April232016 Meeting Notes

Present: Ben, Rick, Cord, Kevin, Weston, Jeffrey

• Weston is checking out some radio solutions for telemetry.
  - He's got something on order from Australia.
  - He also brought in a small Bao Feng transmitter that'll push packet radio.a
• Weston described some tracking software that's built on Open Street Map called XAstir.
• We discussed what packet radio is.
• Talked about in-flight video. Consensus, it's not really feasible unless it's something really limited like a very low resolution image each minute or so.
• Talked about parachute
  - Pre-deploy
  1. Simple
  2. Longer descent
  - Triggered-deploy
  1. More failure points
  2. Faster descent
  Leaning towards pre-deploy
• Video
  - Stereoscopic 360 has big challenges.
  - 360/180 can be done with special cameras or lens/mirror combos.
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