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Meeting Notes 2012 03 20

2012-03-20T20:20:30Z

Cclinco: /* Short Announcements */

= Instructions =

* Pick a moderator and a note-taker.
* Optionally: pick a membership-binder-wrangler; otherwise the moderator can take care of it.

== Note-taker ==
* Open a text editor to take notes on the major points of the meeting, using this page at the template.
* Project the draft meeting notes and agenda in real time throughout the meeting.
* Edit the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
* Edit the [[Consensus_Items_History|Consensus Items History]] if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.
* Post the meeting notes to this page, and email out a summary with a link.
* Tell treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members.

== Moderator==
* Understand the structure of Noisebridge [[consensus|decision-making]]
* Make sure everyone gets a chance to speak.
* Speak only minimally yourself.
* Keep the meeting moving, and avoid getting bogged down.
* Identify discussion items, arrange times limits for talking about each item.
* Identify and summarize consensus, suggest things that need to be done.
* '''Get the [[membership binder]] and ensure that it is returned safely.'''

== Participants ==
* Say your name before you talk.
* Remain on-topic, and speak as concisely as possible.
* Assist the note-taker with any links or corrections that are needed.
* Remain respectful of other participants, their time, and the consensus and moderation process.

= Agenda =

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE

Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE

== Introduction and Names ==

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on consensus process]]: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
* Introduce any new or unusual moderation techniques that you may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
** What's your name,
** are you a member,
** what do you do, and
** if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?

== Short Announcements ==

* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short!
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.

* We are planing for Makers Faire, May 19-20. If you would like to help out with the booth or show any of your projects, please visit the [[Maker_Faire_2012]] wiki page. - Christopher

== New or Stale Events ==

* Is there anything new happening at the space?
* Is there anything that has stopped happening at the space?
* If this is the first meeting of the month, review all the [[Category:Events | events at the space]] and try to weed out stale events.

== [[Membership Binder]] ==
* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' the [[membership]] application process.
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.
* Anyone eligible to join this week should
** introduce themselves,
** answer any questions members may have for them, then
** leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
* The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
* Remember to applaud new members when they return.

== Financial Report ==
* Funds in bank:
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):

== Consensus items ==
You may wish to '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to repeat '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on the consensus process]].

=== Proposals from last week ===

''(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''

=== Proposals for next week ===

''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''

== Discussion Items ==

If an item of discussion drags on too long, further discussion may be postponed until after the meeting ends.

During discussion, it is not necessary to write down exact what each person says. Record the topics of discussion, and any items of consensus or controversy here. Detailed descriptions of the conversation should go on the discuss page for this meeting.

== End of Meeting ==
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now, check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
* Return the [[membership binder]] to it's rightful location.
* Clean and tidy the meeting notes, then save them to the wiki.
* Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
* Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker or robot.
* Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Maker Faire 2012

2012-03-20T20:16:10Z

Cclinco:

[[Category:Events]]
== Noisebridge booth ==
[http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2011/] is May 19 and 20 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you'd like to help set up/run the booth this year, please add your contact info below. NB should be getting several free passes for volunteers who work at least a 4-hour shift. First come, first served! 
 

====Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth====

'''Project:''' Kombucha
 '''Lead Contact:''' Rameen
 '''Description:''' Kombucha samples were a big hit last year; people spent hours asking me about it and listening to descriptions and brewing instructions etc. Maybe we could make a more visually appealing version of that. Also, people loved seeing our distiller. Having something tangible to give to give or to do is most memorable, I think.

I think we should put some focus into our set-up and make our booth look really amazing this year!

'''Requirments:'''

'''Project:''' Spacebridge
 '''Lead Contact:''' Christopher
 '''Description:''' Spacebridge will be displaying their payload items (radio, tracking devices, flight computer, camera, etc) and payload buses. Above our booth, we will have a 30 foot weather balloon filled with helium to demonstrate how we loft our payloads. Tethered to the weather balloon will be a video camera and radio transmitter broadcasting a top view of the display floor. We will also have a projector displaying images from our flight and the live video feed from our camera attacked to the balloon.

'''Requirments:''' We will need 1 table to display the items, power outlets to run a laptop, a projector, the the radio receiver. We will also need the booth to be placed in an indoor location that has a ceiling above 30 feed (any of the main halls will be fine).

====Other Items to Bring====
* NB flyers
* NB stickers
* NB t-shirts?

== Volunteer Sign-up And Time Scheduling!==
After adding your name and time slot, please email me (cclinco AT gmail DOT com) as soon as you can with the following information:
1) The name (first and last) you want to give to the Maker Faire people when you arrive for your free "credentials" (as they're calling the passes for volunteers).
2) When you want to start working your 4 hour shift.

Folks who want to help staff the booth:

====Setup Friday May 18th====
Setup times for the venue: 10am-8pm

====Set-up Saturday May 19th====
Set-up times: Saturday, May 19 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

====Event Saturday May 19th====

====Event Sunday May 20th====

====Take down Sunday May 20th====
''If you have a car that can transport projects, please state so''

==Members with Booths at Maker Faire==
"Going to Maker Faire with another group? Let us know where you'll be!"

Maker Faire 2012

2012-03-20T20:14:43Z

Cclinco:

[[Category:Events]]
== Noisebridge booth ==
[http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2011/] is May 19 and 20 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you'd like to help set up/run the booth this year, please add your contact info below. NB should be getting several free passes for volunteers who work at least a 4-hour shift. First come, first served! 
 

====Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth====

'''Project:''' Kombucha
'''Lead Contact:''' Rameen
'''Description:''' Kombucha samples were a big hit last year; people spent hours asking me about it and listening to descriptions and brewing instructions etc. Maybe we could make a more visually appealing version of that. Also, people loved seeing our distiller. Having something tangible to give to give or to do is most memorable, I think.

I think we should put some focus into our set-up and make our booth look really amazing this year!

'''Requirments:'''

'''Project:''' Spacebridge
'''Lead Contact:''' Christopher
'''Description:''' Spacebridge will be displaying their payload items (radio, tracking devices, flight computer, camera, etc) and payload buses. Above our booth, we will have a 30 foot weather balloon filled with helium to demonstrate how we loft our payloads. Tethered to the weather balloon will be a video camera and radio transmitter broadcasting a top view of the display floor. We will also have a projector displaying images from our flight and the live video feed from our camera attacked to the balloon.

'''Requirments:''' We will need 1 table to display the items, power outlets to run a laptop, a projector, the the radio receiver. We will also need the booth to be placed in an indoor location that has a ceiling above 30 feed (any of the main halls will be fine).

====Other Items to Bring====
* NB flyers
* NB stickers
* NB t-shirts?

== Volunteer Sign-up And Time Scheduling!==
After adding your name and time slot, please email me (cclinco AT gmail DOT com) as soon as you can with the following information:
1) The name (first and last) you want to give to the Maker Faire people when you arrive for your free "credentials" (as they're calling the passes for volunteers).
2) When you want to start working your 4 hour shift.

Folks who want to help staff the booth:

====Setup Friday May 18th====
Setup times for the venue: 10am-8pm

====Set-up Saturday May 19th====
Set-up times: Saturday, May 19 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

====Event Saturday May 19th====

====Event Sunday May 20th====

====Take down Sunday May 20th====
''If you have a car that can transport projects, please state so''

==Members with Booths at Maker Faire==
"Going to Maker Faire with another group? Let us know where you'll be!"

Maker Faire 2012

2012-03-20T19:17:46Z

Cclinco: Created page with 'Category:Events == Noisebridge booth == ====Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth==== '''Project:''' Kombucha '''Lead Contact:''' Rameen '''Description:''' Kom…'

[[Category:Events]]
== Noisebridge booth ==

====Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth====

 '''Project:''' Kombucha
 '''Lead Contact:''' Rameen
 '''Description:''' Kombucha samples were a big hit last year; people spent hours asking me about it and listening to descriptions and brewing instructions etc. Maybe we could make a more visually appealing version of that. Also, people loved seeing our distiller. Having something tangible to give to give or to do is most memorable, I think.
 
 I think we should put some focus into our set-up and make our booth look really amazing this year!
 
 '''Requirments:'''
 
 
 '''Project:''' Spacebridge
 '''Lead Contact:''' Christopher
 '''Description:''' Spacebridge will be displaying their payload items (radio, tracking devices, flight computer, camera, etc) and payload buses. Above our booth, we will have a 30 foot weather balloon filled with helium to demonstrate how we loft our payloads. Tethered to the weather balloon will be a video camera and radio transmitter broadcasting a top view of the display floor. We will also have a projector displaying images from our flight and the live video feed from our camera attacked to the balloon.
 
 '''Requirments:''' We will need 1 table to display the items, power outlets to run a laptop, a projector, the the radio receiver. We will also need the booth to be placed in an indoor location that has a ceiling above 30 feed (any of the main halls will be fine).

SpaceBridgeTheda

2011-09-12T04:55:20Z

Cclinco:

'''1) New balloon source'''

'''2) Battery system'''

'''3) New cabling for the video equipment'''

'''4) New Payload bus with internal frame to mount everything'''

Onno and Christopher to meet Saturday 2011.09.17 to try out some ideas

'''5) Video recording system'''

'''6) Birthing bag'''

'''7) better video receiver'''

'''8) 'ground support equipment' with nice video screen, video recording, video streaming'''

'''9) Double check legal information on multiple payloads per balloon'''

'''10) Cut down device'''

a) Heat wire around nylon rope?)

b) test cutting device in freezer (is completely exposed to ambient temperature!

'''11) order styrofoam, new, larger'''

Christopher - ordered 10 of the same type as we got last time (the largest available)

'''12) have item tracking list on wiki'''

Created this page to track major items that we will need to work on and major updates on them.

'''13) cleanup spacebridge wiki pages'''

'''14) Launch Organisation'''

SpaceBridgeTheda

2011-09-12T04:55:01Z

Cclinco:

'''1) New balloon source'''

'''2) Battery system'''

'''3) New cabling for the video equipment'''

'''4) New Payload bus with internal frame to mount everything'''

Onno and Christopher to meet Saturday 2011.09.17 to try out some ideas

'''5) Video recording system'''

'''6) Birthing bag'''

'''7) better video receiver'''

'''8) 'ground support equipment' with nice video screen, video recording, video streaming'''

'''9) Double check legal information on multiple payloads per balloon'''

'''10) Cut down device'''

a) Heat wire around nylon rope?)

b) test cutting device in freezer (is completely exposed to ambient temperature!

'''11) order styrofoam, new, larger'''
Christopher - ordered 10 of the same type as we got last time (the largest available)

'''12) have item tracking list on wiki'''

Created this page to track major items that we will need to work on and major updates on them.

'''13) cleanup spacebridge wiki pages'''

'''14) Launch Organisation'''

SpaceBridgeTheda

2011-09-12T04:18:32Z

Cclinco:

'''1) New balloon source'''

'''2) Battery system'''

'''3) New cabling for the video equipment'''

'''4) New Payload bus with internal frame to mount everything'''

Onno and Christopher to meet Saturday 2011.09.17 to try out some ideas

'''5) Video recording system'''

'''6) Birthing bag'''

'''7) better video receiver'''

'''8) 'ground support equipment' with nice video screen, video recording, video streaming'''

'''9) Double check legal information on multiple payloads per balloon'''

'''10) Cut down device'''

a) Heat wire around nylon rope?)

b) test cutting device in freezer (is completely exposed to ambient temperature!

'''11) order styrofoam, new, larger'''

'''12) have item tracking list on wiki'''

Created this page to track major items that we will need to work on and major updates on them.

'''13) cleanup spacebridge wiki pages'''

'''14) Launch Organisation'''

SpaceBridgeTheda

2011-09-12T04:17:51Z

Cclinco:

'''1) New balloon source'''

'''2) Battery system'''

'''3) New cabling for the video equipment'''

'''4) New Payload bus with internal frame to mount everything'''
Onno and Christopher to meet Saturday 2011.09.17 to try out some ideas

'''5) Video recording system'''

'''6) Birthing bag'''

'''7) better video receiver'''

'''8) 'ground support equipment' with nice video screen, video recording, video streaming'''

'''9) Double check legal information on multiple payloads per balloon'''

'''10) Cut down device'''
a) Heat wire around nylon rope?)
b) test cutting device in freezer (is completely exposed to ambient temperature!

'''11) order styrofoam, new, larger'''

'''12) have item tracking list on wiki'''
Created this page to track major items that we will need to work on and major updates on them.

'''13) cleanup spacebridge wiki pages'''

'''14) Launch Organisation'''

SpaceBridgeTheda

2011-09-12T04:17:19Z

Cclinco: Created page with ''''1) New balloon source''' '''2) Battery system''' '''3) New cabling for the video equipment''' '''4) New Payload bus with internal frame to mount everything''' Onno and C…'

'''1) New balloon source'''

'''2) Battery system'''

'''3) New cabling for the video equipment'''

'''4) New Payload bus with internal frame to mount everything'''
Onno and Christopher to meet Saturday 2011.09.17 to try out some ideas

'''5) Video recording system'''

'''6) Birthing bag'''

'''7) better video receiver'''

'''8) 'ground support equipment' with nice video screen, video recording, video streaming'''

'''9) Double check legal information on multiple payloads per balloon'''

'''10) Cut down device'''
a) Heat wire around nylon rope?)
b) test cutting device in freezer (is completely exposed to ambient temperature!

'''11) order styrofoam, new, larger'''

'''12) have item tracking list on wiki'''
Created this page to track major items that we will need to work on and major updates on them.

'''13) cleanup spacebridge wiki pages'''

'''14) Launch Organisation'''

SpaceBridgethedaMeetingNotes

2011-09-12T04:03:22Z

Cclinco: Created page with ' …'

Spacebridge meeting Sep 11th 2011 at Noisebridge
------------------------------------------------
Christopher and Onno

- we need a new balloon source
- the $150 are probably too small
- the 100g balloons were free
- we need a better battery
- battery power split/managed
- better battery for the arduino/intervalometer
- intervalometer
- better battery for the camera
- power bus?
- we need better launch organisation
- better cabling for the video equipment
- suggestion (Onno, former discussion with Mark): Build nice acryclic frame to mount everything,
- power wires etc.
- we need video recording
- birthing bag
- better video receiver
- 'ground support equipment' with nice video screen, video recording, video
streaming
- get legal information/double check on multiple payloads per balloon and
weight limits
- build a rope-cut device. Avoid running a set of cables to above the
- parachute. Heat wire around nylon rope?
- test cutting device in freezer (is completely exposed to ambient
- temperature!)
- order styrofoam, new, larger
- have item tracking list on wiki
- cleanup spacebridge wiki pages

Spacebridge: The Original Series

2011-09-12T04:02:48Z

Cclinco:

'''Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the hackerspace Noisebridge, our ongoing mission to explore strange (yet economically priced) new ascent technologies; to seek out new parts and new partnerships; to boldly go where no non-government-or-massively-industrially-funded-group has gone before.'''
 
- To keep up to date with Spacebridge, subscribe to the Spacebridge mailing list: https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/space
 
- If you are planning to contribute to or attend Spacebridge meetups, add your name to the [[Spacebridge interest list]]

== Project Summary ==
Spacebridge is a project that documents the necessary steps to produce a cheap and easy deployment platform for lofting instrumentation and photographic equipment into the stratosphere. We approach this project with a heavy slant towards education, with a hope to bring science education away from something that you know because of a dusty old book, to a hands on experience.

The Spacebridge project is run out of the Noisebridge hacker cumminity, a non-profit educational corporation for public benefit provides an infrastructure for technical-creative projects.

The Spacebridge project can be broken up into 3 parts. The payload delivery system, payload bus, and the payload itself.

The delivery system is currently a meteorological weather balloon that lofts our system about 100k feet into the air (commercial airlines fly at around 32k feet). The system also includes flight lights for increased visibility, a radar reflector dish for visibility by radar tracking systems, and a four foot parachute to help slow the decent.

The payload bus is an environmentally protecting enclosure that keeps all the payload items secure and in a known orientation and attached to necessary ports. It also protects the electronic equipment from the cold (it's around -30 degrees up there).

Lastly, we have the payload itself. We currently loft 2 cameras that have been hacked so that custom software can be run on them. We also send up an android cell phone which records accelerometer, magnetometer and GPS data, and text messages me the GPS data for our recovery. We also send up a secondary tracking system that consists of a commercial GPS tracking system, an opentracker (a custom made system to convert the GPS signals into APRS data packets) and a ham radio to transmit those data packets.

== Video Log of SPACEBGE ==
Did you stumble across out video feed? Please tell us where and when you saw it.

== Flight Log ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"
! Flight !! Launch Date !! Status !! Data !! Images !! Notes
|-
! [[SpacebridgeAlpha]] || 2010.02.07 || Success || [https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5zRnBtZiE26Y2ZlOTViYWYtYjQyYS00MmQzLWI3ODYtMmNkMTZmNzZiNWNh&hl=en kml and sensor data] || [http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7871712/2/Spacebridge/Alpha_20100207?h=848b65 Flight Images] [http://picasaweb.google.com/106356964679457436995/SpaceBridge preparation/launch] || Inaugural SpaceBridge Launch
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeBeta]] || 2010.03.27 || Failed || N/A || [http://www.flickr.com/photos/arielwaldman/sets/72157623782843708/ preparation/launch 1] [http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/heimdallrasksins/SpacebridgeBetaLaunchMarch2010 preparation/launch 2] || Failed due to lack of helium
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeGamma]] || 2010.05.01 || Failed || N/A || N/A || [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/SpaceBridgeGammaMeetingNotes meeting notes] launch failure due to high wind
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeDelta]] || 2010.06.05 || Success || [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7871712/Spacebridge/Delta_20100605/IcarusLog.2010-06-05 Icarus Log] || [http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7871712/2/Spacebridge/Delta_20100605?h=e34c40 Collection] || [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/SpaceBridgeDeltaMeetingNotes meeting notes]
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeEpsilon]] || 2010.06.26 || Success || || [http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7871712/2/Spacebridge/Epsilon_20100626?h=0a8e20 Collection] || Night launch
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeZeta]] || 2010.11.13 || Success || [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7871712/Spacebridge/Zeta_20101113/IcarusLog.2010-11-13 Icarus Log] [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7871712/Spacebridge/Zeta_20101113/IcarusLog.2010-11-13.gps Icarus GPS Log] || [http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7871712/2/Spacebridge/Zeta_20101113?h=0a6ffb Collection] || Dawn launch
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeEta]] || 2011.08.27 || Partial Success || || || [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/SpaceBridgeEtaMeetingNotes meeting notes]
|
|-
! [[SpaceBridgeTheda]] || TDB || In Progress || || || [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/SpaceBridgethedaMeetingNotes meeting notes]
|}

== Project Info ==

* [[Onboard Equipment List]]
* [[BuildItems]]
* [[PreFlightChecklist|Pre-flight CheckList]]
* [[Spacedroid]] (Spacebridge Alpha & Spacebridge Beta)
* [[SpaceBridge comprehensive TODO list]]
* [[Camera data such as battery run time etc.]]

== Notes ==

* [[Post-beta meeting]] (Mar. 30, 2010)
* [[APRS]] - amateur radio position reporting plans, ideas and execution
* [[SpaceBridgeFleet]] - Establishing a flight protocol to enable a more modular and streamlined launch
* [[Spacebridge inaugural meeting]] (Dec. 20, 2009)
* [[Spaceduino]]
* [http://workshop88.com/space/ Hackerspaces In Space] weather balloon payload challenge

== Related Links ==

'''Spacehack.org''' -- http://spacehack.org - a directory of ways to participate in space exploration (created by Ariel Waldman) 
'''HAIP Automatons''' -- http://spaceballoonproject.blogspot.com -- Group that merged their project with Spacebridge. 
'''Space Tourism Society''' -- http://www.spacetourismsociety.org -- Designing the Orbital Lifestyle 
'''Space Frontier Foundation''' -- http://spacefrontier.org/ -- Advancing NewSpace 
'''JP Aerospace''' -- http://jpaerospace.com/ -- Leaders in Balloon Launch Services 
'''Virgin Galactic''' -- http://www.virgingalactic.com/ -- Sub-orbital joyrides for a mere $200,000 
'''ZeroG Corporation''' -- http://www.gozerog.com/ -- Awesome Zero gravity airplane rides 
'''Space Adventures''' -- http://www.spaceadventures.com/ -- The real thing: private rides to the International Space Station! 
'''Bigelow Aerospace''' -- http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/ -- A real space hotel company. They have TWO prototypes in orbit! 
'''Tripoli Rocketry Association''' -- http://www.tripoli.org/ -- Long time amateur rocket club 
'''LUNAR''' -- http://www.lunar.org/ -- Bay Area Rocketry club 
'''AMSAT''' -- http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/history.php -- A Brief History of Amateur Satellites 
'''CubeSat''' -- http://cubesat.org/index.php/workshops/past-workshops -- Past workshops include presentations in PDF 
'''N-Prize''' -- http://www.n-prize.com/ -- Like the X-Prize but much smaller and less well known. 
http://spacepunk.org 
'''Copenhagen Suborbitals''' -- http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/index.php -- Danish non-profit suborbital space endeavor. 

== Related Photos ==

Space Ship Two Rollout:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157622841126139/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157622841154081/ 

NASA Lunar Regolith Challenge:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157622498986221/ 

White Knight 2 Rollout:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157606433514833/ 

2008 Yuri's Night Bay Area:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157604598610880/ 

2007 X PRIZE Cup:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/ 

HAIP Automaton's first launch:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25405306@N05/sets/72157622121208656/ 

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

SpaceBridgeEtaMeetingNotes

2011-02-07T03:46:05Z

Cclinco:

Meeting Notes for 2011.02.06
Participants
- Onno
- Brian
- Christopher

Started the meeting with giving Onno a walk though of the current state of the project. Outlined what equipment we are using, and what equipment we are planning on replacing.
Equipment being replaced
- Camera
- Radio transmitter
- open tracker
- GPS puck
- antena
- Payload bus

Brian gave an update of the new APRS equipment

Onno is interested in adding a live video feed to our payload. Looked at the Adeptco.com transmitters.
It draws alot of power, so batteries for it will add alot of weight. Possible solutions would be to add a pressure sencor to turn it off at a certin altitud and then back on at a certine altitude for live launch and decent vedio.
- the module is 50 grams, the lithium battery should be about 90 grams.
- Use the android phone to loop the radio call sign as an audio output, route this to the video transmitter to keep call sign broadcasted.

Project status
Camera: Blake has purchsed one new camera for the project, and has started to port the CHDK.

APRS System: Brain has purchased the nessicary parts, but has not started the build process

Video Feed: Still in planning stage

Payload Bus: on hold tell equipment list is finalized

SpaceBridgeEtaMeetingNotes

2011-02-07T03:44:11Z

Cclinco: Created page with 'Meeting Notes for 2011.02.06 Participants - Onno - Brian Choate - Christopher Started the meeting with giving Onno a walk though of the current state of the project. Outlin…'

Meeting Notes for 2011.02.06
Participants
- Onno
- Brian Choate
- Christopher

Started the meeting with giving Onno a walk though of the current state of the project. Outlined what equipment we are using, and what equipment we are planning on replacing.
Equipment being replaced
- Camera
- Radio transmitter
- open tracker
- GPS puck
- antena
- Payload bus

Brian gave an update of the new APRS equipment

Onno is interested in adding a live video feed to our payload. Looked at the Adeptco.com transmitters.
It draws alot of power, so batteries for it will add alot of weight. Possible solutions would be to add a pressure sencor to turn it off at a certin altitud and then back on at a certine altitude for live launch and decent vedio.
- the module is 50 grams, the lithium battery should be about 90 grams.
- Use the android phone to loop the radio call sign as an audio output, route this to the video transmitter to keep call sign broadcasted.

Project status
Camera: Blake has purchsed one new camera for the project, and has started to port the CHDK.

APRS System: Brain has purchased the nessicary parts, but has not started the build process

Video Feed: Still in planning stage

Payload Bus: on hold tell equipment list is finalized

Spacebridge/launches/Alpha

2010-04-21T05:26:48Z

Cclinco:

Alpha was the first Spacebridge balloon flight.

Observations on the [[broken alpha balloon]]

The Alpha payload consisted of:

* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=37 Garmin GPS 18x LVC]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=65 OpenTracker+]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=74 Puxing PX-777 PLUS VHF Radio]
* G1 Android smartphone
* Canon SD400 camera
* Canon A700 camera with fisheye lens adapte

All the above payload was housed in a styrofoam cooler. The OpenTracker+ was powered by a 9V Energizer lithium battery and supplied regulated power to the GPS. All other devices had internal Li-ion batteries.

Post-flight Analysis

The following images show vertical acceleration (onboard sensor) and vertical position (via GPS) of the space vehicle (SV) as a function of sample. The Android sample rate varies but was generally around 80 samples per second. Sample numbers correspond from sensor to sensor.

GPS tracking lagged behind actual ascent. There are two possible explanations for this. Either
* We are moving faster than ITAR permits, so GPS is reporting the maximum upward speed allowable, resetting to the actual position once the error is too large, OR
* Sample rate is regularly variable.
There was a large dropout period between samples 2940000 and 3680000, presumably due to the extreme altitude. Descent began somewhere around sample 3250000 as estimated by curve-fitting the ascent and descent. Estimated maximum altitude is ~20000 m. Landing occurred approximately at sample 5520000.

[[File:Spacebridge Alpha - z pos.png]]

Acceleration starts out at 10 m/s due to gravity. Jerk begins at sample 400000 due to payload handling, lining up nicely with the launch at 470000 shown by GPS. The SV continued to ascend until sample 3244710, which appears to indicate a pop. After this sample, the acceleration trends less than 10m/s and slowing, indicating a controlled fall. At sample 5460000, the sensor becomes inverted, as the impact of landing flips the payload (or at least the phone). This corresponds closely with the GPS recorded SV landing at sample 5520000. There was a very large spike at 6280000, from unknown causes. Finally, the payload was righted at 9300000.

[[File:Spacebridge_Alpha_-_z_accel.png]]

Data analysis:
http://pony.noisebridge.net/~cmaier/EpicBalloonWin/

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

Spacebridge/launches/Alpha

2010-04-21T05:25:55Z

Cclinco:

Alpha was the first Spacebridge balloon flight.

Observations on the [[broken alpha balloon]]

The Alpha payload consisted of:

* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=37 Garmin GPS 18x LVC]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=65 OpenTracker+]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=74 Puxing PX-777 PLUS VHF Radio]
* G1 Android smartphone
* Canon SD400 camera
* Canon A700 camera with fisheye lens adapte

All the above payload was housed in a styrofoam cooler. The OpenTracker+ was powered by a 9V Energizer lithium battery and supplied regulated power to the GPS. All other devices had internal Li-ion batteries.

Post-flight Analysis

The following images show vertical acceleration (onboard sensor) and vertical position (via GPS) of the space vehicle (SV) as a function of sample. The Android sample rate varies but was generally around 80 samples per second. Sample numbers correspond from sensor to sensor.

GPS tracking lagged behind actual ascent. There are two possible explanations for this. Either
* We are moving faster than ITAR permits, so GPS is reporting the maximum upward speed allowable, resetting to the actual position once the error is too large, OR
* Sample rate is regularly variable.
There was a large dropout period between samples 2940000 and 3680000, presumably due to the extreme altitude. Descent began somewhere around sample 3250000 as estimated by curve-fitting the ascent and descent. Estimated maximum altitude is ~20000 m. Landing occurred approximately at sample 5520000.

[[File:Spacebridge Alpha - z pos.png]]

Acceleration starts out at 10 m/s due to gravity. Jerk begins at sample 400000 due to payload handling, lining up nicely with the launch at 470000 shown by GPS. The SV continued to ascend until sample 3244710, which appears to indicate a pop. After this sample, the acceleration trends less than 10m/s and slowing, indicating a controlled fall. At sample 5460000, the sensor becomes inverted, as the impact of landing flips the payload (or at least the phone). This corresponds closely with the GPS recorded SV landing at sample 5520000. There was a very large spike at 6280000, from unknown causes. Finally, the payload was righted at 9300000.

[[File:Spacebridge_Alpha_-_z_accel.png]]

Data analysis:
http://www.pony.noisebridge.net/~cmaier/EpicBalloonWin/

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

Spacebridge/launches/Alpha

2010-04-21T05:22:55Z

Cclinco:

Alpha was the first Spacebridge balloon flight.

Observations on the [[broken alpha balloon]]

The Alpha payload consisted of:

* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=37 Garmin GPS 18x LVC]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=65 OpenTracker+]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=74 Puxing PX-777 PLUS VHF Radio]
* G1 Android smartphone
* Canon SD400 camera
* Canon A700 camera with fisheye lens adapte

All the above payload was housed in a styrofoam cooler. The OpenTracker+ was powered by a 9V Energizer lithium battery and supplied regulated power to the GPS. All other devices had internal Li-ion batteries.

Post-flight Analysis

The following images show vertical acceleration (onboard sensor) and vertical position (via GPS) of the space vehicle (SV) as a function of sample. The Android sample rate varies but was generally around 80 samples per second. Sample numbers correspond from sensor to sensor.

GPS tracking lagged behind actual ascent. There are two possible explanations for this. Either
* We are moving faster than ITAR permits, so GPS is reporting the maximum upward speed allowable, resetting to the actual position once the error is too large, OR
* Sample rate is regularly variable.
There was a large dropout period between samples 2940000 and 3680000, presumably due to the extreme altitude. Descent began somewhere around sample 3250000 as estimated by curve-fitting the ascent and descent. Estimated maximum altitude is ~20000 m. Landing occurred approximately at sample 5520000.

[[File:Spacebridge Alpha - z pos.png]]

Acceleration starts out at 10 m/s due to gravity. Jerk begins at sample 400000 due to payload handling, lining up nicely with the launch at 470000 shown by GPS. The SV continued to ascend until sample 3244710, which appears to indicate a pop. After this sample, the acceleration trends less than 10m/s and slowing, indicating a controlled fall. At sample 5460000, the sensor becomes inverted, as the impact of landing flips the payload (or at least the phone). This corresponds closely with the GPS recorded SV landing at sample 5520000. There was a very large spike at 6280000, from unknown causes. Finally, the payload was righted at 9300000.

[[File:Spacebridge_Alpha_-_z_accel.png]]

Data analysis:
<A href="www.pony.noisebridge.net/~cmaier/EpicBalloonWin/"> More Data Analysis </A>

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

Spacebridge/launches/Alpha

2010-04-21T05:21:35Z

Cclinco:

Alpha was the first Spacebridge balloon flight.

Observations on the [[broken alpha balloon]]

The Alpha payload consisted of:

* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=37 Garmin GPS 18x LVC]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=65 OpenTracker+]
* [https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=74 Puxing PX-777 PLUS VHF Radio]
* G1 Android smartphone
* Canon SD400 camera
* Canon A700 camera with fisheye lens adapte

All the above payload was housed in a styrofoam cooler. The OpenTracker+ was powered by a 9V Energizer lithium battery and supplied regulated power to the GPS. All other devices had internal Li-ion batteries.

Post-flight Analysis

The following images show vertical acceleration (onboard sensor) and vertical position (via GPS) of the space vehicle (SV) as a function of sample. The Android sample rate varies but was generally around 80 samples per second. Sample numbers correspond from sensor to sensor.

GPS tracking lagged behind actual ascent. There are two possible explanations for this. Either
* We are moving faster than ITAR permits, so GPS is reporting the maximum upward speed allowable, resetting to the actual position once the error is too large, OR
* Sample rate is regularly variable.
There was a large dropout period between samples 2940000 and 3680000, presumably due to the extreme altitude. Descent began somewhere around sample 3250000 as estimated by curve-fitting the ascent and descent. Estimated maximum altitude is ~20000 m. Landing occurred approximately at sample 5520000.

[[File:Spacebridge Alpha - z pos.png]]

Acceleration starts out at 10 m/s due to gravity. Jerk begins at sample 400000 due to payload handling, lining up nicely with the launch at 470000 shown by GPS. The SV continued to ascend until sample 3244710, which appears to indicate a pop. After this sample, the acceleration trends less than 10m/s and slowing, indicating a controlled fall. At sample 5460000, the sensor becomes inverted, as the impact of landing flips the payload (or at least the phone). This corresponds closely with the GPS recorded SV landing at sample 5520000. There was a very large spike at 6280000, from unknown causes. Finally, the payload was righted at 9300000.

[[File:Spacebridge_Alpha_-_z_accel.png]]

Data analysis:
www.pony.noisebridge.net/~cmaier/EpicBalloonWin/

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

Spacebridge/pre-flight checklist

2010-04-21T04:32:16Z

Cclinco:

Pre-flight checklist for balloon launches.

Inventory
# Two cameras (third optional)
# Two G1s, freshly charged
# Opentracker
# Package Tracker
# GPS Beacon
# Two F SMA to M BNC converters
# Monopole roof-mount antenna
# Dipole handheld antenna
# Two radios
# Two charged radio batteries
# 4 AA lithium ion batteries
# 2 AA Alkaline batteries (A700 will only use Alkaline)
# 2 9v lithium ion batteries
# Zipties, large

Cameras
#Cameras on
# Cameras are set to high ISO and/or fast shutter speed
# Cameras saving compressed images
# Cameras Flash off
# Batts charged for camera, G1, radio

[[File:Spacebridge_Bravo.JPG]]
Electronics
# Fasten connectors J4, J6
# Turn on Radio
# Connect new 9v Batt to J5
# Fasten connectors J2, J3
# Confirm green light on Opentracker to indicate APRS signal
# If using Package Tracker, connect J1, J7, J8
# If not using package tracker, connect GPS (J7) directly to Opentracker (J1)
# Confirm flashing green light on Opentracker to indicate GPS reception
# Confirm red LED flashes on radio to indicate VOX mode signal transmission
# Confirm radio coordinate reception using handheld radio
# Confirm radio coordinate parsing using External G1
# Confirm SMS coordinate reception using G1
# Mount electronics in payload

Payload/Bus
# Ziptie payload closed
# Test mechanical stability of parachute to payload connection
# Test mechanical stability of redundant parachute payload connection
# Check LED flasher mechanical stability
# Check that "if found tag" is firmly attached to payload
# Inflate balloon
# Make history

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

This Monster flavour is nuts and Albert is putting it in his mouth.

SpaceBridgeGammaMeetingNotes

2010-04-15T20:45:34Z

Cclinco:

Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30|2010.03.30]]

Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.06|2010.04.06]]

Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.13|2010.04.13]]

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Suggestions for improving launch quality and efficiency
- Need a standard process for setting up and testing electronics. This process must be well documented
- Preflight check list.
- Battery check
- Have ?Yay or Nay? call of the Tuesday meeting before the launch. For a ?Yay? call to be made, every critical component must be completed and tested.
- A full check list of what is going up with this launch and their dependencies
- Mark the tank as we open it, to alleviate confusion as to which one was used.
- Always take a second (back up) tank to each launch
- create wiki pages of each payload item, including set up instructions. (list of needed pages are on the bottom of this page.)
- Provide better communication for the drive out of the launch site
- locate stores in the area that can provide forgotten items like batteries and helium

List of tasks that we should do before the next launch
- Test different types of batteries in the freezer (both types of batteries and competing brands)
- acquire a bathroom scale to weigh the helium tanks with.
- Purchase condoms, extra large
- the cannon IS1100 stopped taking pictures shortly after being turned on, probably battery related, but we should test to make sure.

Ideas for next launch
- One battery grid to rule them all! This would consist of 2 battery systems that connected just prior to the component giving a back up system should one fail.
- add solar cells to the outside to the payload to test energy received as we go up. We can use the datalogger to store the information.
- Use a droid with debian installed (Chris has one) to feed data from a USB hub that had has several web cameras hooked up and save the data out to a USB harddrive. Alternatively we could also use a beagle board (Nils has one).
- Attach LED blinkies or stroke lights (from disposable cameras) to the end of the antenna support arms.
- Add a high pitch buzzer to the payload bus to help locate it
- add brightly colored inflated condoms (balloons will work also) to the payload so that they will float above the final resting place, assisting in locating it.
- Add a video camera, and stream it's feed over a ham radio to a base station. This would use a NTSC broadcast. This has the potential to be expensive, so Chris will gather - a cost estimate for this (both dollar and if possible weight)
- make the video camera steerable. Even outside of the flight this would be usable as we could then be able to see the area where the payload landed before having to walk there.

Ideas talked about, but decided to be considered independent of the core Spacebridge concept
- Generating Hydrogen quickly and cheaply. While awesome, it's to dangerous and inconvenient for us to focus on at the moment.
- UAV. Again awesome, but is a large enough project to be considered independent but closely related and potentially intersecting Spacebridge.

Wiki pages that need to be created and maintained.
- Radio, with set up instructions
- Radio Antena (dipole)
- GPS
- Packet Tracker
- Open Tracker
- G1, including applications used and set up intructions
- Canon A700 Camera, including CHDK, script, battery limitations, SD card limitations and set up instructions
- Canon IS1100 SD Camera, including CHDK, script, SDHC card limitations, instructions
- Payload Bus
- Icrais program
- Android APRS

----
----

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.06 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Yuri's Night
- Balloon (bring clean (and spare) and tampered one)
- paracord 300 feet (Brian is pickign that up)
- Helium (2 tanks, Nils)
- Nils will drop off teh helium tanks on thursday
- Nils will bring his 7 gallon jug will water

Payload
- Styro bin (.7 lb)
- 300 ft paracord (.8 lb) (Brian)
- 6 pin M to 4 pin M USB adapter
- 3x 15' feet of USB repeater cable (1 lb per 15 ft) (Brian)
- 1 spare USB hub ( to bridge the 5 meter limit for USB) [40 grams each]
- 1 canons for after the fact pictures [.4 lbs each]
- USB cam [30 grams]
- noisebridge banner

Display table
- payload bus
- parachute
- G1
- Opentracker
- GPS antenna
- Cable harness
- Dipole antenna
- Package tracker (if found)
- walky talky
- A700 camera (Blake)
- paracord (Brian)

Auxiliary
- Zipties (Brian)
- 12' x 12' Tarp (Brian)
- Latex gloves (Brian)
- Gaff tape (Brian)
- Powerstrip (provided)
- Table (provided)
- 22" LCD Monitor (Albert)
- laptop x2 (Christopher for projector w/ slideshow, Brian for webcam feed)
- projector screen (Christopher)
- projector
- USB drive with images (Christopher)

DO:
- Email NASA to get names on setup list(Chris)

We are missing a cardboard box full of stuff that was present at the last launch
What we know is missing
- G1
- Package tracker
- balloon
- ziptie bag

----
----

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.13 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Next Launch Date!
- Saturday, May 1th

Tasks/Items for next Launch
- payload bus (Christopher)
- mylar bag for the camera (Christopher/Albert)
- active heating element (Brian/Albert)
- A700 vertical (Blake)
- IS1100 SD horizontal (Blake)
- G1 for tracking (Nils)
- G1 expanded accelerometer data (Nils)
- CDMA tracking phone (Christopher)
- package tracker (Christie)
- radio (?)
- Need to order more balloons (?)

Maker Faire

We have decided to attempt to get an adjacent booth to noisebridge for the spacebridge exhibit.
- Christopher is to contact some people there to get this set up.

We also looked into ways to easily and safely move the helium tanks. One way was to get a trailer. They are not expensive, but we lack a place to put it. The other way was a hitch mounted box that would allow us to secure them. This is easier to store, but will have to be custom made.

Return to [[Spacebridge]]

SpaceBridgeGammaMeetingNotes

2010-04-13T04:34:54Z

Cclinco:

Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30|2010.03.30]]

Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.06|2010.04.06]]

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Suggestions for improving launch quality and efficiency
- Need a standard process for setting up and testing electronics. This process must be well documented
- Preflight check list.
- Battery check
- Have ?Yay or Nay? call of the Tuesday meeting before the launch. For a ?Yay? call to be made, every critical component must be completed and tested.
- A full check list of what is going up with this launch and their dependencies
- Mark the tank as we open it, to alleviate confusion as to which one was used.
- Always take a second (back up) tank to each launch
- create wiki pages of each payload item, including set up instructions. (list of needed pages are on the bottom of this page.)
- Provide better communication for the drive out of the launch site
- locate stores in the area that can provide forgotten items like batteries and helium

List of tasks that we should do before the next launch
- Test different types of batteries in the freezer (both types of batteries and competing brands)
- acquire a bathroom scale to weigh the helium tanks with.
- Purchase condoms, extra large
- the cannon IS1100 stopped taking pictures shortly after being turned on, probably battery related, but we should test to make sure.

Ideas for next launch
- One battery grid to rule them all! This would consist of 2 battery systems that connected just prior to the component giving a back up system should one fail.
- add solar cells to the outside to the payload to test energy received as we go up. We can use the datalogger to store the information.
- Use a droid with debian installed (Chris has one) to feed data from a USB hub that had has several web cameras hooked up and save the data out to a USB harddrive. Alternatively we could also use a beagle board (Nils has one).
- Attach LED blinkies or stroke lights (from disposable cameras) to the end of the antenna support arms.
- Add a high pitch buzzer to the payload bus to help locate it
- add brightly colored inflated condoms (balloons will work also) to the payload so that they will float above the final resting place, assisting in locating it.
- Add a video camera, and stream it's feed over a ham radio to a base station. This would use a NTSC broadcast. This has the potential to be expensive, so Chris will gather - a cost estimate for this (both dollar and if possible weight)
- make the video camera steerable. Even outside of the flight this would be usable as we could then be able to see the area where the payload landed before having to walk there.

Ideas talked about, but decided to be considered independent of the core Spacebridge concept
- Generating Hydrogen quickly and cheaply. While awesome, it's to dangerous and inconvenient for us to focus on at the moment.
- UAV. Again awesome, but is a large enough project to be considered independent but closely related and potentially intersecting Spacebridge.

Wiki pages that need to be created and maintained.
- Radio, with set up instructions
- Radio Antena (dipole)
- GPS
- Packet Tracker
- Open Tracker
- G1, including applications used and set up intructions
- Canon A700 Camera, including CHDK, script, battery limitations, SD card limitations and set up instructions
- Canon IS1100 SD Camera, including CHDK, script, SDHC card limitations, instructions
- Payload Bus
- Icrais program
- Android APRS

----
----

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.06 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Yuri's Night
- Balloon (bring clean (and spare) and tampered one)
- paracord 300 feet (Brian is pickign that up)
- Helium (2 tanks, Nils)
- Nils will drop off teh helium tanks on thursday
- Nils will bring his 7 gallon jug will water

Payload
- Styro bin (.7 lb)
- 300 ft paracord (.8 lb) (Brian)
- 6 pin M to 4 pin M USB adapter
- 3x 15' feet of USB repeater cable (1 lb per 15 ft) (Brian)
- 1 spare USB hub ( to bridge the 5 meter limit for USB) [40 grams each]
- 1 canons for after the fact pictures [.4 lbs each]
- USB cam [30 grams]
- noisebridge banner

Display table
- payload bus
- parachute
- G1
- Opentracker
- GPS antenna
- Cable harness
- Dipole antenna
- Package tracker (if found)
- walky talky
- A700 camera (Blake)
- paracord (Brian)

Auxiliary
- Zipties (Brian)
- 12' x 12' Tarp (Brian)
- Latex gloves (Brian)
- Gaff tape (Brian)
- Powerstrip (provided)
- Table (provided)
- 22" LCD Monitor (Albert)
- laptop x2 (Christopher for projector w/ slideshow, Brian for webcam feed)
- projector screen (Christopher)
- projector
- USB drive with images (Christopher)

DO:
- Email NASA to get names on setup list(Chris)

We are missing a cardboard box full of stuff that was present at the last launch
What we know is missing
- G1
- Package tracker
- balloon
- ziptie bag
----
Return to [[Spacebridge]]

SpaceBridgeGammaMeetingNotes

2010-04-13T04:33:15Z

Cclinco:

Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30|2010.03.30]]
Notes for [[#Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.06|2010.04.06]]

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Suggestions for improving launch quality and efficiency
- Need a standard process for setting up and testing electronics. This process must be well documented
- Preflight check list.
- Battery check
- Have ?Yay or Nay? call of the Tuesday meeting before the launch. For a ?Yay? call to be made, every critical component must be completed and tested.
- A full check list of what is going up with this launch and their dependencies
- Mark the tank as we open it, to alleviate confusion as to which one was used.
- Always take a second (back up) tank to each launch
- create wiki pages of each payload item, including set up instructions. (list of needed pages are on the bottom of this page.)
- Provide better communication for the drive out of the launch site
- locate stores in the area that can provide forgotten items like batteries and helium

List of tasks that we should do before the next launch
- Test different types of batteries in the freezer (both types of batteries and competing brands)
- acquire a bathroom scale to weigh the helium tanks with.
- Purchase condoms, extra large
- the cannon IS1100 stopped taking pictures shortly after being turned on, probably battery related, but we should test to make sure.

Ideas for next launch
- One battery grid to rule them all! This would consist of 2 battery systems that connected just prior to the component giving a back up system should one fail.
- add solar cells to the outside to the payload to test energy received as we go up. We can use the datalogger to store the information.
- Use a droid with debian installed (Chris has one) to feed data from a USB hub that had has several web cameras hooked up and save the data out to a USB harddrive. Alternatively we could also use a beagle board (Nils has one).
- Attach LED blinkies or stroke lights (from disposable cameras) to the end of the antenna support arms.
- Add a high pitch buzzer to the payload bus to help locate it
- add brightly colored inflated condoms (balloons will work also) to the payload so that they will float above the final resting place, assisting in locating it.
- Add a video camera, and stream it's feed over a ham radio to a base station. This would use a NTSC broadcast. This has the potential to be expensive, so Chris will gather - a cost estimate for this (both dollar and if possible weight)
- make the video camera steerable. Even outside of the flight this would be usable as we could then be able to see the area where the payload landed before having to walk there.

Ideas talked about, but decided to be considered independent of the core Spacebridge concept
- Generating Hydrogen quickly and cheaply. While awesome, it's to dangerous and inconvenient for us to focus on at the moment.
- UAV. Again awesome, but is a large enough project to be considered independent but closely related and potentially intersecting Spacebridge.

Wiki pages that need to be created and maintained.
- Radio, with set up instructions
- Radio Antena (dipole)
- GPS
- Packet Tracker
- Open Tracker
- G1, including applications used and set up intructions
- Canon A700 Camera, including CHDK, script, battery limitations, SD card limitations and set up instructions
- Canon IS1100 SD Camera, including CHDK, script, SDHC card limitations, instructions
- Payload Bus
- Icrais program
- Android APRS

----
----

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.04.06 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Yuri's Night
- Balloon (bring clean (and spare) and tampered one)
- paracord 300 feet (Brian is pickign that up)
- Helium (2 tanks, Nils)
- Nils will drop off teh helium tanks on thursday
- Nils will bring his 7 gallon jug will water

Payload
- Styro bin (.7 lb)
- 300 ft paracord (.8 lb) (Brian)
- 6 pin M to 4 pin M USB adapter
- 3x 15' feet of USB repeater cable (1 lb per 15 ft) (Brian)
- 1 spare USB hub ( to bridge the 5 meter limit for USB) [40 grams each]
- 1 canons for after the fact pictures [.4 lbs each]
- USB cam [30 grams]
- noisebridge banner

Display table
- payload bus
- parachute
- G1
- Opentracker
- GPS antenna
- Cable harness
- Dipole antenna
- Package tracker (if found)
- walky talky
- A700 camera (Blake)
- paracord (Brian)

Auxiliary
- Zipties (Brian)
- 12' x 12' Tarp (Brian)
- Latex gloves (Brian)
- Gaff tape (Brian)
- Powerstrip (provided)
- Table (provided)
- 22" LCD Monitor (Albert)
- laptop x2 (Christopher for projector w/ slideshow, Brian for webcam feed)
- projector screen (Christopher)
- projector
- USB drive with images (Christopher)

DO:
- Email NASA to get names on setup list(Chris)

We are missing a cardboard box full of stuff that was present at the last launch
What we know is missing
- G1
- Package tracker
- balloon
- ziptie bag
----
Return to [[Spacebridge]]

Spacebridge: The Original Series

2010-04-13T04:21:36Z

Cclinco:

SpaceBridgeGammaMeetingNotes

2010-04-13T04:17:56Z

Cclinco:

== Spacebridge Meeting notes from 2010.03.30 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Suggestions for improving launch quality and efficiency
- Need a standard process for setting up and testing electronics. This process must be well documented
- Preflight check list.
- Battery check
- Have ?Yay or Nay? call of the Tuesday meeting before the launch. For a ?Yay? call to be made, every critical component must be completed and tested.
- A full check list of what is going up with this launch and their dependencies
- Mark the tank as we open it, to alleviate confusion as to which one was used.
- Always take a second (back up) tank to each launch
- create wiki pages of each payload item, including set up instructions. (list of needed pages are on the bottom of this page.)
- Provide better communication for the drive out of the launch site
- locate stores in the area that can provide forgotten items like batteries and helium

List of tasks that we should do before the next launch
- Test different types of batteries in the freezer (both types of batteries and competing brands)
- acquire a bathroom scale to weigh the helium tanks with.
- Purchase condoms, extra large
- the cannon IS1100 stopped taking pictures shortly after being turned on, probably battery related, but we should test to make sure.

Ideas for next launch
- One battery grid to rule them all! This would consist of 2 battery systems that connected just prior to the component giving a back up system should one fail.
- add solar cells to the outside to the payload to test energy received as we go up. We can use the datalogger to store the information.
- Use a droid with debian installed (Chris has one) to feed data from a USB hub that had has several web cameras hooked up and save the data out to a USB harddrive. Alternatively we could also use a beagle board (Nils has one).
- Attach LED blinkies or stroke lights (from disposable cameras) to the end of the antenna support arms.
- Add a high pitch buzzer to the payload bus to help locate it
- add brightly colored inflated condoms (balloons will work also) to the payload so that they will float above the final resting place, assisting in locating it.
- Add a video camera, and stream it's feed over a ham radio to a base station. This would use a NTSC broadcast. This has the potential to be expensive, so Chris will gather - a cost estimate for this (both dollar and if possible weight)
- make the video camera steerable. Even outside of the flight this would be usable as we could then be able to see the area where the payload landed before having to walk there.

Ideas talked about, but decided to be considered independent of the core Spacebridge concept
- Generating Hydrogen quickly and cheaply. While awesome, it's to dangerous and inconvenient for us to focus on at the moment.
- UAV. Again awesome, but is a large enough project to be considered independent but closely related and potentially intersecting Spacebridge.

Wiki pages that need to be created and maintained.
- Radio, with set up instructions
- Radio Antena (dipole)
- GPS
- Packet Tracker
- Open Tracker
- G1, including applications used and set up intructions
- Canon A700 Camera, including CHDK, script, battery limitations, SD card limitations and set up instructions
- Canon IS1100 SD Camera, including CHDK, script, SDHC card limitations, instructions
- Payload Bus
- Icrais program
- Android APRS

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== Spacebridge Meeting notes 2010.04.06 ==
(taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Yuri's Night
- Balloon (bring clean (and spare) and tampered one)
- paracord 300 feet (Brian is pickign that up)
- Helium (2 tanks, Nils)
- Nils will drop off teh helium tanks on thursday
- Nils will bring his 7 gallon jug will water

Payload
- Styro bin (.7 lb)
- 300 ft paracord (.8 lb) (Brian)
- 6 pin M to 4 pin M USB adapter
- 3x 15' feet of USB repeater cable (1 lb per 15 ft) (Brian)
- 1 spare USB hub ( to bridge the 5 meter limit for USB) [40 grams each]
- 1 canons for after the fact pictures [.4 lbs each]
- USB cam [30 grams]
- noisebridge banner

Display table
- payload bus
- parachute
- G1
- Opentracker
- GPS antenna
- Cable harness
- Dipole antenna
- Package tracker (if found)
- walky talky
- A700 camera (Blake)
- paracord (Brian)

Auxiliary
- Zipties (Brian)
- 12' x 12' Tarp (Brian)
- Latex gloves (Brian)
- Gaff tape (Brian)
- Powerstrip (provided)
- Table (provided)
- 22" LCD Monitor (Albert)
- laptop x2 (Christopher for projector w/ slideshow, Brian for webcam feed)
- projector screen (Christopher)
- projector
- USB drive with images (Christopher)

DO:
- Email NASA to get names on setup list(Chris)

We are missing a cardboard box full of stuff that was present at the last launch
What we know is missing
- G1
- Package tracker
- balloon
- ziptie bag
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SpaceBridgeGammaMeetingNotes

2010-04-13T04:12:14Z

Cclinco: Created page with 'Meeting notes from 03.30 (taken by Christopher Lincoln) Suggestions for improving launch quality and efficiency - Need a standard process for setting up and testing electronics…'

Meeting notes from 03.30 (taken by Christopher Lincoln)

Suggestions for improving launch quality and efficiency
- Need a standard process for setting up and testing electronics. This process must be well documented
- Preflight check list.
- Battery check
- Have ?Yay or Nay? call of the Tuesday meeting before the launch. For a ?Yay? call to be made, every critical component must be completed and tested.
- A full check list of what is going up with this launch and their dependencies
- Mark the tank as we open it, to alleviate confusion as to which one was used.
- Always take a second (back up) tank to each launch
- create wiki pages of each payload item, including set up instructions. (list of needed pages are on the bottom of this page.)
- Provide better communication for the drive out of the launch site
- locate stores in the area that can provide forgotten items like batteries and helium

List of tasks that we should do before the next launch
- Test different types of batteries in the freezer (both types of batteries and competing brands)
- acquire a bathroom scale to weigh the helium tanks with.
- Purchase condoms, extra large
- the cannon IS1100 stopped taking pictures shortly after being turned on, probably battery related, but we should test to make sure.

Ideas for next launch
- One battery grid to rule them all! This would consist of 2 battery systems that connected just prior to the component giving a back up system should one fail.
- add solar cells to the outside to the payload to test energy received as we go up. We can use the datalogger to store the information.
- Use a droid with debian installed (Chris has one) to feed data from a USB hub that had has several web cameras hooked up and save the data out to a USB harddrive. Alternatively we could also use a beagle board (Nils has one).
- Attach LED blinkies or stroke lights (from disposable cameras) to the end of the antenna support arms.
- Add a high pitch buzzer to the payload bus to help locate it
- add brightly colored inflated condoms (balloons will work also) to the payload so that they will float above the final resting place, assisting in locating it.
- Add a video camera, and stream it's feed over a ham radio to a base station. This would use a NTSC broadcast. This has the potential to be expensive, so Chris will gather - a cost estimate for this (both dollar and if possible weight)
- make the video camera steerable. Even outside of the flight this would be usable as we could then be able to see the area where the payload landed before having to walk there.

Ideas talked about, but decided to be considered independent of the core Spacebridge concept
- Generating Hydrogen quickly and cheaply. While awesome, it's to dangerous and inconvenient for us to focus on at the moment.
- UAV. Again awesome, but is a large enough project to be considered independent but closely related and potentially intersecting Spacebridge.

Wiki pages that need to be created and maintained.
- Radio, with set up instructions
- Radio Antena (dipole)
- GPS
- Packet Tracker
- Open Tracker
- G1, including applications used and set up intructions
- Canon A700 Camera, including CHDK, script, battery limitations, SD card limitations and set up instructions
- Canon IS1100 SD Camera, including CHDK, script, SDHC card limitations, instructions
- Payload Bus
- Icrais program
- Android APRS

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Spacebridge: The Original Series

2010-04-13T04:03:01Z

Cclinco:

Spacebridge: The Original Series

2010-04-13T03:59:13Z

Cclinco:

Category:Events

2010-03-29T00:05:53Z

Cclinco: /* Recurring Events edit */

Official, Semi-Official, one-off and other events at the Noisebridge space.

=Event Calendar=
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements [[Mailinglist | mailing lists]], [[IRC]] or in person at [[Category:Meeting_Notes | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar], view the [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Google Calendar in XML], or the [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Google Calendar in ical] format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, contact a Noisebridge member for access.

(Wouldn't it be great if there were a gCal mediawiki plugin so crossposting wasn't needed? Do you know of a good one? Help us!) <- working on this, need to upgrade Mediawiki in order to use some plugins.
<onlyinclude>
=== Upcoming Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=2 edit] ===
* '''March 27th, 10:00 to 22:00 - PyConVids: Selected Videos of the 2010 PyCon talks!
* '''April 1st, 20:00 - [[FOIA workshop]]''' - Freedom of Information Act overview and Q&A with EFF specialist Marcia Hofmann
* '''April 3rd, 18:00 - [[Ruby Class]]''' - solve problems from Ruby Quiz (or work on your own project)
* '''April 3rd, 11:00-18:00 - [http://postgresql.meetup.com/1/calendar/12794759 Postgres 9 Test Fest]''' - a beta-testing party and work session for the PostgreSQL open source DBMS.
* '''April 15-18 - [http://notacon.org Notacon]''' - hacker/maker/art conference in Cleveland
* '''April 15th, 20:00 - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' - An evening of five minute talks. Check the [http://5mof.net/archive/2010/03/16/march-2010-schedule/ schedule]
* '''April 21st, 18:00-21:00 - [http://monochrom.at/english monochrom] #26-34 book release party. [http://www.monochrom.at/mono/monochrom26-34/index.htm Ye Olde Self-Referentiality]

=== Recurring Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=3 edit] ===

* '''Monday'''
** 18:30 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language.
** '''19:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! Mitch will bring kits to make cool, hackable things that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack!
* '''Tuesday'''
** 15:00 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
** 18:30 Bay Area Community Exchange Project Roundtable Meeting (third Tues. of every month)-discussion of alternative currencies in the back classroom.
** '''20:00 [[#Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.
** 20:30 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program (project update meeting)
* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Play with Linux in the Turing classroom.
** '''19:00 [[SCoW]]''' - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 20:00 [[Games]] - Play games with geeks.
** '''20:00 [[Gamebridge|Gamebridge Unityversity]]''' - Collab and learn to make video games with geeks, if it's your first night you will actually get to make a game!
* '''Thursday'''
** '''19:00 [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat/about Bay Categories & Types]''' - Posets, counits, monads and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom on 2nd Thursdays.
** '''20:00 [[Five_Minutes_of_Fame | Five Minutes of Fame]]''' (3rd Thursdays)
* '''Friday'''
** 15:00 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
** '''19:00 [[Science, Engineering & Design Huddle]]''' - Weekly group to discuss design approach, share techniques, and solve any problem you may be having with your project(s).
** 20:00 [[Moving/2169 Mission/Buildout|2169 Buildout planning]] - Discussion & execution of how to renovate our new space.
** 18:00 [[RantMeet]] (1st Fridays) [http://www.rantmedia.ca Rant Media] is a global hacker/survival/indy media phyle that meets up around the world.

* '''Saturday'''
** 14:00 [[Phasor~]] - A Max/MSP/Jitter, Max For Live, PureData/GEM, vvvv, Bidule patching group.
** 20:00 [[NSFW]] - Now Showing From the Web, last Saturday of the month. Share interesting videos you've found on the web for the past month or bring content you made.
* '''Sunday'''
** 13:00 [[Cyborg Group|Cyborg Group / Sensebridge]] - Work on projects like artificial senses.
** 15:00 [[OpenEEG]] - how to read your mind.
** 15:00 [[KnotTyingWorkshop|Knot Tying Workshop]] - (1st Sunday of the month)- work on knotting projects and share ropework knowledge
** '''15:00 [[Go]]''' - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 15:00 [[Locks!]] - Lock sport, sundays when there is demand. ( See [[locks!]] for more information. )
** 17:00 [[Rsync Users Group]] - A twelve step program for those who have poor *nix habits.
** 18:00 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program

* '''To be scheduled'''
** [[Machine Learning]] - (Open for adoption) Teach computers to learn stuff using artificial intelligence and other techniques.
** [[CNC Mill Workshop]] - Who wants to make stuff on the [[MaxNCMill]]?
** [[Math & Science Help]] - If you would like some math, science or engineering help, I'm down to lend a hand.
</onlyinclude>

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===

:19:00 [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009 on Mondays. Currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Movie Night!]] - [[User:ThOMG|Thom]] wants to build community through nerdy sci-fi! (+Bill+Ted+Excellence++)
:'''(TBD)''': [[Introduction to the AVR Microcontroller]] - [[User:Mightyohm|Jeff]] and [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]] are planning an introductory class for people wanting to make cool projects with AVRs.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Basic Chemistry Lab Techniques]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Cuddle Puddle for the Economy]] - Stress-hacking with informal massage exchange.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Milk and Cookies]] - Come read your favorite selections out loud. With Milk and Cookies (and yeah, probably beer too).
:'''(TBD)''': [[Processing Workshop 2]] - [[User:Scmurray|Scott]] is interested in teaching this, and is busy thinking about what, where, when, why, and how.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Hack your Hardware]] -- We call BS on "no user-serviceable parts inside"

:'''(TBD)''': [[Homebrew Instruction Class]] - The Wort (pt 1/3)
:'''(TBD)''': [[Trip to Shooting Range]] - Field trip to a shooting range, to shoot guns. Express interest at [[Trip to Shooting Range]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Surface Mount Soldering Workshop]] - Learn how to solder cicuits with small surface mount parts. [[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]] and Martin Bogomolni and others will show their tricks. [[User:maltman23|Mitch]] will bring hackable kits that uses surface mounts for you to solder.
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Version control tutorial]]
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Foreign language learning for rocket scientists]] - I'm near-native (fool people when I try) in (French and) Japanese, and a pro trans/terpreter and will share my shortcuts (skill-order, vocab, speed/articulation, translation≅grammar). No expertise on tonal languages yet... so if you know how to remember tones or how tone-sandhi interacts with speed and/or how nuances of speaker attitude are expressed in them (what we do with rythm/inflection/sentence-intonation and stress in Eng., and with particles and ??? in e.g. Cantonese) please chime in or call me (415-608-0564) so I can convey your wisdom. [also looking for a from-scratch Arabic partner]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Getting started with Arduino]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Distributed Databases]]

= Past Events =
* '''February 27th, 20:00 - [[Hacker EPROM]]''' - Noisebridge's first prom! Nice tie and a (robot) date required. We will have a DJ and punch.
* '''February 24th, 19:00, Wednesday - Joris Peels, of [http://www.shapeways.com Shapeways]''', and expert on 3D printing, will give a [[ShaperwaysPresentation | talk and demonstration]] at Noisebridge!.
* '''February 23rd, 18:00 - Cleaning day''' - Come and help clean Noisebridge, because everyone loves a clean hack space.
* '''February 12th, 21:00 - visit from Steve Jackson'''. Game designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_%28US_game_designer%29 Steve Jackson], founder of Steve Jackson Games, will visit Noisebridge.
* '''January 27th, 18:00-20:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Workshop]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] (contact [[User:Gpvillamil|Gian Pablo]] for more info)
* '''January 27th, 20:00-22:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Performance]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] - "Celebrate a night of new sound that will change your idea of music forever!"
* '''January 25th, 19:30 - [[Bag Porn]]''' - What's in your bag?
* '''January 20th, 19:00-21:00 - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat/about Bay Categories & Types]''' - Categories, monoids, monads, functors and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom.
* '''January 20th, 19:00 - [[User Experience Book Club SF]]''' - Our book this month is "A Theory of Fun for Game Design" by Raph Koster - http://is.gd/6sEqw (meets in Turing)
* '''January 21st, 20:00 - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' - Monthly set of lightning talks on diverse topics
* '''January 22nd, 17:00 - [[CleaningParty| Cleaning Party]]''' - Come help clean up Noisebridge! Awsum fun!
* ...January 14th,16th, and 17th 1:00- ??? Build Out day for kitchen/bathroom/laundry bring yourself and a good attitude, learn a few things as well
* '''January 15th, 18:00 - [[CNC_Mill_Workshop]]''' - Learn to use the CNC mill for 2D engraving and circuit board routing
* Thursdays 17:00 [[ASL Group|American Sign Language]] - Learn how to talk without using your voice (or just come chat in ASL). [http://whenisgood.net/noisebridge/asl/generic click to reschedule]
* '''November 18th, 19:30''' - [[Dorkbot_2009_11_18|Dorkbot]]
* '''November 19th, 18:00''' - [[Mesh meetup]]
* '''November 19th, 20:00''' - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
* '''November 20th, 18:00''' - Loud Objects [http://www.flickr.com/photos/createdigitalmedia/3428249036/ Noise Toy workshop].
* '''November 20th, 20:00''' - Performance by [http://www.loudobjects.com/ Loud Objects], (featuring Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan) and [http://www.myspace.com/jibkidder Jib Kidder].
:'''2009-11-05''' - [http://www.server-sky.com/ Server Sky presentation: Internet and Computation in Orbit] by Keith Lofstrom
:'''2009-11-05''' - [[Mesh meetup]]
:'''2009-11-02''' - [[French]] book club meeting to discuss [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2842612892/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance Une Si Longue Lettre]
: ''' October 1st, 18:00''' - [[Wireless_Mesh_Network_Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]
: ''' October 1st, 19:00''' - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat Bay Area Categories and Types]
: '''2009-10-03''' [[Year 1 Open Hacker House]]
:'''Friday''': [[CrazyCryptoNight]] - Discussion of cryptography for beginners through experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Tuesday''': [[Haskell/Haschool]] - Learn Haskell with Jason Dusek. 6PM - 7:30PM, from May until we're all experts.
:'''Wednesday''': [[Adobe_Lightroom|Adobe Lightroom]] - Become a more organized photographer. Weekly class (mostly held off site).
:'''Thursday''': [[Professional VFX Compositing With Adobe After Effects]] - Taught by [[User:SFSlim|Aaron Muszalski]]. 7:30PM - 10PM, most Thursdays in May & June & ? (click through dammit)
:'''2009-09-17''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] 3D Edition
:'''2009-09-17''': [[Wireless Mesh Network Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]
:'''2009-08-20''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] One Dee Edition
:'''2009-07-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] Zero Dee
:'''2009-07-02 - 2009-07-05''': [http://toorcamp.org Toorcamp]
:'''2009-07-01''': Noisedroid meeting to discuss location logging on Android platform (and other stuff too, I'm sure)
:'''2009-06-30''': [[Powerbocking Class|Powerbocking class]]
:'''2009-06-30''': "Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Profit" (Toorcamp talk preview)
:'''2009-06-28''': "Meditation for Hackers" (Toorcamp workshop preview)
:'''2009-06-18''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-06-15''': [[Eagle Workshop]] Session two of the Eagle CAD workshop.
:'''2009-06-13''': [[RoboGames 2009]] Noisebridge had a booth staffed by vounteers, great fun!
:'''2009-05-21''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-04-27''': [[EagleCAD workshop]] -- learn to use this CAD tool for printed circuit board design
:'''2009-04-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] April showers & flowers edition
:'''2009-04-11''': [[RFID Hacking]] weekend workshop (this event moved from the original March date)
:'''2009-04-05''': [[First aid and CPR class]] Learning how to not only not die, but also reduce scarring!
:'''2009-04-03''': [[Sudo pop]] 2PM and on. Making the first batch of a Noisebridge label yerba mate-niated rootbrew, gratis and DIY
:'''2009-03-26''': [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] first meet up for this new group: 8 pm
:'''2009-03-19''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-03-12''': [[OpenBTS and GSM]] talk by David Burgess
:'''2009-02-14''': [[Open Heart Workshop]] Valentine's Day blinkyheart soldering party!
:'''2009-02-13''': [[Time-t_Party|<tt>time_t</tt> Party]] to celebrate 1,234,567,890 since the Unix epoch.
:'''2009-02-09''': [[Spanish learning at 8:30]]
:'''2009-02-05''': [[PGP Key Workshop]]
:'''2009-01-31''': [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]
:'''2008-12-27''': [[25C3]] Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin
:'''2008-12-20 & 21''': [[Creme Brulee]] Workshop on creating a french dessert, with bonus propane torch.
:'''2008-12-17 20:00''': [[Machine Learning]] Birds-of-a-feather
:'''2008-11-24''': [[Circuit Hacking Monday]] circuit design workshop
:'''2008-11-21, 7pm''':[[Milk and Cookies]] -- [[User:Dmolnar|David Molnar]] hosts Milk and Cookies at 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David will bring milk and cookies.
:'''2008-11-17, 7:30pm''': [[Basic Bicycle Maintain]] - [[User:rubin110|Rubin]] and [[User:rigel|rigel]] hate it when we see a bike that isn't maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic bike tune up, sharing the smarts on simple things you can do at home to make your ride suck a whole lot less.
:'''2008-11-16, 5:00pm''': [[RepRap Soldering Party]] - help assemble RepRap! RSVPs required on wiki! [[User:Adi|adi]]
:'''2008-11-16, 3:00pm''': [[Oscilloscopes]] - Learn how to use this versatile tool to test electronic circuits. Maximum 6 slots, please sign up ahead of time! [[User:dstaff|dstaff]]
:'''2008-10-31''': [[Halloween Open House]] - NoiseBridge's own [[PPPC]] threw an awesome open house/halloween gala. Post pictures if you got 'em!
:'''2008-10-25''': [[Soldering Workshop]] and Pumpkin Hackin' - Learn to solder for total newbies (or learn to solder better!), including surface mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This is step 1/3 for a project called "annoying USB thingie" which will execute pre-defined keystrokes by sneaking a tiny USB dongle onto a victim^h^h^h^h^h buddy's computer.
:'''2008-09-13''': [[Processing Workshop]] — Learn this very easy-to-use programming language! - [[Processing Workshop Report]]
:'''2008-02-16''': [[Brain Machine Workshop|Brain Machine Making Workshop]]: Our first hardware sprint!

Spacebridge/pre-flight checklist

2010-03-27T03:22:09Z

Cclinco:

Pre-flight checklist for balloon launches.

# Setup
## Check that cameras are set to high ISO and/or fast shutter speed. This is to avoid motion blur on images.
## insure that camera are not saving RAW format.

# Pre-launch
## Check cameras are turned on.
## Check radios are turned on and working.
## Check that phone is turned on and sending SMS.
## Check payload is firmly attached to parachute
## Check that "if found tag" is firmly attached to payload

## radio is connectd to the antenna
## radio is connected to the open tracker
## radio is connect to the G1
## open tracker is connected a 9 volt batter
## open tracker is connected to the GPS
## packet tracker is connected to the GPS
## packet tracker is connected a 9 volt battery
## G1 is connected to the radio.

[[Category:Spacebridge]]

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