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- Live in Auckland, New Zealand
I am developing a small, dual deploy altimeter, fully logging inertial and barometric apogee detection.
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- Rocketry!
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- Favorite Rockets:
- Atea (NZ Suborbital rocket)
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Soldering is a weird thing. I had tdo some for the first time in abot a
year, and it was great. Granted, it was not surface mount (thank God). "
(Hope Mark doesn't mind me snipping his comment :P)
Figured id use this opportunity to update everyone on the progress of my altimeter :)
I have had quite a bit of time away from it recently with 99% of my spare time put towards studying for a calculus… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2007 at 8:51pm — 6 Comments
Progress - Finally!
Well I have FINALLY put this thing together, the hardware works perfectly first time! :)
And here is how it turned out...
Excuse the messy looking board. There is a bit of fluff stuck to the solder flux :P (And its my first SMT board too!)
It was suprisingly easy to do the 0603 resistors!
Heres a short self-video :) Sorry about the huge size!
I swear the lighting is better than it looks :P
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Posted on September 16, 2007 at 7:13pm — 5 Comments
Progress -Kinda
I've recently had enquirys asking when Ill be done with my altimeter so I thought I'd post an update :)
Things are progressing, albeit alowly. Uni studies have been somewhat overwhelming recently.
Tommorrow I will finally start to solder all the bits on to the prototype. Should be fun getting those tiny 0603 resistors on the board! *Groan*
I am developing the software in the background, and it looks as though the first release of the firmware will implement… Continue
Posted on September 11, 2007 at 8:03pm —
Preliminary datasheet :)
Well I had a bit of spare time at work so I thought id whip up a quick datasheet to let you know the features my little device will include.
Heres a link to my original post.
http://our.rocketryplanet.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1014531%3ABlogPost%3A145
And here is a preliminary datasheet.
… Continue
Posted on August 27, 2007 at 9:38pm — 2 Comments
The latest on the Atea project
Some of you might of heard of a company here in NZ called Rocketlab who are developing a 2 stage sub-orbital rocket www.rocketlab.co.nz
In a thread on TRF a few of us started sketching up a scale model of it...as best we could anyway! http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=38491
Long story short, Aaron (heada) has decided to build one designed arou… Continue
Posted on August 24, 2007 at 7:53pm — 10 Comments
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So normal isopropyl alchohol will work?
Hans
They tend to fall off the edge of the world, somewhere near australia :D
When you launch rockets where do they go?
From my reference point its down?
Hans
Would of arrived in time for my birthday too :D
I have never met any of them lol.
Im new to the rocketry scene (about 1 year new) and all the launches to date have been cancelled due to our shocking winter weather!
Theres one coming up in october which I hope to attend and meet some people :)
Also, I don't actually own any rockets. I have in the past (an HV Arcas which I flew with an 'F' motor).
I got back into the scene on the electornics side of things, though my wife WANTS me to build a rocket lol...weird...she must want something...:P