29mar2012Wind/Weather: Saturday April 7 - Excellent wind. Lands 20 miles S of Conway. Weather forecast is rain. Thursday April 5 - Winds less favorable. Possible landing on I-295, but weather is acceptable. Assume for now a launch on Thursday, April 5. Max will continue to watch the wind and weather. Kristina: Arduino materials and tutorials available online at www.ladyada.net Will leave one Arduino and light strip in Wilder 9 to play with. For DUCKS, Arduino takes inputs from the GPS and from the Xbee on the comm shield. GPS goes into digital pins. Radio communicates via TX and RX. Mag-Accel talks through the Analog pins. Can we use both the GPS and the Radio at the same time? PLAN: gear up for launch thurs april 5 packing up wed night,leaving ??? ---hopefully 6am start; 8am arrival; 10am luanch (dave); 10:30 launch (altair) --discussion of cutdown time plan CASEY:
PATRICK: real time display? AMANDA/THOMAS: sometime before monday revisit dave data displays hardware: --dave needs reassembly --flight box (parachtutes etc) needs reloading --altair on max/yorke end testing: --monday fullup test 3pm --tuesday noon MRR ---.....better data display???? ---.....goals of each flight; success criteeria ---.....***differences of flight conditions from past: repercussions of design changes ---.....personnel (rec *tim, *jon, *max, peter/other) --- (launch *amanda, *patrick, *yorke, *ralph, casey, todd, steph, ben,ha, ellen,k) --wed pack |