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Flux
Oct 10, 2011, 2:13:59 PM10/10/11
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Earlier I came across Kicksat (thanks to Russ):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251588730/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/
Having just sold my old MacBook Pro and iPad I thought "what the hell"
and pledged $1000 for the dev kit. It's early days, but I've started a
project page: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/submit/Project:Kicksat
If anyone would be interested in working on this, that would be cool.
Will
Hoxton Space Centre
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251588730/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/
Having just sold my old MacBook Pro and iPad I thought "what the hell"
and pledged $1000 for the dev kit. It's early days, but I've started a
project page: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/submit/Project:Kicksat
If anyone would be interested in working on this, that would be cool.
Will
Hoxton Space Centre
phil jones
Oct 10, 2011, 3:12:34 PM10/10/11
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I'm no good for $1000 but I'd pledge, say, $50 towards getting a dev
kit for the hackspace ... with another 19 London Hackspace we could
cover it.
kit for the hackspace ... with another 19 London Hackspace we could
cover it.
phil
Will Green
Oct 10, 2011, 3:32:52 PM10/10/11
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I'm going to work on the dev kit in the space. I wasn't looking for
financial pledges, just interested people to work with.
financial pledges, just interested people to work with.
In particular, if anyone has any ideas for an experiment we can
perform or has experience with MSP430s that would be great.
Will
Tim Storey
Oct 10, 2011, 3:44:15 PM10/10/11
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On 10/10/2011 20:32, Will Green wrote:
> I'm going to work on the dev kit in the space. I wasn't looking for
> financial pledges, just interested people to work with.
>
> I'm going to work on the dev kit in the space. I wasn't looking for
> financial pledges, just interested people to work with.
>
me
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phil jones
Oct 10, 2011, 3:47:11 PM10/10/11
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I'm definitely interested.
phil jones
Oct 10, 2011, 4:03:53 PM10/10/11
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Guess the question is, what can you do with those boards. They
transmit an ID and presumably their location can get tracked. Does
that mean we get trajectory data? Any other kinds of sensors?
transmit an ID and presumably their location can get tracked. Does
that mean we get trajectory data? Any other kinds of sensors?
phil
Adrian Godwin
Oct 10, 2011, 4:34:05 PM10/10/11
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You might be able to measure the solar cell voltage and hence imply
something about the orientation of the board wrt the sun as it spins
out of the box. Data rate's going to be pretty slow though and the
transmission won't last long so it will need some work to summarise
something useful.
something about the orientation of the board wrt the sun as it spins
out of the box. Data rate's going to be pretty slow though and the
transmission won't last long so it will need some work to summarise
something useful.
tom
Oct 11, 2011, 4:56:40 AM10/11/11
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+1 for broadcasting the lyrics to Never gonna give you up
On Oct 10, 9:34 pm, Adrian Godwin <artgod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might be able to measure the solar cell voltage and hence imply
> something about the orientation of the board wrt the sun as it spins
> out of the box. Data rate's going to be pretty slow though and the
> transmission won't last long so it will need some work to summarise
> something useful.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:03 PM, phil jones <inters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guess the question is, what can you do with those boards. They
> > transmit an ID and presumably their location can get tracked. Does
> > that mean we get trajectory data? Any other kinds of sensors?
>
> > phil
>
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Will Green <in...@flux.org.uk> wrote:
> >> I'm going to work on the dev kit in the space. I wasn't looking for
> >> financial pledges, just interested people to work with.
>
> >> In particular, if anyone has any ideas for an experiment we can
> >> perform or has experience with MSP430s that would be great.
>
> >> Will
>
On Oct 10, 9:34 pm, Adrian Godwin <artgod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might be able to measure the solar cell voltage and hence imply
> something about the orientation of the board wrt the sun as it spins
> out of the box. Data rate's going to be pretty slow though and the
> transmission won't last long so it will need some work to summarise
> something useful.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:03 PM, phil jones <inters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guess the question is, what can you do with those boards. They
> > transmit an ID and presumably their location can get tracked. Does
> > that mean we get trajectory data? Any other kinds of sensors?
>
> > phil
>
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Will Green <in...@flux.org.uk> wrote:
> >> I'm going to work on the dev kit in the space. I wasn't looking for
> >> financial pledges, just interested people to work with.
>
> >> In particular, if anyone has any ideas for an experiment we can
> >> perform or has experience with MSP430s that would be great.
>
> >> Will
>
> >> On 10 October 2011 20:12, phil jones <inters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I'm no good for $1000 but I'd pledge, say, $50 towards getting a dev
> >>> kit for the hackspace ... with another 19 London Hackspace we could
> >>> cover it.
>
> >>> phil
>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Flux <in...@flux.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>> Earlier I came across Kicksat (thanks to Russ):
> >>>>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251588730/kicksat-your-personal-s...
> >>> I'm no good for $1000 but I'd pledge, say, $50 towards getting a dev
> >>> kit for the hackspace ... with another 19 London Hackspace we could
> >>> cover it.
>
> >>> phil
>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Flux <in...@flux.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>> Earlier I came across Kicksat (thanks to Russ):
phil jones
Oct 11, 2011, 7:28:15 AM10/11/11
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It's 4 characters. NGU2 ?
Martin
Oct 11, 2011, 8:24:52 AM10/11/11
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maybe we could install an irc bot on it and have autoupdates
tom
Oct 11, 2011, 6:12:39 PM10/11/11
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really? is that all?
Whats the point of having a programmable microprocessor and then
restricting you to 4 characters?
oh and we had an idea earlier: Broadcast the DeCSS code :D
Whats the point of having a programmable microprocessor and then
restricting you to 4 characters?
oh and we had an idea earlier: Broadcast the DeCSS code :D
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