Recently the Integration Team completed a frame of the CAPE-2 Core design. Attached are photos of the boards soldered on to the frame.

- Alex Wehmann soldering the connectors for the backplane, after having tacked the corner pins in place to ensure proper orientation.

- Checking alignment with all the boards and the prototype battery holder after installing them in the prototype frame.

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:

Greetings All,

I hope everyone had a great summer. While most college students were down at the beach, the CAPE team was hard at work this past summer, making strides towards completion of the CAPE-2 Satellite Project. We’ve made a lot of changes, even going as far as to redefine our Command and Data Handling Subsystem from the ground up, while Communications, Power, and the Software Defined Radio Subsystems continued development. While on the side, myself and Louis Courville spent six weeks teaching classes to highschool students enrolled in the ULL Upward Bound Program in Programming Arduinos and Website Development as part of our continual Educational Outreach here at CAPE.

Students learning about programming Arduino Microcontrollers over the summer

Now with the semester underway at UL, our team has redoubled efforts to complete flight hardware for the satellite by the end of the year, and a new team of students has taken on the task of developing and flying CrawSat IV.

Group Photo of CAPE-2 Team and CrawSat IV Team

So look forward for more exciting updates from us!

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/

Recently Chase Savoy attended the First Annual University of Louisiana Systems Undergraduate Research Day to present the research done by our team. Over 60 students from all eight UL System universities participated. CAPE hopes to return in future years to present our developments.

Featured: University of Louisiana at Lafayette presenters – Molly Dugas, Ariane Martin, Manik Rajora and Chase Savoy