{"id":10202,"date":"2014-06-30T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2014-06-30T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:26:02","slug":"new-telemetry-board-for-high-altitude-ballooning-with-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10202","title":{"rendered":"New telemetry board for high altitude ballooning with the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pi-in-the-sky.com\/theme\/summit\/images\/img04.jpg?resize=560%2C144\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launching today for pre-orders is Pi in the Sky, a new GPIO plugin board specifically designed for high-altitude ballooning. With Dave Akerman behind the board and the software, this is something to get excited about. Retailing for \u00a3100+VAT, the board has the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Efficient built-in power regulator providing run time of over 20 hours from 4 AA cells<\/li>\n<li>Highly sensitive UBlox GPS receiver approved for altitudes up to 50km<\/li>\n<li>Temperature compensated, frequency agile, 434MHz radio transmitter<\/li>\n<li>Temperature sensor<\/li>\n<li>Battery voltage monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Sockets for external i2c devices, analog input, external temperature sensor<\/li>\n<li>Allows use of Raspbery Pi camera<\/li>\n<li>Mounting holes and spacers for a solid connection to the Pi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A whole open-source software suite is also available from GitHub with the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radio telemetry with GPS and sensor data using UKHAS standard<\/li>\n<li>Radio image download using SSDV standard<\/li>\n<li>Multi-threaded to maximize use of the radio bandwidth<\/li>\n<li>Variable image size according to altitude<\/li>\n<li>Stores full-definition images as well as smaller transmitted images<\/li>\n<li>Automatically chooses better images for download<\/li>\n<li>Configurable via text file in the Windows-visible partition of the SD card<\/li>\n<li>Supplied as github repository with instructions, or SD card image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to Dave&#8217;s blog<\/a>, he is conducting\u00a0test flights on 4th July and a Pi in the Sky launch on the 5th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pi-in-the-sky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read more and pre-order your board from their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching today for pre-orders is Pi in the Sky, a new GPIO plugin board specifically designed for high-altitude ballooning. 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