This past weekend two students from the CAPE team traveled to The Annual LaSpace Conference to present our progress on the CAPE project over the last year. Overall the conference was a success and we were treated to some great posters from other research and development programs at other Universities.

Vance Dourmit checking the posters after hanging them up.

Vance Dourmit explaining the CAPE Project to a professor.

During the conference, we met a member from the CrawSat I launch team, Lauren Gossen, who took one of the photos on the current CrawSat Poster.

CAPE Mentor Nick Pugh has uploaded two new Lecture videos on the concepts of Demodulation and Link Budget.

Lecture on Demodulation

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2CDXieR4g

Lecture on Link Budget

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOtg6iQyKNc

This past weekend CAPE presented it’s project at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Preview Day for prospective highschool students. Below are some photos.

- Team up bright and early at 9:00 am on a Saturday morning ready to present!

- Students from local highschools listening to the presentation.

- The Software Defined Radio team presenting their project under CAPE

Greetings everyone, just a quick update. CAPE Mentor Nick Pugh has uploaded four really valuable videos explaining the concepts of Decibels, Free Space Loss, Noise and Batteries. Below are videos of his lectures on the concepts. Hope everyone enjoys!

Lecture on Decibels:

Lecture on Free Space Loss:

Lecture on Noise:

Lecture on Batteries:

On March 30th, 2011, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Engineering opened it’s doors to prospective highschool students considering joining the University, and as always CAPE was present talking to the students about the program and experiences gained on the team and at the University at large. Hopefully we inspired a lot of students to consider ULL their choice for college!

Full Gallery: http://gallery.ulcape.org/v/Outreach/engineeringday2011/

Special thanks to Ashley Isabelle Photography for coming out and taking photos of the day for us! Check out her website for more information on future shoots. http://www.ashleytakesphotos.com/