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

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!