[McHUG] Meet to Chow

[Pat Kilroy]

I am available tomorrow (Sunday) for dinner. 

Here is where I am at re PIC chips:

1. I am developing a balloon cut-down experiment 
based on the PICAXE-28X2. Am stuck on the nichrome 
circuit at the moment. My module is partly built. 

2. Am updating the PICetSat II and the PICetSat II 
LITE modules with the PICAXE-28X2 chip and added 
a few small tweaks to this balloon payload before 
freezing that design. Then, ...

3. I want to develop a new PICetSat module 
based on the Arduino / ATMEGA chips that will 
also have a downlink (and later uplink?) in AX.25 
format, hoping to leverage off of Steve N3SB's 
successes in getting his chip to talk packet. 

4. By summer, I want to have two types of printed 
circuit boards to share widely with beta testers 
and students w.r.t. the PICetSat modules. Namely 
one PCB type that has the CW downlink and one 
type that has the packet radio downlink. 

5. I welcome another fellow developer or two 
on this project if you are so willing. 

BTW, I am also about to start planning an 
AMSAT-DC Workshop for either later this 
winter or early next spring, like the one last 
year in Greenbelt, Md. I'd like it to be a 
day-long event where we are building 
PICetSat modules, each builder getting his 
own kit of parts and a free PCB. Thoughts? 

Thanks,

Pat Kilroy, N8PK


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Send McHUG mailing list submissions to mchug at mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/mchug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mchug-request at mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at mchug-owner at mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of McHUG digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Meet to Eat and Practical Arduino (Rich Mitchell) 2. Re: Meet to Eat and Practical Arduino (Peter Morton) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:55:38 +0000 From: "Rich Mitchell" Subject: [McHUG] Meet to Eat and Practical Arduino To: McHUG Reflector , Cc: hugh at blemings.org Message-ID: <011520101355.26146.4B5073DA0004B6A10000662222230650029B0A02D29B9B0EBF0E9D0D010A09 at att.net> Content-Type: text/plain At the club meeting we had a very McHUG like presentation as Dave showed us his weather controlled awning setup using the Arduino. Dave has now joined the list - thanks for the presentation! At the meeting some of us were talking about meeting somewhere for a meal to catch up on things microcontroller. I would be available most any time on Sunday. Also Monday evening would be okay as I may already be in Westminster Monday afternoon. Let me know if any of you want to, and what day would be best. Yesterday my Practical Arduino book came in. I had ordered it when at Vail in December. The subtitle is Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware. One of the authors is Hugh Blemings - VK1YYZ. He's big into Linux - works at Canonical on the Ubuntu kernel team. Found an article by him - A Linux users guide to ham radio. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/22064944/What-is-that-CONFIG_HAMRADIO-thing-anyway--ALinux-users-guide-to-Ham One of the projects in the Practical Arduino book is a Weather Station Receiver. Seems to mainly be a receiver shield to listen on 443 MHz which I guess a lot of home weather remotes transmit on. Of course, I can think of something else to listen to on 443 MHZ. I wonder if we could use it to keep an Arrow Antenna on target? Something to talk about at a Meet to Eat. 73s Rich N3III -- McHUG - Physical Computing ;) MicroController Ham User Group