[HSIS] meeting tonight

Tue Apr 6 00:02:04 CDT 2010

Will be there too.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Satyam Nayak <nayaksatyam at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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