Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
** Many thanks to this Teardown Session's sponsor: Qorvo! **
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Andrew Greenberg from Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS). Join them to celebrate the launch of Oregon's second satellite. Along the way, you'll discover all sorts of interesting things, such as:
- Beep Sats
- Space ball bearings
- What makes space people happy
- Plasma magnet intersteller spaceship drives
- Open Source information Communists
You'll also learn how to make a self-deploying three-band antenna using a tape measure plus lots of other tips and tricks for making open source spacecraft.
*About Our Guest*
Andrew Greenberg is the Chief Technical Officer at The TOVA Company, Principal Embedded Systems Engineer at APDM Wearable Technologies (an ERT company), and an embedded systems consultant. At Portland State, he helps teach and manage capstones (senior projects), and helps with the Electronics Prototyping Lab (EPL), a rapid prototyping lab. Andrew also is an advisor for the Portland State Aerospace Society, which builds small rockets, liquid fuel engines, and nano-satellites.
Source: https://www.pdx.edu/profile/andrew-greenberg
*About OreSat*
The OreSat project is managed by the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS), an interdisciplinary student-led aerospace project in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University. PSAS started with amateur rockets in the latest 1990s, and now we're building rocket avionics systems, liquid fueled rocket engines, and of course, satellites. PSAS is hundred or so open source space nerds, mostly undergraduates of all majors, some graduate students, a few faculty advisors, and mentors we call "industry advisors".
*About Crowd Supply*
Crowd Supply is the crowdfunding platform of choice for engineers, hackers, designers, and idealists. We help them with the funding and support they need to deliver respectful, thoughtfully crafted, open source hardware to their delighted backers. The Teardown Sessions are a series of interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and lots of special guests.
Come see what our creators are making: crowdsupply.com
*About the Teardown Sessions*
Welcome to The Teardown Sessions, a series of interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and lots of special guests. Crowd Supply is the crowdfunding platform of choice for engineers, hackers, designers, and idealists. We help them with the funding and support they need to deliver respectful, thoughtfully crafted, open source hardware to their delighted backers.
*Links & Resources*
- Portland State Aerospace Society: pdxaerospace.org
- OreSat Ground Station on Crowd Supply: crowdsupply.com/psas/oresat
- NASA cubesat launch initiative: nasa.gov/content/about-cubesat-launch-initiative
- Qorvo RF Accelerator program: crowdsupply.com/qorvo/rf-accelerator
- Qorvo: qorvo.com
- The O-Drive Micro on Crowd Supply: crowdsupply.com/odrive-robotics/odrive-micro
- Hackaday 2024: hackaday.com/2024
- OreSat home: oresat.org
- SatNOGS home: satnogs.org
- UniClOGS home: uniclogs.org
- Pacific Northwest Aerospace Expo: pdxaerospace.org/events
- Portland State Aerospace on GitHub: github.com/psas
- OreSat on GitHub: github.com/oresat
- TearDown 2025: crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025
- Crowd Supply Newsletter: crowdsupply.com/newsletter
- B-Sides PDX home: bsidespdx.org
**Don't forget to Like, Link, and Subscribe!**
#opensourcehardware #hardwarehacking #opensource #hardware #teardown #maker #hacker #electronics #crowdsupply #crowdfunding #cubesat #satellite #psu
** Many thanks to this Teardown Session's sponsor: Qorvo! **
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Andrew Greenberg from Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS). Join them to celebrate the launch of Oregon's second satellite. Along the way, you'll discover all sorts of interesting things, such as:
- Beep Sats
- Space ball bearings
- What makes space people happy
- Plasma magnet intersteller spaceship drives
- Open Source information Communists
You'll also learn how to make a self-deploying three-band antenna using a tape measure plus lots of other tips and tricks for making open source spacecraft.
*About Our Guest*
Andrew Greenberg is the Chief Technical Officer at The TOVA Company, Principal Embedded Systems Engineer at APDM Wearable Technologies (an ERT company), and an embedded systems consultant. At Portland State, he helps teach and manage capstones (senior projects), and helps with the Electronics Prototyping Lab (EPL), a rapid prototyping lab. Andrew also is an advisor for the Portland State Aerospace Society, which builds small rockets, liquid fuel engines, and nano-satellites.
Source: https://www.pdx.edu/profile/andrew-greenberg
*About OreSat*
The OreSat project is managed by the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS), an interdisciplinary student-led aerospace project in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University. PSAS started with amateur rockets in the latest 1990s, and now we're building rocket avionics systems, liquid fueled rocket engines, and of course, satellites. PSAS is hundred or so open source space nerds, mostly undergraduates of all majors, some graduate students, a few faculty advisors, and mentors we call "industry advisors".
*About Crowd Supply*
Crowd Supply is the crowdfunding platform of choice for engineers, hackers, designers, and idealists. We help them with the funding and support they need to deliver respectful, thoughtfully crafted, open source hardware to their delighted backers. The Teardown Sessions are a series of interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and lots of special guests.
Come see what our creators are making: crowdsupply.com
*About the Teardown Sessions*
Welcome to The Teardown Sessions, a series of interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and lots of special guests. Crowd Supply is the crowdfunding platform of choice for engineers, hackers, designers, and idealists. We help them with the funding and support they need to deliver respectful, thoughtfully crafted, open source hardware to their delighted backers.
*Links & Resources*
- Portland State Aerospace Society: pdxaerospace.org
- OreSat Ground Station on Crowd Supply: crowdsupply.com/psas/oresat
- NASA cubesat launch initiative: nasa.gov/content/about-cubesat-launch-initiative
- Qorvo RF Accelerator program: crowdsupply.com/qorvo/rf-accelerator
- Qorvo: qorvo.com
- The O-Drive Micro on Crowd Supply: crowdsupply.com/odrive-robotics/odrive-micro
- Hackaday 2024: hackaday.com/2024
- OreSat home: oresat.org
- SatNOGS home: satnogs.org
- UniClOGS home: uniclogs.org
- Pacific Northwest Aerospace Expo: pdxaerospace.org/events
- Portland State Aerospace on GitHub: github.com/psas
- OreSat on GitHub: github.com/oresat
- TearDown 2025: crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025
- Crowd Supply Newsletter: crowdsupply.com/newsletter
- B-Sides PDX home: bsidespdx.org
**Don't forget to Like, Link, and Subscribe!**
#opensourcehardware #hardwarehacking #opensource #hardware #teardown #maker #hacker #electronics #crowdsupply #crowdfunding #cubesat #satellite #psu
