[McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits

[Steve Beckman]

Hi Rich;

Friday evening works for me. How about the other guys??

73; Steve, N3SB

-----Original Message-----
From: "Rich Mitchell" <geobra at att.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:32:03 
To: MicroController Ham User Group - Physical Computing for HamRadio<mchug at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits

Steve,

I have just found out that I will not be available Sunday afternoon for dinner.  Sorry about that.  Maybe Friday night, around 7 at Finksburg NY Pizza?

I have given up on the Windows setup for the Zipit.  The ext2fsd program can't seem to see the SD Linux system.  It can see regular Linux extensions on the hard drive.  So I created an txfer directory using OpenZipit, chmod it to 777 and then loaded files from the backup firmware and also the mouse drivers to it using Kubuntu.  Haven't had chance to get back on Zipit to move files to correct directory and see if it works.  Having fun with command line Linux, though.

Rich
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-------------- Original message from n3sb at qis.net: -------------- 


> Hi Rich; 
> 
> I'm available Sunday afternoon for dinner. I'd like to hear more about 
> the balloon launch at Timonium. I'd also like to make plans for Frank 
> K0BRA's visit to Westminster to show us how to use a toaster oven to 
> re-flow SMT boards. I've got four Charleston receiver boards, (and 
> there may be others???) so we've got some real hardware to try this 
> with. 
> 
> 73; Steve, N3SB 
> 
> Quoting Rich Mitchell : 
> 
> > Guys, 
> > 
> > We did our balloon thing yesterday at the hamfest. I am amazed at 
> > how the little PICetSat Lite performs. And this one had the balloon 
> > nozzle sealed with duct tape. With the wind it was crazy trying to 
> > launch it. We listened until the QRN got too bad. I think we gave 
> > up somewhere in the 70s frame count. Up until the end the Dirty 
> > Bird kept rising, though possibly we detected a fall - hard to tell 
> > with the QRN. I think the listenable window was much shorter than 
> > in October because of the wind - I'm sure the lower winds really 
> > moved it along at a good rate. I did notice some change in the 
> > voltage readings which suggests that our approach to voltage 
> > monitoring is working. 
> > Pat, do you have some of the numbers and an educated guess at what 
> > altitude we reached? Pete, have you thawed out yet? 
> > 
> > On the Zippit side, I have the hacked image working on the device, 
> > marginally. The problem is that I am trying to do all the setup 
> > with a Windows PC. Windows can't read the image on the SD once you 
> > have physdisked it. Supposedly using the ext2 file system driver it 
> > can. So far I have tried to figure out how to use the ext2 program, 
> > but XP keeps wanting to format the drive. I don't dare use X 
> > windows until I get the mouse driver installed. Otherwise you are 
> > dead in the water with a nice image on the screen. 
> > 
> > Would Sunday 5 pm be a bad time for a meet to eat, being that it's 
> > Easter and all? 
> > 
> > Rich 
> > 
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