April232016 Meeting Notes
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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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