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Project Ava
High Altitude Balloon Project Based in West Yorkshire run by Anthony Stirk 2E0UPU. This is a project is just waiting on a NOTAM for launch permission at the Deer Shed Festival, North Yorkshire on the 24th of July 2011.
AVA is effectively an Arduino just on a custom PCB. Using Arduino boot loader and developed in Arduino enviroment. The GPS is an ISM300F2-C5-V0004 surface mounted on the board. Temperature is read using DS1820's (internal and external). Transmission is via NTX2 at 10mW RTTY 50 baud with a 425hz shift. Payload contains a Canon A560 camera running one picture every 10 seconds and a AEE MD91 micro video camera with about 3 hours storage. Power for the video is via 4xAAA batteries.
AVA is very pink.
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