The balloon went to 103, 258 ft peak reported altitude. Many items had to be considered for launching payload to this range. Unlike building an electronics package to operate at Sea Level, items such as air pressure, temperature, relative humidity and even shock events from the payload being tossed about by high altitude high velocity winds. The ap
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proximate air pressure at burst altitude was 0. 0218 psi with a projected temperature from NOAA Sounding data at -60 F. There was a colder band that the balloon had to travel through that was about 15, 000 ft thick with a temperature range at -84 F The original concept for the payload revolved around how to either receive or record data while in flight. The ideas ranged from the original of an Arduino with a SD Card shield to using FRS Radio to communicate the location. After debate and gathering information, it was decided to work for an end design that comprised of a GPS module capable of reporting altitude through the entire possible flight range, some sort of radio transmission to get the GPS data to a ground station and a microcontroller to link the onboard camera and all other systems together. One of the primary concerns was being able to power all of the electronics and have the batteries last through the temperature extremes and the amount of power drain that was projected for the entire circuit. There was no time to create a Spice model for the LDO Voltage Regulator used on the two circuit cards; however, a model is available for a standard 7805 +5V regulator. As shown in the following picture, one concern is how low the voltage could get on the battery pack before the regulator would cut off. In the picture the left cursor is at approximately 6. 6 VDC. This is the point at which the input must remain above for...
This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of....
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is....
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to....
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This....
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the....
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,....
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the....
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power....
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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