HSIS
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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
- February 22 2010, 8:30pm - 9:30pm: HSIS Interest Meeting
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
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
