Objectives: The main goal of this project is to interact with objects at near-space (~100km) in real-time with live instrument reporting and video imaging. This is done through the use of microcontrollers, tablets, websites, radio communication, instrumentation and weather balloons. Here is a list of the main goals of this project.
Specific objectives of this project include:
- Explore Microcontrollers
- architecture specifics
- programming
- wiring and circuit design
- using/interfacing additional components
- Use and develop for Android
- Android development environment (usage and setup)
- Integrating microcontrollers/communication
- Engineer a Networked high Altitude Weather Balloon
- managing and protecting resources
- battery life
- lift to weight ratio
- bandwidth restrictions
- Create a Website to Publish Our Results
- development
- latest technologies
- publishing live data
- Use a Virtual Server to Streamline Development
- using CentOS
- security
- set-up and management of:
- Subversion, a code sharing application
- Apache 2, a web server
- MySQL, a database
- Use Subversion for Code Sharing
- installation
- learning checkout/update/commit cycles
- Use a Relational Database
- long term storage
- live reporting
- general data organization/management