[HSIS] meeting tonight

[Satyam Nayak]

Yes I will be there.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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