[HSIS] meeting tonight

[Jeff Cotten]

I have a play at 7 on Friday, so I can't make it.  I doesn't look like I'm
going to be able to stay for the entire uah balloon endeavor on Saturday
either, a friend of mine's bachelor party is starting at 11:30AM, and the
chase will likely go past that :(



On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Rohan Rana <rohan.j.rana at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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