My students want to know:
What is the "Age" function referring to in AltOS?
Dennis Oubre
Robotics & Rocketry Instructor
AJ Moore Academy at University High School
Waco, Texas
Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Anonymous
Several people have asked for it, so I spent my Christmas holiday
playing with a board that downloads data from MicroPeak's internal
eeprom storage.
Key facts:
* Logs barometric data every 192ms. Saves unfiltered barometric
pressure data in case you want to do your own pressure-to-altitude
conversions using actual atmospheric data.
* Logs 48 seconds of data. With only 512 bytes of storage, that's all
the space we've got. Should be sufficient to see the flight through
apogee for most airframes. Will still record actual apogee pressure
in case the ascent goes longer than 48 seconds.
* Download via USB. Uses a custom LED to USB interface board
(µPserial). New MicroPeak firmware flashes out the EEPROM contents
after showing the last flight max height. Takes only about a second
or so.
* Supports Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Using the same basic software
framework that we use for our full-sized flight computers.
* $35 for the µPserial download board.
* $75 for a bundle including MicroPeak and µPserial
More information here:
http://www.altusmetrum.org/MPSerial/http://keithp.com/blogs/MicroPeakSerial/
-keith
I'm not having any success at downloading a launch site map. After 20 or so minutes, progress bar reaches the end and quits. There are no files in the "maps" folder.
:-(
Dennis Oubre
Robotics & Rocketry Instructor
AJ Moore Academy at University High School
Waco, Texas
Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Anonymous
