Head Full of Air » text messaging http://www.headfullofair.com Mathew Lippincott's blog on design and DIY aerospace Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:18:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Quick Links http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/02/11/quick-links/ http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/02/11/quick-links/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:13:09 +0000 Mathew http://www.headfullofair.com/?p=229 I’ve been very busy with a trans-continental move and more… So I’m going to try to just post links regularly, rather than longer things.

Via Robert Fortner, who I met at Research Club: proto SMS for pilots, you can listen in.

Arduinos in the Upper Atmosphere, the trans-Atlantic Atlantic Halo they’re launching a test balloon soon if you’re in France/UK, help’em out! via Balloon-Sked:

Launch Date: 13/2/10
Launch Time: 15:00UTC
Launch Site: EARS, Cambridgeshire, UK (52.2511, -0.0927)
Payload: ATmega328 with Arduino bootloader on custom PCB, Radiometrix
NTX2 10mW 434.075Mhz radio, Lassen IQ radio, 3x DS18B20 Temp Sensors,
Photocell, Williamson peristaltic pump and 500ml ballast tank (ballast
= ethanol/methanol)
Balloon: 1500g He, pinhole (1.5mm) vent -> aim for float @ ~20km altitude

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