[McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits

[Peter Morton]

Right now Friday works for me, too.  So, 7 p.m. Friday at J&P-Finksburg.

-Pete

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Beckman" <n3sb at qis.net>
To: "MicroController Ham User Group - Physical Computing for Ham Radio" 
<mchug at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits


> 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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