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As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working no this controller for the K2CC balloon launch. I’ve made some more progress this week, with final integration of all the sensors in to the same set of firmware, and the first of the weird bugs cropping up. As it’s pretty late, I’m not going [...]
One of the biggest projects my schools amateur radio club, K2CC, has taken on this semester is launching a High-Altitude Weather Balloon to capture photos and sensor data from altitudes as high as 20 miles. I have been working with a team of people to design, build and program a microcontroller powered instrument pack. Over [...]
Been a busy morning for me, updating the blog and such, but now the Workbench page is up under projects, take a look!
Last night I had an empty bottle of Jones Soda on my desk, so I rinsed it out and filled it with cool water. Then I took one of my super bright blue LEDs and suspended it over the mouth of the bottle at full brightness. It turned to look pretty cool, and in the [...]
A friend (Tyler, KB1HCY) recently dug out his old Gumstix single board computer and expressed a desire to see if it still worked. So, also being curious, I invited him and Pat Wilbur (KC2OXM) over to try it out at my place. For the record we’re using an unknown model of Gumstix with an Audiostix [...]
I got my first QSL card in the mail the other day, and I just managed to open it up and take a look! Take a look for yourselves:
Here is a quick how to I wrote up on how to set up email posting and use it to go photoblogging from your phone. Step one – Enable email posting Go to your Dashboard, then to Settings, then Email. On this page you need to pick a secret word which will make up part [...]