Ride to balloon burst
Descend by parachute
Uncomment smssend
Charge batteries
Format SD card
Build antenna
Tests!
Battery power - OK
ON/OFF - OK
Status light - OK
Radio - OK
Camera - OK
SMS - OK (finally)
Check out the pictures of the payload on my flickr account:Flickr
Ended up landing in the sea (well we assume it did as we lost contact after about 30mins and never got it back (predictions have it in the sea). So in review:
Check Uni of Wyoming's trajectory forecast and make sure it ain't going to land in the sea.
Radio set up was rubbish
N5 module really wandered in freq
Didn't transmit for long enough - 45second power save meant that attempting to find the signal was pure luck
Morse is just too hard to translate - rtty is better
Camera is good - perhaps intergrate it into the main payload as its a good feature to have
Building style was good
You need a cutdown - Mosfet circuit on wiki is good as could be charged by a GPIO therefore doesn't need another battery pack
