10may2012saturday prenoon: batteries, packing, turnons --patrick/amanda 10am noon wilder --patrick amanda peter y 1 canoe steph n ralph y 2 canoe jon y 3 k todd y 4 k downstream tom y 5 fleet either, canoe max y 6 k fleet pictures k n , tim y (unti 2:30,3) ellen sunday not sat, y nina sunday, maybe sat, n ha sat or sunday, y megaphone***k instructions: stuck duck: return to center of river as reasonable startup: poohsticks after all turnons good other boats downstream one conoe, 10 ducks, row across 0.1x width second canoe, 10 ducks, one big canoe (p, am, computers, paddler) 2 more canoes 2 kayaks out front, one more for max tim/k purple canoe need: 3 can, 3 kay, noon sat...... foam: cutter now working. then stopped. 9 copies+1. other 10 blocks. fins/etc: machining done. assembly by fri aft, see electronics all turned on. ricky mag not working. not all gps acquired yet. half. hopefully today. no extras except 21st duck... jon: curl and divergence --payloads should travel in a sine curve reatime: patrick (makes kml files) files: tom, jon tom upright, spinny kml: sinusoidal streamlines tom/jon: pos/time >> vel, posn, time jon: interpolated flow field from meas lines --vector opersation on it
--expectatin for velocity vs depth
gc6 (5) chipsat idea solar panels: --develop new board copy --later may: pscpice patrick--realtime,amanda--new data --??how is data packettized and buffered clarified baud rates. radios always at 250K. control only how radio talks to ard or computer. xbee: if losing packets to full buffer, rates incompatible. still should be emptying fastre than filling up. workable wtih 2 groundstations. cmp is at 115K --at what point do they trip over each other (10-20) dave: on hold --logic levels, power spikes; ***order intermediate caps --new board layout for DNT support board, using expressPCB --dave needs further testing but design now ok --summer flight, chipsats, new solar panel amanda schedule --thesis defense 28 may, 4 wks --fancy launch by 21 may: ompom vs upper white --first full launch 12 may: ledyard to wilder --finish assembly/testing 12-13 --mech ass 7 may wk --mech fab 1 may wk stk/peter/max cubesat followups: rome arduino cubesat, smartphone, qb50deployment,af nanosat...patrick, before end of term *** solar panels: uah charging***p/p/s followup thomas data sensitivity; mag coils? *** jon: plots of flow?? ben: drawings big wheel cart.... |