[HSIS] meeting tonight

[Satyam Nayak]

Sorry guys, had to work late and could not make it. But I do have an update
on the camera.

I left it in the refrigerator (since we are hoping to keep it above the
freezing point) in a ziploc bag, and it lasted for 4.5 hours, and went on
till it ran out of juice. Throw in a big enough card and it will run just
fine. We cannot use the data from this test for size estimations because
when I leave it pointed out the window, the pics are considerably larger in
size than inside a refrigerator.

I did get around 3.5Meg pics pointing at the field. And it takes a snap
almost every 15 seconds - so about 4 every minute.

3.5 * 4 * 60 * 4.5 = 3780 MB

A 4 gig card should be enough, but we could toss in an 8 gig one just to be
sure?

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ethan,
>
>          Sorry about that, I had mistakenly thought that the board
> elections were today, so I moved the time around.  Today, it was Matt,
> Justin, Tim and me.  We discussed preparations for our payload test flight.
> We are looking to gain flight experience by watching how the pros do it and
> to get an idea to how our current photography and tracking methods measure
> up to our expectations (camera is expected to do fine, Matt says the cell
> phone tracker is expected to get tracking faults (as seen in ground testing,
> stops tracking after a certain time interval)).
>
> As it stands, the test payload will consist of our camera and the original
> cell phone tracker with Mologogo (just for experimentation), a hot hand*,
> and a flotation block.  The electronics will be wrapped in a ziplock bag for
> waterproofing (foam block and hot hand outside) and then the whole package
> wrapped in bubble wrap for insulation.  The pack will be taped shut, holes
> cut to expose the lense and the hot hand to the outside, and rigged with a
> spider wire bridal.  An international orange streamer will be linked to the
> bridal.
>
> *Note: As the hot hand requires oxygen to work, it will provide heating at
> low altitudes until the greenhouse effect of the bubble wrap takes over at
> high altitudes.
>
> So far,  the camera is ready to fly.  I will need to tagup with Satyam to
> get the camera set up for flight.  The cell phone is ready for testing and
> will be flown only experimentally.  Matt has shown me how to run it.  It
> will be backed up by Bill Brown's tracking equipment.  I will need to
> purchase bubble wrap and an orange streamer.  All other material is already
> available to us.  In the meanwhile, I will be asking the UAH team how much
> payload room they have for us to fly on their flight train.
>
>                - Ethan
>
> P.S. Our flight crew current consists of me and maybe Justin.  I would like
> more to accompany us this Saturday.  Also, could someone make a blog post to
> the front page announcing our flight plan this weekend and our progress?  I
> am a crappy writer, so I can't make a decent entry. :P
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jeff Cotten <omegix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I can't make it to the meeting tonight.
>>
>> Just a heads up, the meeting time may or may not be at 8PM.
>> It says 8PM on the wiki, and 7PM in the channel.
>>
>> As we go forward, please the project manager (that's a me, jeff!) handle
>> meeting changes.
>> I have a checklist that I follow for project management that makes sure
>> meeting announcements get communicated.
>> the checklist is below, I find it a helpful tool in my day to day life:
>>
>>
>>    1. Don't screw it up
>>    2. Coffee
>>
>> It doubles as a grocery list.
>>
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