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Orbital Designs

Things orbital and not. At least it used to be in the before times.

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Orbital Designs is a personal archive where a programmer and hardware hobbyist records projects, writing, artwork and Orbiter add-ons. It serves as a central place to keep track of work spanning operating systems, frameworks, programming languages, games, universe simulations and radio tools, alongside hardware builds such as digital cameras, molten salt batteries, sound vision systems, drones, e-book readers and tesla coils.

The site is organized into sections for writing, hardware, software, artwork and photo, and Orbiter add-ons, with entries including the METEOR M decoder, Aprom OS, Rocket Land, timelapse cameras, and Orbiter tools such as Collision SDK, Orbiter Shipyard, OGLAClient, Orulex and Ship Generator. Projects are linked to GitHub, YouTube, Instagram and other networks, and some work is open source or documented. Contact is handled by e-mail. The site is a personal archive rather than a packaged product, and no plans, trials or editions are described.

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