor sports enthusiast who loves to hike, bike, and cross-country ski.
You are all incredibly creative!! What a great idea! I now have an amazing science project for my son when he gets to that!!! Good luck in school! Keep using your imagination and engineer something to rock our world!!
Great Job! You guys inspire us to think out of the box! Thank you for the inspiration and Good Luck to your endeavors.
Your space picture project was
simply amazing
Lots of congrats!
Awesome! Good job.
i’m amazed!
Way to go!
NASA should hire every one of you, and then pay to have you put thru college!
Those photos are incredible!
Very creative approach, and exceptionally cool you are!
Dude, that project was brilliant and great and awesome!
Great job guys! All of us at Boost Mobile are very impressed with what you’ve done with one of our iDEN handsets. We weren’t surprised that it was able to make it up into the stratosphere and back down intact as our Motorola phones are the best in the industry! Keep up the great work and here’s another article on your project that was published today in the Orange County Register (California):
http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/16/boost-mobile-phone-soars-175-miles-high-to-edge-of-space/21547/
Buddy Jacob
Research Manager
Boost Mobile
Irvine, CA
[email protected]
Eric - where did you guys buy your stuff? I work at best buy in minn and am curious.
I got a crazy buziness venture of launching people’s ashes into “near space” or their final resting place in the heavans. It’ll cost less than a cemetery plot and operating cost will be low. This time, we will want to launch near the coast because we don’t want any ashes if any to fall over the city but over the Atlantic ocean. I dont foresee needing more than two pounds of ashes so we’ll be under FAA limits. What do you say guys?
BTW, I got other ideas about an reusable launch vehicle.
Sorry for the name, I’m just kidding really - I love what you’ve done, and I hope to see you do more in the future. The entire lot of you are amazing not only with your creativity, but your “chutzpah”, your “dude tudes”. I wish I was your age again, you really know how to be young and enjoy it. Don’t get too crazy, but then again, don’t get too sane, either.
- Bill Shroyer, 37, Pittsburgh, PA
(this bit, you don’t have to post - just to the moderators - feel free to change the name “Dirty Old Man” and remove the reference to it if you wish - it’s mostly an inside joke to someone who kidded me recently about getting older, and getting to be a “dirty old man” - yeah, right…
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Great job guys — enjoyed the video and pics. I used to be a model rocket enthusiast and I believe your idea of attaching a rocket will work with a solid (Estes Type) (“D”) motor maybe a two stage — I used to have a lot of fun with these — good luck and would love to hear how it turns out for you…
Tom — aka IBeFree
hey i require your help in building a space camera for a moon mission and i think u can help me out in that… pls reply to me.. asap…
thanks
my mail address is [email protected]
hey and by the way guys great work…
So, I follow astronomy a little-mostly anything that comes into the science section of the New York Times every Tuesday. Nevertheless, I am so, so, so impressed by what you’ve done here. You’ve proved that this is not just something for people who have a lot of money, or multi-billion dollar corporations, like NASA. On a $150 budget, anyone can be an astronaut.
You guys are inspiring! Thanks!