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This page contains links covering payloads for recovery and instrumentation of amateur rockets, and to sites covering ground support and GPS.

Recovery Systems Instrumentation Ground Support GPS & Navigation

Recovery Systems

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Instrumentation

  • The NERO Electronic page
  • The DARK 'Virtual Exhibition' payload page
  • The Amateur Inertial Navigation Systems Page
    The PSU AESS presents....
  • Precision Digital Altimeter.
    MPX4100A Altimeter Project for model airplane. By Peter Luethi, Switzerland
  • Altimeter System
    The altimeter described in this Web Page was built for the Cirrus One rocket, which was launched in April 2001. This altimeter is based on Paul Kelly's design with minor modifications.
  • Maximum Recording Model Rocket Altimeter For small rockets and aircraft
    The following circuit was designed to provide an inexpensive, simple and easy to construct altitude recorder for small model and amateur rockets. Every effort was made to keep the design simple and within the capabilities of most amateur experimenters as well as to provide accurate and useful functionality. By Jerry Baumeister
  • Kalman filter based altimeter
    This page documents my hardware and software development effort for a Kalman filter based altimeter. This culminated in another R&D report that was good enough for first place in C division at NARAM 46. By David Schultz
  • AL101 ALTIMETER
    AL101 Roll Your Own Altimeter by Jeff Karpinsky

  • RAP
    Rocket Altimeter Project by Sean Breheny and Anish Trivedi
  • Home-Brew Electronic Altimeter
    James Padfield's altimeter.

  • Magnetic Apogee Detection Sensor
    A simple solid state magnetic field detector for detecting trajectory apogee. By Robert Galejs
  • Magnetic Apogee Sensor
    This article will show you how to build, test, and fly a Magnetic Apogee Sensor. Written by Scott Aleckson
  • BT-5 Size Timer
    An adjustable electronic ejection charge delay timer that will be: BT-5 sized, adjustable over a wide range of times (0.5 to 30 s), inexpensive (<$10), entirely self-contained (no external plugs, wires, etc.) and fire a flashbulb for the ejection charge.
  • Eagleflyer Project
    The Eagleflyer board is a very versatile device used as a controller and data collection device for amateur rocketry or remote controlled vehicles.

  • Rocket Strobe
    Disposable camera flash converted in shape and function to a 1 flash per second strobe.
  • Bitscope
    Bitscope is an open design 100 MHz Digital Sampling Oscilloscope and 8 channel Logic Analyzer.
  • Steve's Workshop

    • 250 MHz RF Network Analyzer and other constructions
  • DSP-10 Project

    • The DSP-10 is an amateur-radio, software-defined 2-meter transceiver that can be built at home.
  • NEETS

    • Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS) Module Titles
  • ELECTRONICS FOR BEGINNERS
    ELECTRONICS FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATE ELECTRONICS 2001
  • The Electronics Club
    Learn how to solder - Find out how to identify components and how to read a circuit diagram

  • Discover Circuits
    Discover Circuits is a collection of 7000+ electronic circuits or schematics. Discover Circuits has 500+ electronic circuit categories to find quick solution for electronic design problems. New circuits and/or links are added regularly as as a resource for engineers, hobbyists, inventors and consultants

  • ELECTRONICS TUTORIALS
    electronics tutorials offered by www.electronics-tutorials.com are FREE to you and are extremely comprehensive with over 120 individual electronics tutorials topics covering a very wide range of electronics.

  • Online electronics tutorials
  • Web-EE
    The Electrical Engineering Homepage.
  • RADIO DIRECTION FINDING PROJECTS
    Hidden Transmitter Hunting. By Joe WB2HOL
  • Welcome to Homing In
    All About Radio Direction Finding (RDF)
  • A guide for prototyping with SMT
    A brief introduction to prototyping with Surface Mount Technology (SMT). By Luke Enriquez.
  • Picotux
    electronics company Kleinhenz Elektronik will ship in April a network-enabled Linux system barely larger than a standard RJ-45 Ethernet jack.
  • LART

    • The LART is a small yet powerful embedded computer capable of running Linux. Its performance is around 250 MIPS while consuming less than 1 Watt of power.
  • Ethernut

    • Ethernut is an Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building Embedded Ethernet Devices.
  • Getting Started with the PIC 16C84
    Getting Started with the PIC 16C84. By Steve Marchant, ACS, The University of Nottingham
  • PICLIST Mailing List Archives
  • PICC Lite compiler
    HI-TECH PICC Lite - a powerful FREE ANSI C compiler for certain types if PIC micro devices.
  • PiKdev
    PiKdev is a simple graphic IDE for the development of PIC-based applications. PiKdev is developed in C++ under Linux and is based on the KDE environment.

  • GPICD
    GPICD is an open-source version of a programmer and in-circuit debugger (ICD) for the Microchip PIC microcontroller family.

  • Jal
    Jal : (not?) Just Another Language. Jal is a high-level language for a number of Microchip PIC (16c84, 16f84, 12c508, 12c509, 16F877) and Ubicom SX (SX18 and SX28) microcontrollers.

  • SDCC
    SDCC is a Freeware , retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler. It currently targets the Intel 8051 and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Atmel AVR, DS390, and Microchip PIC series.
  • AVR-GCC

    • The GNU Ansi C compiler for AVR
  • GNUPIC
    Tools for programming PIC micro devices - all free under gnu public licence.
  • SB-Assembler
    The SB-Assembler is a free Macro Cross Assembler, available for 6502, 6800, 6801, 6804, 6805, 6809, 68HC11, Z8, Z80, 8080, 8085, 8021, 8041, 8048, 8051, PIC1684,............
  • CCS
    CCS offers the most optimized Microchip PICmicro® C compilers for Windows and Linux at a very reasonable price.
  • Build a Simple Microcontroller Programmer

    • Simple AVR programming device.
  • PonyProg serial device programmer

    • Programmer for serial devices like PIC and AVR processors and EEPROM's
  • The Inertial Navigation and G.P.S Homepage
    Inertial Sensors for Navigation, Guidance and Control of Vehicles. The goal of this research are to explore Inertial and GPS sensor technology and build compact systems for precise kinematic positioning. Off-the-shelf GPS and in-house Berkeley (BSAC) designed accelerometers and gyroscopes are used.
  • GPS Integrated Inertial Navigation Unit
    Atair fuses inertial, barometric, and GPS sensors with a powerful microprocessor to form the Inertial Navigation Unit (INU).
  • Laipac TF10
    Laipac TF10 OEM GPS Module with SMA Plug.
  • 5Hz GPS sensor
    The GPS 18 5Hz is a GPS sensor targeted to OEM clients for use in machine control, guidance, and various agricultural applications where 5 Hz position and velocity reports from a small, highly accurate GPS receiver are required.
  • u-Blox
    u-Bloxipac GPS Modules.
  • W1GE PATCH ANTENNA FOR GPS
    Homemade GPS Patch Antenna
  • Tiny 144 Mhz transmitter
    The NERO 'Tiny T' homing transmitter - complete construction plans.
  • Igniters in presence of strong radio waves
    A paper by Don Irving
  • PartMiner
    the world's most efficient way to search the Internet for electronic components — right at your fingertips. But it's more than a search engine. In fact, with the ability to source millions of electronic components from your choice of suppliers, PartMiner is your personal engineering and purchasing assistant.
  • @lusoft Homepage
    Links to Electronic Components.
  • Technical quick reference
    ASCII Table * Constants * Machine-screws * Capacitor values etc. Sponsored by WWW.BIER.DK
  • Sounding Rocket Astronomy at Penn State
  • University of Arizona SEDS ROCKET PROJECT
  • GYROSTAR - Piezoelectric Gyroscopes
    Datasheet for the Murata ENC-03J Piezoelectric Gyroscope. Also check out Characterization of the Murata solid-state gyroscope
    - a report on the behaviour of Murata gyroscopes when exposed to acceleration. By Bernard Ouwehand.
  • iMEMS®/ Gyroscopes
    iMEMS® Integrated Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems from Analog Devices
  • Silicon Rate Gyroscope
    Silicon Sensing Systems Japan Ltd.
  • MicroSensors
    Micromachined gyro sensors
  • 3DM
    Solid State 3-axis Pitch, Roll, & Yaw Sensor
  • Silicon MicroRing GyroTM
    MicroSensors Inc Gyro sensors
  • Motorola Pressure Sensors
    Datasheets and selection tables for the Motorola pressure sensor family
  • Motorola Acceleration Sensors
    Datasheets and selection tables for the Motorola accelerometer family
  • iMEMS® Accelerometers
    Analog Devices accelerometer family
  • Honeywell Pressure and Force Sensors
    Pressure and force sensor overview.
  • Melexis magnetic field sensor
    The MLX90215 World's first programmable linear Hall IC.
  • Honeywell Magnetic sensor products
    Magnetic field sensor datasheets.
  • Brooke's sensors page
    Mr. Brooke Clarke's collection on WEB resources on sensors.
  • PIC microcontrollers
    The PIC family of microprocessors from Microchip
  • Virtual Wire
    RF Monolithics Virtual Wire family of telemetry modules

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Ground Support

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GPS & Navigation