[SGVLUG] Reminder: SGVLUG Meeting this Thursday -- Amateur High Altitude Ballooning

[Braddock Gaskill]

I am really looking forward to this talk on ballooning; it is one not to
miss.  Everything from custom PCB electronics, telemetry systems, and
images from the edge of space - not to mention flying halfway across the
continent.

On an unrelated note, just a reminder that a bunch of us hang out in IRC on
irc.freenode.net on channels #sgvlug and #sgvhak and we would welcome some
fresh faces.

-braddock

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> It's the 2nd Thursday of the month this week, and SGVLUG will be meeting
> at our usual location in the banquet room at Burger Continental from
> 7-9pm.  Arko from Nullspace Labs will be giving a talk about their
> experiments with amateur high altitude ballooning.
>
>
> I will try my best to arrive before 7pm.  I would appreciate some help.
> We are going all out to try to record the talk. I will bring the equipment,
> including the projector, tripod, camcorder, and microphones, extension
> cords, power strips.  Someone else gets to set them up.  I believe Michael
> Proctor-Smith is bringing a speaker/mixer.
>
>
> Dinner will be at 7.  The talk will probably begin around 8pm.  Before the
> talk,we'll do some Linux in the news, and maybe talk SCALE.  Steven has
> mentioned getting a booth for SGVHAK and that would probably extend to
> SGVLUG.  I would like to see who may be interested in helping with that
> effort.
>
>
> Please pass the word around.  And if you are on Meetup, please RSVP to the
> event.  We want people to know that our meetings  are generally well
> attended.
>
>
>
> WEBSITE: http://www.sgvlug.org
> MEETUP: http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/215497372/
>
>
>
> TOPIC: Amateur High Altitude Ballooning
> PRESENTER: Arko
> LOCATION: Burger Continental, 535 S Lake Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101
>
> ABSTRACT:
>
> This talk will cover the stories and engineering challenges faced by the
> Null
> Space Labs High Altitude Ballooning team and how they designed, analyzed,
> and
> flew hardware and software to survive the harsh conditions of near space.
> Recent flights include CUBEX, a payload capable of live image transmission,
> solar changing, power management, and position reporting, as well as the
> HABEXpico flight which flew half way across the United States.
>
>
> Lan
>
>
>
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