Last Project Night before launch!
Details
http://www.pyptug.org/p/team-near-space-circus.html
To Space And Back (http://www.pyptug.org/2015/01/to-space-and-back.html) - April 15th
This will be our last project night where we will focus on our HAB project: Sending a technical payload into space, and back, as part of the 2015 Global Space Balloon Challenge (
). The project will include a payload that will pay homage to the first NASA balloon flights in 1969 designed to take large area photographs of the earth from a very high altitude. Our planned launch date is April 20th at sunrise. We will establish a go / no go on our April 15th meeting, and finalize the launch site (either from a vineyard west of Winston-Salem or Pilot Mountain, north of Winston-Salem).
The payload will include multiple Raspberry Pi model A+ running raspbian, many python scripts and various hardware including sensors, transmitters and other tech gear.
You might think, the project is almost done. Nothing left to do. Not true! We need volunteers to help on launch day, so please RSVP and come by if you can:
https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/221293787/
This meeting will be on
Wednesday, Apr. 15 at 6pm
in the Dash room at Inmar:
Inmar (https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=635+Vine+St,+Winston+Salem,+NC,+us)
635 Vine St,
Room 1130H "Dash"
Winston-Salem, NC
This will be at the Inmar building in downtown Winston Salem.
Weather and mission planning is ongoing on the PYPTUG mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pyptug
And look for the Near Space Technical Payload Official Thread (should be at the top)
Last Project Night before launch!