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* March 1 2010, 7:30pm - 8:30pm: BalloonSat Meeting | * March 1 2010, 7:30pm - 8:30pm: BalloonSat Meeting | ||
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[hide]Overview
This page is for the ML256 members who are participating in the Hackerspaces In Space (HSIS) competition. (Please see above link for official competition dates and deadlines)
Calendar
- March 1 2010, 7:30pm - 8:30pm: BalloonSat Meeting
- March 4 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm: HAL5 Presentation at Huntsville Main Library's Auditorium
Status
- 2/22/10 - Registered on the HSIS website.
- Omegix has confirmed drug stores no longer carry disposable digital cameras
- Have GPS Tracker
- Held first meeting on 2/22/2010
- 2/24/10 - spacefelix contacted Bill Brown who does balloon launches. He has expressed interest in helping the project.
Future
- spacefelix needs to contact HSIS board on judge's duties and set up liason.
- Ratmandu looking into using the GSM/GPS Unit he found.
- Ratmandu checking into available camera for project
- Presentation to HAL5 on HSIS - brimstone said we can reuse a presentation that we will give to 2600. Will need a volunteer to orate.
Interested Peoples
- Brimstone
- Spacefelix (HSIS Event Board Liason)
- Omegix (Acting as local POC/Project Manager)
- Crashcart (requested no admin duties)
- bender
- Ratmandu
- Your name here
Available Materials
- GNX-5 (rebranded as Guidepoint) GSM(cellphone)/GPS tracking device
- Ratmando has the data sheet and pinouts of the current micro controller for this device. He's looking into replacing the micro controller with something like an ATMEGA644
- Ratmandu may have a camera
- Brimstone found out that if we take a 1M picture every 10 seconds, that it will fill 7.5GB in 2.5 hours
- We may be able to get cameras that work with CHDK at Unclaimed Baggage for less than retail cost.
Others
Bill Brown has expressed interest in helping the project. He can provide balloons, lifting gas, a launch site (on a mountaintop near Hartselle), a ground station and some lightweight tracking payloads. All of it is for his company: High Altitude Research Corp. He invented the Near Space BalloonSat back in 1987. It was the first to take photos and videos in Near Space.
- Recommendations
- Use his lightweight tracking payloads instead of the GPS cell phone method.
- Use the Canon PowerShot series hacked with CHDK (Canon Hacker Development Kit) software.
- Fly the Flip video cam.
- Bought balloons for $20.00 each on eBay. Has receipt to prove it for costing.
- Media
- His YouTube Channel or YouTube search SpacePort Indiana
