My thoughts and comments about #balloongate #picoballoons #BalloonShotDown https://daveakerman.com/?p=3137
Dave Akerman
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High-altitude balloonist. Radio callsign M0RPI. Self employed PC, mobile and embedded systems programmer. Using Delphi, Lazarus/FPC and C mainly. Keen photographer. Love travel. Ordered a large campervan for my retirement.
I got fed up with not being able to find one of those silly little SMA aerials for testing a tracker, so I knocked this up in TinkerCAD. It's so useful so often to have a 3D printer.
I have an 80's Casio calculator watch with broken o-ring, odd shape and not available anymore. What are my chances of printing something workable in TPU?
This is something I should have purchased ages ago, but didn't know it existed. Pi Zero sized LAN interface with some USB too. Normally I use a USB-LAN dongle but as you can see I mounted the board without enough space to connect one (oops). It connects using a neat little USB-USB adapter, and doesn't use any GPIO pins so no conflicts with any boards you add on top. Get from your fave Pi shop. Or Amazon.
HAB tracker with 3 Pi V3 cameras each attached to a Pi Zero. Master Zero is an access point for the others (to transfer photos), so it will be a little airborne wifi network. Master cycles between cameras for SSDV transmission to the ground.
I hate C. Even after all these years, something simple (compiler doing an int divide on 2 ints not a float divide) caught me out.
Programming in C is like ...
Top 3D-printing tip. When trying to get your first print of the year to stick, and you're using blue masking tape on the print bed, don't use blue filament. Kinda hard to see if it's working or not ...