Bergen STEM Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon (ARHAB)

WEEK 2: Thursday May 31, 2018 The search for petri dishes continues. Yesterday we made a call to a company to order 245mm plastic square petri dishes; however, they told us that we need to purchase 10,000 quantity to place an order. Here are a list of products on Amazon.com with the links. The products highlighted in yellow are the ones most in interest to order. (Jennifer) 150 x 17mm Plastic Petri Dish - Polypropylene - Pack of 6   https://www.amazon.com/17mm-Plastic-Petri-Dish-Polypropylene/dp/B077MJK5GK/ref=sr_1_158?ie=UTF8&qid=1527777225&sr=8-158&keywords=petri+dishes#feature-bullets-btf Karter Scientific 206G2 Plastic Petri Dishes, 150x15mm, 3 Vents, Sterile (Pack of 10)   https://www.amazon.com/Karter-Scientific-Plastic-150x15mm-Sterile/dp/B005Z4QV4U/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&qid=1527776532&sr=8-32&keywords=petri+dishes#feature-bullets-btf BIPEE Sterile Plastic Petri Dishes 150 x 15mm, with Lid, Pack of 10 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B...

Week 2 Wednesday 5/30/18 Specifics of fixing the GPS Module They used the TTL serial pins it was either serial 1 or serial 2.  They solved the problem by reading the data sheets more carefully although the problem is not completely solved. They have a clear path of how to solve the problem. The major problem with the GPS module was that they were not receiving any data from it and it would become practically worthless. Rewiring/simplify/minimize the circuit board (ongoing) [Josh, Rahi, Sadik] More brainstorming toward finding a suitable system for the petri dish system opening outside of the box like Earth to Sky Calculus' robotic petri dish Drawer-like system with a rail guided petri dish the retracts into the box which secures its location inside the box Screw lid would require multiple motors but keeps the petri dish closed  Tested the GoPro cube cameras; two lasted for five hours and sixteen minutes and the third one lasted for one hour and forty minute...

Week 2 Tuesday 5/29/2018 We are looking for petri dishes that are 6 to 7 inches in diameter (ongoing). We are looking at screw-on lids at the moment to keep the petri dishes closed during descent. Testing the three GoPro cube cameras (ongoing) GPS-module on the circuitboard is giving data ( SUCCESS ) in C code [Josh and Rahi].

May 22th & May 23th: We have tried to test every single component on the our circuit board including Thermostats, Pressure sensor ,and Microphone & speaker; however, due to the failure software we were not able to get any data from our components. Due to scattered folder and file organization on Megaz.com, we could not achieve any success at the beginning. Therefore we thought that we couldn’t maybe properly configure our development environment because there were missing libraries and headers which we supposed to call from different work directory. Later Nick had managed to resolve this issue after couple of attempts. The solution to this specific issue is usually correcting the headers paths ex.( <path/to/header> ) and importing the right libraries. Later one of our team member came and joined us for helping. Josh and I decided to separate this GPS module from our main board so we can testify it was working or not. First we installed some libraries (please ...

Week 1 Thursday 5/24/2018 Today's goals  make sure all go-pros are working functionally; GoPro's 3+ (2).  (SUCCESS)  Quality (960-60) Duration ( approximately 8 hours) (59.4 GB) Kodak SP360. (SUCCESS) Make a rough design of the petri dish opening mechanism. ----------------------------------------> Have a rough idea of how we would mount the Kodak SP360 camera on the lid of the care package.

WEEK 1:  Wednesday, 5/23/2018 Today members of the Summer 2016 project came in and cleared up various questions about the equipment and gave us helpful pointers to get us started on our process. 1. The trackers play a crucial role; therefore, everyone needs to be able to use and analyze them. We tested the SPOT GPS trackers and the APRS. They provide signal and we are able to track them using findmespot.com. We initially held the power button and waited for the Spot GPS green lights to illuminate in a circular form. The first test that we performed was a failure because we didn't press the track button or the shoe button. The second test we performed we were able to track the devices and get data because we clicked the tracking button. (group) SUCCESS        I. the APRS initial test was a failure as well because the device does not work as well at sea - level. We redid the test of THE ASRP on the third floor at the dental hygiene laboratory. The devi...

High Altitude Balloon Project 2018 Mentor: Professor Griffo Monday 12pm - 3pm Tuesday and Wednesday 10am - 1pm Members: Monday - Thursday  Alejandro Ibarguen 10am - 3pm                                                         alejandroibarguen3@gmail.com Jennifer Mikulko 10am - 12pm    Summer I                                           jennifermikulko@gmail.com Zachary Citti 10am - 12pm                                                                    picozack@gmail.com Ian Reekmans 10am - 3pm           ...