[HSIS] meeting tonight

[Ethan Chew]

Satyam,

        Sounds good.  Will you be at this coming Friday night's 7pm build
session to prepare for flight?

                  - Ethan

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Satyam Nayak <nayaksatyam at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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