Monthly Archives: September 2013

CHEAPO Re-Design

Recovering Chris’s balloon and payload was great fun and as a thank you for doing so, he gave me an unpopulated circuit board of his HAB Tracker he called CHEAPO.  I slightly modified this board under Chris’s direction to use … Continue reading

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Anatomy of a Tracker

While I await components and other things, I thought I’d show a tracker and identify the pieces. In my very limited experience of HAB, most trackers have common component parts so this one, designed by Chris Stubbs, probably takes ques … Continue reading

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Introducing Vayu

So, I have a HabDuino and that will be launched once I’ve got used to the whole set of logistics that are involved in HAB. I’d also like it to do something special rather then just send the normal telemetry … Continue reading

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Trackers

Having sorted my login out and designed a logo for this project, I can continue. In the early days of my interest in HAB I discovered the website Spacenear.us This site plots all the current flights of HAB’s around the … Continue reading

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HAB Are you interested?

HAB or High Altitude Ballooning has been an interest of mine for just a couple of months. I first became aware of it when I saw Dave Akerman on a children’s programming programme on the BBC. HAB is the practice … Continue reading

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