Oneil, design specification language for rapid system modeling
Hi all! I've been doing spacecraft system engineering since grad school and got to keep doing it after school at Care Weather. I tried several approaches for keeping hundreds of napkin math equations and connected simulations up-to-date, but none of them were both reliable and easy to use. To solve that, I made Oneil, a design specification language with clean syntax for specifying and evaluating math describing a complex system. Oneil has been really helpful as we design one satellite iteration after another for ground testing and spaceflight. I'm really interested in hearing feedback and…
Oneil, design specification language for rapid system modeling launched on July 9, 2024 with 5 votes, #2,267 of 5,184 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
Design specification language for rapid, comprehensive system modeling. - careweather/oneil
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi all! I've been doing spacecraft system engineering since grad school and got to keep doing it after school at Care Weather. I tried several approaches for keeping hundreds of napkin math equations and connected simulations up-to-date, but none of them were both reliable and easy to use. To solve that, I made…
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