<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>On an unrelated note, just a reminder that a bunch of us hang out in IRC on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a> on channels #sgvlug and #sgvhak and we would welcome some fresh faces.</div><div><br></div><div>-braddock</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Lan Dang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l.dang@ymail.com" target="_blank">l.dang@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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WEBSITE: <a href="http://www.sgvlug.org" target="_blank">http://www.sgvlug.org</a><br>
MEETUP: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/215497372/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/215497372/</a><br>
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TOPIC: Amateur High Altitude Ballooning<br>
PRESENTER: Arko<br>
LOCATION: Burger Continental, 535 S Lake Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101<br>
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ABSTRACT:<br>
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This talk will cover the stories and engineering challenges faced by the Null<br>
Space Labs High Altitude Ballooning team and how they designed, analyzed, and<br>
flew hardware and software to survive the harsh conditions of near space.<br>
Recent flights include CUBEX, a payload capable of live image transmission,<br>
solar changing, power management, and position reporting, as well as the<br>
HABEXpico flight which flew half way across the United States.<br>
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