At long last the CrawSat 3 project has completed the development phase, which included making a board, coding up sensors, gps, a communications system, a user interface package to be added to the board, and the integration. It took a long time, but its finally completely done.

We’re now entering the testing phase, with a Code Assurance Test this Wednesday at 6:30 PM in the CAPE Lab. Everyone interested may come join!

Well its been a long time since we last updated our readers on the progress of Balloon 3. Its been pretty exciting for our team lately.

We recently got our board in for Balloon 3, and are in the process of populating it with pieces.

The OBC has integrated Sensors into the main code, and is currently setting it’s eyes on getting comm and gps done soon.

Below is a screen of hyper terminal recieving the Balloon 3 Beacon with data from the temperature and fuel gauge sensors. The pressure sensor is also integrated, but the sensors board can’t support that particular sensor, so the data from pressure is invalid….but hey its progress right?

We’re hoping to set a firm launch date at tomorrow’s meeting.  So stay tuned!

I have posted several eagle cad libraries which I have either created myself or customized for the CAPE team and other projects. I will be keeping the files at Eagle Cad Libraries. I will have an index page up by March 15, 2010, listing all of the files and a short description of each file.

Sometimes a seeing the same boring boot sequence with embedded linux can get dull. Well, an easy fix is to find the MOTD (Message Of The Day) file and edit it. Aquire some ASCII art and voila! You have a customized boot-up welcome message, adding +5 to all geek-skills.

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